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| HostGator |
HostGator is a Houston-based web hosting company with an additional presence in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 2002 by Brent Oxley, who was then a student at Florida Atlantic University. By 2006, HostGator had passed the 200,000 mark in registered domains. In 2008, Inc. Magazine ranked HostGator at #21 in the United States and #1 in the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas area in its list of fastest-growing companies. The same year, HostGator decided to make their hosting service green hosting by working with Integrated Ecosystem Market Services. HostGator achieved tremendous growth in 2010 by registering over two million domains in the year alone. By the end of 2010, the company grew to over 4.9 million+ domains hosted.
Awards & recognitions
In 2008, HostGator received TOP 10 Hosting Company Award from HostReview.com.
In August 2009, Inc. Magazine recognized HostGator as the 239th fastest growing private company in the United States.
In 2010, HostGator was recognized as a "Hot Texas Company" by Lead411.
The same 2010 year, Web Host Magazine awarded HostGator the Highest Level of Recommendation.
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Hostgator was awarded by WebHostingClue as "Best Small Business Hosting" in 2010.
HostGator was awarded the best web hosting provider of 2010 from w3hostinggeek.
Coupon Code
HostGator do provide some coupon codes for new customers.You can expect to save up to 25% on your first order with the coupon code hostgatornew25off,save $9.94 with the coupon code hostgatornew994off and save up to $24.94 with code hostgatornewreselleroff when you're ordering the HostGator reseller plan.
Weeks  | Total Domains | Market Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global | Country | ||
| 05/09/11 | 1,594,862 | 1.2864 % | 2.0833 % |
| 05/02/11 | 1,581,215 | 1.2764 % | 2.0745 % |
| 04/25/11 | 1,562,537 | 1.2629 % | 2.0532 % |
| 04/18/11 | 1,546,789 | 1.2513 % | 2.0333 % |
| 04/11/11 | 1,536,769 | 1.245 % | 2.0215 % |
| 04/04/11 | 1,524,038 | 1.2366 % | 1.9971 % |
Methodology and Limitations
WebHosting.Info is a patent-pending process invented by Bhavin Turakhia, a result of 2 years of extensive research and development. It employs several key technologies to generate comprehensive reports of unprecedented accuracy and quality, by processing data collected using public domain tools and utilities. The data processing is also based on various assumptions. These assumptions may lead to certain limitations in the report. Following are the assumptions and limitations of our process:
- The entire data set currently consists of all COM, NET, ORG, BIZ, INFO Domain Names. This does not represent the worldwide total, since there are various ccTLDs which we have not yet covered. We assume the total of this dataset to be the Entire Dataset. We shall be including ccTLD statistics in our reports very soon.
- The clients of a Web Hosting company are identified as all Domains served by the nameservers of that particular Company. This may however not be true in all cases. In certain instances the DNS provider maybe separate from the actual Hosting Company. In such a scenario, those domains will be counted towards the DNS provider and not the Hosting Company.
- While our assignment process is extremely accurate in a few rare cases we may have missed out on the Nameservers of a Hosting Company in which case the counts and statistics for those nameservers may be missed out. However, this can easily be rectified by that hosting company and we have an online automated process for this rectification. Therefore this inaccuracy will be practically nullified shortly.
- In all reports the number of Web Hosting companies is assumed as companies having greater than 50 domains under management. Companies with less than 50 domains are not counted in the total number of Web Hosting companies. Their clients however are counted towards total statistics.
- Currently we have not begun to check whether a domain name is actually a hosted. We will soon be differentiating between Domains that are only Registered, Domains that are Parked/Forwarded, and Domains that actually host a unique website. This will reflect accurately the count of hosted clients and exclude the parked/forwarded clients.
- The current Web Hosting company rank is simply based on the total domains count. Since we do not have a differentiation between Hosted and non-Hosted domains yet, these total counts sometimes result in skewed rankings.
- Few domains have multiple nameservers belonging to more than one Company. For instance domain.com can have NS1.DIRECTI.COM and NS1.ANOTHERCOMPANY.COM as its nameservers, where NS1.DIRECTI.COM is owned by DIRECTI.COM and NS1.ANOTHERCOMPANY.COM belongs to ANOTHER COMPANY. In this rare case, the client is assigned to both the companies since it is not possible to directly determine which company the domain is hosted with.
- Wherever we mention Country in the report, we are referring to Country of the Hosting Company and NOT Country of the Domain Name. For instance a client in Australia maybe hosted with a Hosting Company in India, and the servers may actually be in the United States. There are three countries here. The country of the client, the country of the Hosting company, and the country of the Datacenter. In our reports, Country refers to Country of the Hosting Company unless specified otherwise.
- Directi has been omitted from all rank listings to avoid any conflict of interest since WebHosting.Info is a division of Directi.
These, and variations of these may lead to minor inaccuracies in the reports. What is more important however are the processes we have put in place to remove these inaccuracies overtime, with assistance and contribution from readers such as yourself.
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