I use Hostgator as my web host.  I think it would be accurate to say that it is pretty awesome.  Like a lot of people I started out with GoDaddy.  I was on a shared server and I kept adding site after site to subfolders and pointing to the subfolders.  And then one day my sites stopped working.  GoDaddy was not quick in it’s resolution of this problem and so I made the jump to Hostgator.  I have had no major problems since and the few minor problems I’ve had were resolved very quickly.

I don’t personally use the shared hosting packages but the Baby Package looks like a very good deal.  For $7.95/month you get CPanel.  CPanel is great.  Let me say that again, CPanel is GREAT!  You won’t ever want to use any other interface to your server.  If you are currently with GoDaddy, their interface sucks.  I’m not trying to be mean, it’s just a fact.

My own personal choice for webhosting is the Aluminum Reseller Package.  It’s the least expensive and for now it serves all my needs.  For $25/month you get 25 Gigs of diskspace and 250 gigs of bandwidth.  A reseller package is ideal if you have many sites to manage but can’t afford a dedicated server.  You get access to the Web Host Manager (WHM) software and can create as many accounts as you want.  The WHM is an excellent interface for managing multiple accounts.  The definite advantage of having a reseller account versus a shared account for multiple sites is that if one site has a massive spike in traffic one day (via a fark link or digg) then your entire network won’t be brought down.  Only the one site and you can just increase that site’s bandwidth quota to compensate.  The major advantage of a reseller account over a dedicated server is that I want to be an internet marketer, not a system administrator (I can do that at the day job if I want).

Hostgator even offers Dedicated Hosting, if that is what your needs are.  I don’t know much about the Dedicated hosting packages.  Looking over the specs, it looks like the machine on the basic package is a bit lightweight but the other three packages look like good deals.  You also get well over a terabyte of bandwidth to work with.  One advantage the dedicated packages have over the other plans is Windows Hosting.  If I had a .NET application to deploy and I was going with a dedicated server then it’s good that hostgator has this option because they are just a good company to work with.

Finally, the best part if you are starting out with shared hosting: using the wordpress coupon code, you get your first month for just 1 cent.  You cannot do better than that.

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