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About us
HostGator is amongst the most popular Hosting companies in the world and is part of the Endurance International Group. The company established itsIndia operations in 2011 with a localized website – www.hostgator.in and is one of the largest Web Hosting companies in the country. HostGator provides best in class web hosting solutions and exceptional local support to its clients. It offers a complete suite of products such as Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated servers. The company also offers Domain name registration and SSL certificates along with its hosting products. Currently Hostgator provides hosting solutions to nearly 4.5 lac customers across the country.
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Marketing Manager : Vaibhav Srivastava
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As with any other technology product, HostGator needs to constantly innovate on features, products and solutions to serve different market segments for Web Hosting. The company's strong global standing helps it leverage technology and product best practices from the developed markets and apply them to the Indian context. Another challenge the company foresees in a market like India is relatively lower renewal rates on its products. HostGator believes this is due to the maturity of the market and should improve in the coming years. The company's efforts are tuned to engage better with its customers and offer value added services that can help them truly benefit from their online presence.
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The company's aim is to be India's numero uno website hosting company. HostGator believes this is a great market with immense potential. This was one of the biggest drivers for the company to setup a local presence. The company has now been operating in India for more than 3 years and has built strong know how on the Web Hosting market in India.
If you look at the Indian market, the company is seeing strong growth in terms of website adoption amongst SMBs and professionals. Also web developers, designers and IT consultants use Web Hosting solutions to build custom websites and applications. HostGator aims to be the "website partner" for SMBs, designers and developers.
HostGator's product portfolio spans across Shared Hosting, Reseller hosting, Virtual Private Severs and Dedicated servers. All these products are competitively priced and are complemented by world class support. Delivering a great customer experience is important and is one of major USPs of the company. The company serves customers across all market segments in the Web Hosting space. SMBs typically purchase the Shared Hosting products whereas web developers and IT integrators purchase higher end products like dedicated servers and VPS.
HostGator is committed to the Indian market and believes it's important to educate the customer about the benefits of getting a web presence. The company's partnership with Google i.e. India GetOnline program – www.indiagetonline.in is testament to that. Some of its other competitors are also playing their part in educating Indian SMBs so the company welcomes the competition. India is a high potential market so it's natural that many of the company's competitors are also eyeing a piece of this pie. Hostgator has a strong brand, state of the art products and great customer support. It believes these are strong USPs that helps the company stand out from its competition
The company was founded in 2002 by Brent Oxley, who started the company from his dorm room at Florida Atlantic University. Since then, HostGator has grown from a small hosting company with just three servers to a one of the largest hosting providers across the globe.
HostGator, believes in providing its employees with an environment that makes them love their workplace. This is an absolute must for them to deliver a great customer experience.
Each employee at HostGator is valued for their unique set of skills, experiences and perspectives. The company's employees possess a wealth of knowledge and the company encourages them to share this with their co-workers. Ideation amongst teams has given birth to many a path breaking innovation, both on the tech and marketing side. The company's employees define the company as a brand and are the reason for the company's success.
"HostGator is a great place to work. Many awesome people work here and everyone works together to ensure an excellent hosting experience for our customers. You learn something new here every day, and I am enjoying every minute of it. Relaxed dress code, being rewarded for hard work..What more could you ask for?"
- Mitch Bound |
the company caters to nearly 4.5L Indian customers. This audience is spread across the country and spans across industry verticals and target groups. The company prides itself on the fact that it has a loyal customer base which looks at Hostgator as its "website partner" as they scale their businesses.
The company plans to scale up its product suite, recruit aggressively and build on the brand traction it has in India. The company also plans to expand its base of channel partners who form an integral role in acquiring customers. The past 3 years have been a great learning experience in India and HostGator is super excited with its plans going ahead.
Year of founding: 2011
Funding information: Brand owned by Endurance International Group (a NASDAQ listed organization) Company strength: 200+ Office locations: Houston (TX), Austin (TX), Mangalore (India) Website:www.hostgator.in |
