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    HostGator

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AHostGator, from Newfold Digital (formerly Endurance), is a web hosting service with WordPress hosting, VPS hosting, and dedicated hosting capabilities.

    $2.75

    per month

    Rocket DevOps

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ARocket DevOps (formerly Rocket Aldon) enables true end-to-end (CI/CD) for IBM i+ environments. Businesses can extend holistic DevSecOps best practices to the IBM i, pursue innovative experimentation, easily respond to compliance audits, and adapt to the ever-changing expectations of process, technology, or experience.N/A
    Pricing
    HostGatorRocket DevOps
    Editions & Modules
    Hatchling
    $2.75
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    Baby
    $3.50
    per month
    Business
    $5.25
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    HostGatorRocket DevOps
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    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
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    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    86%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
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    Implementation went as expected
    86%
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    User Ratings
    HostGatorRocket DevOps
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.9
    (19 ratings)
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HostGatorRocket DevOps
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    HostGator for email, domain and website hosting--delightful, 100% satisfied! Have always had ample capacity for company email needs, features work well. I have used it off and on for several organizations since 2011. HostGator website building is fairly straightforward, although I wouldn't recommend it for first-time web designing. The pluses on the HostGator website builder: great-looking themes, adequate webpage capacity, really cool scrolling capabilities, which trends well now. Easier than building a WordPress website from scratch, which can also be done for free in HostGator. I'd say it's limited compared to feature-rich WP, but it designs as nicely as Wix.
    Incentivized
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    Rocket Software
    Rocket Aldon is perfect for simple changes to traditional IBM i development using RPGLE, CL, and DDS. It is great for finding related objects that are referenced in many locations and helping recompile all of these objects. However, Aldon has a particularly hard time with SQL views. For some reason, it is determined to lock every table related to a view even though this is not required by the operating system. Whenever one view references another view, you are always in danger of losing a view permanently if you didn't check it out and promote it. To clarify, imagine you created a view CUSTOMER_INFO. Then you make another view called CUSTOMER_SHIPMENTS that joins the CUSTOMER_INFO to a shipping table. If you ever change CUSTOMER_INFO and then promote it, there is a good chance that Aldon will delete the CUSTOMER_SHIPMENTS view and you will not get a single warning. It doesn't happen every time but when it does you are going to have a real mess on your hands.
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    Pros
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    • The pricing is a big feature for this hosting company
    • Every three years when the hosting contract is coming to an end, they offer a reduced fee to upgrade your server plan, which is more cost effective than renewing at the regular rate for whatever plan you're currently using.
    • The customer service workers are professional and friendly.
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    Rocket Software
    • Allows flexibility for user groups
    • Scripting for releasing of code
    • Ease of comparing code versions within the tool
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    Cons
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    • Support could be better, it takes a long time to connect with somebody
    • You need to pay extra for a backup you can rely on
    • SiteLock is sold separately, but did not help when we were hacked
    • Site seems to slow down from time to time
    Incentivized
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    Rocket Software
    • SQL object promotions
    • User interface
    • Incomplete error checking
    • Fragmented promotion logs
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    Because we have in house technical support to compensate the lack of quality HostGator tech support, and because the price continues to be affordable the business is likely to continue using HostGator. They provide what the business needs and we have in house support to maintain it.
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    Rocket Software
    Based on current integration with our release process, we will need to keep this for the future.
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    Support Rating
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    While you will get support from HostGator, it seems to be a different level from 8-10 years ago. It may take 15-20 minutes to get someone on chat, and unless you follow up, I've found followup email support to take a couple of days. If you stick with it, though, you will get support, and I've never had a problem they couldn't help with.
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    Rocket Software
    Support is hit and miss. Sometimes they give some great assistance and sometimes they are no help at all. It always seems like they can't replicate the problem but then they never try to get on our system to do deeper research. It's kind of frustrating dealing with them. Also, the website isn't that helpful.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    I prefer HostGator over GoDaddy. HostGator does have better and more reliable customer support, and the user interface and user experience are overall much more friendly and easier to use. GoDaddy does have downtime associated with their hosting in my experience, but I have not experienced that with HostGator.
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    Rocket Software
    Aldon provides needed functions for our current implementations and legacy systems. As we move toward modernization, we are going to look at alternatives from reviewing cost, integration capabilities and functionality
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    Return on Investment
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    • Usage of resale options easily quadrupled the money I was spending on HostGator
    • Trust in the host has to be earned, and HostGator has not retained that for me -- it will be a while before I feel confident in their uptime again
    • Overall, HG has been a positive impact on my business as a web developer
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    Rocket Software
    • Software promotion is much easier and doesn't require custom coding.
    • Developers can work collaboratively with less overlap.
    • Developers can find objects faster and research code more thoroughly.
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