Host Gator Alternative???

If you're wanting to pay on a monthly basis then you may run into some problems because a lot of the bigger hosting providers have moved away from letting you pay on a monthly basis. Besides HostGator I have tried DreamHost, BlueHost, and GreenGeeks but none of them were as good as HostGator.

as its not alternative but you can still get 1 year hosting in 6 $

Win web hosting try it its cheaper

Ok. I will definitely research these. Thanks : )

Have a look at some of the hosting alternatives posted here on Warrior, there are some great deals and the reviews are good too. The offers are for WF members only so the prices really can't be beaten.

Sarah

Try Bluehost

BlueHost is my second choice besides HostGator. Use them for 3 years with no problem.

byethost.com is a good hosting service and they also have free hosting plans

Bite the bullet m8. Hostgator are second to none. Their live 24/7 customer service is priceless. They do state in the terms that they will only help with certain things but they tend to ignore that when you are talking to them live by phone or chat.

Search all the forums and you will be hard pressed to find any complaints about the service and that is rare these days with large international companies.

I use 2 hosts, 1 is IX hosting, but I really hate them, they are slow and their servers are constantly down... but it works well because you can host an unlimited(maybe not unlimited but, it's a lot) amount of sites for like $70 per year, most of my WIP sites are hosted there. WHen a site starts getting some traffic and making me money, I take it over to ICDsoft hosting... one of the best hosting providers that I've ever encountered, their email servers are kind of weak though...

Does anyone know why CNET chose inmotion hosting as best hosting ever? Is it really that good or is it just because they pay huge affiliate fees to CNET?

Anyone here tried them?

I have an account with Hostgator and two with Byethost.

Byethost is considerably less expensive and I can discern no difference in speed or quality of service between it and Hostgator.

I know it might seem counter-intuitive especially when money is a big factor but I would really advise against moving your hosting from hostgator for that reason alone.

The simple fact is Hostgator is really that good. I agree with many of the posts above, for support and simple up time they have you covered. If you are doing any sort of business online you really need to make sure your basics are solid and skimping and saving on hosting in my view is not an area you should be looking to make cost savings. Instead cut out a subscription to a costly service or make savings in other areas in order to maintain your hosting with what arguably is one of the best around.

That is just my feeling, and I am not affiliated in any way with Hostgator but simply have used their services since 2008 and I have not had single problem unlike several other hosts that I have used alongside since that time. Hope that helps and good luck with whatever decision you eventually make.

I get a lot of positive feedback for fatcow hosting.

Btw isn't black friday coming up soon?

Try Hostmonster

HostWinds is another great webhost! The speed of their sites are great!

I'll stick with Hostgator. Move to some cheesy, cheap host and you'll most likely end up regretting it.

We often use site5.com - great service.

I wish there was one. Most low cost vendors are not reliable companies. I will probably re sign up as a reseller next year. Problem is HG is S-L-O-W and it is getting worse. OK as they say, you get that for which you pay.

Compared with a few years ago, I find that most posts are quite good. in a shared hosting platform most post all for a similar level of service. they will respond to your support ticket and will offer online chat. they will have a similar level of resources such as disk space and bandwidth. however, if you are running a mission critical website you should plan to get a dedicated or simi dedicated server. some companies to offer dedicated frequently offer a very high level of support in which you have access to high level personnel and rapid response times.

I use ixwebhosting.com to host all of my websites. Their rates are fair.

I am hosting all my blogs in arvixe.com , and i feel they are good , so , i suggest try out arvixe if you even want a hostgator alternative

I use HostSo.com....they are DIRT cheap and reliable

Being On HostGator, you will never think twice of any issue, these guys are pretty good and experienced, they helped me sort my database problems on a large autoblog, they even helped me edit some files, drasticlly improving the site load performance, I am on BabyCroc and host around 40 websites, plan to add more, never had a problem, no downtime since I joined two months ago, chuck the price factor out of the window... level of satisfaction... Priceless with HostGator staff... Its awesome.

I would recomend buying off a year or two plan at once, because the offer discounts on first billing use coupon code 25SUPERHOST2011 and you will get a flat 25% of on your first paid amount. that means you pay $161 for 2 years straight works out $6.7 a month... along with super satisfaction.

All the best!

For the most part Hostgator is great and you get live support from them which has helped me a lot on more than 1 occasion.

However, I am a little irritated with them right now, since they shut down my sites for caching problems without giving me any warning beforehand.

I still am with them, but host only about 20 blogs with them, 20 blogs with another provider, etc. to not put all my eggs in 1 basket....

Just wait for black Friday or whatever the name of that cheap day is in the US after thanksgiving. Last year I bought 3 years of reseller hosting for only a two hundred dollars with host gator. There normal hosting was 50-80% off. They are the best when it comes to service.

If you are serious about your business, you should at the very least be okay with the costs of hosting companies like HostGator. I have websites hosted with both HostGator and Bluehost. There are quite a few horror stories with Bluehost about shutting down your site and I too have hit many bumps in the road with them. But if you keep it simple or have a team that knows what they are doing then they are both decent.

If you think you will have trouble, then I would steer away from Bluehost as their support seems to either be outsourced or the people responding have issues with understanding English.

I had to send about 10 e-mails back and forth with support explaining to them to check up on why one of my websites was not being forwarded. I received about 5 different e-mails from different names saying the my site didn't exist. But first they blamed Google Chrome which didn't even make sense. Then they blamed Hostgator and finally landed on the assumption there was no website at all. Each one more ridiculous than the next.

This was after I sent them screen shots of the site loading in my browser and screen shots of the site coming up in Google. They were too TECHY to simply go outside their own service and CHECK. I was lucky after getting very frustrated with them that an actual support tech decided to check his phone and could indeed see my website. Should I really have to fight my way through the haystack to get a good response to a support question?

Anyway... other than that, Bluehost has been decent except for....

when they deactivated my account (bringing EVERY website down) completely with only an e-mail saying that there was something wrong with my site and until I fixed it, they would not re-activate it. But... I did have access to CPANEL. The issue was with a Wordpress Plugin. I couldn't get into Worpress because they locked me out and since I didn't know what plugin was they Issue I just had to go through deleting them with FTP. I am not a wizard in PHP like many tech hosts ASSUME. Many of us are just business people trying to figure it out as we go.

Anyway... you could get Bluehost and never have a problem. I can't say that I won't have that issue with Hostgator down the road either.

But you should be okay with paying more for better service. From the posts I have read here so far it seem that either everyone is an affiliate with Hostgator or the feeling is unanimous that its a great place to start. So I would take that into consideration since you asked HERE.

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. Sounds like I need to bite bullet and go with hostgator : )

I know a lot of people are gonna hate me after I say this but, go godaddy!
At least this is what I prefer. I always got quality service at resonable prices.

The constant up sell up sell up sell from godaddy gets very annoying too

I have heard good things about Hostwinds as well. Maybe give them a try. Would this be your first hosting account?

If you're thinking of building an online business..

For something as important as hosting i would go for the best, which for me is hostgator.

Cheers,

~Gary

If you are looking for an alternative, blue host seems to be next in line when it comes to money and performance. But believe me, I'm with hostgator from the start, their Support team is the Best.

I even get myself a deal on the black friday offer. It's now as cheap as a bluehost fee, only with a better speed and better support

I honestly can't see past hostgator, their technical support is amazing, I'm in the UK and there is always someone available to help 24/7 and they have always gone above and beyond. Also their baby plan allows unlimited domains for $7.96 per month , can't ask for more than that!

Besides Hostgator which I use for one of our sites, I like Hostmonster.com they've never failed me or my clients. They have great support and the instant WordPress plugin and built in statistics included in the C-panel....excellent site uptime too.

Best of all if you can use their promotion link, hostmonster.com/promo and actually get $3.95/mo. hosting by signing up for 3 years, we usually migrate our clients to this program eventually and it's been good for all parties in the short run and long run.

I use Justhost and have always had great service.

I'm the owner of hostgator and while we have millions of site hosted and hundreds of thousands of customers I'm still personally available to anyone who may ever have an issue with our hosting. =)

I welcome anyone and everyone to email me at brent@hostgatordotcom if you should ever need assistance.

Look at Hostmonster