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We know that Hostgator is one of the popular hosting providers for PHP based web applications. However, it has been asked that why Hostgator never provided Windows Hosting packages that support ASP, ASP.NET platforms. Finally Hostgator introduced its shared hosting packages for Windows platforms. Currently there are only two packages available and compared to Godaddy it is not cheap yet. To make a short comperation i decided to purchase a hosting package for one month and tried to install DotNetNuke on Hostgator. Hostgator currently provides latest version of Plesk Panel and it is really easy to install DotNetNuke or any other ASP.NET based application to your hosting account. In my case, i first tried to install DotNetNuke 5.6.2 to my Hostgator account and had a little problem with file permissions. After resolving the issue, i had a working DotNetNuke installation quickly. I then decided to deploy an existing development environment to production. Unfortunetely, i first had an issue with uploading database backup file from Plesk. Since my backup file size was greater then 70 MB, Plesk was timing out. So, i had to create a support ticket and Hostgator guys whom i rate 5/5, told me to upload the backup file via ftp. They said, they'll restore the database and did so. The second issue i had was, unable to access WebAdmin for managing SQL Database tables and records. Hostgator guys again told me that WebAdmin is not installed for security purposes. Instead, they instructed me to use SQL Server Management Studio Express, which i already have it installed on my computer. The problem is you need to report your public ip address to Hostgator each time you need to use SSMS. Besides, it could be a challanging task to use SSMS from remote locations if you are a busy Database Administrator like me. Update: They have updated Plesk with Whitelisting tool. So you can add your own IP address from there... Well, overall i have deployed a hostel booking website to my Hostgator account within several hours.

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