HostGator vs GoDaddy

When it comes to entry level Shared Hosting solutions, it’s common to compare between HostGator and Go Daddy’s services. Let us find out which shared hosting is better and why?

We have used at least four hosting services before hosting all our sites (including this one) on HostGator. The following are some of the reasons why picked HostGator ahead of GoDaddy and others.

Uptime: Most hosting services offer 99.9% uptime and this is more or less true in the case of both HostGator and GoDaddy

Site Load Time: We saw that GoDaddy servers (especially Databases) lag a bit more than HostGator and clearly HostGator is the winner here.

cPanel vs Custom Control Panel: One of the biggest reason to go for HostGator is their cPanel frontend that makes managing your website(s) a breeze. GoDaddy on the other hand uses their custom control panel. Since most of the hosting industry uses the cPanel, if you switch between hosts, it makes things easier with cPanel.
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HostGator Templates

HostGator Website Templates (FREE) are one of the many advantages of having a HostGator web hosting account.

You have all those beautiful HostGator Templates at your disposal via HostGator cPanel Login access or directly via the following URL.

Templates.HostGator.com

At the moment, there are about 4500 Templates available at the Free HostGator Template store. That means, whatever be the purpose or topic of your website, there are several templates available out there just for you.

HostGator Site Builder

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How to Preview Your HostGator Domain or Site?

Under most circumstances, your HostGator site may need to be previewed for any errors soon after you (or the HostGator support staff) completes the initial setup. The following are the options available for you to preview the HostGator temporary website before it goes public (and before the DNS entries are changed).

1. Temporary URL for Shared Hosting

You can always preview your site by browsing the following HostGator Temporary URL in your web browser:

http://YourIPAddress/~UserName/DomainFolder

In the above example, replace ‘YourIPAddress’ with your assigned IP address, ‘UserName’ with your HostGator account user name and ‘DomainFolder’ with the actual folder name under the public_html folder where you chose to install your domain files.
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