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Editor‘s Review for "Host Gator Dedicated"

HostGator Dedicated is a well-establish company that currently services more than 100,000 shared hosting clients. They offer their customers great capacity that would be enough for business. Host Gator Dedicated is one of the leading reseller hosts. Moreover, they offer pretty interesting dedicated hosting servers. The give the price that including some extra features and if you have some business and decide to move some big company, you will see that the services offered by those guys are priced reasonably. Their packages include cPanel. This control panel is the most popular control panel in the world. Additionally, you will be able use more than 4,500 different great templates as well as flash templates, so that you could start as soon as possible. The company does everything possible to actually provide the hugest level of security and protection to their clients, including easily configure backups that you can use in order to save data on server or other remote location, at any time you want. The servers that the company offers are fully managed. Thus, you will be able to maintain full root access to the server. You will be helped at with any step your do.

Unique Benefits

A free cPanel control panel, server management and dedicated server. Please note, that in the most cases, the clients are charged for the use of cPanel.
Their Linux plans include Fantastico, over 52 great scripts. You can use their services for your own needs or you can offer their services to other clients.
All servers come with POP3 accounts, unlimited domains, MySQL databases, subdomains, and FTP accounts. Their offers are perfect for the ones who want to start their own web business.
No Contract - monthly billing
You can use their self-service options with WHM/cPanel

Key Features

You can easily design your server, or you can trust this job to HostGator Dedicated experts.
cPanel license for every server
SiteStudio builder add-on for $2 per wesite per month
Dual Xeon and Intel Pentium 4 processors
E-commerce features added, including three kinds of shopping cart scripts and SSL support

Editors' Comments

This company has been around for several years and now enjoys great and solid reputation of well-established hosting company. Many dedicated customers have become their web hosting resellers and shared hosting customers have switched to dedicated server solutions because their wanted to have something more. The company offer pretty great dedicated servers. The prices are quite reasonable and include Fantastico and CPanel licenses. This is a great feature for those clients who want multi-domain hosting or need to establish their own identity in web hosting. If you have any questions, you can contact their customer support and be helped by their professional at any time you need them. They offer pretty good uptime guarantee as well.

Uptime Guarantee

The uptime guarantee offered by this company is pretty high – 99.9% network uptime guarantee. In case if you meet some failure, you will be credited.

Their network is supported by around-the-clock ping, service, system, and process monitoring. Although their allow 0.1 % downtime, the reported uptime SLA is 100%. They are able to achieve such a great result because of HSRP/BGP. Each client will also be offered with server monitoring and notifying you by email in case if any downtime happens.

Basics - What is important to know?

Data Center

They have several data centers located in Texas. One of them is in Savvis in Fort Worth and The Planet in Dallas. They have raised-floor facilities with many HVAC units, great smoke detection apparatuses and pre-action dry pipe sprinkler systems. Their customers can have benefits from their Certified Cisco Network featuring ten backbone providers, Cisco 6500 Series Distribution Routing Switches, Juniper M20 Border Routers, and Aggregation Switches on many redundant OC48 SONET Ring connections.

Power Management

All of their data centers are supplied with many TXU electrical grids with several Powerware UPS units. Each unit has 90-120 batteries, which provide them with 2000 to 4600 amps of fully redundant 480v input power. They data center also have one or several 1-3.5 megawatt generators which provides in-time backup.

Physical Security

Server Access by Customer

Root Access: Customer has root control of their box

Physical Access: No physical access to your servers

All their data centers are provided with Northern Proximity security badge

Service Offerings

General Managed Services - Bundles

Around the clock support with server monitoring services. A range of limited extended managed hosting options is also available. Perfect for self-service customers who want to manage own dedicated servers.

Security and Updates

All offered plans are managed for free. Host Gator Dedicated team will ensure the security of your server and will keep your OS systems up to date. They do security updates within eight-twenty hours of initial RedHat or Microsoft release.

Vendor Comments

A HostGator Dedicated offer not only server but a fully managed solution for business. The company provides you with management valued at more than $100 but you will also have

cPanel free of charges available for all dedicated servers. With us, you will have no worries about your server because you will have all you need within only 24 hours from purchase. If you get our dedicated server, you will have great security, uptime and speed. This is a much better solution for your business, than a regular shared hosting server.