HostGator VPS (virtual private server) review

In this review, I will focus on VPS and try to explain deeply how VPS works and what HostGator offers you in VPS plans. Let’s start this HostGator shared hosting and I will try to explain easily I can. With shared hosting, all customers share one Operating System I will continue to use OS below. Its simple one web hosting, one OS shared by many customers, that’s why this is the cheaper from VPS and dedicated hosting.

Dedicated hosting its opposite from shared hosting, one rack just for you how you want to be configured with full access to everything. With dedicated you are the only customer, they are more powerful in specs from VPS and about the same as shared and only one customer that mean really fast hosting.

VPS is in the middle between shared and dedicated, let me explain to you how VPS works. VPS stands for Virtual Private Server, it actually shared hosting but you have OS just for you private OS just like dedicated but hosted virtually. It’s a little bit confusing but I will try to explain that easily I can. Virtualization refers to a virtual machine that acts like real hardware computer with OS. You probably heard about VMware or Oracle’s VM VirtualBox software for OS virtualization.

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HostGator use their own virtualization software and virtually give you your own private OS. Let’s imagine one rack divided into 10 parts. One of those 10 parts is only yours and no one can access (your OS) but all customers including you are sharing the whole rack or hosting. VPS server is used by few Operating Systems while shared hosting is used by around 3000 accounts (answer from many hosting supports).

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HostGator have three VPS plans Snappy 2000, Snappy 4000 and Snappy 8000.

HostGator VPS Snappy 2000 Plan Starting $19.95/mo

Great hosting for small business with a good amount of traffic and when you are looking for more flexibility/control over your website.

Core features

• 2 GB RAM
• 2 Cores CPU
• 120 GB Disk Space
• 5 TB Bandwidth
• 2 IPs

Advanced server features

• Full root access (64-bit)
• Optional cPanel with WHM control panel
• Apache web server (Must be installed by semi-managed plans)
• Supports: MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python (Django), Ruby (on Rails), FFMpeg

Multiple Layers Of Security

• Free IP table firewall
• Safe Harbor certified
• Centralized DDOS protection
• Secured VPS firewall

Cutting Edge Server Hardware

• Supermicro servers
• Intel processors
• Fault-tolerant RAID disk arrays

Top Of The Line Network

• State-of-the-art data center with backup power generators and HVAC units
• Gigabit uplink with a guaranteed 20Mbit connection
• Fully redundant network with no single point of failure
• Multiple bandwidth providers (AboveNet, ATT, Comcast, Global Crossing, Level (3), NTT)

HostGator VPS Snappy 4000 Plan Starting $29.95/mo

Great hosting for small/medium business with a good amount of traffic and content and when you are looking for more flexibility/control over your website.

Core features

• 4 GB RAM
• 2 Cores CPU
• 165 GB Disk Space
• 2 TB Bandwidth
• 2 IPs

Advanced server features

• Full root access (64-bit)
• Optional cPanel with WHM control panel
• Apache web server (Must be installed by semi-managed plans)
• Supports: MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python (Django), Ruby (on Rails), FFMpeg

Multiple Layers Of Security

• Free IP table firewall
• Safe Harbor certified
• Centralized DDOS protection
• Secured VPS firewall

Cutting Edge Server Hardware

• Supermicro servers
• Intel processors
• Fault-tolerant RAID disk arrays

Top Of The Line Network

• State-of-the-art data center with backup power generators and HVAC units
• Gigabit uplink with a guaranteed 20Mbit connection
• Fully redundant network with no single point of failure
• Multiple bandwidth providers (AboveNet, ATT, Comcast, Global Crossing, Level (3), NTT)

HostGator VPS Snappy 8000 Plan Starting $39.95/mo

Great hosting for medium business with a good amount of traffic and content and when you are looking for more flexibility/control over your website.

Core features

• 8 GB RAM
• 4 Cores CPU
• 240 GB Disk Space
• 3 TB Bandwidth
• 2 IPs

Advanced server features

• Full root access (64-bit)
• Optional cPanel with WHM control panel
• Apache web server (Must be installed by semi-managed plans)
• Supports: MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python (Django), Ruby (on Rails), FFMpeg

Multiple Layers Of Security

• Free IP table firewall
• Safe Harbor certified
• Centralized DDOS protection
• Secured VPS firewall

Cutting Edge Server Hardware

• Supermicro servers
• Intel processors
• Fault-tolerant RAID disk arrays

Top Of The Line Network

• State-of-the-art data center with backup power generators and HVAC units
• Gigabit uplink with a guaranteed 20Mbit connection
• Fully redundant network with no single point of failure
• Multiple bandwidth providers (AboveNet, ATT, Comcast, Global Crossing, Level (3), NTT)

I hope you enjoyed reading this review for HostGator VPS plans and also the thing is clarified to you how mainly VPS hosting works because of this review and how the whole hosting works.