Strength of HostGator Web Hosting and the Kinds of Web Hosting Tools HostGator offers Customers

One of the many benefits to hosting a website with HostGator web hosting are the many tools they have made available for their customers to use. While many of the tools HostGator offers are readily visible, there are many more that may not be quite as evident or apparent. A few of the tools that HostGator offers are the following:

• CPanel
• Web Hosting Manager
• Sitebuilder and SiteStudio
• 4,500 Free website templates
• Web stats
• MySql databases

Each of these tools could be further broken down into many subcategories of tools, which would require more space than we currently have available for discussion.

For those webmasters who desire to establish, or perhaps already have, an ecommerce website, HostGator has many tools available just for you. As you likely are aware that a dedicated IP address and an SSL are imperative to your ecommerce site. HostGator makes this easy. HostGator Web Hosting also has a variety of shopping cart options for you to select according to your needs. HostGator also provides support for merchant services that allow you to accept credit cards.

Will you be streaming media from your website? Although HostGator only supports HTTP streaming, unless you are on a dedicated server, they have full instructions on how to set this up on your site that are located in their extensive support portal. As noted on the HostGator.com website, they do not support streaming flash from a shared server. A VPS or a dedicated server is required for this feature.

If you plan to use Microsoft ASP or MSSQL, HostGator does have Windows based hosting on their dedicated servers as well as Linux hosting services. Just a note, however, the shared MS ASP, .NET, and MSSQL are currently in beta as of this writing. Before departing the Microsoft part of this discussion, for those who use a dedicated server and use Microsoft FrontPage to develop your websites, HostGator has a help page and video tutorials on how to use FrontPage with their system.

Everyone, whether we have a website or not, needs access to email. HostGator has the tools to take care of this. By taking even a quick glance at their help pages, it is easy to see how extensive this is. There are explicit instructions on everything from how to set up your webmail, to setting up your external email client, and even how to set up your Blackberry, DROID, iPhone, iPad, etc.

If you plan to advertise your website, HostGator web hosting offers $100 Google Adwords credit to each account. For the moment, this is only available to those on the shared web hosting plans, but they have assured that this is also coming to their clients with VPS, reseller, and dedicated hosting accounts soon.

We have discussed a very brief number of tools that HostGator Web Hosting provides to their clients in order to make your experience more enjoyable and productive. There are indeed many more features and benefits and are yours to use as you and HostGator take your website to the next level.

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