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HostGator is a privately held company that was founded in 2002 and is based in Houston, TX. HostGator has grown from a company that was started in Brent Oxley's dorm room and now has more than 7000 servers, 225,000 customers, and hosts more than 2,200,000 domains. They are known around the industry for their customer support and high customer satisfaction rates.
HostGator has recently gone completely green and switched to servers that are more than 36% more efficient. They also purchase Renewable Energy Credits equal to 130% of their total power consumption.
HostGator has received a number of awards since their inception including INC. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Company in America (twice) and the About.com 2010 Reader's Choice Awards.
HostGator VPS Packages:
- Level 1 - CPU 0.56GHz, 384MB RAM, 10GB space, bandwidth 250GB, $19.95/month
- Level 2 - CPU 0.84GHz, 576MB RAM, 22GB space, bandwidth 375GB, $29.95/month
- Level 3 - CPU 1.13GHz, 768MB RAM, 30GB space, bandwidth 500GB, $39.95/month
- Level 4 - CPU 1.98GHz, 1344MB RAM, 59GB space, bandwidth 1050GB, $69.95/month
- Level 5 - CPU 2.68GHz, 1824MB RAM, 80GB space, bandwidth 1425GB, $94.95/month
- Level 6 - CPU 3.39GHz, 2304MB RAM, 102GB space, bandwidth 1800GB, $119.95/month
- Level 7 - CPU 4.24GHz, 3168MB RAM, 165GB space, bandwidth 2250GB, $149.95/month
- Level 8 - CPU 5.09GHz, 3801MB RAM, 198GB space, bandwidth 2700GB, $179.95/month
- Level 9 - CPU 5.94GHz, 4435MB RAM, 231GB space, bandwidth 3150GB, $209.95/month
- Semi managed with Virtuozzo VZ
- Fully managed with cPanel (additional cost $10/month, available to Level 3 and higher plans)
- OS: Linux CentOS
- Full root access
- PHP, MySQL, Perl, Python, Ruby (on Rails), FFMpeg
- Dell PowerEdge servers
- Dual Nehalem CPUs (16 Hyperthreaded cores)
- Fault tolerant RAID-10 disk array with Enterprise drives
- Gigabit uplink with a guaranteed 20mbit connection
- Multiple layers of network security
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