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Hostgator additional services or also known as Hostgator add on services that are offered
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Let's get started with the Hostgator additional services tutorial.
I'm at the Hostgator add additional services section.
There are five Hostgator additional services that you can choose to add to your Hostgator
hosting account.
They consist of the SSL Certificate, Sitelock Essentials, Professional Email, Site Backup,
and Hostgator SEO Tools.
Let's start with the SSL Certificate add-on.
Hostgator does come with a free Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate for your site so this add-on
isn't necessary unless you want to upgrade to a Positive SSL Certificate which will allow
you to show a site security badge on your site and with the positive SSL Certificate
you'll have a $10,000 limited guarantee warranty by Comodo.
For most, the free Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate is just fine.
Next, you will see Sitelock Essentials.
This add-on checks your website daily for malware and protects your site from hackers
and malicious attacks.
It will notify you if your site has been hacked into and malicious code has been placed into
it.
Sitelock Essentials also removes malware automatically.
This add-on can be beneficial and give you peace of mind if your site were to get hacked
into and malware is placed on it.
If you are going to be using WordPress for your site there are free security plugins
that do a good job at security as well.
Two popular security plugins that I recommend are Sucuri and All In One Security and Firewall.
These plugins protect your site and make it really hard for your site to get hacked into
where malware can be placed on it.
These free plugins don't remove the malware if you are hacked into.
You can pay a fee to get it removed.
So something to keep in mind.
The next add-on is Professional Email.
This add-on provides you with an email address ending in your domain name along with other
features provided by Google workspace such as Gmail, calendar, chat, cloud storage with
drive, video conferencing with meet, and many more Google workspace features.
I do want to note that Hostgator does come with free email addresses ending in your domain
name so this add-on isn't necessary unless you really want to utilize all the added features
with Google workspace.
In my opinion, this add-on isn't needed.
The next add-on is site backup.
This will backup your site daily and you can restore your site to a previous backup with
a click of a button with their one-click restore.
This add-on can be a good one because if your site gets hacked into or you mess something
while creating it, or editing it you can restore it to the version right before whatever happened
took place and everything will be back to normal.
This add-on can be very beneficial as you never know when you might need it.
If you are going to be using WordPress to create your site there are free backup plugins
you can use.
The ones I recommend are UpgdraftPlus and BackWPup.
These plugins are free and will back up your site.
Something to keep in mind they do not come with a one-click restore option so you'll
have to manually get your website back to how it was on a previous backup manually and
not automatically.
Something to keep in mind.
In my opinion this Hostgator add-on can be very beneficial as you never know when you
might need it.
The next addon is Hostgator SEO Tools.
Hostgator SEO Tools will provide you with reports, insights, and analytics regarding
the SEO for your site and it'll recommend things to do to improve the SEO of your site.
It will also report your site to search engines.
This add-on isn't really necessary.
It touches the basics in terms of SEO and is limited in what it tracks.
It could be helpful for some if you aren't familiar with SEO at all.
In my opinion utilizing Google Analytics, Google Search Console, and if you are using
WordPress to create your site having the Yoast SEO or RankMath plugin can set you up for
some of the basics regarding SEO and guide you on your pages and posts you create.
I've now covered all the Hostgator additional services that you can choose from.
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