“These templates are free to any Website hosted by Host Gator, whether on a shared or dedicated hosting plan, or through a hosting reseller,” says Brent Oxley, Host Gator founder and president. “We want to make hosting domains or building websites as painless as possible, that’s why we offer the free templates. We also offer free Site Builder, one of the easiest tools available for anybody wanting to custom build a website, rather than use a template.”

The free templates cover a wide range of page designs for nearly 120 different types of small and medium-sized businesses, including accountants, auto dealers, cleaning services, consultants, martial arts studios, toy stores and women’s health clinics.

Host Gator has licensed the billing solution WHMCompleteSolution to provide it free of charge for all its clients, which typically sells for $249 at WHMCS‘ website. WHMCS provides automated, flexible and easy-to-use client management and billing for Web hosts and online businesses.

The solution includes comprehensive support features including a support ticket system, knowledgebase, downloads area and server status overview. It automatically creates, suspends and terminates accounts while providing complete automated billing processes with accounting features and reports, says the company. Host Gator has also increased disk space and bandwidth for all its shared hosting plans, while reducing prices.

“Billing is a critical part of the hosting business and we want to do everything we can to streamline this process for our resellers,” says Brent Oxley, president and founder of Host Gator. “WHMCS is a top of the line billing solution that will make life easier for many of our reseller partners.”

The scripts are free for all customers and is part of Host Gator’s ongoing commitment to making the SEO Hosting division the most complete hosting service and resource for businesses that want to optimize search engine placement, says Host Gator.

“Host Gator is always looking for ways to help our customers succeed in their online endeavors,” says Brent Oxley, founder and president of Host Gator. “Our customers identified search engine optimization as an area where they needed help and we responded by giving them all the technological capabilities they need to achieve these objectives.”

Host Gator recently introduced the SEO Hosting division, which offers customers affordable multiple C class hosting services. Customers can download the free downloadable scripts here.

The company decided to develop the new SEO service after customers kept asking Host Gator for multiple C Class capabilities. With multiple C Class capabilities, customers no longer have to work with different Web hosts to overcome this problem and can consolidate all their sites on SEO Hosting.

SEO Hosting is on Host Gator’s network with The Planet where sites are on servers at all four of The Planet’s data centers in Dallas, Texas and are accessible via a fully meshed and redundant Certified Cisco Network featuring ten backbone providers. Every hosting plan includes cPanel and WHM Control Panel, separate C Class IPs and nameservers, Linux hosting with Apache, unlimited domains, FTP accounts and MySQL databases. All hosting plans are covered by round the clock support with instant backups and no contracts required, and new customers will receive a 30-day money back guarantee and instant free setup.

“With the importance of high organic rankings on web search engines, businesses are looking to maximize every advantage that will help them improve their results,” says Brent Oxley, president of Host Gator. “We found that companies were signing up with multiple locations in order to host different C Classes. SEO Hosting allows these customers the ability to consolidate all their accounts onto a single server and host, saving them time and money.

The new offices are located a few minutes from downtown Houston, Texas where the company has purchased a four-story, 30,000 square foot building for $2.4 million. The facility features high levels of security, monitoring and expanded infrastructure to support Host Gator’s customer service operations.

The new location currently houses 100 employees, and has the capacity to accommodate the company’s plans to eventually expand its staff to 300. To date the new headquarters is currently handling hundreds of phone calls, thousands of tickets and about one thousand live chats a day. System administrators and Web masters of all technical levels will also be included in the new staffing.

“We are extremely pleased to announce this major milestone,” says Brent Oxley, CEO of Host Gator. “Host Gator has been growing at a rapid rate in the last few years. We felt moving to a major metropolitan area was the best way to meet all our staffing and infrastructure needs.”

Host Gator says in addition to all the expected SEO capabilities, this new service will enable customers to optimize their Web sites for search engines by enabling them to host on multiple C classes.

“Host Gator is always listening to its customers and we strive to do all we can to meet their needs, especially in niche areas such as this,” says Brent Oxley, president and founder of Host Gator. “This is a truly a fantastic offering for Web masters and Web publishers that want to do everything they can to optimize their Web sites for search engines. None of our competitors can match our combination of both this technical capability and our rock solid hosting infrastructure.”

Host Gator says SEO Hosting is being offered starting at $5 per month per C Class. Customers will have the ability to add or remove Classes as they please and any customer with more than 50 sites will be assigned a dedicated account representative.

Ruby on Rails is an open source Web application framework written in the Ruby programming language. Host Gator says it provides an efficient environment for Web development, enabling developers to use some of the latest techniques for developing Web applications.

“At Host Gator, we cater to the developer that is passionate about technology and needs all the tools at his disposal required to build dynamic Web applications,” says Brent Oxley, president of Host Gator. “Ruby on Rails is a quickly becoming one of the important Web development standards and we would be remiss if we didn’t provide this support to developers who demand it.”

Host Gator also announced support for some Ruby Gems, including actionmailer, actionpack, actionwebservice, activerecord, activesupport, gnuplot, mongrel, mysql, tidy, xml-simple, payment, BlueCloth, feedtools and htmltools.

Host Gator says the widget is available free of charge and site owners can use it by cutting and pasting a piece of HTML code into their Web sites.

With the widget installed, site owners can see the rating results, as voted by their site visitors and view a map indicating where all its visitors are logging on to the site from.

“This simple tool gives our hosting customers valuable insight into their Web site’s performance,” says Brent Oxley, president and founder of Host Gator. “We are always looking for ways to add value to each and every hosting account we sell and this is just another example of how we do that. This tool also enables our hosting customers to evaluate the performance of Host Gator. We are absolutely confident in our track record and welcome the chance for our customers to put us to the test.”

Host Gator says its shared hosting plans, priced at $6.95, $9.95 and $14.95 per month, now come with 50GB, 100GB and 200GB of disk space, and 200GB, 1,000GB and 2,000GB of bandwidth, respectively.

“We are delighted to be able to offer our customers this increased capacity,” says Brent Oxley, president and founder of Host Gator. “Copious amounts of disk space and bandwidth are a basic hosting need and we make sure our customers have more than enough at their immediate disposal. It’s just part of our mission to give our customers everything they need to succeed and prosper online.”

The company also added SSH capabilities to its Web hosting plans, enabling customers to set up secure connections between remote computers.

Host Gator also recently expanded, moving its headquarters to Houston, Texas from Boca Raton, Flordia, and set up a Canadian office in Toronto.

Host Gator customers can now install the Soholaunch Website Builder for Business to any domain hosted on Host Gator’s servers. Meanwhile, Host Gator reseller can began offering all end users unlimited free use of Soholaunch to create Web sites.

Soholaunch Website Builder for Business features a quick start site building wizard, “drag & drop” page editing and photo albums. Optional advanced features — which can be added when Host Gator clients upgrade their free license — include a multi-currency shopping cart, database table manager, event calendar system, e-newsletter system, secure user management, site backup/restore and a blog manager.

“Host Gator is pleased to include Soholaunch as one of several popular commercial Web tools capable of being installed to domains at the click of a button,” says Brent Oxley, CEO of Host Gator. “Soholaunch’s feature-rich Web site builder and management system will prove valuable to Host Gator clients seeking to build quality Web sites quickly and easily.”