HostGator Swamp Plan Review

The HostGator.com Swamp Plan, is a Linux hosting package is the top shared Web hosting package in their lineup. The Swamp account currently costs $12.95 per month and includes a 45 day money-back guarantee and a 99.9% uptime guarantee. As with all of the other Host Gator website hosting packages, 24/7 tech support is included and you’ll enjoy knowing that your sites are being monitored around the clock by one of the top Web hosts available today.

This package allows for unlimited bandwidth and domains, and includes a generous 1,000 gigabytes of disk space. The Swamp web host account comes with a free site builder, instant backups and does not bind you down with a contract. You’ll also enjoy free and instant set up. All of the domain and FTP features are unlimited, including add-on and parked domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and also anonymous FTP.

MySQL databases are unlimited with HostGator’s Swamp Plan, but the Web hosting features go on and on: CGI, PHP 5, Ruby on Rails, SSH, Chillisoft ASP (only available with this package), Python, Curl and several others. Like the other plans, there is streaming audio and video and module installation, which is free.

What good is a Web hosting service without email? Of course HostGator offers this service, and also makes it secure to use with features like Spam Assassin to avoid flooded inboxes with messages that may contain viruses. There’s also unlimited POP3 accounts to access outside email, mail forwarding and auto responders, along with other features.

The control panel is impressive with offerings like the Fantastico, Soholaunch, Hotlink protection, and the “Instant” features: guestbook, blogs, portals, PHPnuke, forums, counter and FormMail. Ecommerce is also made convenient, with shared and private SSL, osCommerce and a few other features. The Web site and FTP statistics features complete the package with real-time updates for AWStats, Webalizer, and tools like Raw Log Manager, referrer and error logs.

For only a few more bucks, the HostGator Swamp hosting plan has the most to offer out of the shared hosting lineup. With all of the great features and guarantees it comes with, this package is hard to pass by.