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Helping Haiti
Chances are that you have almost certainly heard of the recent and very tragic earthquake that has nearly devastated the Caribbean nation of Haiti. In the wake of such a sudden and severe tragedy, it can be hard to see hope.
The American Red Cross, along with thousands of other support and aid organizations, has been [...]
GeoCities Hosting Calls it Quits
It looks like GeoCities, the Free Web Hosting service owned by Yahoo!, is officially ending service to website owners today. I’m sure many of you have used their service at one point or another, so it’s kind of sad to see them go down with all of the web sites they hosted. My first [...]
200,000 Web Hosting Clients and Climbing
HostGator recently reached 200,000 active customers and we are on pace to break 300,000 within a year.
I remember when I’d be out celebrating if HostGator managed to get two signups in a week. Now, we’re seeing thousands of signups a week. Back in the day, my celebrating consisted of nothing more than dropping the [...]
HostGator Ranks 239 on Inc. 5000
Inc. Magazine just ranked HostGator #239 overall on their prestigious Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing privately owned companies in America. Here’s how the companies that make Inc’s list are ranked:
The Inc. 500|5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2005 through 2008. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue [...]
Anatomy of an Outage
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 started out as a normal day at HostGator’s Houston headquarters. Around 4:00 PM CT, a major power surge that occurred as the result of a transformer near our office blowing up made the day anything but ordinary.
Lights flickered, battery backups beeped, fire alarms went off, and Internet signals all died down [...]
Free iPhone 3GS Contest
HostGator has teamed up with one of our clients, BlogertizeWorld.com, to give away 30 free iPhone 3GS’s in the form of a twitter contest.
The rules are simple and this contest is open to everyone. Click here to re-tweet the details with the hashtag #HGBW, and get entered for a chance to win. There’s [...]
Talk to HostGator Live on July 29 at 8 PM CT
Due to the success of the first Open Session we hosted a couple of weeks ago, we’re hosting another one soon. This Open Session will be held on Wednesday, July 29 at 8 PM CT.
Just like last time, this Open Session will be a chance for both potential and existing HostGator customers to come into [...]
Chat with HostGator this Thursday at 5 PM CT
This upcoming Thursday (July 2, 2009) at 5 PM CT (Houston-time), HostGator is going to be hosting an Open Session where potential and existing customers alike can come chat with HostGator employees and each other.
The Open Session is going to be pretty informal, but for some context, some things we do want to do [...]
Domain Sponsor Review, Domain Parking and Tasting
It seems like no matter what business industry you’re looking at, there’s always an area where for shady activities. Web hosting and the domain industry are no exceptions. However, most people are totally unaware of one such practice known as domain tasting. Domain Tasting is essentially when a someone buys a domain [...]
Billy the Human Billboard
I’m going to share some quick facts about our business with you. HostGator currently spends:
More than $30,000 per month advertising with Google Adwords
More than $350,000 per month on affiliate commissions
And $100,000’s more per year on random advertising.
When you spend as much as we do on advertising, you start to run out of places to advertise [...]