I’ve been on my current web hosting company, HostGator for about a year now. Prior to that, I was rather “stuck” with a hosting company that I’d grown tired of after some pretty major downtimes, data losses, and other gaffes. I tried to find a way to move the Andiamo site painlessly and quickly, but to no avail. After the umpteenth major screw-up that actually ended up costing me about 4 months’ worth of blog entries, I’d had enough.
I found HostGator, and all I can say is I wish that I’d found them MONTHS earlier than I did. Had I done that, I would have saved myself TONS of frustration and hours of work.
The best part was, that they took care of moving my site over (which was no small feat, considering the VAST size of my database and image gallery), and putting everything up on my new server account. I was absolutely amazed at how quickly and smoothly everything went.
What’s more, I found the quality and responsiveness of their support department to be absolutely OUTSTANDING. And I’m a huge stickler for getting good support from any company I do business with.
A little history about me, I used to be in the web hosting business. I had my own web hosting, development and management company in Los Angeles from 1995 until 2001, and owned part of another company until 2002. My company had its own server network, and I know all about the hosting business inside and out. Now that I’m out of the business, I always wondered if I’d ever find a source for web hosting services that would meet or exceed the quality and performance standards that I was accustomed to. Suffice it to say, I’ve found that with HostGator. If you have a site or a blog, or even multiple sites, then it is definitely in your best interest to check them out. Their service and performance is outstanding, and their prices are simply unbeatable.
Even if HostGator didn’t have an affiliate program, I’d still promote the crap out of them.