HostGator News Posts

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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Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – February 7, 2007 – Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, has introduced standard Ruby on Rails installation support for all of its customers. The free open source web application, was developed to provide more choices for web development environments, and also supports Ruby Gems.

Brent Oxley, President of Host Gator explained, “At Host Gator, we cater to the developer that is passionate about technology and needs all the tools at his disposal required to build dynamic web applications. Ruby on Rails is a quickly becoming one of the important web development standards and we would be remiss if we didn’t provide this support to developers who demand it.”

Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework written in the Ruby programming language, providing an efficient environment for web development, enabling developers to use some of the latest techniques for developing web applications.

Host Gator also announced support for some of the most popular Ruby Gems. A Ruby Gem is a plugin that adds functionality to the Ruby programming language. The pre-installed gems supported include actionmailer, actionpack, actionwebservice, activerecord, activesupport, gnuplot, mongrel, mysql, tidy, xml-simple, payment, BlueCloth, feedtools and htmltools. Read more of this news »

HostGator announced recently that they are increasing the disk space and bandwidth allotments in shared web hosting and reseller hosting plans. The plan upgrades are available to both new and existing hosting customers. HostGator’s shared hosting plans pricing is $6.95, $9.95 and $14.95 per month. The plans now come with 50GB, 100GB and 200GB disk space allotments, and 200GB, 1,000GB and 2,000GB bandwidth, respectively. Read more of this news »