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Hosting Comparison Chart

Here is a quick comparison chart between hosting types.

Key

Yes Included or Available No Not Included or Not Available
WIN Available on Windows Hosting LINUX Available on Linux Hosting
Compatible But Not Included
Must Be Acquired from a 3rd Party
(may be free or at an additional charge.)
Ticket Required Can Be Ordered or Requested
Available from HostGator
(may be free or at an additional charge.)

Note: The VPS column assumes you have a VPS with cPanel or Plesk.  A VPS without a control panel will not have most of the features listed.

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Comparison of Hosting Types
Feature Shared Reseller SEO VPS Dedicated
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HostGator Features
Feature Shared Reseller SEO VPS Dedicated
24/7 Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
No Contract! Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
FREE Setup Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Safe Harbor Certified Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Free Website Content Transfer* Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Free Domain Name Transfer* Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
45 Day Money Back Guarantee* Yes Yes Yes Yes No
99.9% Uptime Guarantee* Yes Yes Yes No No
Network Guarantee* No No No Yes Yes
Type of Hosting Environment & Access Levels
Feature Shared Reseller SEO VPS Dedicated
Shared Environment Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Dedicated Environment No No No No Yes
Root Access / Administrator Access No No No Yes Yes
Reseller Access (WHM with Limited Features) No Yes Yes No No
Operating System(s) Available LINUXWIN LINUX LINUX LINUX LINUXWIN
Control Panels
Feature Shared Reseller SEO VPS Dedicated
cPanel LINUX Yes Yes Yes LINUX
WHM No Yes Yes Yes LINUX
Plesk for Windows WIN No No No WIN
Plesk for Linux No No No Yes
Other Control Panels No No No
Databases
Feature Shared Reseller SEO VPS Dedicated
MySQL Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
phpMyAdmin / WebAdmin for MySQL Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
MS SQL (Microsoft SQL Server) WIN No No No WIN
WebAdmin for MS SQL No No No No Ticket Required
Remote Database Access Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Site Building Tools & Web Application Installers
Features Shared Reseller SEO VPS Dedicated
QuickInstall LINUX Yes Yes Ticket Required
cPanel Only
Ticket Required
cPanel Only
Fantastico De Luxe LINUX Yes Yes Ticket Required
cPanel Only
Ticket Required
cPanel Only
Plesk Application Vault WIN No No Yes
Plesk Only
Yes
Plesk Only
BaseKit LINUX Yes No No No
Parallels Site Builder Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Site Studio Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Backups
Feature Shared Reseller SEO VPS Dedicated
Create Manual Backups Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Create Scheduled Backups No No No Yes Yes
Weekly Backups by HostGator Yes Yes Yes Yes No
FREE Restore from Your Backups Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Restore from HostGator Backups $15 $15 $15 $15 No
Special Offers
Feature Shared Reseller SEO VPS Dedicated
Google AdWords Credit* Yes No No No No
Bing & Yahoo! Advertising Credit* Yes No No No No
Branding & White Label Hosting / Reseller Features
Feature Shared Reseller SEO VPS Dedicated
Custom Error Pages Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
White Label (Your Own Brand) No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Change cPanel Branding No Yes Yes Yes LINUX
Change WHM Branding No No No Yes LINUX
Change Plesk Branding No No No Yes Yes
Reselling Allowed No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Private Name Servers
(e.g. ns1.yourdomain.com)
No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Generic Looking Name Servers
(e.g. ns1.websitewelcome.com)
No Yes Yes No No
HostGator Branded Name Servers
(e.g. ns1.hostgator.com)
Yes No No No No
Free WHMCS License* No Yes No No LINUX
WHMCS Compatible Yes Ticket Required Yes
Free WHMAP License* No Yes No No LINUX
WHMAP Compatible Yes Yes
Server Resources
Feature Shared Reseller SEO VPS Dedicated
Server Resources Limit 25% 25% 25% Yesunlimited Yesunlimited
Maximum Outgoing Emails Per Hour per Domain 500 500 500 Yesunlimited Yesunlimited
Simultaneous Processes 25 25 25 Yesunlimited Yesunlimited
POP / IMAP checks per hour for your connecting IP 30 30 30 Yesunlimited Yesunlimited
HTTP Audio & Video Streaming Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Live video and audio streaming allowed (webcams, radio, television) No No No Yes Yes
Jailed Shell Access (SSH) LINUX Yes Yes Yes LINUX
Root Shell Access (SSH) No No No Yes LINUX
Remote Desktop Access (RDP) No No No No WIN
Dedicated IP Addresses Ticket Required Ticket Required Ticket Required Ticket Required Ticket Required
Maximum Number of Dedicated or Shared IP Addresses 1 Yesunlimited Plans for 5 to 125 IPs Yesunlimited Yesunlimited
SSL Certificates Ticket Required Ticket Required Ticket Required Ticket Required Ticket Required
Maximum Number of SSL Certificates 0 or 1
Depends on Plan
Yesunlimited 5 to 125
Depends on Plan
Yesunlimited Yesunlimited
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Article Comments

Erik
Good afternoon, I have the Baby plan, this means that I can only have up to 25 people on my site simultaneously?

Thanks,

Erik

HostGator
No, visitors do not equal processes.

Please read more at http://support.hostgator.com/articles/processes-limit

Carlton
Your VPS and Dedicated Server Plans indicate unlimited numbers of simultaneous processes. Does this mean that this will accommodate unlimited numbers of simultaneous listeners to my internet radio broadcast?

HostGator
Yes, but "unlimited" does not mean infinite.

Rather, it means that we do not set a limit, and you can have as many simultaneous processes as your server can handle.

FrozenEyes
Lets say i have 3 different domains.
Can you host them for the Baby Plan? Meaning i will have one payment for Three different sites then i can add domains as much as i can?
Because it says there unlimited domain.

HostGator
Yes, you got it.

Pauliie
For Reseller Plans, do you provide direct technical support for the resellers clients, or does reseller have to submit tickets for clients?

HostGator
We do not support a reseller's clients.

The reseller may submit inquiries to HostGator on behalf of his/her customers.

HostGator
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