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It's time to punish spammers

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:45:26 -0400

This post focuses on the S-word. SPAM.

How can ISPs & Web Hosts stop spam? How can we fight back? What tools can we use to fight back? What methods can be used on the server-level to protect end-user inboxes?

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But this makes me smile from ear to ear:
Earthlink awarded $11Million from Spammer

Spam is a problem that is plaguing not only end-users but web hosts, ISPs, backbone providers and network administrators as well.

While the CAN-SPAM legislation is weak, it provides an essential first-step towards setting up the battle in the legal arena to fight spam. Making it illegal to forge headers and return addresses provides companies with a legal basis for prosecuting spammers in the United States. Obviously more needs to be done, but the CAN-SPAM act is better than nothing.

It is obviously every good netizen's (net citizen?) dream to eliminate SPAM. SPAM has turned one of the quickest and far-impacting methods of communication into a daily hassle and waste of time.

SPAM is damaging the internet community in many ways. A few of the main problems caused by spam:

• End user frustration. End-users are frustrated by the amount of SPAM in their inbox and eventually, instead of experiencing a life-changing method of communicating with relatives in another country or engaging in commerce, end-users are forced to sift through myriads of messages to weed out the ones that they want to read. In extreme cases, this deluge of spam may even cause light-weight users to simply stop using E-mail.

• Hijacked computers. A large portion of bulk email is sent from hijacked and compromised computers. While there are many spammers who rent their own servers, there are networks of hijacked PCs which are sold in blocks of thousands for use by spammers. Ignoring the fact that such behavior is illegal, anyone who has used or tried to disinfect a hijacked PC knows that they often slow to a crawl, crash or they consume an entire house-holds worth of bandwidth which will result in degraded performance of other computers. Just like the point above, this frustration will lead many users to abandon use of their computers or waste money on having their computers repaired.

• Lost emails. A direct result of SPAM is the loss of legitimate and valuable emails.
  
  1. Accidental Deletion. Legitimate emails are often lost in the process of a user repeatedly clicking 'Delete' while clearing their Inbox of SPAM.
  2. Spam Filters. To combat SPAM, many E-mail service providers filter incoming email for SPAM & Virii. It is unrealistic to believe that SPAM filters will never accidentally tag a legitimate email as spam. When this happens, either the email will be discarded by the E-mail providers servers or the message will wind up in the Spam-folder where it may get discarded before the end-user can review it and realize that it was not spam.

• Wasted time & productivity. According to a Linux News article, Spam costs $20Billion - yes billion - each year in lost productivity and that spam costs enterprises between $600 and $1,000 each year for every user.

• ISP, Backbone, Network Administrator & Servers effects. Unquestionably, SPAM has caused a huge headache for network operators of all types. Throughout the internet chain, from the Email service provider to the backbone providers SPAM is costly.
  
  1. Web Hosting providers & E-mail service providers are forced to setup spam & virus filtering systems to protect their end-users. For large web hosting companies, ISPs and enterprises this means the additional overhead of purchasing dozens, hundreds or even thousands of spam scanning servers as well as the additional overhead & staff time of managing all these systems.
  2. ISPs (ie residential DSL/Cable modem providers as well as enterprise connectivity providers) and network backbone operators are forced to expand their network to carry the new deluge of spam & virii. Hijacked computers can easily send out thousands or tens of thousands of SPAM/Virii emails each day. Having to deal with this extra (unwanted) network traffic, ISPs will raise their rates - because even if you are not using your internet connection, your hijacked computer sure is.
  3. System / Network Administrators. In addition to end-user or employee assistance, help desks & system administrators now have to worry about finding infect computers, cleaning infected computers and educating end users about safe computer practices. It takes valuable time for a network administrator to locate infected machines (most often because of inadequate logging or firewall policies).
  4. Web Hosting Companies. Insecure sendmail scripts are now exploited thousands of times on a daily basis to send spam. Often times this results from customers running an old version of a publicly available PHP or Perl script. What is alarming is that spammers are now starting to exploit custom written mailing scripts - using search engines to find email forms and then testing them each individually for vulnerabilities. This shows extreme dedication on the part of the spammers - they are testing custom written, unknown scripts form vulnerabilities and exploiting them. It has now become the web hosts job to location insecure scripts and notify customers. Large-scale exploitation of insecure scripts can endanger a web hosts standing with ISPs or even get their email servers listed on public black lists such as SPEWS or SORBS - resulting in a portion of the internet not accepting email from customers on those servers.

A real life analysis

Figure 1.

The above graphic is an image of data collected from just one in-bound spam filtering server that we run for our web hosting customers. This one server was processing over 100,000 spam emails per day at its peak. Spam is not a minor issue for ISPs, email service providers or web hosts - the infrastructure required to support the weeding out of spam and viruses is expensive and time consuming to operate/update.

Later on in this post I will go into detail about how we cut down the amount of spam that our servers had to process by checking a connecting computers IP address before accepting email from them.

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Fighting Back
There are many ways that we can fight back against the spammers.

• End User Education. There would be no spam if end-users didn't actually open them or respond to them. The economics of running spam networks and operations require that at-least a small portion of the spam recipients act on or open spam emails.
  Network administrators and computer-savvy 'nerds' must start to educate the end users as to the danger of clicking on unknown popups, downloading unknown files and not updating their computer because these direct actions result in the compromising of their computers. A single click by an uneducated end user can cause havoc for system and network operators. End-users must also be taught never to reply to spam - replying will only let them validate your email address. It is also important to note that simply by opening a spam email, spammers can validate your address. Spammers will often place unique hidden (or visible) images or code in emails that will identify you as having seen the images or run the code. tip: set your email reader not to show images in emails unless you specifically allow it.]

• Spam Filtering. Email providers and web hosts are increasingly successful at filtering spam from ever reaching their end-users inboxes. Personally, I've seen the results of AOL's spam filtering and I'm very impressed. Probably one or two junk emails will get through each day - for someone who checks their email once a month, that could mean 30-60 junk emails - and that would be terrible.
  Email service providers are becoming increasingly efficient at keeping spam out of their end-users inboxes. Software such as SpamAsassin can be run server-wide and help filter out unwanted emails. DNS Black lists such as Sorbs, SpamCop and spamhaus can help your server to filter out connections from unwanted IP addresses (computers which are hijacked, vulnerable etc). The problem with these methods for combating spam is simply that it requires more cpu & processing power. Checking black lists and running SpamAssassin or ClamAV (free Linux virus scanner) requires a large amount of resources, which cost money.

A powerful & effective spam & virus Protection system can be built at the Web Host / E-Mail provider level with free software. Incoming email servers should always run a combination of:

1. DNS Black list checks - SpamCop(.net), Sorbs(.net) etc.
2. SpamAssassin(.org) Spam-filter
3. ClamAV(.net) Virus Scanner

These 3 tools can be integrated separately into common email servers such as SendMail or you can use a package such as MailScanner to tie all3 systems together.

If you look at Figure 1. (above), you can see that when Elite Hosts started to implement RBL (real time block lists - aka DNS Block lists, a few examples given above), the amount of spam that just one of our many incoming email servers processed fell from around 60,000 messages per day to around 2,000 messages per day! If that is just from one server, imagine how much processing power we saved across all of our incoming email servers.

Another 3 useful, but lesser used technique for combating spam on the server-level are:

1. Require reverse DNS Requiring connecting machines to have reverse DNS will allow you to easily identify connecting servers. You can then use these results to block certain domains from sending to your email servers. For example, with the exception of their email servers, we block connection attempts from any computer with a hostname ending in comcast.net that is not a static email server. Figure 1 (above) shows that requiring reverse DNS reduced the spam messages per day processed on one server from around 2,000 to 1,000
2. Sender Call-Back. This is one anti-spam mechanism that is used by CPANEL. The mail server will connect to the email server of the domain in the From: address and check whether or not the sending address is a valid email address. This can help to filter out spam from those spammers who are just too lazy (or dumb?) to send you email from non-existent email addresses or domains.
3. SPF. This is controversial technique for verifying the sender of an email. SPF has become controversial because it uses the DNS TXT record of a domain to specify valid servers which are allowed to send email for a domain. In my opinion, loss of the (rarely used) TXT record is a good exchange for the benefits. SPF is more of an anti-fishing tool than an anti-spam tool. SPF simply looks up the domain of the sender and verifies that emails are coming from an accepted server. This means that if you receive an email from billing@paypal.com, an SPF capable email server will ask PayPal if the computer sending spam is in-fact a valid email server that is allowed to send email from the domain. The thought behind SPF is excellent - verifying that connecting servers are sending email from domains that they are responsible for - however some argue about the implementation and the use of the TXT record.
   Bottom Line: If SPF stops phishing attacks from reaching end users (which it does!), then it is a step in the right direction. This will not eliminate spam, but at-least it will protect uneducated users from replying to billing@paypal.com with their PayPal passwords.
   
   In order for SPF to be really effective, it needs to see more wide-spread usage - major companies (AOL, eBay, PayPal) already publish SPF records, but email servers need to start checking those records.

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The Future of Spam
Spammers are not stupid. Like many other things in life, Spammers will adapt and change with the times.

Spammers are not oblivious to spam filters - to the contrary, spammers will work day & night to craft email messages that receive low scores on spam filtering systems. Spammers are increasingly shifting to image-based spams so that Spam-Filtering software can't find the key words and phrases that it needs to tag the messages as spam.

Anti-Spam companies are also fighting back - working to develop software that will recognize spam text in image-based spam emails and other advanced modules to help stay in-step with the spammers.

Spammers are also diversifying, experimenting with new mediums such as Instant Messages and Blogs. I have yet to receive an IM Spam (I hope that this doesn't Jinx it), but I can imagine how upset I will feel when my private IM space is invaded by a new IM window from a spammer. Spammers are also moving to blogs, forums & community systems. Spammers are creating automatic scripts that post their customers products URLs in blog comments, forum posts and more. Just like the email anti-spam companies are fighting back, these communities are coming up with methods to block this automated spam - image captchas, audio passwords and other interesting methods.

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Conclusion & Summary
Unfortunately, it looks like spam is here to stay - wasting our valuable time, money and resources. There are many things that we can do to retake our inboxes and put spammers out of business:

• Better end-user education
• Better legislation to prosecute spammers
• Better programmer education - teaching programmers how to write secure scripts that send email
• Residential & Small Business ISPs should block outbound SMTP port 25 by default (with the option to enable it upon request)
• Microsoft, the provider of over 95% of the worlds desktop system, has to have stronger security built into their products. How is it acceptable that 1 click can cause a program to download an take over your computer? How is it acceptable that an un-updated Windows installation can be compromised within minutes of being connected to the internet? It is excellent that Microsoft has now decided to focus on security, but it might be too late. For the last few years, Microsoft has been handing their customer's computers to hackers.
• Web Hosts & Email service providers should install spam scanning software, use spam black lists, check for phishing via SPF & implement other common-sense methods for reducing spam, fishing & virus attacks. If web hosting companies & email providers could stop spam from being delivered to their end-users, spammers would make no money and simply disappear.

Hopefully we can take back the Internet and provide an amazing, worry-free & frustration-free experience for our end-users.

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For some time, Microsoft has focused on large enterprises and small business, as evidenced by products such as Small Business Server. The midmarket (500 PCs, a couple dozen servers) has very similar needs as smaller and larger enterprises, but faces unique challenges. Whereas Microsoft provides some specific products for smaller organizationsincluding the aforementioned Small Business Servermidmarket organizations have had to utilize full-fledged enterprise tools often without the benefit of large IT staffs or significant server infrastructures to do so.
Enter the "Essentials" line, which is targeted
at midmarket IT organizations. I'm not sure if all of Microsoft's mid-market
focused endeavors will use the word "Essentials" but so far, this has
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I�ll start things off by simply saying, �wow.� In these first few days, I could
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Let me confidently say that I made the right switch.



First things first, service. I had to call HostMonster about 2 times initially
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Now lets move on to hosting. The best thing about their hosting, in my eyes, is
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Now I will admit I haven�t had a whole lot of time to mess around with the
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SupportSuite fixes blank Yahoo email problem... finally?

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:22:57 -0400

After being first reported in April of 2006 (in this forum post), Mahesh Slaria from Kayako told the community how to fix this problem by changing some code (it is not fixed in the current stable build).

For a while now we've had customers with @yahoo.com email addresses complaining about receiving blank emails from our ticket system... after looking at the Kayako forums (we use Kayako support-suite) we found that other Kayako customers were experiencing this as well.

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hostgator is one of the fastest growing companies in the web hosting industry.
It has been talked about a lot on popular web hosting forums like
WebHostingTalk.com for example. The company has been founded in 2002 and by the
time of this review their site says that more than 200,000 domains are hosted on
their servers.



hostgator hosting facilities are located in the one of the best Internet data
centers in US: �The Planet� (www.theplanet.com) Dallas/TX, USA.





hostgator is one of the so called �GigaHosts�, but it looks like so far they
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The company offers Linux based hosting. By the time of our review the servers
were running Linux Red Hat 9.0. The server where our account has been located
was running 4 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) 2.40GHz CPUs with 4GB RAM and a 200GB SCSI
drive.



hostgator hosting environment is based on Cpanel/WHM - one of the most popular
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hostgator offers shared hosting packages, reseller hosting plans and dedicated
servers. I would not recommend their dedicated servers as they are pricey.
However, the Shared and Reseller plans are quite a good deal.



Shared hosting plans: The cheapest plan costs only $6.95/month paid on yearly
basis and includes 3.5GB of web space and 50GB of transfer per month. It is
quite a lot of space at quite a reasonable price. It has all the regular
features Control Panel, Webmail, scripting languages, databases, a free scripts
Installer (Fantastico), anti-spam protection, etc. With the cheapest plan you
can host only one web site per hosting account. If you wish to have multiple
sites hosted (multi-domain hosting) you will need to go for a more expensive
plan where prices start $9.95/mo and you have the option to pay on a monthly
basis. With the shared hosting plans you can host multiple sites; however they
are add-on domains. (e.g. you do not have separate Control Panel for each hosted
web site)



Semi-dedicated plans: At first we thought these are kind of VPS plans, however
after we talked to an online sales rep on their site it appeared that these
semi-dedicated packages actually are like shared hosting plans, however they
include more resources (25GB space, 500GB transfer) and most importantly what
makes them different from a shared hosting plan is that the server where the
semi-dedicated plans are located host relatively small number of users. That is
you share the server resources with less users and in this way you have more CPU
power at your disposal. For example if you have 300-400 users on a regular
shared hosting server, when you are on a semi-dedicated you will share the
server with only 15-20 other customers. Of course the pricing is much higher
compared to a shared hosting plan � $74.95/mo.



Reseller hosting plans: Starting $24.95/mo you can purchase a reseller hosting
account with 5GB of web space and 50GB of bandwidth. The reseller package gives
you the option to host separate websites using a single reseller account. If you
are a web designer a reseller account might by the right option for you as you
will be able to offer you clients decent hosting services. hostgator even went
one step ahead and offer some great tools for resellers, such as Billing manager
application, merchant accounts, ready-to-use templates and even a free domain
name registration account with one of the biggest registrars eNom.com. So if you
are looking for a place to host multiple sites with separate Control Panels
hostgator is worth trying out.



Dedicated servers: As mentioned above hostgator services include dedicated
server packages as well. The offerings start with a 2.4 GHz Super Celeron to
Dual 2.4 GHz Xeons servers. So in case your site outgrows the shared or
semi-dedicated hosting plans you may go to a dedicated server. All servers are
equipped with a Panel/WHM which makes the server management an easy task.

Customer service/support



hostgator offers 24/7 customer support over email, phone and live chat. While
we�ve been testing our account, we had several interactions with their support.
Usually, we got replies in 15-20 minutes. However on some occasions it took a
bit more. Our questions varied from simple howtos through some more
advanced/tech related ones and finally some requests that should be handled by
3rd level support (which usually take more time to be completed than a regular
support request). Almost all of our requests have been handled properly. The
only problem they fail to resolve was a question regarding a PHP script. We saw
they have the PHP engine running as CGI and decided to check their knowledge in
PHP. We�ve created a sample HTTP Auth script (actually we took the example
provided at http://www.php.net/features.http-auth) and uploaded it to our
account. Just of reference, when PHP is running as CGI HTTPAuth will not work
properly (this is a limitation by design). The support person who handled the
ticket was unaware of this limitation and provided us with some wrong answers.



In general the support reps were friendly and polite, even we acted as a bad
customer and even we�ve been rude in some of our requests. Our overall rating
for their support is 9 out of 10.

Signup process



The signup process is easy and intuitive. They accept a wide range of payment
options, including: Credit card payments (VISA/MasterCard/American Express),
Paypal, checks, bank transfers, cash and money orders.



In general you will get the account active in 20-30 minutes after your payment
has been processes.



However with our signup we encountered a little trouble. When you go through
their order process at some step you are asked to specify username and password
for your new hosting account. For the matter of simplicity we used one and the
same word for both our username and password. The order form accepted these
values, however later on it appeared that they have created an issue. Most
probably hostgator use some hosting automation software to open hosting accounts
when they receive a payment. However, the Cpanel has a restriction for username
and password similarity. So when we placed our order their billing system failed
to activate the account on the hosting server and the hosting account email we
have received was incomplete and was missing the hosting server IP address. So,
we have been unable to use the account as actually the account has not been
created at all. Luckily, the troubles have been resolved in several support
tickets and email messages and a short live chat session.



Overall experience



Our overall experience with hostgator is positive. Although we have used their
services for a month we had no major problems and the hosting account
performance and speed were at a very good level. The only issues we had were the
ones we have already described above. Despite these, we would recommend
hostgator to anybody looking for a web host. They offer quality and reliable,
feature-rich services backed up with friendly and prompt support.



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If you know anything about hosting or have been looking for a host I am sure
that you have some how or some way landed on the hostgator website. hostgator
has been around since 2002 and they have made their web presence very strong,
for example type in any hosting related keyword and I am sure that you will find
them in a google ad or in the top of the search engines. hostgator offers a lot
of variety to their customers so there is a lot to choose from. hostgator offers
three basic plans for the average consumer and website owner; they also offer a
wide range of reseller packages and dedicated servers for the larger customers.



hostgator offers a fairly basic plan for 4.95$ (When paid 3 years in advance) or
8.95$ if paid month to month, this plan offers 350GB of disk space and 3000GB of
bandwidth but incredibly that only let you host one domain so this package is
virtually worthless. The next plan up which they call the baby offers 600GB of
disk space and 6000GB of monthly bandwidth and costs 9.95$ per month if you pay
month to month. If you pay for 1 year in advance you can get this package at
119.40$. This plan of hostgator is one of the most famous plans in the web
hosting industry. This plan offers unlimited domains to be hosted on your
account and also offers some upgraded features from the very basic plan
including unlimited pop3 email accounts, unlimited ftp accounts, unlimited sub
domains, and unlimited parked domains, it also offer ninety nine point nine
percent server uptime compared to the guaranteed ninety nine point five percent
guaranteed uptime offered with the most basic plan. The next thing that they
offer is the swamp plan which gives you the user 1000GB of disk space and
unlimited monthly bandwidth and offers chili soft asp which the other plans do
not offer, in addition the swamp plan also offers private ssl a feature that
most other hosting companies don't offer and costs 14.95$ per monthif paid
monthly or yearly.



hostgator also offers some dedicated servers for proxies and things of that
nature, they are quite expensive though compared to the competition and this is
a whole different market compared to the basic hosting. One nice feature of the
hostgator service is that they offer Cpanel which is quite a good control panel;
this is free compared to some other hosts which charge for the upgrade to a
Cpanel hosting plan. Also like most other hostgator offers a online chat support
and a toll free number that you can call in case you need assistance in setting
up you�re hosting or trying to pick a plan out that fits your needs. Over all
hostgator would probably be a eight out of ten because they offer a lot of
features but only on their more expensive plans where as most other hosts will
offer the same features on there low end plans, another big turn off is that
they only allow you to host one domain on there cheapest plan, most hosts allow
unlimited or at least fifteen or twenty.

User Reviews

Asim says :

hostgator is an exceptional hosting provider, never got disappointed, using
dedicated server these days and it is awesome!



Aditya Singh says :

I loved hostgator and their support. It rocks all ways. They truly deserve to be
called the web hosting company on the internet.



Amit Nyamtabad says :

hostgator is one of the biggest hosting company & I am hosting couple of my
sites with these guys. They really do provide good customer support & quality
uptime. Till now my experience has been good with the them.

Rating : A++



GVK says :

Yes, my choice is Host Gator, am with Host Gator since once year. I don't say
they are cheap and best. They are Better than Best :)

Customer Support is awesome, till now i got my problems solved in less than 5-10
mins. Rated: 10



Navjot Singh says :

Excellent Hosting I must say. 100% Uptime. I loved the fact that it gives no
discounts for yearly payment, so it never forces us to buy yearly. So we can
test for a month and then switch to other if we don't like it. But never liking
it...nah such a situation will never arise. I am running a vb forum and never
saw loading touching 2+ even on a shared account. That's excellent considering
at my last host it touched 10-14% usually.

Highly recommended.





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on my experience but is in general based on my ghost writter. I will make a
review as soon as I buy an account from them.

hostgator



If you are looking for the best host, the best network and the best choice,
check out hostgator.com. This is a web hosting provider that has been serving
more than 100,000,000 clients since they started 1992. The best thing that the
clients love about hostgator is their customer service. hostgator makes sure
that their clients are satisfied with the hosting programs that they provide.
They offer several services in order to keep the standards of their services.



Features



hostgator provides only the best services to cater the needs of their clients.



* Edit.com Assistance� They provide editing and website set-up for those who are
in need of one. hostgator has set up a team which handles designing of websites.
Edit.com is a special team for this. The team makes sure that the output will
result to the client�s 100% satisfaction.

* Domain Registration� Aside from designing the webpage, hostgator also provides
the domain registration. You will just have to send them the name that you
wanted and they handle everything for you. They accept payments through Paypal.

* SSL Certificates� This is important for sites, especially those that requires
password and accepts payments through credit cards. For a minimal amount, you
can already avail of this service together with your website design.

* Script Installation� If you are having troubles with the scripts of your site,
hostgator can also do it for you. Just inform them of the script that you wanted
and they will do everything for you.

* hostgator Coupons: hostgator offers many coupons every month so you can buy a
hosting account for 1 month with a price of $0.01 just in case you want to test
them out. Check out the hostgator Coupon Codes



Ease of Use



You do not have to worry if you take hostgator as your host. They provide for
everything that you need. You can avail of everything from them; this is from
the domain name registration, website design, script installation and SSL
Certification. They also have an online customer support that you can talk to,
24/7. No downtime is guaranteed on your website because they only use the best
and the finest equipments.



Pricing



hostgator offer several packages, depending on the need of their clients. They
have website hosting, reseller hosting and dedicated hosting. The website
hosting starts at $4.95 per month with features that will maximize your website.
If you prefer to have the reseller hosting package, you can have it for a
minimum price of $24.95 monthly. This is for those who wanted to have their own
hosting services. The dedicated hosting services, on the other hand, starts at
$174 monthly. All of these hosting services have free set-ups depending on your
preferences.



Support



You need not worry about the support. hostgator has different forms of
assistance or their reliable clients. The best support that they currently have
is their 24/7 online customer service. They have several divisions that can help
you if you have concerns regarding your site and their web hosting jobs. The
company offers knowledgebase support and the flash tutorials where you can learn
all the basic things on these categories. If you have further questions, you can
go to the Gator forums and live chats. These sites have staffs online that can
help you with your concerns. There are also members in the forum that can guide
you with your concern. If you are not satisfied with these supports, you can use
the Ticket system and address your messages to Brent and he will personally
contact you.



Conclusion



hostgator is one of the best web hosting providers. They offer cheap web hosting
compared with other web hosting providers. They area in the process of improving
their services and one of this is working with Windows web hosting.



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"I would like to recommend hostgator.com, to anyone looking for a cheap host
with fast support and reliable servers. Recently I had to switch hosts and was
hunting for a new one when I received an email about a post I had made a while
back, they offered me a free 30 days to test them out, and the experience was
excellent. Coincidently it doesn't work out for me to be hosted there due to the
fact that just this morning my comic site was linked to by Penny-Arcade and I
consumed all of Pentium 2.4ghz 1gig Ram server in the space of a few hours. due
to this I had to be kicked off there server to keep it running... I would still
recommend them, as the time I was there the support was very fast and there was
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This post is part of my case study Hosting Case study. This review is not based
on my experience but is in general based on my ghost writter. I will make a
review as soon as I buy an account from them.

hostgator



If you are looking for the best host, the best network and the best choice,
check out hostgator.com. This is a web hosting provider that has been serving
more than 100,000,000 clients since they started 1992. The best thing that the
clients love about hostgator is their customer service. hostgator makes sure
that their clients are satisfied with the hosting programs that they provide.
They offer several services in order to keep the standards of their services.



Features



hostgator provides only the best services to cater the needs of their clients.



* Edit.com Assistance� They provide editing and website set-up for those who are
in need of one. hostgator has set up a team which handles designing of websites.
Edit.com is a special team for this. The team makes sure that the output will
result to the client�s 100% satisfaction.

* Domain Registration� Aside from designing the webpage, hostgator also provides
the domain registration. You will just have to send them the name that you
wanted and they handle everything for you. They accept payments through Paypal.

* SSL Certificates� This is important for sites, especially those that requires
password and accepts payments through credit cards. For a minimal amount, you
can already avail of this service together with your website design.

* Script Installation� If you are having troubles with the scripts of your site,
hostgator can also do it for you. Just inform them of the script that you wanted
and they will do everything for you.

* hostgator Coupons: hostgator offers many coupons every month so you can buy a
hosting account for 1 month with a price of $0.01 just in case you want to test
them out. Check out the hostgator Coupon Codes



Ease of Use



You do not have to worry if you take hostgator as your host. They provide for
everything that you need. You can avail of everything from them; this is from
the domain name registration, website design, script installation and SSL
Certification. They also have an online customer support that you can talk to,
24/7. No downtime is guaranteed on your website because they only use the best
and the finest equipments.



Pricing



hostgator offer several packages, depending on the need of their clients. They
have website hosting, reseller hosting and dedicated hosting. The website
hosting starts at $4.95 per month with features that will maximize your website.
If you prefer to have the reseller hosting package, you can have it for a
minimum price of $24.95 monthly. This is for those who wanted to have their own
hosting services. The dedicated hosting services, on the other hand, starts at
$174 monthly. All of these hosting services have free set-ups depending on your
preferences.



Support



You need not worry about the support. hostgator has different forms of
assistance or their reliable clients. The best support that they currently have
is their 24/7 online customer service. They have several divisions that can help
you if you have concerns regarding your site and their web hosting jobs. The
company offers knowledgebase support and the flash tutorials where you can learn
all the basic things on these categories. If you have further questions, you can
go to the Gator forums and live chats. These sites have staffs online that can
help you with your concerns. There are also members in the forum that can guide
you with your concern. If you are not satisfied with these supports, you can use
the Ticket system and address your messages to Brent and he will personally
contact you.



Conclusion



hostgator is one of the best web hosting providers. They offer cheap web hosting
compared with other web hosting providers. They area in the process of improving
their services and one of this is working with Windows web hosting.



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I'm quite happy that is short as this means I haven't had any big problem during
these months. Just 2 things to add to what I wrote in the past:



I've had seldom connectivity problems to our websites, I couldn't always check
if it was hostgator problem or other problem related to my connectivity but
sometimes it really looked like it was hostgator problem.

I'm just talking about few times for some minutes. Not really a problem for us.



The only really annoying thing it happened is that once one of our website
(vagabondo.net) has been discontinued because it loaded too much the server.
Generally speaking suspending a site because is loading too much the server
could even be a positive thing (you prevent the whole server sites to slow down
too much, you can have time to see if someone is "attacking" the server or the
site ecc.). What I'm complaining about is:



1) We received no warning about it, not before, not after the site was
suspended!!! We just realized it, wrote to support and got an answer after few
hours.



2) We received no details about the excessive load the server was experiencing
becasue of our site, no detail about where the problem could lie (too many sql
queries? too many hits? heavy php proccesses? ecc. ecc.) so as to understand
better if this could happen again and possibly how to solve the the problem.



All in all this leaves you with a scary impression: it just happened one time
but it could happen anytime not knowing why it happened (and why it stop
happening!).



Having said that I still think hostgator provide a good service (that needs
improving though) and can confirm what I wrote in previous review.



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On the Wal-Mart-ized Web...

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:39:00 -0400

Liam says this week's most important trend is web hosting providers' continued expansion of data center footprints. The strong demand for hosting facilities seems like a good sign. At the same time, there are a number of outside-world developments that folks in the hosting business ought to keep an eye on.

1. On Wednesday, in addition to officially releasing RHEL5, Red Hat announced that it will soon launch an open source marketplace called Red Hat Exchange (RHX). As Business Week reports, Red Hat will guarantee the compatibility of RHX products with its platform AND provide tech support for each and every 3rd party product on the exchange. In addition, RHX will allow end users to submit ratings, read reviews and compare notes.

2. Later that afternoon, Microsoft said it will buy Tellme Networks. The Associated Press thinks the deal is worth $800 million to $1 billion.

3. Less than a day later, Cisco announced that it has agreed to acquire WebEx for $3.2 billion (or $2.9 billion, if you deduct WebEx's $300 million cash balance).

4. And last but not least Google sort of confirmed that it's working on a mobile phone.

It's a Wal-Mart-ized web; every Big Co wants to assemble a broader range of more seamlessly integrated products for a wider and better networked audience. This leaves less and less of a market for old school vendors who sell standalone widgets to isolated prospects.

For instance, consider 1&1's recent survey of 765 small business owners. Andreas says 100% of the respondents agree that the absence of a company website is bad for sales, but there's much more to these customers' operations beyond setting up a web presence. Might they not benefit from Zoho or ThinkFree powered productivity apps? SharePoint based collaboration? CRM?

More importantly, Andreas counts "hundreds of thousands of US small businesses" among his customers. As such, one super valuable feature that he's uniquely positioned to deliver is a 1&1 social network through which customers can connect with potential vendors, partners and buyers. I feel like 1&1 is really missing out by amassing a sizable community without leveraging it for its members' benefit.

As SWSoft CEO Serguei Beloussov likes to point out, 1&1 and its competitors have sold tens of millions of "web hosting 1.0" accounts, which collectively generate billions in annual revenue. He's absolutely right - but as you see above, the world's not standing still...

This was emailed to me by one of my blog readers. They didn’t say where it came from, but good advice nonetheless.

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hostgator is providing Linux and Reseller web hosting services, has been founded
in 2002 and now it's six years in business.



hostgator.com average uptime is 99.902% (rank #2124 on our directory) with total
8145 successful and 8 failed checks, monitored since 2005-10-05. Similar
companies with 99.902% uptime are ipower.com and icdsoft.com.



Search for "hostgator.com" on 3 biggest search engines returns average of 207666
results so company name popularity rank is #42.



There have been 215 positive votes for hostgator and 53 negative. And overall
company rank on our directory is #101 (similar companies are netsonic.net and
registerfly.com)



Web Hosting Packages

Hatchling Plan (Type: Linux) - 350 GB space, 3000 GB bandwidth for $4.95/mo



Baby Plan (Type: Linux) - 600 GB space, 6000 GB bandwidth for $7.95/mo



Aluminum Plan (Type: Reseller) - 24 GB space, 250 GB bandwidth for $24.95/mo



Copper Plan (Type: Reseller) - 40 GB space, 35 GB bandwidth for $34.95/mo



Silver Plan (Type: Reseller) - 60 GB space, 500 GB bandwidth for $49.95/mo



Gold Plan (Type: Reseller) - 80 GB space, 600 GB bandwidth for $74.95/mo



Diamond Plan (Type: Reseller) - 100 GB space, 700 GB bandwidth for $99.95/mo



Some technical data about hostgator.com

IP Location: Texas - Amarillo - Theplanet.com Internet Services Inc

Blacklist Status: Clear

Nameserver: NS1.hostgator.COM

Registrar: ENOM, INC.

Server Type: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2
mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.1 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.7a

Website Title: Reseller Hosting - cPanel and Reseller Website Hosting by
hostgator

Description: Reseller hosting, dedicated servers, and virtual webhosting as
provided by hostgator LLC



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