HostGator Hatchling Plan Review

HostGator.com’s Hatching plan, a Linux Web hosting plan, is one of the three shared hosting packages offered by Host Gator. These shared web hosting plans come with a satisfaction guarantee, and the customer has 45 days to decide if the purchase has met their expectations. Whether you’re looking for Web hosting to suit for business needs, personal or even the Fortune 500 level, HostGator has a plan for you.

The HostGator Hatchling plan offers a plethora of options and features, although it is the most modest plan in their shared webhosting lineup. It has ample disk space at 350 gigabytes and bandwidth and 3,000 gigabytes, and one domain is allowed with this plan.

In addition to the money-back guarantee, the Hatchling package offers a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee, free instant setup, no contract, instant backups, 24 hour a day customer support, and a site builder. There are also unlimited subdomains and FTP accounts.

Web hosting features seem endless for this small price or only $4.95 per month. The Hatchling package includes:

• Unlimited MySQL databases
• CGI
• PHP 5, Ruby on Rails, SSH, Perl, Python, SSI, and Cron
• FrontPage
• Curl
• GD and Image Magick
• Streaming audio and video

The Hatchling web host plan even makes email convent and secure with features like the Spam Assassin. Also offered with this package are Web mail, email alias, auto responders, mailing lists, catch alls, mail forwarding, IMAP support and SMTP. The control panel features are also impressive. They include phpMyAdmin, Web-based file manager, Instant Counter and many other offerings. Web site and FTP stats have Webalizer, real-time updates for AWStats, and a log manager. For those who are interested in e-commerce, this inexpensive plan also has options in that area, including shared SSL, Agora Cart, osCommerce, ZenCart and Cube Cart.

If you’re on a tight budget, it’s almost impossible not to go for the HostGator Hatchling hosting service. It is inexpensive, guaranteed, and backed by great customer support. Each consumer is given “VIP attention,” because they are in fact very important.