I’m not a pessimist but I’m not a “sunshine and butterflies” type of person either, I like to think of myself as a realist. I know that when it comes to things like the economy, our future (and when I say “our” I mean society as a whole) is not exactly bright but you know what, I’m confident that you are equipped with enough intelligence and common sense to make it bright for you!

I’d like to take advantage of this opportunity and thank you for being a FirstDomainer.com reader. In 2012 and beyond, just like in the past, I will do everything humanly possible to help you make informed decisions.

Thanks a lot for your attention guys, it’s a privilege and I hope all of you will have a great 2012!

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I want to take a moment and thank all of my readers and supporters. I want to also thank all those who comment on my blog, without you guys I wouldn’t be encouraged to keep posting.

Blogging has been a great journey, and I just feel great that I can share my knowledge knowing that it’s going to help someone out there.

Christmas is family time, do spend time with your family and friends. There really isn’t anything more important in this world than family.

And don’t forget, Christmas is time of forgiveness and love. Don’t let any past disagreements to stay in the way, forgive anyone and everyone and you will be happy.

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Domain Registration

Through their user-friendly web site, customers can register, transfer and renew domain names with ease.  Their domain name glossary makes it easy for novices to quickly gain industry acumen, while the company’s “domain nabber” tool makes it a snap for savvy webmasters to procure desirable domain names.

Through the “domain nabber” tool, you can quickly view prospective domain names which will soon be available.  Better yet, you can peruse the soon-to-be-dropped domain names based upon their current estimated traffic levels, in-bound links, page data, and much more.  This service allows you to easily conduct research on aged domain names that have existing traffic and SEO traction.

Domain TLDs

Although most people register a simple .com or .net domain name, Name.com specializes in providing these domain TLDs and so much more. For example, the company promotes the registration of unconventional domain TLDs like .MOBI, .Travel or .Jobs. They also run promotions on other TLDs like .IM and .TEL for those who want to operate personal blogs or even simply have a website that acts like a business card.

Aside from these top-level domains that are so commonly registered, the company also offers registration for country-code TLDs (ccTLDs) such as .co.uk (United Kingdom) or .com.au (Australia).

Some of the country code TLDs currently being offered by Name.com are now being used for commercial purposes. For example, .TV was once the country code TLD for Tuvalu, and it is now used for generic ‘as seen on TV’ web sites.  .CO was once the country code TLD for Columbia and is now used as a commercial alternative for .com after a recommendation from the University of Columbia.

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Although the hosting environment is shared, each server has a low amount of sites hosted in order to facilitate a quality hosting experience every time. Their hosting plans come with a user-friendly control panel that includes automatic script installation applications and other tools that will make your job as a webmaster easier than ever. All of these features are backed by a 30 day money back guarantee that proves the company’s commitment to excellence.

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Happy Thanksgiving to all

From looking at the BlueHost.com web site, the company appears to be a serious and professional web host. A visually appealing web site, clearly posted contact information, lots of awards (from legitimate places), and grammatically correct text on site, all help make BlueHost seem like a formidable web host. A great feature (that seems to be awfully rare) is that BlueHost provides a demo of their control panel (a very slightly customized cPanel using the X skin) that actually works and isn’t impossible to find. It’s a great feature that allows you to review how cPanel works if you aren’t familiar with it.

BlueHost Features and Pricing

The features BlueHost provides seem pretty standard (nothing lacking) with all of the expected features of a web host such as cPanel, multiple database support, FTP, email, etc. BlueHost’s one (the only one I could find, at least) package features unlimited diskspace, and unlimited bandwidth. There’s a limited number of databases (100 each for MySQL and Postgre) and more FTP and email accounts than you could ever use (1,000 and 2500, respectively). Unlimited numbers of addon domains, parked domains, and subdomains are given.

Three and six month contracts are no longer offered. Pricing is now the same no matter how long you sign up for:

• 12 Months: $6.95/month (no setup fee, free domain included)
• 24 Months: $6.95/month (no setup fee, free domain included)
• 36 Months: $6.95/month (no setup fee, free domain included)

I have never been a big fan of a minimum of three months contract, and I had to click around (to the second step in their order process, actually) just to find out the price. Ignoring the minimum contract length, pricing is quite competitive.

Terms of Service

BlueHost has a very unique Terms of Service – there’s no legal jargon at all. It’s just some bullet points on a page with the major points included in most Terms of Service agreements. The shady point is “All activities may be monitored, recorded, and examined by any authorized person, including law enforcement.” with a semi-shady “Any violation found or fraudulent activity that system personnel deem inappropriate may have your account immediately terminated without notice and any recorded evidence reported to authorized persons.” However, in fairness to BlueHost, the points are quite clear, and not hidden within a 10 page agreement.

cPanel Control Panel

Two clicks later, I was into my control panel. If you know about cPanel, you can probably skip this paragraph. It’s all very standard. You have the same SQL, subdomain, email, etc. features as every other cPanel. There’s a few nice addons such as a domain manager, a sitebuilder, and some options to manage your account (basically, it just logs you into their billing system, but still convenient). BlueHost has Fantastico, which from what I saw, was up-to-date with the latest stable versions of all of the scripts. The cPanel went very fast and did everything it was supposed to do.

Script Installation

Like a lot of cPanel hosts, BlueHost supports addon domains. I set up a few addon domains, and everything worked well, and without any problems. BlueHost doesn’t allow SSH/Shell Access by default, but says it will enable shell access for your account if you fax a copy of your driver’s license, passport, etc. to them. I installed some basic scripts (a blog, a CMS, a forum) without any problems. Speed was about average, and BlueHost seems to keep up in terms of software updates and the like.

BlueHost Support

I called their support department using their toll-free number. I was talking to someone within about 30 seconds after dialing. I asked some basic questions: Do you support mod_rewrite (Yes), do you support mod_security (didn’t know, but checked), and do you keep your Fantastico up-to-date with the latest versions (Yes)? Support was nice enough, and keep to know what they were talking about. The representative obviously wasn’t reading from a prompt (no delay with answers).

I decided to test the BlueHost support out with some more complicated issues that an average webmaster may run across. I was caller #2, and had to wait about a minute or two. I spoke to a different representative (meaning they have more than one tech on duty, always nice) and asked does BlueHost support PHP5 (they have two servers that do, and can move your account if needed), if they support Ruby on Rails (nope), and if I should use ‘localhost’ as my host name with the script I was trying to install (Yes). I reworded the questions slightly and sent them to BlueHost support via email at 4:50 PM on a Monday. By 5:17 PM, I had a helpful response.

All and all, BlueHost seems like a good web host. The company certainly has their act together and by all means can be labelled as a top quality web host with great features and support.

Though the beginning was quite humble, HostGator has become one among the best web hosting companies in the world. At first glance, you might take HostGator for any other web hosting services, However, you would certainly be in for a surprise when you begin learning about the various features and services they offer.

There is an answer for every call of yours, replies to your e-mails, instant response whenever you want to chat, quality hosting and affordable plans. These are just a handful from the ocean of their services which we would be reviewing in detail.

Features That Set Hostgator Apart

HostGator’s official website claims that their hosting services are used by 1,000,000 websites and reseller account holders are as high as 20,000. All this is not without a reason. There are numerous features that make hostgator the most sought after web hosting services. They are

Reliability

The reliability of hosting service is amazing with Hostgator. The great plus point is that, Hostgator is running a data center of its own; this makes it easy for them to maintain an uptime guarantee of 99.9%. You would never notice any downtime for your websites. The company’s CEO, Brent Oxely himself, signs the guarantee certificate, which gives you enough proof of genuineness with the service.

Unlimited Bandwidth

Well, for the less techie people, the amount of bandwidth gives you the freedom to use the website elaborately. For example, if a web hosting company allocates 1GB of transfer per month, you would be able to use about 100,000 page loads per month assuming that your web page is 10kb in size.

If your traffic is high and you have many visitors on a month, your allocation would get used up very soon. This will lead to too many hassles. With Hostgator you would never face any such situations.

Unlimited Web Hosting

All the Hostgator plans provide unlimited disk space. You don’t need to spend anything extra for more storage.

Unlimited Domains

Although most web hosting companies advertise that they would allow unlimited number of domains in a single account, most companies at a later point of time will ask you to upgrade to a better plan. However, Hostgator doesn’t do that.

All the plans except hatchling plan allows unlimited domains. The Baby Croc plan allows unlimited number of domains in the account for just $7.99 per month(currently 20% off)

Sub domains

You can have any number of sub domains that you want in a single account. You also get unlimited MySQL database.

HostGator Backup Service

Backups are essential for any website and not every hosting company provides ways that can help you in instant backups. Hostgator provides both manual and automated backups that would make your work simple and easy to handle.

You can have a backup of your entire ‘cPanel’ with the control panel set up instantly, which can be used later to restore your account if needed. You can get every single detail of your website such as the e-mail account along with the password and stored messages, FTP accounts, add on/sub/parked domains, databases, mailing lists and so on that you have used in your website.

The automated backup service of Hostgator carries out the function once in every week giving a backup of all your web files and data at a remote server location. This ensures that your data is secure preventing any losses due to accidental events.

HostGator cPanel

It is very important for you to have an idea of the web traffic that your website is attracting every day. This helps you to know how your marketing approach and the SEO efforts are working. This can be easily done on the awstats or the webalizer from the Hostgator cPanel, and you can successfully analyze the web traffic and their sources.

This would help you to plan your strategies to widen you traffic, by understanding the number visitors who have visited your website and which part of the world they are from. The awstats also gives an idea of the browser used by the visitors along with the webpage they are visiting from.

The now, newly released cPanel is even simpler to handle. It is designed and packed with more features and numerous shortcuts such as search for a new domain name, whois search, register new domain name and so on from the cPanel itself.

The cPanel also has features that help you in paying Hostgator bills, search for answers through FAQs and Forums, use website templates etc.

The cPanel Demo

Hostgator Provides individual demo of’ how to use’ all of its features, along with video tutorial. This explains clearly and exactly what has to be done when you work on a feature that is completely new to you.

Also to people who are new to hosting and do not have much knowledge about the technicalities involved in web hosting, this feature is a real boon.

Free Web Site Builder

Most web hosting services offer hosting services but do not provide website builders. Well, Hostgator has one click website building tools that is inbuilt and unique for Hostgator web hosting services.

The free website builder tool works wonders and helps you to build an entire website in just few minutes. All you have to do is choose the theme you like and begin adding pages. All the technicalities related to the website are inbuilt and you do not have to worry about them at all.

Even a newbie can build attractive and theme oriented websites without much effort.

HostGator PHP

PHP is a HTML embedded scripting language for the server and is very important to your website. Hostgator uses the most advanced version supporting your account for 5.2.0. This enables Hostgator to enable as many as 25 simultaneous MySQL database connections at one time even if your cPanel account is small.

Thus you can have any number of visitors on your website at a particular time without any disturbance while uploading your files or carrying out other online operations.

HostGator .htaccess Support

.htaccess files are the ones that support your URL redirection or perform any permanent redirection of your website. With this feature you would be able to set up permalink feature to your blog or website or redirect a non-www page to a www extension page. You can also set up folders protected by passwords.

HostGator Cron Job and Cron Manager

Cron Job helps you in performing certain scheduling tasks, which in Hostgator comes through your cPanel control panel. The Crontab is a UNIX system process and uses Daemon called Cron to execute all the commands for you at any particular time.

You can prefix the command and the time you want it to be carried out such as publishing a particular article, your cron would carry out the task exactly as you have scheduled without any external support.

You could schedule your cron to perform an action for every few minutes, hour, day or even a month.

You could send automatic emails to your customers or subscribers, periodically or send training material at prefixed dates and so on. All that is required is to execute the script and take rest. The cron does the job for you.

HostGator Content Manager

If you are a newbie and are unaware of creating a website and the process involved in its designing, but still wants a personal/commercial website running in real time, Hostgator has a solution to you too. The Content Management Tool of Hostgator helps you in programming a website with zero html knowledge.

You don’t even need to understand the basics like creating a login page, contact form, blogs, news, seo, and so on. All these have become really simple now. There are many built in CMS scripts which you can install and run in no time.

You can start adding your content and publish them on par with any professionally built website.

Some of the one click website options provided by Hostgator are

• Drupal – An advanced portal enables with collaborative book, search engine friendly URLs, threaded comments, blogging, news aggregator, easy accessibility to online support and so on.
• WordPress – a very helpful and the most popular open source platform that gives you easy themes and templates to choose from. You can develop simple websites with many pages and categories or even authority sites. WordPress gives you full support with FAQ and forum. Numerous plug-in are available to make your website the best.
• Joomla – one of the most powerful and diverse CMS source and helps you to develop simple single page websites to complex corporate web applications.
• Mambo – a more professional system featuring inline WYSIWYG content editors, banners, content archiving, modules and components, mailing users and link managers.
• PHP Nuke – most popular for community based portals with a wide range of modules and languages.
• TYPO3 – Free open source content management system and is widely used for enterprise purposes in corporate offices and educational institutions for internal communications. It is made up of a set of readymade interfaces, functions and modules offering complete flexibility to the user.
• Siteframe – A simple and straightforward CMS used by community based websites. The templates are pleasing and well designed, targeted for document sharing purposes and thus have a neat interface.
• Geeklog – Another portal with numerous modules oriented towards community based templates and user friendly interface.
• PhpWCMS – this is the perfect Content Management System for professional, public and private users. It is very simple and can be easily learned by anyone. The separate layout and content gives you enough flexibility to work and is popular amongst web designers, programmers and web developers.
• PhpWebSite – the most sought after CMS for document management, announcements, menu management, album uploading, FAQ, web page making, polls, information categorizing and so on.
• Xoops – another popular and advanced portal system giving you easy installation with features to set up web pages, calendar, form generation and link management.

To start creating your website, you can login to your Hostgator cPanel and browse the fantastico section. You can click any of the above CMS systems and start installing it. Hostgator provides all these services free with your hosting plan.

HostGator FTP Services

From Hostgator cPanel you can setup your ftp account. FTP or the File Transfer Protocol is used to upload files to your server, to the Hostgator server in this case. The ftp features provided by hostgator are

FTP Accounts – This can control the uploading process of your content.

Setup Anonymous FTP Access – used to control the anonymous FTP users and how to treat them.

Anonymous FTP Message – used to show an anonymous welcome message that users would see as soon as they login to your ftp site.

FTP Session Control – this utility gives you the control over FTP sessions, you may grant permission or time out the FTP session.

Hostgator Green Hosting

Showing their concern over global warming and changing climatic conditions all over the world, Hostgator web hosting services have gone green.

They have started purchasing wind power credit to offset power usage for hosting and cooling their servers. Thus lowering the carbon emission and making a green energy environment.

Hostgator Plans

Depending on your necessity you can avail one of the shared, reseller, vps or dedicated web hosting plans.

HostGator Customer Support

By far, hostgator web hosting services have the best customer support with fully trained and patient customer support executives. You can reach them 24 X 7 with your queries and get them solved immediately. If you want the chat to be saved you can opt for it and the complete conversation is sent to your mail address for further reference.

Hostgator Coupon Code

Use coupon code “pershingator” to try Hostgator web hosting for just 1 cent. You get all the features and 24×7 support. You won’t be disappointed. We are using it for the past 3 years with zero down time.

Conclusion

HostGator is a reliable and trustworthy hosting company that provides top class support and affordable pricing without any sort of marketing ploys or disguised money stripping.

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