HostGator provides easy, inexpensive and profitable way to start one’s very own web hosting company. HostGator provides its customers with all of the tools and support needed by them to have their business up and running. All of HostGator’s reseller hosting plans allows the customer to create unlimited web sites under their own brand name, with their own prices, packages and features. Moreover as a HostGator reseller the customer keeps 100% of the money they collect.
After the customers signs up they are given access to the HostGator reseller control panel, Web Host Manager. Web Host Manager allows clients manage and provide their customers with their own user control panels (cPanel) which further enable them to create and modify their own web sites. Once customer is logged into cPanel they are able to control sub domains, email addresses, passwords and much more without requiring any assistance. HostGator has made sure that in an event when the customers encounter any difficulties, they provide support round the clock.
Reseller Web Hosting include following Plans:
Aluminum Plan
The HostGator Aluminum Plan is a reseller web hosting account that is supposed to be the modest of the five reseller packages offered. This plan includes the Web Host Manager (WHM), making it extremely easy to create accounts for customers or for the service buying client itself. The HostGator Aluminum Hosting Plan allows for fifty gigabytes of storage disk space and five hundred gigabytes of bandwidth for the user. The service costs $24.95 US Dollars fir each month and allows the buyer to host unlimited domains on it. This web hosting and reseller package includes many impressive features, including a money back guarantee for forty five days and a 99.9% percent uptime guarantee. Also coming standard with this plan are private name servers, a free billing system, website templates, 24-hour tech support, instant backups and free set up. There also is no contract forced on the purchase of the pack.
The Aluminum hosting service also allows for unlimited sub domains, POP3 accounts for email, MySQL Databases and FTP accounts. Once the account is set up, the client will also have access to a host of features, including CGI, PHP 5 with Zen Optimizer, MySQL 4+, Perl, Ruby on Rails, and Python among several others. Other options or “extras” include Site Builder and Chillisoft ASP. Host Gator email is user-friendly and secure, offering Web mail, email alias, auto responders, mailing lists, catch alls, Spam Assassin and mail forwards, but the list does not end there.
The HostGator control panel (also known as cPanel) for this plan will keep the user busy with fun. It includes Fantastico, Soholaunch, Multilanguage, Hotlink protection and many other tools. Not only this but it also includes in the same price the features for Website and FTP Statistics, as well as e-Commerce features like shared and private SSL. Just because the Aluminum Plan is the cheapest and modest HostGator reseller hosting account, the service buyer must not be fooled into thinking that it does not deliver any good value. One should not assume that cheap things are not good but should analyze them by their features. HostGator has earned an excellent reputation for providing affordable yet extremely reliable web host services.
In a summarized manner, the major features offered by the Aluminum Plan of the HostGator to its customers may be listed as below:
* HostGator provides a Disk Space of 50 GB in this plan.
* A Bandwidth of 500 GB is allotted to its customers by HostGator in this plan.
* Unlimited Domains are allowed to the customers by HostGator.
* It is available to customers at a base price of $24.95 per month.
Copper Plan
The Copper Plan of the HostGator is a reseller web hosting account that comes with technical support of twenty four hours a day for seven days a week for all weeks of the year. This includes a forty five day money back guarantee and also guaranteed uptime 99.9 percent of the time. If that is also not enough for the service purchaser, this is a host of features and low price of $34.95 might just win the client over satisfied. HostGator reseller web hosting allows customers to create and host unlimited accounts, with the use of cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM). This has many benefits. Host Gator Copper reseller package allows for eighty gigabytes of disk space and seven hundred gigabytes of bandwidth. Some of the hosting features that come with this package include the following:
* templates
* private name servers
* a free billing system
* no contract
* free setup that happens instantly
* There is also unlimited FTP accounts
* Unlimited number of domains
* Unlimited sub domains
* unlimited POP3 accounts
* Unlimited MySQL databases.
* Free of cost installation for PHP
* Free Perl modules
* Free Streaming audio and video
* Image Magick
* GD and Curl
* Front Page and Cron
Although the Copper plan is on the lower end of the price range of Host Gator’s reseller hosting lineup, it still includes many standard features that will impress customers looking to build a site. Extra services that can be offered include Chillisoft ASP and Site Builder, which will help customers create professional looking sites conveniently. Email is always an important part of a Web site, and this package provides many useful email features such as SMTP, IMAP support, and email alias, Spam Assassin for security, catch alls, mailing lists and auto responders. The control panel also is packed with instant features, including FormMail, Counter, Portals, Guestbook, Forums, PHPnuke, customer support desks and blogs. Web site and FTP Statistics will be taken care of by the HostGator Copper webhosting package with its real-time updates of AWStats, Webalizer, Raw Log Manager, referrer and error logs. Finally, e-commerce is also offered with the plan’s shared and private SSL, Agora Cart, osCommerce, ZenCart and Cube Cart.
Silver Plan
Silver plan is right in the middle of the five reseller plans of the HostGator. The HostGator Silver reseller web hosting package comes at a price of $49.95 per month. This plan comes to its customers with a one hundred twenty gigabytes of disk space and one thousand gigabytes of bandwidth. It comes standard with private name servers, a free billing service, streaming audio and video, free installation of PHP and Perl modules, FrontPage, Cron, Perl, CGI among other features.
Optional add-ons to this plan include Site Builder and Chillisoft ASP. Email is convenient and safe with features like Spam Assassin that ensure security with this package. There are also other standard tools, like Web mail, email alias, catch alls and mail forwards, among others. The impressive control panel includes customer error pages, instant blogs and customer support desks, IP deny manager and Hotlink Protection. E-commerce is almost necessary when trying to have an online business, and the Silver plan makes this simple and convenient with its standard features, including shared and private SSL, ZenCart and Cube Cart, osCommerce and Agora Cart. Silver also allows for Website and FTP statistics, showing real-time updates of AWStats. If the client is looking for a middle of the road reseller account that offers quite a bit of bang for its buck, then the HostGator Silver plan may very well be the best bet for the client. It is not only affordable but reliable also, and is backed by Host Gator’s outstanding customer support.
Gold Plan
With the gold plan at the HostGator, the customers start moving towards the right hand side to the high end features and richer facilities of reseller web hosting. Reselling hosting plans make it easy to create and manage multiple Web sites, and the HostGator Gold plan is a great way to do just that. Reseller web hosting plans use Web Host Manager (WHM) and cPanel. The Host Gator Gold reseller hosting package, available at a cost of $74.95 per month, includes one hundred sixty gigabytes of disk space and one thousand two hundred gigabytes of bandwidth, so there is capacity for generous activity on the site account. If the client is worried about spending money on something that will not be satisfied with, rest assured the HostGator offers a day money back guarantee for forty five days in the plan and 99.9% uptime guarantee is also included in this. There is no forced contract required in the plan. Other features of this plan include a free and instant setup, a site builder to help create professional looking Web sites, instant backups, tech-support around the clock, free website templates, a billing system and private name servers. There are many possibilities with the Gold package through HostGator.com. There are unlimited domains and sub domains, POP3 accounts, MySQL Databases and also FTP accounts. Some of the other features include, but are not limited to, CGI, PHP 5 with Zend Optimizer, Perl, Ruby on Rails and Image Magick, along with streaming audio and video for added effect on your sites, and Image Magick. Extra options include another site builder and Chillisoft ASP, which costs an additional $5.
The Gold plan has mail options that come standard with the plan, which are web mail, email alias, Spam Assassin for security, mail forwards and others. cPanel also offers quite a few options, including custom error pages, redirect URL, Hotlink protection, instant blogs, PW Protected Directories, and other features as well. E-commerce, FTP statistics and Website options also are included in the Gold price. With all-day/all-night technical support and guarantees, the HostGator Gold plan is an excellent choice for anyone who is considering a high end reseller web host package.
Diamond Plan
The HostGator Diamond package is considered as the top of the line reseller web hosting service plans of this industry leader of web hosting service providers. This plan offers the most disk space and bandwidth. The buyer of the service gets an inclusion of two hundred gigabytes storage space and One thousand four hundred gigabytes of bandwidth in the package. The price for these huge space and bandwidth is not that huge and the package is still affordable for a cost of $99.95 US Dollars only. Other reseller web hosting features that come with the HostGator Diamond hosting plan include the following:
* Instant backups
* 24/7 tech support
* 45-day money-back guarantee
* 99.9 percent uptime guarantee
* Free and instant setup
* Free billing system
* Free templates
This great reseller web hosting package also allows for unlimited creation of domains, sub domains, POP3 accounts, MySQL databases and FTP accounts. The hosted domains in this package will also have access to many other great options, such as GD, Image Magick, streaming audio and video, Curl, FrontPage, Perl, CGI, Python and others. Extras include a site builder and Chillisoft ASP, which puts together scripting, HTML, customer service and database publishing. The email features seem endless, with mail forwarding, Spam Assassin, SMTP, IMAP support, catch alls and mailing lists. Many options in the control panel are impressing as well. Some of these features include Soholaunch, Fantastico, Instant forums and blogs, Redirect URL and many others. As far as website statistics are concerned, the Diamond package has real time updates for AWStats, Webalizer, Raw Log manager, and e-commerce abilities. Although Diamond is the most expensive plan in HostGator’s reseller account lineup, it is still extremely affordable and provides good bang for your buck.
Common features of reseller accounts
HostGator reseller account is a service from HostGator through which a service buyers can sell the web hosting services to their client, and make some profit from there. The service buyers can offer web hosting services to their customer, and also customize their web hosting package via HostGator reseller hosting package. HostGator reseller hosting comes with the facility of WHM Autopilot Control Panel that provides a quick and easy web hosting account management facility. HostGator reseller account allows the service buyers to resell domain name as well. Not only this but the services buyers can now get discounted price domain name via HostGator reseller hosting. The HostGator domain name for reseller is now being offered via eNom domain registrar. The customers of the service buyers can now purchase or order domain name directly from the service provider, and the service buyer can make another profit from selling the domain name. eNom domain prices are quite competitive and affordable with $9.45 each year for a .com domain, $9.45 each year for a .net account and $9.45 each year for a .org domain account. Also from the HostGator reseller account, the service buyer can find following to make a $100.00 deposit and keep a positive balance on its account although the credit card and PayPal will remove 3% per transaction. The customer can have access to the eNom reseller tools and sub account structure with eNom API and Registry Rocket. HostGator has limited access to the domain names. The HostGator reseller domain account service buyers can set their own default DNS for being used when registering domains. They can even set their own default information for the WHOIS information when their domains are registered.
Value Added Features
Each reseller account with HostGator comes with many Value Added Features for no extra cost. HostGator provides Unlimited Domains to its customers in its reseller hosting service package. Unlimited Sub Domains are also provided to its customers by HostGator for their convenience. Likewise Unlimited Email Accounts are also allowed in every bought service package. The customer takes benefits of access to Unlimited MySQL Databases, Unlimited cPanels and Unlimited FTP Accounts. HostGator gives away its customers many other services for use such as Free Site Builder Software, which allows the customers to build their site, Private Name Server. Moreover, HostGator provides its customers with free Billing Systems and free Domain Reseller Account also. The customers get more than four thousand five hundred free of cost Website Templates from HostGator with which they can create their websites in professional look very quickly and easily. More than 22 Languages are available to the customers allowing them to use the language of their choice in describing the contents in their websites.
Administrative Control Panel
Administrative Control Panel features in the HostGator reseller service include the following:
* HostGator provides its customers with the Latest WHM Control Panel with Multi-language Availability to make life easier for them.
* HostGator team of experts keeps a continuous Monitoring over the Server Status to ensure more than 99.9% uptime of the servers and their uninterrupted services to the customers.
* The customers are provides with Limit packages to specify the usable disk space, bandwidth, email, databases, and other features in the package.
* HostGator offers complete control to its customer and allows them Password Modification. Moreover DNS Account Creation and Account Termination are some other freedoms given to the customer.
* Brandable Client Panel (BCP) is offered by HostGator with the company logo of the customers in Admin Control Panel features to all its customers.
Control Panel Features
Control Panel of the reseller web hosting accounts at the HostGator is equipped with the following strengths:
* HostGator gives to its customer the latest and one of the most advanced cPanel Control Panel features. Website Statistics featuring tools are provided integrated with the control panel that include the advanced features of AWStats, Webalizer, Raw Log Manager, Referrer, and Error Logs
* The Fantastico includes Instant Shopping Carts, Blogs, Portals, Forums, Counters and Form Mail which makes it a customer friendly Control Panel.
* The service is equipped with fully Password Protected Directories with preloaded Custom Error Pages.
* It is loaded with Web Based File Manager, Hotlink Protection, IP Deny Manager and Redirect URL
Programming and Database Features
The sold packages of reselling web hosting service packages of HostGator include the following programming and database features:
* HostGator allows unlimited MySQL Databases with phpMyAdmin Access. The Programming Language supports with the reseller services include CGI, Fast CGI, PHP 5, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python, and SSI
* Programming Modules with which the reseller hosting service packages are equipped includes Curl, CPAN, GD Library, and ImageMagick
* System Management is supported with SSH Access
* HostGator also provides Cron Job Scheduling included in the packages
* The HostGator Reseller Hosting Plans come along with FrontPage Extensions in them.
The Email Features
The HostGator Reseller Hosting Plans are offered with e-mail features as listed below:
* HostGator allows Unlimited POP3 Email Accounts with SMTP in its Reseller Hosting Plans
* Webmail Access includes supports of Horde, SquirrelMail, and RoundCube
* The customers can even receive their email to their phone through IMAP Support
* The service prevents spam mails with the help of SpamAssassin facility
* The Company gives facilities like Unlimited Auto-responders, Mail Forwards, Email Aliases and Mailing Lists in simplified ways.
Award Winning Support
HostGator offers its award winning technical support to all its service buyers. This support is quite special with the following highlights:
* HostGator is known to Provide 24 X 7 Premium Support for all days of the year through all mediums like Phone, Live Chat, and Ticket System (Email).
* HostGator gives automatic Weekly Off Site Data Backups for its customers.
* The Technical Systems of the customers are monitored all the time, round the clock to ensure their uninterrupted functioning.
* All the customers are provided with Online Support Portal with over 500+ Video Tutorials and more than six hundred eighty Help Articles
* Customers can access HostGator Community Forum
Green Web Hosting
HostGator works in environment friendly manners meeting its social responsibilities in the following ways:
* HostGator has invested in Texas Wind Energy to help offset server emissions.
* It is Climate Friendly as it is Wind Powered. Company has been Certified by RECs (Renewable Energy Credits). This means that HostGator purchases certified Renewable Energy Credits (REC’s) and hereby does its business in a complete environment friendly manner.