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HostGator vs WordPress

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Overview

WordPress
WordPress
Stacks99.3K
Followers41.4K
Votes2.1K
GitHub Stars20.6K
Forks12.9K
HostGator
HostGator
Stacks19
Followers29
Votes0

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Xander
Xander

Founder at Rate My Meeting

Mar 30, 2020

Decided

So many choices for CMSs these days. So then what do you choose if speed, security and customization are key? Headless for one. Consuming your own APIs for content is absolute key. It makes designing pages in the front-end a breeze. Leaving Ghost and Cockpit. If I then looked at the footprint and impact on server load, Cockpit definitely wins that battle.

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Dragos
Dragos

Jan 6, 2020

Decided

10 Years ago I have started to check more about the online sphere and I have decided to make a website. There were a few CMS available at that time like WordPress or Joomla that you can use to have your website. At that point, I have decided to use WordPress as it was the easiest and I am glad I have made a good decision. Now WordPress is the most used CMS. Later I have created also a site about WordPress: https://www.wpdoze.com

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Detailed Comparison

WordPress
WordPress
HostGator
HostGator

The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.

HostGator is a Houston-based provider of shared, reseller, virtual private server, and dedicated web hosting with an additional presence

Flexibility;Publishing Tools;User Management;Media Management;Full Standards Compliance;Easy Theme System;Extend with Plugins;Built-in Comments;Search Engine Optimized;Multilingual;Easy Installation and Upgrades;Importers;Own Your Data
All HostGator shared hosting accounts come with CPanel; Unlimited Bandwidth; VPS and Dedicated Servers; Manage Multiple Domains
Statistics
GitHub Stars
20.6K
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
12.9K
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
99.3K
Stacks
19
Followers
41.4K
Followers
29
Votes
2.1K
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 418
    Customizable
  • 369
    Easy to manage
  • 357
    Plugins & themes
  • 259
    Non-tech colleagues can update website content
  • 248
    Really powerful
Cons
  • 13
    Plugins are of mixed quality
  • 13
    Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things
  • 10
    Not best backend UI
  • 2
    Complex Organization
  • 1
    Do not cover all the basics in the core
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Integrations
ClickTale
ClickTale
Clicky
Clicky
Disqus
Disqus
Formstack
Formstack
GoSquared
GoSquared
HipChat
HipChat
Hipmob
Hipmob
KickoffLabs
KickoffLabs
KISSmetrics
KISSmetrics
LiveChat
LiveChat
GoDaddy
GoDaddy
Magento
Magento
CoffeeScript
CoffeeScript

What are some alternatives to WordPress, HostGator?

GitHub Pages

GitHub Pages

Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.

Drupal

Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

Strapi

Strapi

Strapi is100% JavaScript, extensible, and fully customizable. It enables developers to build projects faster by providing a customizable API out of the box and giving them the freedom to use the their favorite tools.

DomainRacer

DomainRacer

It is a blazing fast hosting solution that provides Customer Satisfaction driven Web Hosting services since 2016.

Ghost

Ghost

Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customisable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do.

Netlify

Netlify

Netlify is smart enough to process your site and make sure all assets gets optimized and served with perfect caching-headers from a cookie-less domain. We make sure your HTML is served straight from our CDN edge nodes without any round-trip to our backend servers and are the only ones to give you instant cache invalidation when you push a new deploy. Netlify is also the only static hosting service with integrated continuous deployment.

Wagtail

Wagtail

Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the Royal College of Art and focused on flexibility and user experience.

OctoberCMS

OctoberCMS

It is a Laravel-based CMS engineered for simplicity. It has a simple and intuitive interface. It provides a consistent structure with an emphasis on reusability so you can focus on building something unique while we handle the boring bits.

Vercel

Vercel

A cloud platform for serverless deployment. It enables developers to host websites and web services that deploy instantly, scale automatically, and require no supervision, all with minimal configuration.

Twill

Twill

Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel that helps developers rapidly create a custom admin console that is intuitive, powerful and flexible.

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