by Anura Guruge
on July 1, 2021
This post migrated over from my old, now archived,
nhlife.wordpress.com, blog.
After more than 20-years I have FINALLY got around to consolidating my Website & blog in one place — under my ‘guruge.com‘ domain. THIS IS IT!
After about a month of research & soul searching I finally opted to go with ‘HostGator‘ shared hosting & WordPress.
‘guruge.com‘ was at Weebly. I was NOT enamored with the Weebly editor. Clunky.
I tried nearly everything out there. You name it, I must have tried it.
Truth me known, I was with HostGator previously — albeit with their template-based ‘Website Builder‘. That was OK, but was too rigid.
In the end, hosted WordPress (outside of wordpress.com) made most sense for I.
But, what FINALLY & decisively made me opt for HostGator is their support.
I had been impressed with their CHAT support. It is very good. Most of the time it is from India (with a lot of female associates) & they have been OUTSTANDING. WOW.
But, I tried the 24/7 phone support a few times. The phone support tends to be from the U.S. Wow. They just go out of their way to be helpful & they know their stuff.
Yes, I know that ‘BlueHost’ & ‘HostGator’ & a number of others are ALL owned by the same ‘investment’ company. But, I think HostGator support is superior to that available from BlueHost.
PLUS, HostGator claims to give you UNLIMITED disk storage. I like that.
So, that is why I went with HostGator. I can’t say enough good things about them. And their pricing is NOT bad too — & yesterday (i.e., June 11, 2021) I could cash into their 70% off rates (as opposed to the 60% rates). SMILE.
