Hostgator Vs Hostmonster Review

Control Panel and Features

Both of them offer latest cPanel control panel with customized skin. So the difference is only skin deep, and you get exactly the same functionalities. cPanel, by the way is the best control panel in the industry, which along with Fantastico script installers, provide almost all the features a webmaster can expect from a control panel.

Price

Hostmonster offer only one package with unlimited add-on domain, which can be compared to Hostgator's Baby package. Baby package comes @ $7.95 per month when paid yearly and Hostmonster charges $5.95 per month on an yearly contract. That makes look hostmonster slightly cheap, but the fact is that hostgator offers much more options for package selection and billing. You can select a smaller package (hatchling) if you wish and you can opt for monthly billing which is always a safer option for any kind of hosting. Overall, I guess Hostgator's flexibility will compensate for the small difference in price.

Uptime and Performance

We have shared hosting accounts with five leading hosts, including Hostgator and Hostmonster. As you can see the report from a third party monitoring tool here Hostgator offer the best uptime among all. Hostmonster is not far behind, but Gator is the BEST.

Support

Both of them offer 24/7 support via tickets, toll free lines, chat and forums. Once again, Hostmonster is competitive but Hostgator is simply too good. Their support is one of the best in the industry and you can even reach their owner on Hostgator peer support forums.

Hostgator Vs Hostmonster Summary

Feature	Hostgator	Hostmonster
Features	9	9
Price	9	9
Performance	9	8
Support	9	7

Overall

Both Hostgator and Hostmonster are good in their own way, but Hostgator is a better choice on account of their flexible payment options, better support and overall better managed servers as demonstrated by the uptime graph.

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