HostGator Vs BlueHost - Which Web Hosting Service To Choose
HostGator Vs BlueHost - Which Web Hosting Service To Choose
If you are a blogger and doing blogging for quite some time on any Non-Hosted accounts and now you want to shift to Self Hosted accounts, then you need web hosting for that. There are many companies that are providing web hosting at different scales with variant prices for different packages they offer to their customers according to their need. With too many options at one place some times it gets confusing to where to pick from and so many questions start to pop up in mind.
- whether this web hosting provider is valuable
- Am I making the right choice
- Will I get into any problem with that hosting provider
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1 Performance And Consistency
Both these hosting providers are considered best and recommended by lot of people who are into running websites for online earning with its 99% up-time guarantee. HostGator site are hosted in Dual Xeon servers in Dallas with very efficient and well harnessed data centers that also connects to other backbone providers. On the other hand Bluehost use CPU Segregation Technology with exceptionally controlled CPU that don't allows access to hackers. With the onset demand these companies are investing millions of dollars to enhance their user experience and grow their market value.
Up Time:
Since both BlueHost and HostGator are claimants of 99% up-time so we checked two sites running on each web hosting provider by a tool called Pingdom, and results were astonishing. As you can see website running on HostGator has 1 outage of 1 minute for past 7 days
Response Time:
Response time of any website when loading is very crucial factor, if your site takes longer time to load then it is not considered right in SEO terminology. When we checked the response time of each website on both hosting companies using the same tool then its clear in given picture that site running on BlueHost took 5429ms to load and the other website which is hosted on HostGator took 1288ms to load and that tells you a clear difference which is obviously not that big.
HostGator Result
BlueHost Result
Speed Test:
Considering the performance of a web hosting company you also have to find out what is the relevant speed at which your website will load, if you have a heavy website with exquisite design, too many posts, large media gallery so on and so forth. So when we checked both websites on their respective servers, we found these results.
HostGator Hosted Site
BlueHost Hosted Site
HostGator clearly leading in comparison with BlueHost.
Customer Support Of Both Hosting Companies
When you talk about the success story of a particular organization, it always holds a very crucial factor and that is their customer support or helpdesk. Anyone facing issues about any aspect of that particular service, they can ask for the guidance of support staff present 24 hours of that company. Both HostGator and BlueHost has brilliant support center and you can approach them through several means. If you encounter any issue regarding your site, your domain or any other problem you can either Email them, Submit a ticket to helpdesk, and also they have an option of live chat and in some countries live call system. You can avail any of these options, mostly people prefer live chat and call over Emailing and Submitting a ticket because of quick response of support staff.
CPanel - Interface
Both companies offer a user friendly and easy to navigate interface where even a newbie can easily manage files and install wordpress to begin their website. When it comes to the security of your websites and your important files on it, both web hosting companies provide high esteemed security level that prevents malware and any hacker from stealing your information or damaging your website.
With their clean CPanel you can transfer your website, change your billing methods, import files, so on and so forth.
Price Range Of Both Companies
Both BlueHost and HostGator offers three types of plans with varying features.
As you can see the from above display that blueHost all three plans have different features. The only prominent difference between Basic, Plus and Pro is that if you select basic plan then you can only get limited features, while in plus and pro you can avail unlimited features but obviously you have to pay more for that.
Similar with the case of HostGator, it also provide three plans with different features and different pricing and when you compare both web hosting companies in terms of features and pricing, then there is not much of a difference.
Final Verdict
Performance wise I would highly recommend you to go for HostGator as it is much more powerful and responsive as compared to BlueHost. Don't get me wrong when I say that, BlueHost in no way less than Hostgator but HostGator is just slightly ahead in competition from BlueHost.
Pros Of HostGator Over BlueHost:
1 2
It offers 1 month billing. 45 days of money back guarantee
3 4
Highly supportive customer User Friendly CPanel service
5 6
99% up time for website Website loads faster
Video Comparison Of HostGator And BlueHost
If you still haven't decided and want to know more then may I suggest you watch this video analysis between the two web hosting providers and then make your choice.
— Azam Afzaal (@villeyam) December 13, 2016
— Azam Afzaal (@villeyam) December 13, 2016
How To Order
Go to this HostGator site to place your order as quickly as possible. If you place your order through above provided link you will get discounted price.
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