HostGator and The Planet which is the world’s largest privately held hosting company have partnered and in the part of this deal HostGator will lease 1700 Servers with The Planet though the financial terms were not disclosed.
Hostgator is a privately owned company by Brent Oxley , a college student who in the year 2002 started this web hosting company with less than 1000USD and leased 2 dedicated servers with this fund.After having more than a hundred clients in the first year and 1000+ in the second year Brent Oxley started hiring a team to support his business.
Hostgator now has achieved a 500,000+ Web sites hosting base and is rapidly increasing with the revenue in the year 2006 touching 110,00,000$ and this is mainly because of their best support and services with his currently 80 employees.
Now these 1700 Additional Servers may move hostgator to the top in the web hosting companies list
May 30th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Brent Oxley… He made a fortune from 1000$ in just 4 yaers… This is really awesome…. I still wonder how he made so much
… I still dont understand how the hosting works & it’s comcept…. anyone if have some material/basics of host then plzzz giv me… :-w
May 30th, 2007 at 10:15 am
Iam into Web hosting Business from the last 4 months and iam sure there is a lot of oppurtunity in this if you are really serious into it
March 8th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I had recently come to know about this. When someone over DP said that Hostgator’s servers are from theplanet, and I thought Hostgator had their own :O
May 17th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Its true - I use SSH to tunnel at school/ work ereas and when i checked my ip the static was from theplanet.com… when i am hosted by hostgator.
Pretty interesting