The Prices and Features
First, let us compare the hosting costs at Hostgator vs Cool Handle. The cheaper choice for hosting a simple Wordpress blog or e-commerce shopping cart is definitely Hostgator. If you just need to have one website on one domain, require a reasonable amount of diskspace and visits-per-day, and want a few email accounts, then Hostgator, priced from $6.95 per month is easily the winner. If you are thinking of doing multi-domain hosting and need high bandwidth, then you need to look further into each web hosting features and the TOS. Please note that the above conclusion is only true if we compared their prices if you pay yearly, not for more years or less. Do not get sucked by the unrealistically low prices advertised by the hosting services or by other dishonest web hosting review sites. Some low prices advertised are for payment periods that are longer than 1 year. If you ask us, we found that companies go bust, got bought over, or simply did not perform well as expected. Why risk your hard-earned money because money paid to these companies can be well spent elsewhere. According to many successful online business owners, yearly hosting payment is the optimal length.Comparing Their Support
Secondly, we want to look at customer satisfactions at Hostgator or Cool Handle. We would like to report that there are more dissatisfied customers at Cool Handle than at Hostgator. We found this out by searching for customer comments on the web. Our researchers studied keywords such as "Hostgator sucks", "Cool Handle sux", "Hostgator terrible", "hate Cool Handle", and other so called "bad" keywords. To give an accurate review, we also spent hours on the Internet analyzing terms such as "Hostgator awesome", "Cool Handle good", "Hostgator best", "thanks Cool Handle" and related encouraging terms. Our research found that, more than 89.8% of customers loves Hostgator. In contrast, the same cannot be said about Cool Handle. In addition, a different Hostgator review was also amazed by the good comments and feedbacks about Hostgator.How Popular Are They?
The third step is to see how popular are Hostgator and Cool Handle. After researching on Alexa, Google Trend and a number of other analytics, we found that the current more popular web hosting is Hostgator. The graph below represents the overall Internet users who visit www.hostgator.com vs www.coolhandle.com for web hosting, domain registration and other hosting related activities.Final Ratings
Lastly, we summed up the above scores and came out with the conclusion about Hostgator and Cool Handle. The information found from the above factors were weighted accordingly where the customer satisfactions were given more importance. After much deliberation, we can safely say that Hostgator is our recommended business web host. Here is the summary of our hosting comparison.| Hostgator | vs | Cool Handle | ||
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| 90% | Support![]() Reliability ![]() Features ![]() |
78% | Support![]() Reliability ![]() Features ![]() |
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