(HostGator) How to Choose the Right Hosting Plan

One of the great things about a company like HostGator is that they offer a variety of hosting plans. This means that you can choose the one that is best for your needs. Of course in order to do this you will need to be able to determine which is best for your needs. This is where a lot of people run into trouble. Fortunately it is not that hard if you know what is and is not important.

The first thing that you have to consider when you are choosing your hosting plan is whether or not you are going to be using it for business purposes or not. You can actually use a personal hosting plan for sites that you intend to make money with as long as you are not planning to sell anything directly from your site. If you are going to be making sales from your site you have to have a private SSL certificate. This will ensure that your site is secure. If you are using HostGator to host your sites this means that you will need a business plan.

The other big thing that you will have to think about when you are choosing a hosting plan is how many domains you need. If you choose the lowest cost option you will only get the one domain which for most people is just fine. If however you are planning to build more than one site you will find that getting a plan that allows you unlimited domains is a lot more cost effective than getting an individual plan for each of them.

One of the things that you will notice that we did not consider when it comes to choosing a hosting plan is bandwidth and disk space. This is because with HostGator these are unlimited with all accounts. If you get your hosting with other companies this will probably be the most important consideration but with HostGator it is not an issue that you have to worry about. This greatly simplifies the process of choosing the right hosting company.

Beyond that there is not a lot of difference from one hosting account to another with HostGator. They all offer excellent customer support and a number of very useful features. The site builder feature in particular is very useful since it makes creating your site a breeze even if you have never done it before. The result is that there are only a couple of things that you have to consider to find the right hosting plan with HostGator.