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    Default Signed up with HostGator

    Thought I would test drive HostGator.com, so I committed to 3 months of "Aluminum" Hosting Reseller account.

    HostGator is advertising on their site, a 20% discount using the keyword "SPRING".

    I intend to be my only customer for a while . . .

    I've played with Godaddy.com and Powweb.com Hosting services, and thought it would be handy to be a bit more in control as a reseller account would leave me to believe.


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    Default Re: Signed up with HostGator

    Glad to hear

    If you have any questions, use the Live Chat or call anytime. HG is open 24/7 and live chat hold time should always be less than 30 seconds and phone hold time generally under 5 minutes.

    Also some other things to point out....

    We have network wide licenses for almost 5,000 templates. Free for customers as long as hosted with us. Check out templates.hostgator.com for info.

    If you decide to go into the reseller stuff more, we offer free licenses for WHMCS or WHMAutopilot (billing systems). Again, we paid these customers for network wide licenses.

    Fantastico (found in control panel) is also something to look at. One click installs for 52+ scripts.

    Just a few things to point out.
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    Default Re: Signed up with HostGator

    Am I missing something looking at the web hosting reseller packages? The disk space you get is very low. I wonder how people successfully resell web hosting, when you have very little disk space to work with (the Aluminum package gives you only 24GB of space). It seems that people would rather get shared hosting...and get much more disk space, while still getting great features included.

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    Default Re: Signed up with HostGator

    Quote Originally Posted by sbradshaw View Post
    Am I missing something looking at the web hosting reseller packages? The disk space you get is very low. I wonder how people successfully resell web hosting, when you have very little disk space to work with (the Aluminum package gives you only 24GB of space). It seems that people would rather get shared hosting...and get much more disk space, while still getting great features included.
    How many sites actually use even a GB though? Hosting is built on massive overselling. Our 60K resellers can't be wrong.

    Speaking of that, now how many of you think the VoIP market is saturated given that we alone have 60K active resellers selling hosting. Some food for thought.

    Here's a post by my partner that kind of explains what most won't tell you...

    http://blog.hostgator.com/2007/10/06/selling-out/
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    Default Re: Signed up with HostGator

    All very interesting.
    Last edited by sbradshaw; 04-06-2008 at 01:31 PM.

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    Default Re: Signed up with HostGator

    Godaddy gives me 150GB of space and 1,500Gb of bandwidth
    Around $7.00 a month (middle shared hosting plan)

    Powweb gives me 1500GB of space and 15,000GB of bandwidth
    Around $7.00 a month (only shared hosting plan)

    The bottom HostGator Reseller Plan
    Powweb gives me 24GB of space and 250GB of bandwidth
    Around $24.00 a month (lowest shared hosting plan)

    Obviously it should be hard to compete against these examples.


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    Default Re: Signed up with HostGator

    HostGator does have a lot of interesting tools to work with.

    A closer look at Powweb it says disk usage for me is:
    Used: 31.66
    Available: 300000.00 (Should be MB)

    A closer look at Powweb it says bandwidth usage for me is:
    Used: 0.00
    Available: 3000.00 (Should be GB)

    Thats odd, I do not seem to get the newly advertised limits.

    I am still cutting my teeth on PHP mainly.
    My most real product would be http://FAH-Tool.org
    I've not pursued money-making projects.


    Using VOIPo services since February 2007
    Beta Tested the VOIPo Reseller Plan.
    A happy VOIPo Residential Customer

    Using VoIP devices since 12-2002
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    iConnectHere|Vonage|BroadvoxDirect|Vonage|Packet8| VOIPo
    VOIPo is a keeper!


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    Default Re: Signed up with HostGator

    I also signed up with HG, but with a regular hosting account, not a reseller account. I used to have my site hosted by godaddy, and there were a few gripes I had: Two primary ones--I didn't like GD's control panel as much as cPanel, and their webmail service was flaky. It often timed out on me or took forever to load screens, even using the 'lite' version.

    To be fair, I didn't give GD a chance to rectify the problems (didn't report the email issue, and figured they wouldn't change to cPanel)... Unfortunately, I've taken my sweet time to get my site up and running on HG--I had to switch to a new CMS, because I was using Windows hosting at GD. I've liked the service and found it to handle my needs so far (do like Fantastico), probably won't use most of the scripts that are available, though.

    I'm one of those customers who justifies over-selling. Even after my site goes live, it won't get much traffic or use much space.

    As for customer support, the few times I've had inquiries (switching over domain name, etc--took some hand-holding), responses have been prompt and professional.

    I'd definitely recommend HG.

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    Default Re: Signed up with HostGator

    I moved up from a shared to reseller when I started reselling to customers. It was immediately obvious that the server was faster and less loaded.
    I would also guess you are less likely to have punks on them doing stoopid things with scripts !!

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    Default Re: Signed up with HostGator

    I use Godaddy hosted email for an extra $30 yearly.
    I get some complaints from Sprint and CapitalOne to re-verify my email.
    Similarly I had some subscribed email threads that would warn about issues sending emails to me.
    There are lots of good things about it and it keeps getting new enhancements.

    I see email was included in various ways on Powweb (Like SquirrelMail)
    I never tried their mail offerings.

    I plan to check out HG more thoroughly.

    I know I signed for much less on Godaddy, but they bump your abilities as they become available and I've been there a while.

    Everybody is getting more slick with tools and such.
    HG looks like they have the lion's share in that category.


    Using VOIPo services since February 2007
    Beta Tested the VOIPo Reseller Plan.
    A happy VOIPo Residential Customer

    Using VoIP devices since 12-2002
    Companies I've tried
    iConnectHere|Vonage|BroadvoxDirect|Vonage|Packet8| VOIPo
    VOIPo is a keeper!


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