Here is a big news for all Hostgator customers, (Even ShoutMeLoud is hosted on Hostgator). Hostgator is sold for $225 million USD to Endurance International Group. According to reports, Mr. Hari Ravichandran, CEO of EIG, offerd $225 million to Hostgator CEO, Brent Oxley and he accepted. This news came out as a shock for Hostgator users and people are already discussing about the same in Webhosting forum. Some background about Endurance International Group: EIG is a business group, which has acquired many popular Web-hosting company and domain (50 comments)

If you are one of the regular readers of ShoutMeLoud, you might have noticed frequent downtime and theme changes in last couple of days. There are many reasons for the same and one of them was my hosting server. I was on Linode VPS and despite of being one of the powerful unmanaged VPS server, my site was going down again and again. Though the reason might be due to some bugged WordPress plugin and also some issues with updated W3 total cache plugin. Last night I started facing some issues with Thesis theme as it was not able to save my design (55 comments)

It's been 3 years since I have started using HostGator's web hosting service. Today in this article, I am going to share my HostGator experience and the various ups and downs, and pros and cons of this three-year experience. How I came to know about HostGator Earlier I was on DreamHost, and I had very bitter experience with them. So I started looking for a reliable web hosting company. I had a chat with Harsh, and he recommended me to try HostGator. I trusted his decision and bought a 1-year "Baby" hosting plan from them. In the "Baby" plan, (17 comments)