HostGator Copper Plan Review

The HostGator.com Copper Plan is a reseller web hosting account, comes with technical support 24 hours a day/seven days a week, a 45-day money-back guarantee and also guaranteed uptime 99.9 percent of the time. If that’s not enough, it’s host of features and low price of $34.95 might just win you over.

HostGator reseller web hosting allows customers to create and host unlimited accounts, with the use of cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM). This has many benefits.

Host Gator’s Copper reseller package allows for 40 gigabytes of disk space and 350 gigabytes of bandwidth. But that’s not all. Some of the hosting features that come with this package include the following: templates, private name servers, a free billing system, no contract and a free setup that happens instantly. There’s also unlimited FTP accounts, domains and subdomains, POP3 accounts and MySQL databases.

Although the Copper plan is on the lower end of the price range of Host Gator’s reseller hosting lineup, it still includes many standard features that will impress customers looking to build a site. Some of these are free installation for PHP and Perl modules, streaming audio and video, Image Magick, GD, Curl, FrontPage and Cron, among others. Extra services that can be offered include Chillisoft ASP and Site Builder, which will help customers create professional-looking sites conveniently.

Email is always an important part of a Web site, and this package provides many useful email features such as SMTP, IMAP support, email alias, Spam Assassin for security, catch alls, mailing lists and auto responders. The control panel also is packed with instant features, including FormMail, Counter, Portals, Guestbook, Forums, PHPnuke, customer support desks and blogs.

Web site and FTP Statistics will be taken care of by the HostGator Copper webhosting package with its real-time updates of AWStats, Webalizer, Raw Log Manager, referrer and error logs. Finally, e-commerce is also offered with the plan’s shared and private SSL, Agora Cart, osCommerce, ZenCart and Cube Cart.