Hostgator — the best hosting for OpenCart with unlimited → review
Hostgator is a simple and reliable overseas hosting offering a wide range of services for beginners and professionals. The focus is on simplicity so that you can easily grow here with your project from a small store to a large trading platform, and all this without involving third-party system administrators.
Own data center is located in the USA, there is a rental of virtual and dedicated servers, cloud infrastructure, Windows hosting (with Plesk), etc. But the most interesting offer for beginners is all shared hosting plans with unlimited disk and network traffic.
The company is one of the ten largest western hosting companies; more than 2 million websites are hosted on its servers. All the necessary support services for doing business in the US and Europe are offered: assistance with SEO and advertising, development of a unique design, advertising campaigns, etc.
Pros:
A large and reliable player in the international hosting market. Works since 2002.
Own data center, excellent uptime and official availability guarantees.
Installing OpenCart in one click from the control panel.
Customers can choose between hosting configurations with cPanel or Plesk (both popular and easy to use).
Shared hosting plans with no explicit limits on disk space and network traffic. There are tariffs on which you can host any number of sites.
Gift domains and free SSL certificates (Let's Encrypt).
Free site transfer (both on shared hosting and on virtual/dedicated servers).
Corporate web-mail on your domain.
24/7 technical support that answers by phone, chat or email.
Support services for business and project development.
DDoS protection and special backup services, fighting viruses / changing the site code.
45 days of moneyback.
VPS servers with KVM virtualization.
Dedicated servers with a pre-installed panel and professional technical support.
Minuses:
There is no Russian language (this applies to the site interface and billing panel, technical support and documentation, the hosting panel can be switched to Russian).
Renewal prices are higher than original purchase prices.
No registration of RU/RF domains (must be purchased from official registrars). Only domains from common areas can be received as a gift.
The absence of explicit limits does not mean that there are no disk limits at all. Fair use policy and file limit apply.
The range of dedicated and virtual server configurations is small.
Hosting cost:
Classic shared hosting rates:
Hatchling plan - from $2.75/month. Only 1 site, unlimited disk and traffic, gift domain.
Baby plan - from $3.50/month. Any number of sites, unlimited disk and traffic.
Business plan – from $5.25/month. Dedicated IP address, free Positive SSL certificate. Access to dedicated SEO tools.
Cloud hosting - from $4.95/month (dedicated/guaranteed CPU and RAM resources, like on VPS servers).
VPS Servers - from $23.95/month (with cPanel).
Dedicated Servers - from $89.98/month (also with cPanel).
Moneyback (except dedicated hosting) – 45 days.