There are many web hosts we currently reviewing, are still struggling to bypass the one million domain mark. It is an difficult task, going from a million to 5 millions require different set of strategy as well. We have review hostgator for years, and we know in recent year they are heavily promoting via offline channel. We have spotted few hostgator billboard, and some body skin tatooing ads, and hostgator logos can be easily spotted… not less than godaddy ads we can say. These two are big, we see hostgator are major in web hosting, and godaddy is major in domain registration.

Seriously, if you need a web hosting plan, consider hostgator hosting plans. There are three packages tailored to your needs, basic plan from $3.96/mo $3.71/mo, or the unlimited domain plan, or the eCommerce business plan. Choose reseller plan if you want to sell own web hosting plan for profit, or VPS hosting plan if you need more performance for high traffic site, or upgrade to dedicated server for top performance.

They are so popular and 5 millions websites chosen to host with hostgator, instead of hosting with other web hosts. For comparison, iPage is now with 1.5 million domains, Bluehost Hostmonster with 1 million domains. Not many web hosting are reaching the million domain milestone, and not many are as famous as Hostgator which scoring more than 5 million domains hosted. And right now this Hostgator is available with 25% discount, this make them even more famous than ever!

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When you signup for hostgator hosting, your new hosting account is created with a primary domain name, and this domain name is located at directory “public_html/”. When you want to add addon domain name to your account, you need to make sure the domain DNS already point to hostgator DNS in order to process, and use the cpanel addon domain feature to create new addon domain. When you doing so, a new domain storage or directory being created under the “public_html/” folder.

Note that you will require at least the Hostgator Baby plan to have multiple domain hosting. Hatchling plan only allow one domain hosting, and this plan will not allow additional domain hosting. Upgrade to Baby plan if you want to have this features. Beside shared hosting plan, the Hostgator VPS plan and dedicated server plans also have unlimited domain hosting feature in it, and it give you the ability to host even more websites via addon domain name.

Here is how to add new additional domain name into your Hostgator cPanel. First login to your Hostgator cPanel account and then go to addon domain. Here you can create an addon domain by adding your existing domain name or register for a new domain name or transfer domain name to Hostgator. As long you have the domain name, you can add it to your Hostgator account and host the website with Hostgator. Next, enter in your domain name to host, choose the username and password for this addon domain, and complete the adding domain process. Simple as that, a new domain had been added into your web hosting account and you can start hosting the website.

For example you name your addon domain “domain1″… its storage directory will be located directly at “public_html/domain1/”… FTP upload all your addon domain’s files here, here is the storage for domain1. And this domain1 will goes online as individual website.

Above is how you create addon domain name in hostgator cpanel, generally it is the same in all cpanel hosting plan. Hostgator hosting $4.95 doesn’t allow addon domain, you will need at least the Baby plan or onward.

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1. Get cheap domain name from domain registrar.
2. Host website with the best web hosting company of your choice.
3. Easy migration from one web hosting to another without domain transferring.

This is because domain registrar is not necessary a good web hosting provider. For example Godaddy, Dotster, Namecheap, Networksolutions and Netfirms are few of the good domain registrars. However their web hosting package are not the most attractive. From our web hosting reviews and comparison, we know the best web hosting companies are Hostgator, Bluehost, Hostmonster, Justhost etc. And these web hosting company does offer domain registration too, but not in the best lowest price. For example Hostgator domain name price is $15 per year, its not a good bargain and very costly when you ordering domain names in bulk doesn’t it.

Hence, its the best to register domain name with domain registrar and host with your preferred web hosting company. Change the domain DNS to point to web hosting server and continue to host your websites online. If you are registering domain from Godaddy, here is the how to configure your Godaddy domain name. From Godaddy control panel, follow these step to configure your domain nameservers

1. Login to your Godaddy control panel.
2. Go to My Account and Domain Manager.
3. Choose the domain name to configure nameservers.
4. Go to nameservers and click change nameservers.
5. Select the last option to use your own domain nameserver.
6. Enter your Hostgator Nameserver and save the setting.
7. Wait for domain propagation to complete.
8. Now your website is pointed to Hostgator domain nameserver.

This is when you can get domain name from registrar like godaddy, namecheap, dotster or netfirms, and later host your website at web hosting company like hostgator, bluehost, hostmonster, justhost and others. Its a best practice and its how you can find the best web hosting deal and cheap domain registration at the same time.

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By adding new domain name into your existing hosting account! You are now have a new website hosted in your web hosting plan. Well, let say you start with single domain/website, for example here FIRSTWEBSITE.COM. Once you add new domain name from cpanel, you are given a new subdirectory and here is where you upload your webfiles for your second website, let say SECONDWEBSITE.COM. Now the beauty is that FIRSTWEBSITE.COM & SECONDWEBSITE.COM are two independent website, each with own www. and each with own web space and run independently as a full feature website. You can add more website to your unlimited domain hosting plan, regardless 10 websites or 100 websites or 500 websites, there is no limit in it when you signup with unlimited domain hosting plan.

Addon domain name is not subdomain or parked domain, don’t get confused with it. Subdomain is like “subcat1.firstwebsite.com”… it is still under the first website/domain, and you are not having independent domain name. Now you know addon domain name are full feature website, and its a fully independent website. You can host any website at your new addon domain, either a blog, personal website, photo gallery, auction website or forum or even an ecommerce website.

Hostgator hatchling plan $4.95 is single domain hosting, and you can host one website in it only. Only the hostgator baby plan $7.95 allows unlimited domain hosting and you can host as many websites as you like. There are many other top web hosting companies are offering unlimited domain web hosting, for example from bluehost, hostmonster, fatcow, ix web hosting, justhost, and many others. Its very common to have multiple websites hosting in single web hosting account.

Hostgator reseller account allows you to resell domain name as well. You can now get discounted price domain name via hostgator reseller hosting. The hostgator domain name for reseller is now being offered via enom domain registrar. Your customer can now purchase/order domain name from you directly, and you can make another profit from selling domain name.

Enom domain price as following:

• .com – $9.45/yr
• .net – $9.45/yr
• .org – $9.45/yr

Also from your hostgator reseller account, you can find following:

• You make a $100.00 deposit and keep a positive balance on your account. (credit card and PayPal will remove 3% per transaction)
• You have access to the eNom reseller tools and sub account structure. (eNom API and Registry Rocket)
• HostGator has limited access to your domain names.
• Set your own default DNS to be used when registering domains.
• Set your own default information for the WHOIS information when you register domains.

Hostgator is a big trusted brand! Trusting by over 1,800,000 websites. Nearly 2 millions website rely on hostgator to deliver them quality web hosting services, and ten of millions of web visitors viewing webpages hosted by hostgator servers

For this hostgator review blog, the dns i have to use is:

• Hostgator Name Server:NS459.HOSTGATOR.COM
• Hostgator Name Server:NS460.HOSTGATOR.COM

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This www.hostgatorreview.org domain is transfered to hostgator hosting, and had the domain privacy enabled. Whois information is protected and appear as following:

Domain ID:D140806819-LROR
Domain Name:HOSTGATORREVIEW.ORG
Created On:03-Mar-2007 14:14:13 UTC
Last Updated On:11-Jun-2007 06:37:29 UTC
Expiration Date:03-Mar-2008 14:14:13 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R39-LROR)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:F6FC44F9549C45B8
Registrant Name:Brent Oxley
Registrant Organization:Hostgator.com
Registrant Street1:11251 nw freeway suite 400
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:houston
Registrant State/Province:TX
Registrant Postal Code:77092
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.8669642867
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email: support@hostgator.com
Admin ID:F6FC44F9549C45B8
Admin Name:Brent Oxley
Admin Organization:Hostgator.com
Admin Street1:11251 nw freeway suite 400
Admin Street2:
Admin Street3:
Admin City:houston
Admin State/Province:TX
Admin Postal Code:77092
Admin Country:US
Admin Phone:+1.8669642867
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email: support@hostgator.com
Tech ID:F6FC44F9549C45B8
Tech Name:Brent Oxley
Tech Organization:Hostgator.com
Tech Street1:11251 nw freeway suite 400
Tech Street2:
Tech Street3:
Tech City:houston
Tech State/Province:TX
Tech Postal Code:77092
Tech Country:US
Tech Phone:+1.8669642867
Tech Phone Ext.:
Tech FAX:
Tech FAX Ext.:
Tech Email: support@hostgator.com
Name Server:NS459.HOSTGATOR.COM
Name Server:NS460.HOSTGATOR.COM

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Same as you, I always search for cheaper domain name registration and try to do as much saving as I could. I search through the web, and found five to six domain registrars and compare each of them for the best deal and finally only sign up to them.

If you are a budget domain owner, go ahead and keep doing that. As I getting deeper into the fact behind domain registration, I start to realized that there is different between them. And now I will compare the features and then the price.

Domain name that is selling cheap usually are using single domain nameserver. Even they are giving you two nameserver for the domain. The primary nameserver and the secondary nameserver. And the two server are probably located in the same datacenter, and that’s it. Selling few hundreds domain name, and everyone is pointed to these two servers. Could you imagine the load when you are having 500,000 domain names on them?

When quality become the main concern, you will need to look for domain registration with multiple dns at different location. Yes, there is such solution. For example hostgator domain name is selling at $15 per year, and they are using multiple DNS servers group and redundantly located in few locations. http://www.hostgatorreview.org/hostgator/hostgator-domain/ . Its like having remote backup for your domain name as well.

When you are having redundant backup facilities like this one, your downtime will become minimum. And easily goes beyond industry standard. Now, think again when you look for $1 domain name.

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For your quick reference. Hostgator shared hosting plan with unlimited domains: baby plan, swamp plan, semi-dedicated plan will have unlimited domain and as well unlimited parked domain. Same goes to reseller hosting and dedicated server from hostgator.

I also notice that there is new reseller diamond plan and new dedicated server with conreo processor being released from hostgator lately. Will write more reviews on these next time.

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