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Confessions of a Web Hosting Noobie
The lifeline of a website is the web hosting. If you have a mediocre to terrible web hosting service, your online venture is going to suffer and potentially shutdown altogether. The first thing you need to know is there are thousands of web hosting companies, resellers and affiliates and all most all of them have one thing in common… they all claim to be the best! My first web hosting company made that claim but turned out to be a pain in the butt all the way around.

First, My Confession…
Although I’m not a Catholic, here goes… “father, forgive me for I have sinned!” What was my sin? The first one was I fell for the sales pitch and plopped down $122.00 buckaroos, believing the web hosting company would handle any and everything my account needed, when it needed it. Let me put it to you bluntly; THEY LIED! My second sin was not doing my homework of web hosting companies and my third sin was, I didn’t receive any recommendations from a trusted source. If you get the third one, depending on the source, you can skip past the first two sins.

I’m Gonna Get You Sucka
The cost was $49.00 per month for ONE domain. If I needed to add any additional features, such as MySQL, or something as simple as adding another e-mail address, I had to put in a trouble ticket and wait for a response, which might take forever. THEN, on top of that, the owner was a narcissistic bull headed IT guru who wouldn’t take advice if Jesus appeared to him in a burning bush. When I transferred from under his regime to another web hosting company, things got a little better, but it wasn’t until I found Hostgator that I learned what it meant to be in control of your web hosting account.

Getting Started Off On The Right Track
The true measure of a service oriented company is its customer support and tech support. One of the great things I appreciate about Hostgator, (and I’ve been with them going on five years) is even through the growing pains they have remained true to taking care of people like you and me. HostGator provides support through all possible means (i.e., online chat, contact page, telephone, e-mail, FAQs, tutorials, forum discussions, aim, icq, msn, or yim. Taking that point into considering this, there should be no site issue that can't be dealt within a short time by HostGator’s highly attentive level of customer service.

The Pricing… Check Out The Pricing

Are There Any Other Good Web Hosting Options?
Sure!  But when you’re starting off, you don’t have time to learn the IT techie lingo, algorithms, MySQL setup, FTP ins and outs, etc., etc. If you had time to do that, you’d go and get a Cisco Certification or a MSCE Certification. What you have time to do is click on a BUTTON or ICON and, BAM… the feature or application WORKS! This is what you get with Hostgator! You also get reliable servers, an easy to use control panel, no long term commitment at all and prices so low, you’re gonna wanna sing, “It’s a miracle!”