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Well, I said before that hostgator has launched Indian operations on this post. Which is actually good for all of the Indian users out there. But do you think that the services of the two are same? I would rather say they are not even comparable.

I review both of them as I have hosting accounts on Hostgator.com and Hostgator.in, one of my site i.e. MyWebStay.com and arj.uno are on the Indian servers and dotKB.com is on the Texas server. So here’s the differences i found which I would like to share with you.

1. Hostgator.in is expensive as you need to pay 10.3% extra as service tax. [1 point for Hostgator.com]
2. Hostgator.com is far so there is latency problem (means data will take more time to reach you), Hostgator.in is near and it is about 4x times faster [1 point to Hostgator.in]
3. Hostgator.com has a better technical support, the indian servers are expensive due to expensive network so Hostgator India has planned to cut cost by reducing their staff.[1 point to Hostgator.com]
4. You can pay your web host in Indian currency and there is no foreign exchange fluctuations for you. [1 point to Hostgator.in]
5. Hostgator.com is offering discounts upto 25% on their hosting plans and there are other coupons too, like First month for 1 cent. [1 point to Hostgator.com]
6. Hostgator.in gives discounts according to Indian festivals, so it gives you a feel of home. [1 point to Hostgator.in]
7. Hostgator.com has working affiliate system, whereas hostgator.in has no affiliate system. [1 point to Hostgator.com]

All the above points are what other peoples are discussing and there is nothing technicalities invloved in them. You can even check that out even if you don’t have a hosting account. But below is the comparison that provides things which you will probably came to know after buying. You should seriously consider them.

1. Hostgator.in will not give you adword credit
2. Hostgator.in is new.
3. Hostgator.in is not Green as Hostgator.com is.
4. Never go for a “Business Shared Plan”, as its of no use to you. Since won’t be getting a toll free number, its better to take the “Baby Plan” and put IP/SSL as addon, this would be cheaper and effective.
5. The system used as shared server on USA servers have 16 cores CPU, whereas the System used in Indian servers have 4 cores CPU.
6. Hostgator.in is not providing Windows Shared Hosting.
7. On bandwidth analysis I found that Hostgator USA servers give an average download rate of  4-5MBPS and peak is 8-9 MBPS that I have noticed. Whereas Hostgator.in servers gave average download speed of 300-400KBPS, however the peak level noticed by me was 5-6MBPS. I used wget tool in terminal to do that.
8. When it comes to dedicated servers you can see that Indian dedicated servers have a 1000GB-2000GB bandwidth, whereas USA dedicated servers have 10,000GB bandwidth.
9. Even number of IP’s assigned by Indian servers are less than USA servers.
10. Moreover the System spec of USA servers are far better than the Indian systems.
11. Indian servers are slow and sluggish, so as its support team. I was very happy with the support I got from Hostgator USA, means you just need to mail them and they use to reply within 15-20 min. Here even a very small and simple query takes 8-12 hours for reply.

Despite so many drawbacks why am I still using Hostgator India services, well here’s why:

1. My sites when working on Hostgator India servers are still fast (In terms of processing).
2. Even though it’s 10.3% expensive than american servers, its still it is cheaper than other Web Hosting companies in India.
3. The major reason is that one of my site wiz. CommentIndia.com uses Facebook Integration and there needs to be very less latency (in terms of ping time) to function it properly. This was not working well in the American servers as still in India many people use slow and poor quality networks (Edge, GPRS and High speed wireless internet are poor quality networks for me). Ping times on these network for USA servers is sometimes >1200ms, the same in Indian server is about ~400ms. And my Facebook intergation works well in that.
4. I had a good time with Hostgator with last couple of years and I believe that they will improve their services in Indian operations and make them usable for people those who had normal hosting requirements (Unlike specific hosting requirements like I had).

I still love Hostgator, if you are planning to get a Hostgator USA server use coupon code “25percentlower” to get 25% discount or use coupon “gatorfor1cent” to get First month for 1 cent. On the other hand if you are planning to go for Hostgator India server use coupon code “25percentlowerindia” to get 25% discount.

For further queries, feel free to contact me at [email protected]

Facebook lost nearly 6m users in the US last month, according to figures from Inside Facebook, sparking fresh concern that the social network’s growth is slowing.

Total monthly active users on the site still grew by 1.7 per cent between the beginning of May and early June, taking its total to 687m, according to Inside Facebook, part of the Inside Network, which provides news and analytics tools for social media, virtual goods and mobile apps.

But in the US there was a drop for the first time in a year, from 155.2m to 149.4m during the month of May. Canada also lost 1.52m users, while the UK, Norway and Russia lost “more than 100,000”.

That was all offset by big gains in Brazil, India, Mexico and Indonesia, Inside Facebook says, but “overall growth has been lower than normal for the second month straight, which is unusual”.

Although these are headline-grabbing statistics, they are just a couple of months’ data – it isn’t yet a trend. Inside Facebook itself gives a health warning on its figures, suggesting that seasonal factors and “bugs in the Facebook advertising tool” can distort the figures. Facebook has not commented on the report. (Updated: see end of post for Facebook’s response.)

This is not the first time that people have tried to suggest Facebook is losing momentum – and each of them has, so far, proven a blip in an otherwise frenetic growth rate.

It is almost exactly a year since an Inside Facebook interview with Mark Zuckerberg triggered the most recent fears that growth at the world’s largest social network might be running out of steam.

Just as Mr Zuckerberg was talking onstage in Cannes about the importance of Japan, Russia, South Korea and China for its next phase of growth, Inside Facebook published an article quoting him as saying: “We saw our exponential growth rate continue for a very long period of time, and it still does at a super-linear rate, though not quite 3 per cent a week any more.”

According to Inside Facebook’s latest stats, Facebook is “not quite” growing at 3 per cent a month any more, so it’s true to say that things have slowed down.

But back in June 2010, Facebook had around 500m users. Now it’s closing in on 700m. Its huge scale will inevitably affect its growth rate but from an international perspective, its dominance is greater than ever. Another set of data, from Cosenza, suggests that Facebook is now the leading social network in 119 out of 134 major markets.

As Facebook targets 1bn users, many have focused on China as its great untapped source of growth. But as Facebook’s investors target an initial public offering next year, the health of the network in more immediately profitable areas such as North America and Western Europe might be just as big a concern.

Source: shellypalmer.com

Well, recently Hostgator.com has expanded itself to join hands and partner with other companies to provide hosting facilities around the world. Very recently they announced the newest HostGator addition; the launch of HostGator India, http://www.hostgator.in!

I am sure that HostGator India will allow all, the opportunity to receive local hosting with servers in India, as well as localized support from their new office in India as well for HostGator India clients! Hostgator’s Indian operations have already started and their Indian office is located in Nashik, Maharashtra. The Indian office works 24×7 and provides technical as well as sales and billing support to all HostGator.in client base.

I have been one of their very first customers and have already got all my sites ported to Hostgator India.

Since day one, I have seen incredible change in the site speed due to very less latency and even my site’s ranking has also spiked up.

I recommend all users who are India based to look forward to this opportunity and use Hostgator India as their web host.

Who may use the coupon “25percentlower” and get additional discount on you hosting plan (for 1year or more).

Remember that you need to pay an additional amount of bucks as service tax @ 10.3%, but since you got a 25% discount coupon code, it’s still worth to get one.