Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - January 29, 2008 - HostGator shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, after reporting a successful fiscal year, has given gifts to support cancer fighting initiatives, while promoting education in underdeveloped countries.

The company gave $100,000 to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, and $25,000 to One Laptop per Child. The gifts were decided upon by HostGator management and staff, including a significant contribution to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

Brent Oxley, President of HostGator noted, ”The gift to Anderson reflected a mix of the wishes of the staff here at HostGator and suggestions from our users. It’s pretty hard to find anybody whose life hasn’t been touched in some way — directly or indirectly — by cancer. We gave to them, partly because we’re located in Houston and some of our employees have had family members treated there, but mostly we gave because of their amazing country-wide reputation for treating patients and researching cancer cures.”

In addition. HostGator donated to the international organization, One Laptop Per Child. The Anderson Cancer Center received a gift of $100,000 and One Laptop per Child received $25,000. The goal of One Laptop per Child is spelled out in its name: to improve the educational opportunities for children in underdeveloped regions by giving every child access to an inexpensive, durable, web-capable laptop. At $100 each, the gift from HostGator should provide at least 250 laptops. Read more of this news »

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - December 21, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, HostGator, is offering 4,500 free website templates to customers and resellers, covering nearly 120 different types of businesses, designed to enable non-technical building of effective websites.

Brent Oxley, Founder and President of HostGator remarked, ”These templates are free to any Website hosted by HostGator, whether on a shared or dedicated hosting plan, or through a hosting reseller. We want to make hosting domains or building websites as painless as possible, that’s why we offer the free templates. We also offer free Site Builder, one of the easiest tools available for anybody wanting to custom build a website, rather than use a template.”

The free templates cover a broad range of page designs suitable for nearly 120 different types of small and medium-sized businesses - from accountants and auto dealers, to cleaning services, consultants, martial arts studios, toy stores, women’s health clinics, and everything in between. The wide variety of templates makes it easier for resellers to attract people and businesses who want websites, but don’t have the knowledge or design abilities needed to create good looking websites.

Although it’s common for Web hosting companies to offer a variety of perks, including free or low cost Web tools, and even a limited number of templates, Mr. Oxley says the number of free templates HostGator has is far beyond the average, adding, ”I really don’t know of any other large hosting company offering this many templates. We may be setting the trend here.”

To apply the free templates, a reseller or webmaster may browse through the templates, select one or more to use, and they automatically begin downloading to their computer. Hosting resellers and webmasters are also welcome to modify and HostGator’s templates, so long as the websites remain hosted by HostGator.

As an added feature, resellers can actually mirror HostGator’s templates pages to show to their customers. That makes accessing the templates easy, while maintaining control over who can accesss them.

Mr. Oxley concludes, ”The only restriction is that the templates can’t be sold or distributed for use on websites not hosted by us.” Read more of this news »

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - October 29, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, has updated its hosting plans, to include new billing software for all of its reseller and dedicated hosting plans, available to all new and existing customers.

Host Gator has licensed the billing solution WHMCompleteSolution to provide it free of charge for all its clients, which normally sells for $249 at WHMCS’ web site. WHMCS provides automated, flexible and easy-to-use client management and billing for web hosts and online businesses. The solution comes with comprehensive support features including a support ticket system, knowledge base, downloads area and server status overview. It also automatically creates, suspends and terminates accounts while providing complete automated billing processes with accounting features and reports, making it the truly complete solution for the web hosts of today.

Brent Oxley, President and Founder of Host Gator noted, ”Billing is a critical part of the hosting business and we want to do everything we can to streamline this process for our resellers. WHMCS is a top of the line billing solution that will make life easier for many of our reseller partners.” Read more of this news »

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - August 29, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator’s new subsidiary, SEO Hosting, has added twelve free search engine optimization scripts to its portfolio of offerings, to maximize customer web site search engine placement.

Brent Oxley, Founder and President of Host Gator remarked, ”Host Gator is always looking for ways to help our customers succeed in their online endeavors. Our customers identified search engine optimization as an area where they needed help and we responded by giving them all the technological capabilities they need to achieve these objectives. The scripts are just another example of how we try to do anything we can to meet our customer’s needs. That goes beyond products and services to resources, information and things like scripts that enhance the entire hosting and web site development and marketing process.”

SEO Hosting was developed to enable webmasters to host websites from one control panel (WHM) and assign each account it’s own different Class C IP address. Otherwise search engines will penalize sites that have the same C class and are linking to each other. With multiple C Class capabilities, customers no longer have to work with different web hosting providers to overcome this problem and can consolidate all websites on SEO Hosting.

The new service originally stemmed from customers regularly asking Host Gator for multiple C Class capabilities because of their belief that search engines will penalize sites that have the same C class and are linking to each other. With multiple C Class capabilities, customers no longer have to work with different hosting providers to overcome this problem and can consolidate all their sites on SEO Hosting.

SEO Hosting is on Host Gator’s network with The Planet, where sites are on servers at all four of The Planet’s data centers in Dallas, TX and are accessible via a fully meshed and redundant Certified Cisco Network featuring ten backbone providers.

Every hosting plan includes cPanel and WHM Control Panel, separate C Class IPs and nameservers, Linux hosting with Apache, unlimited domains, FTP accounts and MySQL databases. In addition, all hosting plans are covered by 24×7x365 support with instant backups and no contracts required. SEO Hosting is offering a 30-day money back guarantee with instant free setup for new customers.

SEO Hosting is a division of Host Gator, a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting. SEO Hosting was created as a search engine optimization hosting service for businesses desiring to maximize web presence. SEO Hosting has offices in Houston, Texas and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio, AT and T and AboveNet. Read more of this news »

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 11, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, has been a top web hosting provider since 2005. With the recent release of its Search Engine Optimization Hosting Services, the new division of Host Gator is designed to enable customers to host on multiple C classes.

SEO Hosting was developed to enable webmasters to host websites from one control panel (WHM) and assign each account it’s own different Class C IP address. Otherwise search engines will penalize sites that have the same C class and are linking to each other. With multiple C Class capabilities, customers no longer have to work with different web hosting providers to overcome this problem and can consolidate all websites on SEO Hosting.

SEO Hosting plans to offer useful tools in the future to its customers as well as provide search engine optimization advice from guest experts on its blog.

The new service originally stemmed from customers regularly asking Host Gator for multiple C Class capabilities because of their belief that search engines will penalize sites that have the same C class and are linking to each other. With multiple C Class capabilities, customers no longer have to work with different hosting providers to overcome this problem and can consolidate all their sites on SEO Hosting.

Brent Oxley, President of Host Gator noted, ”With the importance of high organic rankings on web search engines, businesses are looking to maximize every advantage that will help them improve their results. We found that companies were signing up with multiple locations in order to host different C Classes. SEO Hosting allows these customers the ability to consolidate all their accounts onto a single server and host, saving them time and money.”

SEO Hosting is on Host Gator’s network with The Planet, where sites are on servers at all four of The Planet’s data centers in Dallas, TX and are accessible via a fully meshed and redundant Certified Cisco Network featuring ten backbone providers.

Examples of some C Class hosting plans include:

- 5 C Classes for $7 per C-Class
- 30 C Classes for $5.75 per C-Class
- 50 C Classes for $4.75 per C-Class

Every hosting plan includes cPanel and WHM Control Panel, separate C Class IPs and nameservers, Linux hosting with Apache, unlimited domains, FTP accounts and MySQL databases. In addition, all hosting plans are covered by 24×7x365 support with instant backups and no contracts required. SEO Hosting is offering a 30-day money back guarantee with instant free setup for new customers.

Mr. Oxley added, ”The initial response has been extremely encouraging, and we expect the strong demand to continue. Customers are also reassured that SEO Hosting is backed by Host Gator’s reputation for top-notch service and support.”

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Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - June 28, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, has premiered the official launch of its new subsidiary, SEO Hosting. Created to provide search engine optimization web hosting offerings, the new services have been designed to afford customers with the ability to host on multiple C classes.

The new service stemmed from customers regularly asking Host Gator for multiple C Class capabilities because of their belief that search engines will penalize sites that have the same C class and are linking to each other. With multiple C Class capabilities, customers no longer have to work with different hosting providers to overcome this problem and can consolidate all their sites on SEO Hosting. Read more of this news »

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - June 8, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, has completed the relocation of its headquarters in Houston, Texas. In addition, Host Gator has debuted the launch of a new corporate blog, in prepration for the next stage of the company’s growth.

The new offices are located a few minutes from downtown Houston, where the company has purchased a 4-story, 30,000 square foot building for $2.4 million. This state-of-the art facility features high levels of security, monitoring and expanded infrastructure to support Host Gator’s customer service operations. The new location already houses 100 employees, and has the capacity to accommodate the company’s plans to eventually expand its headcount up to 300. To date the new headquarters is currently handling hundreds of phone calls, thousands of tickets, and about one thousand live chats a day.

Included in the new staffing will be system administrators and webmasters of all technical levels. On the employee lifestyle side, Host Gator looks to keep its staff as happy as its customers with a casual work environment, including a gym, showers and assorted games such as a pool table, air hockey and ping pong. Pizza is free for staffers on Monday and Friday.

Brent Oxley, Chief Executive Officer of Host Gator remarked, ”We are extremely pleased to announce this major milestone. Host Gator has been growing at a rapid rate in the last few years. We felt moving to a major metropolitan area was the best way to meet all our staffing and infrastructure needs.”

Host Gator was previously based out of Boca Raton, Florida. A key reason for moving to Houston was the need to attract qualified staff. The high cost of living in Boca Raton discourages the type of young and technically knowledgeable employees Host Gator requires from living in the area. With the new headquarters, the company is already finding the right hires and is in the process of moving all remaining remote workers to Houston, most of who are now willing to relocate due to the more reasonable housing and living costs.

Pictures of the new offices can be seen on Host Gator’s new blog ”Gator Crossing.” The blog is designed to provide news and updates on the latest happenings at the company, while giving customers insight into its unique culture. Read more of this news »

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - March 26, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, has released information that it will soon provide enhanced hosting services, for search engine optimization, under the brand, SEO Hosting.

The new service is being developed to allow customers to optimize web sites for search engines, through hosting on multiple C classes. Customers are regularly asking Host Gator for multiple C Class capabilities because of their belief that Google will penalize sites that have the same C class and are linking to each other. With multiple C Class capabilities, customers no longer have to work with multiple hosting providers to overcome this problem and can consolidate all their sites with Host Gator. Read more of this news »

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - March 22, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, HostGator, and privately held dedicated hosting company, The Planet, have extended their strategic business relationship by entering into the largest customer transaction in the history of the two companies.

Through the terms of the agreement, HostGator will lease more than 1,700 additional servers in The Planet’s Houston and Dallas data centers, essentially doubling its server portfolio. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Read more of this news »

Fort Lauderdale, Florida - (Website Hosting Directory) - February 9, 2007 - Web hosting and Internet services company, Hostopia.com Inc., has debuted initial licensing of website templates to the service provider market, focusing on large hosting providers with strong reseller networks.

HostGator, one of North America’s leading hosting providers with a commanding share of the reseller market, has licensed Hostopia’s full inventory of professionally developed site templates for distribution to its customer base.

Paul D. Engels, Chief Marketing Officer of Hostopia remarked, ”Demand for pre-built websites is surging as small businesses and professional website designers seek to create superior business websites with less effort. Hosting providers can fill this demand, but only if they source a reliable supply of compelling templates with attractive licensing terms. Hostopia meets this need.”

The website templates licensed by Hostopia are based on industry standard protocols to be fully compatible with leading development tools such as Namo WebEditor 2006 Suite, Adobe Photoshop6+, Macromedia Flash MX+, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, FrontPage 2003+, or any other HTML editor. File formats supported include PSD, HTML, SWF and FLA as well as non-flash versions.

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