IIPanel – is the worst web hosting company. Never pay them a year in advance, I made that mistake.
They only offer a money back guarantee of 15 days. After 30 days, they will disable your account by making some excuse and pocket the entire years fees, you will not get the unused balance bank, even if you request a refund.
Hostgator is one of the most popular web hosting companies today because of the reliable hosting offered at reasonable rates. Although there are thousands of web hosting companies, there are few that offer similar features.
Pricing
Hostgator offers a number of shared hosting plans – Hatchling ($6.95/month) , Baby ($9.95 / month), Swamp ($14.95) a month. The Baby plan is most popular since they allow an unlimited number of domains. No discount is offered for prepayment for longer periods of time, so it is advisable to pay on a monthly basis.
When you first purchase a hosting package from them , there are coupons available by which you can get $9.94 off on the first month’s payment. However, only after $0.01 is paid by PayPal, the account is setup. Since HostGator pays more than $100 for every new customer signup to their affiliates, many of their affiliates offer more than $40 as web hosting rebates. However, this amount is paid out only after 60 days, if the new customer does not cancel hosting.
Features:
The hosting offered by Hostgator includes the Cpanel control panel, which allows for easy management of domains. Web Statistics provided include Latest visitors, Webalizer and Awstats. Awstats are usually available about 24 hours after a domain has been added and can be updated manually if required. Blogging , Forum and other software/scripts can be installed using Fantastico. I faced problems installing phpLD, the captcha was not working properly.
Many people who are just learn web design prefer to use free web hosts. Some of the free web hosts like Geocities, GooglePages, FreeWebs offer enough space and bandwidth to upload web sites with many pages. They also offer website builder and many other tools and addon like counters, time stamp, guestbooks, feedback forms
One of the biggest limitations of free web hosting is that you are unable to upload scripts to your websites. So it is difficult to make any major modifications to the website. The free hosting is supported by either PPC or banner advertising, which is often intrusive. The web designer has no control over the advertising shown. So it is always better to spend some money and purchase hosting.