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HostGator Ranks 239 on Inc. 5000

Posted by admin in Host Gator on September 16th, 2009

Written by Chad Bean (CMO of HostGator)

Inc. Magazine just ranked HostGator #239 overall on their prestigious Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing privately owned companies in America. Here’s how the companies that make Inc’s list are ranked: The Inc. 500|5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2005 through 2008. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by the first week of 2005, and therefore able to show four full calendar years of sales. Additionally, they have to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent — not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies — as of December 31, 2008 (a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired since that date). Revenue in 2005 must have been at least $200,000, and revenue in 2008 must have been at least $2 million. Additionally, HostGator ranked #6 in all Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX (Greater Houston area) companies, and #20 out of all companies in our category—Business Products & Services. HostGator has managed to grow over 896% within the measured 3 year time period. We’ve nearly doubled in revenue from 2007 to 2008. In 2008, HostGator was ranked at #21 overall. Although 2009’s rank was lower than the previous year’s, we’ve nearly doubled our revenue between the two periods.

Despite the job market shrinking across the U.S., HostGator has also created 100 positions for highly qualified technicians and systems’ administrators in the Houston area over the last year. I think I speak for everyone at HostGator, when I say we’re all really proud to be a part of this company and what we’ve been able to accomplish. The growth simply comes from doing what we’ve always done: providing our clients with reliable web hosting service, 24/7 support, and by offering as many features as possible.

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HostGator recently passed 200,000 limit

Posted by admin in Host Gator on September 16th, 2009

written by Chad Bean
HostGator recently reached 200,000 active customers and we are on pace to break 300,000 within a year.

I remember when I’d be out celebrating if HostGator managed to get two signups in a week. Now, we’re seeing thousands of signups a week. Back in the day, my celebrating consisted of nothing more than dropping the Ramen noodles or the tuna can I had in my hands and grabbing some sushi for an hour before scrambling back to work. At the time, I was a poor college student who invested every penny I had back into the business I was building.

The HostGator.com domain was registered on October 10, 2002 and here are some statistics about how many active customers we’ve had at a few points since then.

2/1/2003: 112 active customers
2/1/2004: 1,031 active customers
2/1/2005: 6,892 active customers
2/1/2006: 21,434 active customers
2/1/2007: 50,213 active customers
2/1/2008: 92,752 active customers
2/1/2009: 157,432 active customers
Today: 200,000+

Source: HostGator

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interview with HostGator’s CMO

Posted by admin in Host Gator on September 16th, 2009

Chad Bean, Chief Marketing Officer

HostGator is a world leading provider of Shared Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting, and Dedicated Servers. The company was started in Boca Raton, FL in 2002, and in 2006 we relocated to Houston, TX. Over 2.2 million domain names depend on HostGator’s award-winning uptime, reliability and 24/7 support. In August 2009, HostGator was listed as #239 in the U.S. on Inc. 5000’s list of the fastest growing privately owned companies.

In the last few years HostGator has grown by leaps and bounds. We credit most of this growth to our primary focus from the start: providing the best support. While some hosting companies outsource their support, all 260+ HostGator employees are based right here in Houston, TX and are available night and day ensuring that your web site stays online.

New web site owners enjoy using the 4,500 free web site templates, free Site Builder software, and over 75 free scripts (forums, blogs, photo galleries) that can be installed with a click of a button from the control panel. If you already have a web site, we’ll transfer your files and domain for free to make the move from your old hosting company painless.

What unique selling points do you offer?

We offer unlimited disk space and bandwidth for all of our shared Web Hosting plans. Our Baby and Business plans can host unlimited domain names. Our Business plan also comes with a free private SSL certificate, free dedicated IP, free toll-free (866) number, and a free PCI compliant certificate.

Our Reseller Hosting plans include free billing management software for their clients, private DNS, free templates, and is 100% white label making it the perfect solution for a web designer to generate income from their web design clients by providing them hosting through our Reseller plans.

HostGator Dedicated Servers are fully managed with our 24/7 support. On top of that, all of our servers (including shared & reseller) are in multiple state-of-the-art Data Centers in Houston and Dallas, TX. The network is top-notch with DDoS protection, fully redundant architecture, and bandwidth from multiple concurrent Tier 1 providers with a sustained capacity of 250+ gigabits/second.

Describe the services you offer?

Our Shared Web Hosting plans are great for just about anyone. You can do so much with them whether you’re a first time webmaster or already have an established site. Our Business plan is perfectly tailored to eCommerce web sites by providing them with everything they need to sell online including free shopping cart software.

HostGator Reseller Hosting plans work great for anyone with a little more experience who wants to start their own web hosting company or offer hosting services on the side. Your clients will never know they’re being hosted through HostGator, and you can keep all the income generated.

Dedicated Servers work well for existing clients who have outgrown a shared web hosting account or reseller hosting plan and need more resources. Dedicated Servers from HostGator come with free management, so you don’t need to have to be an expert or have any server experience to use it.

Describe your target market?

Our target market is anyone looking for reliable web hosting. We host thousands of small personal web site for $4.95/mth, all the way to Fortune 500 companies requiring their own dedicated server solutions.

How is your company planning for the future?

HostGator recently became a Microsoft partner and intends to expand into the Windows Hosting market, to offer both Linux and Windows Hosting). This will include offering options for IIS 7, Windows Server 2008, MS SQL, and ASP.net hosting.

Currently we’re working on a VPS offering that really will blow away the competition. Before we launch our Windows Hosting and VPS hosting, we’re making sure that both services will provide the reliability that we’ve built our name from with our Shared/Reseller Hosting and Dedicated Servers.

What benefits can you offer your customers?

Because we’re an established, privately owned and profitable company with no debt, we can offer a stable environment where web site owners can grow with us.

How do you support your customers?

When I started in early 2005, HostGator still was using an outsourced support firm. When we started consolidating all of our support in-house we were able to maintain a much greater customer satisfaction rating. Currently our support is all US-based in Houston, TX. We’re available via Phone (1-866-96-GATOR), live chat support, and through e-mail tickets. Support is provided at no additional cost to all HostGator clients.

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Host Gator

Posted by Joe Petrucci in Host Gator, Web Hosts on May 5th, 2009

Host Gator is a web hosting company (founded in 2002) with more than 1,800,000 hosted domains. They have more than 200 employees to provide customer satisfaction based service. Host Gator offers plans for business, personal, or even Fortune 500 hosting. Every web hosting plan comes with 99.9% uptime and 45 day money back guarantee. HostGator is giving a FREE $25 voucher for Google’s AdWords program with every shared web hosting plan membership. If your choice is a Linux shared hosting and fast response tech. support, we recommend Hostgator. Host Gator’s feature rich plans offers max. bandwidth, maximum disk space, php, databases.