Shocked by HostGator hosting

Six months ago one of my clients asked me to set up some *cheap* US hosting for them. I didn’t have much time to research US hosts (try 20 minutes), and ended up going with HostGator simply on price – thinking that I’d take my time to do some research, and move my client to a better host at the end of the month…

Long story short – I didn’t bother. In fact, I ended up moving a few more accounts over to HostGator. I was expecting HostGator to be cheap and nasty, but so far, the up time and support (which I’ve used several times) has been as good as any other host that I’ve used in the last 10 years – but at less than half the price. I’ve now been hosting several of my clients’ domains (and a few of my own) with HostGator for nearly six months, and for the price, I couldn’t be happier.