Hostgator offers linux hosting only, but they will be adding windows hosting shortly. They offer hosting plans in three different categories, Hatchling, Baby, and Swamp. Baby and swamp offer unlimited domains too. Their hosting services are all equipped with the tools you need to get your website up and running.

Hostgator uses the ever so popular Cpanel (which in the industry standard), which is the best control panel on the market today. Inside the Cpanel you can use Fantastico, which will allow you install any open source script effortlessly. You can set up Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal with much ease. Also, Hostgator supports PHP 4 5, SSH Python, Cron Jobs, Ruby On Rails etc. Another great bonus you get with Hostgator is that you can get unlimited POP3 accounts with a shared, reseller, VPS, or even dedicated plan.

Not to mention there is a diverse selection of hosting plans that are offered by Hostgator. No matter if you are looking for a Shared, Reseller, VPS, or even Dedicated package you have options on how much you want to spend for the extra bells and whistles. However, if you are just starting out I would go with WebHostingHub because they are cheaper and give you a free domain. Not to mention come with exra features which Hostgator doesn't have.

While having many great features Hostgator also host their sites on cutting-edge Dual Xeon servers in their data centers in Dallas. Also, their data centers are efficient and currently connect to 10 backbone providers. As far as there up time goes; they are the system standard, offering a 99 percent uptime guarantee. Many studies has shown that Hostgator has maintained a current uptime of 99 percent 8 month straight; which means their servers were never down for more than 10 minutes at a time. You can certainly trust that your site will be up at all hours of the day.

I can personally attest to Hostgator's uptime, as I run many Wordpress blogs and various websites and I can't remember one single time that Hostgator's service was down. Seriously, not one time! More impressive is the accounts I had with Hostgator were shared hosting accounts and I had multiple MySQL databases opening and closing processes all the time and never once received a 500 error, which other competing hosting services will have problems with because you are running to many processes at once.

The bottom line is Hostgator is a great company to host your domains on. Hostgator currently has 2 million domains being hosted on their site (as of September 2010.) I have personally had a number of conversations with professional bloggers and have found that they all have one thing in common. They all tend to use Hostgator's hosting service with there blogs. Also, our good friends at WebHostingSecretRevealed.com HIGHLY recommend their service, and I would encourage you to check out their HostGator Review, as well. Customers generally report that Hostgator has the best customer support offered by a web hosting company. In our opinions Hostgator is hands down one of the best web hosting service available on the market today. However, if you are looking for another great web hosting company GreenGeeks in simply amazing. They are offering $30 off their hosting plans and are a very respectable web hosting company. We highly recommend Hostgator. If you are looking for a one time payment per year, I would recommend you read our review on FatCow.