HostGator has a rating of 2.9 stars from 13,418 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about HostGator most frequently mention domain name, new interface, and credit card problems. HostGator ranks 2nd among Web Hosting sites.
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This has been an absolute nightmare going through hostgator. Service sucks, I've spent more time on hold and waiting for emails.
Date of experience: June 6, 2023
Very professional
Great service
Will continue doing business with HostGator for many years. Thank you
Date of experience: April 29, 2022
DNS Servers are wrong or something is that Hostgator cannot fix. I am looking elsewhere for a hosting provider
Date of experience: April 17, 2022
Excellent service, very efficient indeed. I will always recommend it to any of my friends or business partners.
Excellent and very helpful
I was introduced by a colleague who has been using Hostgator for along.
Date of experience: April 6, 2022
Hey Patrick,
Thank you for your awesome review!
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator
Had to contact customer services a number of times as experienced unexpected domain transfer issues. Eventually sorted.
Lengthy
Good price for hosting package
Date of experience: December 6, 2022
HI Michael,
Thank you for your feedback!
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator
I cancelled my hosting contract with Marilyn in December of 2020 and host gator has continued to bill me.
* HostGator attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: August 12, 2021
Hey Oyin,
We would love to make sure the billing is straightened out for you. We have asked an Escalations Manager to look into this for you.
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator
Maybe, don't exists human support.
How I desired find information is very "hard" the process, so its difficult
Cost, maybe exist promotion!..
Date of experience: April 30, 2022
Hey Ramiro,
We exist that is for sure. Give us a call and we will be happy to help!
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator
Seems, internal communication and less than accurate information being communicated to me resulted in down time for my website.
Eventually got website back up. Wasn't very happy with how they let it go down in the first place. Having to help fix what I did' t break.
High rating from some tech forums
Date of experience: April 30, 2022
Hey Archie,
Thank you for your feedback. We appreciate it.
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator
It was prompt, courteous and professional. Very different from the experience we had with a previous hosting service.
I found it on the internet
Date of experience: April 30, 2022
Hey James,
We are so glad we could be a better fit. Thank you fo ryour review!
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator
Straight forward, no hidden costs or charges. Everything was explained well so I felt confident with the service.
Recommended by a YouTuber I trust.
Date of experience: April 16, 2022
Hi Emma,
Thank you for the awesome feedback!
Marissa
Customer Advocate at HostGator
I've had a few domain setup issues, but customer support has resolved them quickly and kindly. Very pleased thus far!
See above
Date of experience: January 11, 2023
HI Leah,
Thank you for your review!
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator
Stuck with incoming emails and more then 6 times tried to get help from support, but not at all any professional or seriousness in customer care.
Date of experience: December 8, 2022
Hey Shahrukh,
Give us a shout at reputation@newfold.com and we will be able to assist.
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator
Staff seem to struggle with answers.
They take too long for something that should be simple.
Have numerous occasions when live chat was down.
Price.
Ease of use.
Date of experience: May 1, 2022
Hey Gerard,
Try giving our phone support a call. We will be happy to help!
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator
Slowest response time on support chat I have ever had. Not impressed with my first interactions at all.
Date of experience: March 4, 2022
Hey Nicholas,
That is not okay at all. We want to make sure we give the best support at all times. We have asked an Escalations Manager to reach out and assist.
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator
Good customer service very helpful always available easy to get a hold of no bots thank God! Real people at the other end.
Date of experience: June 16, 2022
Hey Charlie,
Thank you for the lovely review!
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator
Price was right and I've used this before but I see now that chat support is back which helps a lot.
Date of experience: March 24, 2022
Hey Anna,
Thank you for your review!
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator
I received fast, courteous service. My issues were immediately taken care of by HostGator's professional staff.
My experience was handled in a courteous and professional manner.
Value, reliability and solutions offered.
Date of experience: May 2, 2022
Hey Shayne,
That is so good to hear. Thank you for your review.
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator
Smooth transfer to you, the problem that I had was sorted out quickly and efficiently by your assistant
Excellent
Transferred from other provider
Date of experience: May 2, 2022
Hey Steven,
Thank you for your review!
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator
Cheapest, i could find and currently unemployed living in a homeless shelter, thought i'd learn to build websites again after my brain injury
Date of experience: April 18, 2022
Hey David,
We are sorry to hear about your circumstances but we are very happy you chose us to begin this journey again please don’t hesitate to call in if there is anything we can help with.
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator
Pathetic Customer Services. Scammers. Stay Away. Suspended My Site For No Reason And Still Charged Money. Worst Thieves.
Date of experience: March 23, 2024
Many years ago, on price, but customer service is horrible and the "QuickInstall" One Click installs don't work. Very frustrated. Tried to install MOODLE and CLAROLINE multiple times, never worked.
Date of experience: November 18, 2021
Hey James,
We have moved away from Quick Install and now use Softaculus. Let us help. We have asked an Escalations Manager to reach out and assist.
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator
I have not been able to connect to cPanel since you updated your website. I have asked for help several times and the issue is still not resolved.
Date of experience: February 16, 2024
This company displays an alarming lack of concern for its customers. I've reached out to their support team seven times in the past four days, and the experience has been nothing short of frustrating. What's even more infuriating is that they made a fraudulent charge of $700 on my son's credit card to renew my hosting for three years, despite him only using my account for a $15 domain purchase. This has left my son dealing with a $700 discrepancy in his account, and HostGator has shown no willingness to refund the money, even though our billing isn't due until next month.
To make matters worse, as we make our exit from this company to migrate to A2 Hosting, we encountered yet another roadblock. We need to create a backup of our cPanel to facilitate the move, and we have unlimited data with only 15GB of data used for our sites. However, we discovered an absurd limitation that restricts us from creating a backup over 10GB, which is both baffling and frustrating. This limitation requires us to submit a support ticket, and we were informed that it would take 24 hours to resolve. It has now been over three days, and each time we reach out to support, they keep extending the timeline by another 24 hours.
Incredibly, when we contacted them today, they claimed that the ticket had only been created this morning. This situation has effectively locked us out of creating a backup, seemingly as a tactic to prevent us from leaving. It's clear that this company's practices are questionable at best.
I strongly encourage anyone considering HostGator to do their own research and read genuine reviews on platforms like Reddit, where you'll find real, unfiltered accounts of users' experiences, rather than relying on potentially biased or fake positive reviews.
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Web Hosting, Domains
Date of experience: September 24, 2023
Still PHP 7.4 no way to update
Very slow site
Outgoing email truobles because the servers are blacklisted
the customer service staff is courteous and helpful but problems are still on
It was suggested
Date of experience: March 22, 2024
Terrorist said they use it and no one visits their sites so I recommended it to a AI program to appauld zebra muscles.
Date of experience: March 22, 2024
HostGator (866-96-GATOR) is a leading provider of web hosting, VPS and dedicated servers. Discover why over 9,000,000 websites trust us for their hosting needs.
2002 - HostGator was founded by Brent Oxley, who was then a student at Florida Atlantic University.
2006 - HostGator had passed the 200,000 mark in registered domains, the company moved from the original office in Boca Raton, Florida to a new 20,000 square foot building in Houston, Texas and the company opened its first international office in Canada.
2008 - HostGator prepared for competition companies touting "unlimited" hosting services. Founder Brent Oxley was adamant about being able to back up an "unlimited" option prior to offering service named as such and increased staffing.
2010 - HostGator added an office in Austin, Texas.
2011 - HostGator started operations in India with a its office in Nashik, Maharashtra and a data center.
2012 - HostGator was acquired by Endurance International Group (EIG)
2021 - HostGator (All of EIG) was acquired by Clearlake Capitol Group and merged with Web.com and it's brands to become a part of Newfold Digtal.
The future - As we continue to grow as a company we are offering even more amazing services and world class customer support to meet all our needs, big and small. We look forward to a long and fruitful partnership with you!
Hey Wesley,
That is awesome. Thank you for your review!
DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator