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The Importance Of Web Hosting

If you want to build a site, online platform or any other web-hosted business, you cannot go past the importance of web hosting quality. Therefore, knowing how to search and select the best for you is necessary, especially if you need to get professional services that will scale easily, have a reduced downtime and not interfere with your content or activity.

HostGator Introduction

HostGator offer a broad range of services, but they’re undoubtedly best known for their well-priced shared hosting plans. They offer three shared hosting services - Hatchling, Baby and Business - and each one steps up the service options and support provision. In addition, HostGator offer, reseller plans, VPS hosting and dedicated servers, as well as an affiliate programme.

HostGator is a private company. The current CEO Brent Oxley formed the company while he was at university in 2002. Now, HostGator host more than 8 million domains for 400,000 customers in over 200 countries. Originally based in Florida, HostGator’s rapid growth lead them to a move to Texas in 2007. They have a base in Houston and an office in Austin, plus an Indian arm which you can find at http://hostgator.in. Additionally, HostGator have a third office in Brazil which manages http://www.hostgator.com.br. They currently employ 200 people but are expecting to double this in the next couple of years.

HostGator Hosting Plans

Hosting Plan	Disk pace	Bandwidth	Price
Linux Hatchling	Unlimited	Unlimited	$6.95/month	ViewPlan
Linux Baby	Unlimited	Unlimited	$9.95/month	ViewPlan
Linux Business	Unlimited	Unlimited	$14.95/month	ViewPlan
Gold Reseller	160GB	1200GB	$74.95/month	ViewPlan
Aluminium Reseller	50GB	500GB	$24.95/month	ViewPlan
Copper Reseller	80GB	700GB	$34.95/month	ViewPlan
Silver Reseller	120GB	1000GB	$49.95/month	ViewPlan
Diamond Reseller	200GB	1400GB	$99.95/month	ViewPlan
Basic Dedicated	250GB	1500GB	$174.00/month	ViewPlan
Standard Dedicater	2x 250GB	1500GB	$219.00/month	ViewPlan
Elite Dedicated	2x 500GB	2500GB	$279.00/month	ViewPlan
Pro Dedicated	2x 500GB	2500GB	$374.00/month	ViewPlan

HostGator Support

HostGator’s support options are pretty comprehensive for a low-cost shared hosting provider. You can access 24/7 live chat support, a FAQ, email support or phone support (within the US, it’s free to call their phone number). It’s not clear where their support staff are based.

Support and billing is provided via a portal where customers can login to upgrade their account, access user forums, check out the knowledge base and watch helpful video tutorials on some of the most common configuration questions they’ll face. This account login is separate from the Cpanel login. In addition, transfer requests are handled smoothly via a quick online form.

HostGator Control Panel

All of HostGator’s Linux plans come with Cpanel 11 as standard, and users are given a variety of themes to choose from. Cpanel provides access to all the features you’ll need, including webmail, one-click backups and DNS settings for Google Apps.

Reseller accounts are also provisioned with Cpanel and WHM. Both Cpanel and WHM are optional on VPS and HostGator’s Linux dedicated server hosting plans. On a Windows dedicated server, Plesk 11.x is included in the price.

On VPS plans, HostGator also provide Virtuozzo, an administration package for the server itself.

All customers get access to a separate billing area to organize

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Wordpress is very popular platform for blogging. And Wordpress is available in two ways for publishing blogs.
The very first one is Wordpress.com and the other one is Wordpress.org. Both have same way of publishing posts but differ in various things which I am going to discuss in this article.

Wordpress.com

Wordpess.com is the domain in which the blogs are hosted in wordpress itself and you don't need to find any kind of hosting services and providers. You just have to pay for hosting to wordpress only.
Wordpress.com is hosted by wordpress itself therfore you are not allowed to use advertisment in your blog.
So if you are serious about blogging with earning purpose, then you must not think about wordpress.com
wordpress.com is easy to use. you just need to go to Wordpresss.com and the you can choose your own domain name or wordpress hosted name ( i.e MyTrickWays.wordpress.com)
After you have paid to wordpress.com you can start posting in your wordpress control panel or dashboard.
You are restricted from using many plugins or themes if you are using WordPress.com blog even if thousands of options are there to choose from

But keep in mind if you are not looking for any profit from your blog, this is the best option you can have for your blogging experience. The advantage of using wordpress.com is only because of its simplicity and your blogging hobby. And if you are choosing a wordpress hosted name ( i.e example.wordpress.com ) then you need not have to pay a single penny. But if you want to run your own domain name of your blog , you should purchase a domain name and it will be renewed every year if you wish to continue.

So if you are intresting in serious kind of blogging and for earning purpose you should not think about wordpress.com ( wordpress hosted blogs ).

Now you should think about wordpress.com or blogger.com.

Wordpress.org

The way of creating and designing a blog in wordpress.org is similar to wordpress.com as both are the parts of wordpress only.

But the advantage of wordpress.org over wordpress.com is customizations upto any level. You have complete rights to customize any page of your blog as you are using the space of your hosting provider. You have to find a webhosting service that supports wordpress plugin. And you can customize anything you wish to change your blog.

You can use any themes and plugins which is available for wordpress which option was restricted in wordpress.com upto some level of customizations.
In wordpress.org you can use any advertisement as you can customize anything in your blog.
It is very popular platform for blogging as you can customize anything and design you blog as you want.

So what I recommend is that it all depends upon the purpose of your blogging!

If you are creating just for hobby purpose then you should try wordpress.com and if you are serious about blogging then you should go for wordpress.org or can use blogger.com also.