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HostGator VS BlueHost

April 7th, 2010 by admin

Today I will make comparasion between the popular web hosting companies HostGator and Bluehost.

Both are USA based hosting companies, Bluehost based out of Utah, and HostGator based out of Houston.

Statistics

Hostgator hosts more than 2,500,000 domains and 200,000+ active customers, Bluehost with Hostmonster and Fastdomain host more than 1.9 milion domains and have more than 500,000+ customers. Number of employees for Host Gator: 260, Blue Host and others: 240+. So here they are pretty much the same in statistics.

Support

Both Host Gator and Blue host offer support via live chat, phone and and e-mail(tickets) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Features

Almost all hosting features (PHP, MySQL, cPanel etc etc) are shared (same) between these two hosts.

Hosting Services

Blue host offers only one shared hosting plan, while Hostgator offers three shared hosting plans, reseller, vps and dedicated server hosting. This is where host gator beats Bluehost. With Hostgator there is room to grow if your sites become very popular, while with Bluehost you have only one hosting plan.

Reviews and Rating

They have received good reviews from users and hosting reviews sites. Both have good rating and are listed in top 10 best web hosting providers.

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HostGator Dedicated IP address

March 29th, 2010 by admin

Dedicated IP address

There are many reasons why yous should buy dedicated IP address. Some say that is good for Search Engine rankings (you rank higher than other sites), though this is not proven. Other use could be if you want to install SSL certificate for your website.  SSL allows secure transfer between the server (where your web site is ) and the host (the user that access the websites). Installing SSL will allow https version of your site. HTTPS stands for HyperText Transfer Protorocol Secure. Ecommerce websites should have secure access to their websites because the customer when purchases some items it sends sensitive data like credit card, social security number and other.

HostGator Dedicated IP address

On Host Gator you can have dedicated IP address for $2/monthly. ($24 a year) shared and reseller hosting, $1 for VPS . On shared hosting you can have only one dedicated IP. The IP addresss will be assigned to the entire cPanel account (only your websites will shared that IP). Hostgator purchase IP form can be found at https://secure.hostgator.com/ip.php .

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HostGator Ruby On Rails Review

March 20th, 2010 by admin

Ruby on Rails (ROR) is Ruby programming language web framework for developing online applications for the world wide web (the Internet). It follows the MVC (Model View Controller pattern) for development of web applications. It is not popular as other programming languages but there are good number of developers who develop apps. Popular websites use Rails including: twitter.com (microblogging service), scribd.com (document-sharing website), github and many others.

Hostgator Ruby on Rails

Hostgator supports ROR on all its shared and reseller servers. The latest version (currently installed) is:
Ruby Version : ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i686-linux]
Gem Version : 1.0.1
Rails Version : Rails 2.0.2

Ruby on Gator it comes with the following gems preinstalled: actionmailer, actionpack, actionwebservice, activerecord, activesupport, bluecloth, builder, daemons, feedtools, gemplugin, gnuplot, htmltools, mongrel, mysql, payment, rake, sources, tidy, uuidtools, xml-simple and others. Refer to this forum post for more: http://forums.hostgator.com/ruby-rails-support-t13038.html

You will need SSH access to develop Ruby applications. Visit
https://secure.hostgator.com/sshrequest.php for more info on enabling SSH access on your account. You may also want to enable SVN (Subversion), you submitting a ticket.

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HostGator 1 cent coupon

March 10th, 2010 by admin

If you to test hostgator then the one cent hostgator coupon is for you. This coupon “monthfreenow” actually takes $9.94 off of any hosting plan. The monthly price for the baby plan is $9.95 monthly ($7.95/monthly if you pay 3 years annually).If you use it for the baby hosting plan you  can get the first month for a penny $0.01. You still get 45 days money back guarantee on the penny and everything else that goes with a hostgator account! So with this coupon you can try host gator risk free. You may cancel at anytime if you wish, but I don’t think you will because Hostgator offers excellent services, top support, uptime, features. All hostgator coupon codes have the same discount. If you know any other coupons please comment on this post. It have been almost two years with Hostgator and I am very happy with them, everything is great, websites load fast uptime is great (100% for January, February and March 2010, check this monitoring report if you don’t believe me).

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HostGator Fantastico One-click installer

March 2nd, 2010 by admin

Fantastico de Luxe is commercial cPanel addon that HostGator offers for fast one-click installation of popular web applications. Included are: WordPress (blog software), Drupal – Content Management script (CMS), Joomla – CMS, shoppin carts – zencart, oscommerce, forums – phpbb, mybb, galleries, polls and other cool scripts. What Fantastico does is setup/create databases and users, create tables and setup initial settings and permissions for the selected software. Though Fantastico is popular one-click setup tool it is not recommended by most developers of the popular scripts mentioned. This is because the latest version of the software is not available always (or at least not immediately) after it is published. So you may end up installing old version with security holes and bugs. So the better way is to manually install the software. I use fantastico only when I am installing wordpress, and update it right after login with wordpress automatic update tool. Here is a screenshot of Fantastico:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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HostGator Vbulletin Forum Hosting Review

January 27th, 2010 by admin

Vbulleting is a commercial web software written in PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor – the most popular web scripting language) for creating online communities (forums) produced by Jelsoft. Together with phpBB (php bulleting board) are the most popular forum software programs in the world. The latest version of vbulletin is 4 which comes with 2 more solutions – blog and cms (content management system) platform – all together called Vbulletin Suite. It offers many features: user registration with ability to edit users or add them from admin control panel, powerful permissions system for administrators, usergroups restrictions and permissions, moderators and forum users, forum and subforum based permissions, ajax editing, templating system, extension system (for add new features) and much much more. There are many templates and extension modules available. It is the best to date forum software available and it is very easy to manage . Only downside is that it is not free, but you get what you pay for!

Vbulletin on Hostgator

Hostgator account is perfectly setup so you can run vbulletin without any problems. I have it installed on forums.phpweby.com (hosted at hostgator) -  webmaster forums where you can see it live. It is fast and all features are supported. Signup with hostgator, buy vbulleting license and build your community today.

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HostGator Drupal Hosting Review

January 16th, 2010 by admin

Drupal and Joomla are the best free and open-source CMSs (content management systems) in the world, both licensed under GNU General Public License. Drupal like Joomla supports templating systems (hundreds of free drupal themes available), a module system (core modules – shipped with the standard official drupal package, available for download from drupal.org), core features worth mentioning here are user manager with powerful permissions system, content manager, RSS feeds, logging, administering the system, and thousands other modules (contrib modules) that add new features and functionality to Drupal. You can create any type of websites, anything between personal blogs/ web sites to social network or corporate websites and more. Drupal was originally created by Dries Buytaert (buytaert.net) in 2001 and in recent years have grown in popularity. Many websites are powered by Drupal, popular ones like michaeljackson.com, political – whitehouse.gov and many personal websites/weblogs. It have large community of developers and supporters making this content management system the next choice for your online presence an excellent choice.

Drupal on HostGator Review

Drupal runs perfectly and fast on HostGator. You can see live Drupal installation on rsmkd.com/drupal/ . I have installed drupal manually by downloading the package from drupal.org, but you can install it via fantastico. Installation via fantastico is not recommended because not always the latest version of Drupal is available immediately via Fantastico cPanel tool. Happy Drupaling with Hostgator!

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