I decided to just try and move our online store to a different company, one that will really support Magento.
SO A WORD OF ADVICE, DO NOT USE HOSTGATOR IF YOU WANT TO USE MAGENTO.
IN FACT I WOULD SAY TO STEER CLEAR OF THEM BASED ON OUR TREATMENT.

This is coming from a programmer of 13 years who has dealt with many Hosting companies.

1) Anyone that owns a site that utilizes 11% or 25% CPU has either a poorly written web app or they are getting a ton of traffic. If properly monetized they should easily be able to afford a dedicated server.

2) $4.00 … $5.00 … to $10/month hosting is what I refer to a mom and pop hosting. If you are running a business off shared hosting you are on the wrong plan. If you cannot afford to be without email for 2 or 3 full days, then you need to find out how to protect yourself.

I use the HostGator reseller account to park my domains and ready them for production. Hostgator does a good job. Better than most in my opinion.

But wait! One more realm you have to machette your way through the bs-ers to capitalize correctly. But all in all, probably the most cost efficient, inspite of the fraud and accidental idiots, to get traffic. I know the web is a much tougher game, and a much deeper science than most people, even at it for 10 years realize. Now as tough times have more and more businesses examining new, more efficient vehicles of ROI, we see why these big web enterprises, like Intuit, are targeting this growth of suckers to snag, and why they will just further retard the progress, with the illusion of numbers. It also shows why, the poor businesses who are just dropping into this, will see a repeat of the last ten years of illusion becoming exposed as junk, that still 90% of their competitors are just realizing now, in coming years.

What that equals, is a bunch of dumb axe companies, who expected ROI, for RONI. They want profit, with zero, or contemptuously small investment. The math alone, of the ROI game, tells you they are wasting their money. The days of the Internet Gold Rush’s foundation were done, in 1999. If you want an internet vehicle like a Porsche for moped prices, you are wasting your money. And even if you do pay for a Ferrari mechanic to build it, you gotta hope he even knows what wrenches to use. This invisible science, is why this invisible architecture, is hard to grasp by companies who are living under bridges, in holey tents, and believe they are laying the foundation of a future internet mansion.

If you have a cheap axe client, you may want to inform them, that a return requires investment, and expertise (so many of those fools, think web developers owe them, and that it’s all simple, free and easy). If they corner cut, they might as well just put that money in a savings account, if they are not willing to realistically assess what investing in this world means. Np pay, no play.

Then someone may say, hey the host pornhub at hostgator. Yeah, but many webs pay for their traffic, and are NOT one man operations. If you pay per head, you can drive a so much traffic as you want, to anywhere in the world. Yet, congestion will lose you leads. To some they have so much it does not matter.

It’s tricky driving truly organically based traffic. It’s not a one time deal. It’s not common either. I have had friends build and host with big agencies, for 6-12 people a day, or less, and they see no problem paying for that. I have realized, many “professionals” in this business are professional by collecting fees, not by expertise. If the so called “experts” are guessing, assumikng, and blowing a lot of hot-air filled pride bs, where does the average joe stand?

This is why 90% of the web traffic, is ruled by 10% of the web oresences out there. It’s also why that other 90% of the web volume, built by 90% of the web “experts”, is just a bunch of junk, an illusion people believe because they see the web on their own screen, but don’t realize it’s as big a secret to the rest of the world, as if it was buried in their own backyard.

It’s a 1 in 10 shot, you will ever be dealing with a true expert, regardless also, of their fee. The place is inundated with dodo birds who actually think they know what they are doing. It’s accidental.

I didn’t know that hosting could be so effortless and consistant. It’s so much less stress NOT having to argue all the time with my hosting company and I’m SO HAPPY I made the decision to cancel. It wasn’t easy, but sometimes you don’t know what you’re missing until you walk away.

If you’re considering Fatcow, do yourself a HUGE favor and avoid them at all cost. Hostgator is slightly more expensive, but well worth it in my opinion.

Let us also be fair to the others on your shared hosting server and I would strongly suggest you use a file hosting if you need Unlimited space for storing and sharing other work files.