Drupal on HostGator

I have successfully gotten Drupal up an running on HostGator.com. I was very skeptical going into this but it is looking good so far. I have been most pleased with the response from tech support. Here are some of the issues I encountered:

* smtp not working - update DNS MX settings to route to my MX host. HostGator expects that you are using them for email.

* clean urls not working - I added an .htaccess file and it fixed the problem

* domain alias not working - hostgator has some safety measures if you are not using them as the registrar. The support agent added GoDaddy to the list of allowed DNS and it worked fine.

I'll keep you posted but it looks good so far. This is a night & day better experience over ipower.com. I'll post the whole ordeal on my blog.