HostGator is a global provider of web hosting and related services.

Founded in a dorm room at Florida Atlantic University by Brent Oxley, HostGator has grown into a leading provider of Shared, Reseller, VPS, and Dedicated web hosting. HostGator is headquartered in Houston and Austin, Texas, with several international offices throughout the globe.

A Snappy Timeline

• October 22, 2002

  HostGator Founded

  In a Florida dorm room, HostGator’s founder Brent Oxley weighs the pros and cons of naming his company either hostgator.com or gatorhost.com, ultimately choosing the former and registering the domain on October 22, 2002.
• February 1, 2003

  The First 100 Customers

  As of February 1st, 2003, HostGator had 112 active customers. On the same date, one year later, there would be 1,031 active customers.
  
• June 29, 2006

  Toronto, Ontario Office Opens

  Canada, being a much more fertile ground for System Admins than Boca Raton, resulted in the opening of HostGator’s first international office. Oh, Canada!
• November 1, 2006

  Relocating From Boca Raton To Houston

  Having outgrown the initial 2,000 square foot office space, and exhausted the local Boca Raton talent pool from which to hire employees, HostGator moved to a 25,000 square foot building in Houston, Texas. Forty of the fifty Florida employees made the move to Texas, where HostGator has remained ever since.
• May 4, 2007

  blog.hostgator.com Publishes Its First Post

  The HostGator blog published its first post, aptly titled “Welcome to Gator Crossing,” on May 4th, 2007. "Gator Crossing" remains the official name of the blog to this day.
• May 23, 2007

  HostGator Opens An Office In Brazil

  Expanding its International reach, HostGator opens another office in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, being our first South of the equator office!
• September 10, 2009

  200,000 Customers

  The first 100,000 customers were reached around the middle of 2008, with the second hundred thousand occurring in September of 2009.
• August 16th, 2010

  Austin Office Opened

  Having outgrown the initial Houston office, HostGator again looked West and expanded into a new 100,000 square foot office in Austin, Texas.
• February 2, 2011

  500 Employees

  As of February, HostGator now has over 500 employees. And we’ve virtually never stopped hiring since!
• November 29, 2011

  5,000,000th LiveChat

  On November 29th, 2011 at 9:21:23 CST, HostGator received our 5,000,000th LiveChat.
• June 21, 2012

  EIG Acquisition

• On June 21, 2012, Brent Oxley announced that HostGator was being acquired by Endurance International Group

Web Hosting Awards and Reviews

The votes are in and the critics have spoken, awarding HostGator as the top pick for web hosting across the board. HostGator raises the bar in the world of web hosting for speed, reliability and support without comparison. Below are just a handful of noteworthy awards...

#2 Best Web Hosting

Find My Host 2012 HostGator is one of the most famous Linux platform web hosting company in the industry. From the newest stats, HostGator INC. is already serving more than 5 million domain names in their shared, reseller, VPS and dedicated servers. Hostgator is one of the best choice for the small to medium-sized business owners and bloggers. HostGator is good since they can deliver the best customer support service & most reliable web hosting service to their clients.

Best Host

WordPress Hosting Review 2012 For our second year in a row, HostGator has come in first for Best Host of The Year in 2012. We have been using HostGator on several websites over time and know that they do a good job. Our criteria is based on Speed/Uptime, Price, Customer Support, and Features. HostGator has delivered what they set out to do. For us, this means keeping our website up and running fast, giving us affordable plans with good features and keeping us happy. Cheers guys, here's to another year.

Best Transfer Service

2011 Best Free Website Transfer Service We all make mistakes. For example, you may have chosen an unreliable web host that just isn't doing a good job hosting your website. You've spent too much time and effort on your site to settle for bad hosting. It's time to move to the best web host - HostGator. You deserve the best, and so does your site. So take advantage of HostGator's FREE website transfer now. No wonder HostGator won Website-Hosting-Reviews.net award for Best Website Transfer Service.

	Web Hosting Hatchling Plan	WordPress Hosting Starter Plan Starter Plan
Control Panel	Standard cPanel	Simplified Control Panel Experience designed around WordPress
Managed WordPress We Manage WordPress: App, Plugins, And More	—	Included
Speed Booster 2.5X Fast Performance Cloud, Built-in Caching (Varnish & WordPress Caching), And More	—	$120/yr
Security Booster Built-in Malware Removal, Platform Firewall, Off-Site Backups	—	$80/yr
Uptime Booster Automated Compute Fallover, 3N Storage Redundancy	—	$25/yr
Premium WordPress Services Designed to Help Novice And Pro WordPress Users	—	Up To $150 One Time
Price / Month	$4.86	$5.97
Total Savings	—	$225/yr + $150 One Time

Best Small Business Hosting

2011 Best Small Business Hosting WebHostingClue.com provides comprehensive web hosting guides to help webmasters and small businesses decide what kind of web hosting solution they need. HostGator has been awarded the Best Small Business Hosting Provider of 2011.

Editor's Choice

FindMyHost Editor's Choice Award 2011 The June 2011 Editor's Choice Awards were released and Hostgator scored the Budget Hosting and eCommerce awards. We want to take the opportunity to acknowledge the hosts per category who have excelled in their field. The FindMyHost Editors' Choice Awards are chosen based on Editor and Consumer Reviews.

239th Fastest Growing!

Inc.com Fastest Growing Companies in America In August 2009, Inc. Magazine recognized HostGator as the 239th fastest growing private company in the United States. Additionally, Inc. ranked HostGator as the twentieth fastest growing private company in the "business services" sector and the sixth fastest growing private company in the state of Texas.

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