Hostgator is a privately owned company, based in Houston, Texas. The venture was launched in 2002 by Brent Oxley, who began by running some small servers from inside his dormitory room at Florida Atlantic University. Today Oxley is President and CEO of this global leader in web hosting, utilizing over 5,000 state-of-the-art servers.

Company and Services
HostGator is a market leader at offering shared, reseller, and dedicated web hosting for Linux and Windows users. They also provide domain name registration, of which they look after over one million domains on behalf of customers.

HostGator provides more than 150,000 customers in over 170 countries with access to the latest hosting technology. Every client is supported 24/7 by a 40-strong team technical and support staff. And if you can’t get them to sort your problem, then ask to have the CEO himself deal with your enquiry. ‘VIP attention from Brent’ they call it.

The company originally had offices in Florida, US. Rapid growth saw them relocate to new premises in 2007. The company’s larger 20,000 square foot office building in Houston has also seen them add over 100 employees to their workforce.

One of the company’s main focuses is reseller hosting and many of HostGator’s customers now provide hosting services for their clients. HostGator makes reselling fairly straightforward. It offers a range of five hosting plans, each packed with features like private name servers, unlimited domain name hosting and 99.9% uptime. All come with a ‘no contract’ obligation and a 45-day money back guarantee.

In recent years, HostGator has gone ‘green’ and claims to be one of the industry’s leading environmentally aware hosts. The company is using renewable energy to power and cool its servers. Also, HostGator invests in local wind farms for much of its energy.

All these competitive advantages have created significant growth within the company. This in turn has led to industry-wide respect. In 2008 Inc. Magazine recognized HostGator as one of US’s fastest growing private companies. HostGator has also picked up many independent web host awards over the years independent review websites such as Web Host Directory, Dedicated Server Directory, and FindMyHost.com.

Location of servers
HostGator outsources all of its hosting to The Planet and utilizes four of their Texas-based data centres.

Related links
Company blog: http://blog.hostgator.com/
Company news: http://blog.hostgator.com