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Unofficially, hostgator forum is a fast way to ask for help, and its not the first time i get reply. Within few hours and within the same days, I get helps from system administrator, moderator, and also members of host gator forum that is so voluntier to offering helps. All this is done free of any advantage from hostgator.com, and its reflect the satisfaction in customer heart.

I see that, hostgator forum now become my first place to get help for problem that is outside of hostgator technical support scope.  This community is a great place to bring forward any scripting issue, coding bug, just like problem with blog script, fantastico, shopping cart, ssl, hostgator upgrade concern, hostgator server downtime, etc etc. I haven’t seen a limit of discussion about hostgator, good or bad comment is posted and get reply here by forums members.

Hostgator Forums: http://forums.hostgator.com/
Hostgator Homepage: http://www.hostgator.com

A disappointed day can say, when i found out there is no activity at my website hosted at godaddy.com. I done a quit check on the server log, and finally open that website at browser… its loaded very slow, and at an unaccpetable download rate. A quick ping to godaddy server, its terribly slow.

After my quick bath at night, i visit the site again, and its getting better. Belief the godaddy downtime is very frequent today, as I can seen at server visit length log, which i implement through statcounter.com

I have in mind now is to move my website hosted at slow godaddy server, to hostgator hosting hostgator hosting that I still very happy with. This blog hosted at hostgator is getting larger and its not slowing down yet. Indeed, I frequently visited this blog to test its status of availability. Who know its still running or not. Its not the first time my sites load slow on godaddy, and i wish to move the main site over to hostgator very soon.

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Let make it clear, addon domain name is not necessary to do ‘domain transfer’. Domain transfer is transfer of ownership from one registra/person to another. When you wan to  add domain (new or existing) to hostgator hosting, eg. baby plan or swamp plan. Simply just make changes to domain NameServer property by pointing to hostgator NS. There is no need to transfer domain to Hostgator

Now i want to add one domain to hostgator plan, what i need to do is login to existing domain control panel, for example godaddy domain name manager. Go to Name Server field, and change the name server field to for example: NS459.HOSTGATOR.COM. Your name server use is the same with your primary domain host gator name server.

This complete the first part, now login to hostgator cpanel x, go to section “addon domains”… and you will see “Current Addon Domains ” … below this section is where the addon new domain begins. Enter the new domain name, assign new folder to this domain at public_html, and assign a new password as well. Finish by clicking the “Add domain”… if you done all right, new domain name will be added to your hostgator plan, can can be view at hostgator cpanel x.

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HostgatorReview.org, today I review the domain transfer to hostgator. I wrote these in Extreme clear and easy steps to follow, when you want to transfer existing domain to Hostgator.com. You can transfer domain from any registra: godaddy, registryfly, enom… etc etc.

Let me list out the steps to transfer the domain to hostgator:

1. Make sure the domain is registered in current registra for more than 60 days. This is ICANN rules, and transfering domain less than 60 days will be rejected .
2. Check the domain registration, and make sure the owner email is your valid email.
3. Unlock the domain. You can do this from domain control panel.
4. Go to http://www.hostgator.com/domains to initiate the transfer request from hostgator side.
5. You will receive email from hostgator to confirm the domain transfer.
6. Reply the email according to email instruction.
7. Whole transfer process would take 4-5 days to complete.

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Hostgator.com had come to my attention some times ago, probably been start hearing about them 6 months back when I search for hosting plan online. I found hostgator through google.com. I was not confirmed anything with this “host gator”. What hosting company should use aligator as the icon/logo.

Lately, i been involved in creating a web hosting review site, and hostgator had been mentioned like wild fire. Almost every hosting forum that I join, I see people recommending hostgator. After read through some good customer feedback/testimonial. I decided to give it a try, and look in more details for this hosting.

Here is a few reason i signup hostgator, my answer would be:

1. Hostgator established since 2002.
2. Using highend dual Xeons servers with 4GB memory and RAID hard drives
3. Good features and reasonable priced. 100GB space, 1,000GB bandwidth.
4. Good support team 24/7.
5. Reputational and multi-award winning hosting company.
6. Hundreds or housand of review at hosting forums like: webhostingtalk.com, v7n.com, webmaster-talk.com
7. Hosted over 400,000 websites.
8. Hostgator coupon code ‘HGC25‘ give me another $9.94 discount
9. 30 days money back guarantee.

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Hostgator hosting permit up to a 200 email sending per hour per domain. If you send over this amount in any hour, most of the e-mails will bounce back with a undeliverable error. That makes 4800 emails daily limit. Honestly speaking, that is a huge amount, compare to godaddy host that allow 250 in total per day per domain.  So, guess what the value for money at hostgator.

For user that require mailing sending larger than 5,000, you can setup a semi-dedicated or dedicated hosting solution from hostgator. Thus solve all your problem. An email system for all size of website

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HostgatorReview.org is privately own, and run the ‘Hostgator review’ independently from any hosting provider. What so ever written here is personal review, by personal preference. And hopefully these useful information regarding HostgatorReview.org, would be found useful by those looking for information of this hosting provider.

HostgatorReview.org is hosted with hostgator.com. My previous 2 year experience with this host is very convincing, thus encourage me to setup this personal hostgator review site, and hosted it at hostgator.com hatchling plan.

I am one of the thousand happy customer with Hostgator hosting. More than 95% of people I met are satisfy with what they paid for. Although, not all good thing, is ‘good’ for some certain people.

My advice for those is, hopefully through information provided here, anyone can better understand hostgator, what service and hosting features is provided. And I would happy to include in user manual or tutorial (something like knowledge base) from time to time, forward your question, and everyone that walk pass here, would happily give you a hand.

All the below Hostgator coupon, are applicable to all hosting plan:

• Hatchling plan
• Baby plan
• Swamp plan
• Semi-dedicated server

By entering the hostgator coupon code, you will get a $9.94 hostgator discount. Regardless of you pay monthly, quarterly, or yearly.

Hostgator Coupon are:

1. HGC25
2. ICEISHOT
3. JURY
4. HOSTCRITIQUE

Click here to apply this coupon code at hostgator.com

Right after 30 minutes from account activation email that i received, while I was busy uploading wordpress files to hostgator server, and setup the cpanel mysql, I was prompt with another email from hostgator

Email Title: Verification Needed - HostGator.com
Email Content:
“Hello,

Thank you for your order with HostGator.com!

In order for us to setup your account, we will need you to call us and verify your account. If you are not able to call, you can also respond to this ticket with a scanned copy of a Photo ID such as as a passport, or drivers license. Also please include a scanned copy of the credit card that was used in purchase, if you purchased a hosting account with a credit card. Please do so at your earliest convenience to ensure that your account with HostGator is setup as soon as possible.

Toll-free: 1-866-96-GATOR
International: 001-713-574-5287

We are available 24/7, so please feel free to call us at your convenience. We apologize for any inconveniences. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.”

OK… this email freak me. This moment i recalled that there was once saw a similar user review at Internet, stating “hostgator account suspended”, guess they dont follow this verification email correctly to verify their account.

Next, I give hostgator a call. Some IVR voice i can hear it clear, “press 1 for sales..”, ok i pressed one. Then i was forward to real person. Fantastic, I was expecting more prompt … bla bla bla :D. ok, i told her that i going to verify my account. She ask for my domain name, and follow by around 15 seconds waiting over phone, and she ask for credit card last 4 digits, and verifying address. She told me, “Sir, your account will be activated in 5 minutes time…” .. ok, solve! and my account is verified.

15 minutes after I completed the ordering of hostgator hosting, I received the account activation email from sales@hostgator.com. The email content is simple, with:

• domain name
• username password
• IP address
• Name server
• cpanel login

and there is more…and i find it very useful to get started.

“There is a file called hostgator.html in your public_html folder. This page will give you basic links on getting started. Your welcome to delete this file or if you upload an index.html file in public_html, then the hostgator.html file will not come up by default.”

“Please read http://www.hostgator.com/gettingstarted.html for all the information needed to manage your account. ”

ok, thats all of the activation email that i received.