前卫视点

晚间闲来无事，就去“折腾”了一下Hostgator的那个1美分体验计划，也就是花8分钱RMB（相当于免费了）让你试用Hostgator一个月的主机。功能上和Hostgator的baby plan别无二样：5G空间、75G月流量、无限域名、无限FTP、无限MYSQL；支持PHP、CGI、Perl、SSI；CPanel面板。

我没有VISA等国际信用卡，不过好在Hostgator支持不经验证的paypal帐户来付款，paypal上我还有几十块美金的，汗。

不过也正因如此，Hostgator经常对于那些未经验证的paypal帐户，要求电话认证，今晚纯属赌运气了。下单，按照步骤仔细填写个人真实资料，paypal支付完毕（0.01USD），最后就是等EMAIL。



第一封

2006/7/20, sales@hostgator.com :

Please allow up to 20 minutes for your account to be setup. You will receive an email notification at such time along with your account information. If you fail to receive this email please check your spam / junk email folder. If you still don't have it please contact sales@hostgator.com with another email address we can send to.

让我等20分钟，系统正在建立我的帐号……

第二封

2006/7/20, HostGator Sales :

jianshu.liu@gmail.com,
Your Ticket has been received and a member of our staff will review it and reply accordingly. Listed below are details of this Ticket. Please make sure the Ticket ID remains in the subject at all times.

      Ticket ID: CPN-658173
      Subject: Item #373905 - Notification of Payment Received from Jianshu Liu (jianshu.liu@gmail.com)
      Department: Sales
      Status: Open

还在让我等回复，并请我请一直保留Ticket ID

第三封

2006/7/20, billing@hostgator.com :

Dear jianshu liu,

Notice: Your invoice 373905 has been processed by HostGator.

Status:Manual Payment
Invoice Number:373905
Invoice Amount:$0.01
Date Paid:2006/07/20
Amount Left:$0.00
Trans ID:37L33749VP457290Y
Date: 2006/07/20

通知我invoice已处理，并告诉我可在线查询状态云云。

第四封

2006/7/20, sales@hostgator.com :
Welcome to the hostgator family!

Your Domain:     xxx.info
Your Username:   jianshu
Your Password:  ******
Your sites IP address:74.52.**.***

Your name servers:
ns249.hostgator.com
ns250.hostgator.com

Please read
http://www.hostgator.com/gettingstarted.html for all the information needed to manage your account.

Sincerely,
The Hostgator Team

OK，搞定，被告知用户名、密码、IP、DNS server，顺利登陆，使用正常。

我看了一下EMAIL的时间，从接受我的订单到全部完成，23:23-23:43，整个过程只花了20分钟，不得不佩服老外的工作效率。

接下来我就开始担心会不会收到传说中的第5封EMAIL，因为一旦收到，你的帐号将立即被冻结，要求对你的某些个人信息进行电话认证。如果时间拖得久了还不能完成认证，帐号将被删除，所付款项也予以返还。我可不希望这样，国际长途倒还好说，主要是我的E文实在……

据说这第5封的内容是这样：
主  题: Verification of Account  帐号确认
Hello,
Thank you for your recent purchase with us. In order for us to set this up for you, we will need you to call and verify your account as well as confirm some information. Please do so at your earliest convenience to ensure that your account with us is set up as soon as possible.

1-866-96-GATOR (toll free)
001-561-353-1164 (International)

等了一个小时，没收到，按例如果有第5封的话，跟前面几封的时间应该保持同步。过关了，Lucky！

Hostgator的主机，是我见过从国内访问速度最快的（FTP上传也快，平均能达到20K+，比起IX及bluehost的5K不到我很满足了），价格也是最高的（9.95USD/月）。唯一令我比较担心的是，Hostgator支持成人内容，被国内屏蔽掉的风险可能相对较大。