Why I Moved to HostGator

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You may have noticed in my footer the line that says “hosted by” has changed from x10Hosting to Hostgator. What happened…surely a name like x10 would mean it’s ten times better than the rest, right? Well they are better if you do not want to pay for your hosting and prefer to have it for free! So am I the type of guy who just to give his money away? Of course not…I’ll explain in a minute.

But first for those who do not quite understand exactly what a hosting company does I will make the following analogy: You can build the finest home in the land with the best furniture inside, but you will still need electricity/lights for it to be fully functional. A web hosting company is like the light/electric company in that they give power to your site so that it will be seen on the World Wide Web. They host your site preferably in an efficient manner for visitors that drop by from time to time providing the things they would want out of a website just as a hostess would host a party. You need them in order to be seen!

With that in mind you can now better understand why I moved…

x10Hosting is one of the best free hosting services in that they allow you to put far more advanced coding in to your webpages whereas other free hosting services greatly limit the types of coding and types of graphics. But being that this particular site is an extremely robust site with loads of content and plugins installed I needed a service that had close to NO limitations because oftentimes this site would be unavailable to visitors or the pages would load very slow. This lead to various complaints from visitors as you could only imagine. I mean what would you think if you were invited to a party at someone’s house and every few hours the lights would cut off? This is where HostGator comes in.

HostGator offers:

• Unlimited Disk Space
• Unlimited Bandwidth
• Free SiteBuilder
• Easy Control Panel
• 1-Click Script Installs
• 4,500 Free Website Templates
• 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
• 45 Day Money Back Guarantee
• 24/7/365 Technical Support and
• $100 Google AdWords Credit

There are other paid hosting services that promise these same things, but one big reason why I chose hostgator over other paid web hosting services is because most of the others charge you for several months in advance at a time while hostgator charges you less than$10 month by month. Plus hostgator gives you the ability to host an unlimited amount of sites all under one single account using their add-on domain application!

Now none of this means that I am totally dissing x10. In fact I will definitely continue to use their service for much smaller sites that I intend to build which do not require as many pages, scripts, or plugins. So many thanks to Anna and the rest of x10′s support staff for patiently working with me to resolve the “downtime” issues I was having and please understand I am not leaving, I’m merely utilizing my resources as best as possible. Click on the banner below to start using hostgator NOW!