{"id":8797,"date":"2014-10-22T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T05:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/?p=8797"},"modified":"2016-05-03T10:31:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T15:31:40","slug":"happy-12th-birthday-snappy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/happy-12th-birthday-snappy\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 12th Birthday, Snappy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems like only yesterday that our beloved blue gator was crawling around the swamp, still in diapers. Oh, how time flies! <\/p>\n

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Twelve years ago today, the HostGator.com domain was registered and thus Snappy was born. We like to mark this occasion each year with a something special. <\/p>\n

This year we\u2019re extremely happy to officially announce our new Texas datacenter! All new hosting accounts are now being provisioned right here in Houston, Texas, at CyrusOne! <\/p>\n

CyrusOne features redundant power and cooling, along with state-of-the-art security and virtually everything one could ask for in a new datacenter. We’re very proud to be back home in Texas with CyrusOne!<\/p>\n

Not only are we in a brand new data center, but Snappy is offering special discounts in celebration of his birthday! All new hosting plans with 6-month billing cycles are 65% off. All new hosting plans with billing cycles of other than 6-months are 45% off.<\/p>\n

There’s even more great birthday news! Existing customers are welcome to take advantage of these discounts as well, please see this FAQ<\/a> for full information.<\/p>\n

To sign up, simply visit http:\/\/www.hostgator.com<\/a>! This sale ends at 11:59p CST tonight (Wednesday, October 22, 2014).<\/p>\n

Happy birthday, Snappy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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