Archive for February, 2010

HostGator Dedicated Server Review

February 22nd, 2010 by admin

Unlike shared hosting where you are limited by resources (CPU processing power, RAM memory) on dedicated server hosting those resources are dedicated only to you and you are only limited by the hardware. Dedicated servers are great if you have high traffic websites or you offer a web service where more CPU power or RAM memory is needed. You can host unlimited websites on your server (only limited by the hardware). If you have very popular website, you may buy additional server only for MySQL data processing and storage. What is important is the CPU Speed and type and the RAM Memory (the bigger the better). There are several popular CPU model are Intel Xeon Models.

HostGator Dedicated Server Plans

Hostgator offers Linux and Windows servers. Both are same with hardware. There are three four linux server plans: Basic, Standard, Elite and Pro. They differ in Processor, RAM Memory, Disc space, Bandwidth and price. There is no setup fee for any dedicated server, the contract is month to month and you can cancel at anytime. All linux servers are fully managed and come with CentOS Linux with Full Root Access (64-bit with 32-bit Compatibility), cPanel with WHM Control Pane), Apache Web Server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby (on Rails), FFMpeg Support, Secured Server with IPTables Firewall, Free WHMCS or WHM autopilot client billing software, sitebuilder and many other features. Windows servers also come fully managed with Windows OS with Remote Desktop Access (64-bit with 32-bit Compatibility), Parallels Plesk Control Panel, IIS Web Server, MSSQL, Mysql, ASP, ASP.Net 1.1 2.0 & 3.5, PHP, Perl, Python, Secured Server with Windows Firewall & IPsec Policy and other features. The prices start at $174/monthly.

Posted in Host Gator, HostGator, HostGator Dedicated Server, HostGator Review, HostGator hosting, HostGator.com | 2 Comments »

HostGator phpBB Review

February 14th, 2010 by admin

phpBB (PHP Bulletin Board) is one of the best free open-source community forum creation software. It is built with php and uses mysql (postgresql, mssql, oracle and other database management systems are also supported) as a storage engine for forum data, settings, permissions, post, threads etc, licensed under the GNU General Public License. It supports module system with auth and other apis, where developers can easily add new features and settings to the standard ones. There is also a theme system where webmaster can add new themes and change the layout of the forum. Other standard features included are: user management with user registration, permissions per user/thread, administrators, moderators, usergroups, internationalization (available in several languages) with UTF-8 support. The current version is 3.06 released on 17 november 2010. Development for version 2 have ceased on 1 January 2009 and it is no longer supported. PHPBB3 is the best and the latest version offering much more features than the previous version, better security and optimizations. Many mods and templates are available free and paid ones. Before I installed vbulletin on my hostgator account I had phpbb version 2. I did not like that version so I bought vbulletin license. Currently I have vbulletin and though phpbb3 is very good forum software, I will not replace it with vbulletin because many features are same in both scripts.

Posted in Host Gator, HostGator, HostGator Review, HostGator hosting, HostGator phpBB, HostGator.com | 3 Comments »

HostGator Uptime for January 2010

February 5th, 2010 by admin

I have free account at serviceuptime.com, where I have setup they to monitor my website – rsmkd.com uptime. The uptme for Janurary 2010 is 100%! This is great, by far it is the best uptime among all other hosting companies I have an account with.
Here is the screenshot, for the previous month:

You can see the report live here. Hostgator overall uptime for 2009 have been 99.977% which is excelleint in my opinion. This is well above the 99.9% mark host gator guarantees. The overall uptime measured so far is 99.972%, with average response time of 0,364 seconds, which is also excellent. My account with serviceuptime.com is setup to monitor my site every thirty minutes. In January 1696 checks have been made and none of the failed! I am very happy for my websites hosted with Host Gator. In about two months I will make 2 years with HostGator, and my experience with them have been and it is still great! They are really one of the best web hosting providers out there.

Posted in Host Gator, HostGator, HostGator Review, HostGator Uptime, HostGator hosting, HostGator.com | No Comments »