It looks like GeoCities, the Free Web Hosting service owned by Yahoo!, is officially ending service to website owners today. I’m sure many of you have used their service at one point or another, so it’s kind of sad to see them go down with...
Topics: Around the Web, geocities, Web Hosting News

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HostGator recently reached 200,000 active customers and we are on pace to break 300,000 within a year.I remember when I’d be out celebrating if HostGator managed to get two signups in a week. Now, we’re seeing thousands of signups a week. Back...
Topics: Gator Politics, history, statistics

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Inc. Magazine just ranked HostGator #239 overall on their prestigious Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing privately owned companies in America. Here’s how the companies that make Inc’s list are ranked:The Inc. 500|5000 is ranked according to...
Topics: inc 5000, Web Hosting News

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Wednesday, August 5, 2009 started out as a normal day at HostGator’s Houston headquarters. Around 4:00 PM CT, a major power surge that occurred as the result of a transformer near our office blowing up made the day anything but ordinary.Lights...
Topics: Random

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HostGator has teamed up with one of our clients, BlogertizeWorld.com, to give away 30 free iPhone 3GS’s in the form of a twitter contest.The rules are simple and this contest is open to everyone. Click here to re-tweet the details with the hashtag.
Topics: contest, Promotions, twitter

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