Arvixe vs Hostgator – Compare Arvixe and Hostgator

Arvixe and Hostgator are both well known web hosting companies and both offer quality web hosting and excellent customer support.

Both have excellent customer/technical support team and reliable servers. Both provide UNLIMITED Bandwidth, UNLIMITED Disk Space, 24×7 Support with all their packages. But they do differ in some features.

The important factor is which hosting company provides the most necessary features for your requirement or need. Based on our research, we came up with following comparison table. Note: Our home page version of Arvixe review , is a summarized version of Arvixe’s features.

Shared hosting comparison

Feature
Price for hosting limited websites	$4/mo – Websites (Domains) allowed – 6	$4.95/mo – Websites (Domains) allowed – 1
24/7/365 support
Support Rating	Arvixe support rating	hostgator support rating
BBB (Better Business Bureau) member?
100% Network uptime	(as per Host-Tracker.com)	? (We will update once we get clear on this).
Green Web Hosting		(Shared and reseller servers are wind powered)
Price for Hosting UNLIMITED Websites	$7.00 / month	$7.95 / month
Money Back Guarantee	60 day Money Back Guarantee	45 day Money Back Guarantee
Free Domain Name
Windows Hosting / ASP .NET Hosting
Google Adwords		$50
Site Builder
Fantastico Scripts
Shared SSL
RMS server(required for boonex/orca)		(available in dedicated server)
ffmpeg		(available in dedicated server)
CubeCart,OS Commerce,Zen Cart
WordPress Hosting
Elgg hosting		(available in dedicated server)
Drupal,Joomla,Mambo
Ruby On Rails, Perl, Python, Cron
GD 2&Image Magick.
MySQL 5 Databases	Unlimited	Unlimited
MS SQL Server Databases	Unlimited	(Hostgator does not provide windows hosting)
Zend Optimizer
Private SSL Allowed		(allowed in $7.95 plan)
Backup	Arvixe uses R1Soft backup and customers will have an option of browsing their files from within the last 2 days or the last 2 weeks.	You can make an ‘instant’ backup of your entire account from control panel.
Discounts/Coupons offered	20% off any hosting plan! Arvixe Coupon	20% Initial Order Hostgator Coupons

Conclusion:
We agree both Arvixe and Hostgator are both reliable and affordable web hosting providers. Hope that comparison table above has helped you decide. We are slightly inclined towards Arvixe due to some advantages listed in comparison table above plus following advantages:

You may want to use Arvixe if:

• You need Windows/ASP .NET shared hosting becase Hostgator does not provide Windows hosting.
• If you are planing to use Social Network or Community Website Hosting software like BoonEx / Oraca Software or Elgg or LovdbyLess, Arvixe shared hosting is a very good choice for you. You need a hostgator dedicated or reseller account to host BoonEx Software website. – All these plans start at $4.
• Arvixe also offers support and hosting for Video Sharing Software Hosting like VidiScript,iVidPlay, ClipBucket, ClipShare, osTube Hosting – All these plans start at $4.
• Arvixe also has special hosting packagaes for osCommerce Hosting ,CubeCart Hosting,Buy Safe Hosting,Zen Cart Hosting, Magento Hosting – All these plans start at $4.

Otherwise both Arvixe and Hostgator are excellent web hosting choices.

Sign up with Arvixe here and get 20% off any hosting package

Sign up with Hostgator here and get 20% of initial order.

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