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HostGator offers four website hosting plans for Indian users to choose from servers located within the country and in the U.S. These plans are further categorized and prices, features vary accordingly.

HostGator Shared Hosting

In this type of hosting, a user will share space in the server with other websites. This means, a single server will be hosting multiple websites, and resources along with bandwidth will also be shared. HostGator offers 99.9% uptime guarantee on shared hosting server plans.

The company provides both Windows and Linux shared hosting services. Windows shared hosting is recommended to host a website built on ASP, ASP.NET, IIS or MSSQL. Whereas, Linux shared hosting is useful to host sites built in HTML or CSS, PHP and regular WordPress websites.

HostGator’s…

A domain name more than just the name of your website. It’s the calling card visitors use to find your business and an important part of your branding. In this case, it makes sense to find and create the domain name possible.

A good rule of thumb is to keep the domain name short and simple so people will be able to remember it easily. The domain name should contain a keyword related to your industry or simply be the name of your business.

Once you have decided on a domain name, you need to search to see if the website name is available. The easiest way to do that is to search the Whois database of all registered domains. The Whois database provides a domain’s current owner, its…

There are a lot of components that go into establishing a website. You must factor in website costs for domains, hosting and design. When building a website, there are three ways to go about it: a website builder, WordPress or hiring a designer. Let’s take a closer look at what a website costs so that you can be prepared for the whole endeavour.

Essential website costs: at a glance

There are a number of basic requirements that need to be met when setting up a website. These include registering a domain name, finding a website hosting company, locating a professional designer to build the website or doing it yourself with a website-building platform.

You may also need to obtain an SSL…

Forbes Advisor creates a rubric to rate and score each company in the list. We rated more than 25 hosting providers to impartially determine which ones are the best. The rubric considers four main areas of information when scoring the data, looking at 24 key criteria that were weighted to favour features that small business owners find valuable in a provider.

Pricing

We wanted to know several things when it came to pricing, such as if the hosting plan offers a free service, if the plans it offers are priced competitively and offer a good value for the features provided and if there is a money-back guarantee. We also looked at how much a WordPress host charged users for renewal after the initial contract ends and the number of sites that are covered by each plan. This accounted…

Forbes Advisor creates a rubric to rate and score each company in the list. We rated more than 25 hosting providers to impartially determine which ones are the best. The rubric considers four main areas of information when scoring the data, looking at 24 key criteria that were weighted to favour features that small business owners find valuable in a provider.

Pricing

We wanted to know several things when it came to pricing, such as if the hosting plan offers a free service, if the plans it offers are priced competitively and offer a good value for the features provided and if there is a money-back guarantee. We also looked at how much a WordPress host charged users for renewal after the initial contract ends and the number of sites that are covered by each plan. This accounted…