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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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The propagation process took too long. Others are fine.
Date of experience: February 20, 2024
My daughter did research and read great things about HostGator.
Date of experience: February 20, 2024
No help unless I pay. Will be closing my account soon
Date of experience: February 20, 2024
It brings me facilities, great hosting and with a good price
Date of experience: February 20, 2024
Cannot contact support. No email response. Live chat does not work. Very bad experience.
Date of experience: February 20, 2024
Date of experience: February 20, 2024
Ease of use and customer service... well, when I get someone that knows what they are doing.
Date of experience: February 20, 2024
Never have had any issues with host gator ever in the past 7 years
Date of experience: February 20, 2024
Date of experience: February 20, 2024
Long time customer, great customer service and technical support
Date of experience: February 16, 2024
Its amazing website all my friends and family are using hostgator.
Date of experience: February 19, 2024
I think we need more help about DMARC protocol installation and more information about Hostgator implementing this as a security email action.
Date of experience: January 11, 2024
Poorly, I got a reminder today even though I renewed my subscription yesterday, a disgrace.
Date of experience: February 8, 2024
Internet established & known hosting name and over the years my personal experience.
Date of experience: February 19, 2024
All our websites were hacked and he can't get support to help.
Date of experience: February 19, 2024
Date of experience: February 19, 2024
24 hour (competent) Customer Support / Wordpress web plugin.
Date of experience: February 19, 2024
Date of experience: February 19, 2024
Not user friendly! Email transfers often fail. Somewhat unreliable.
Date of experience: February 19, 2024
Affordable and easy to use. Your tech support was helpful
Date of experience: February 19, 2024
Great services easy to work on it amazing things to create your website
Date of experience: October 11, 2023
Thank you HostGator for all service your provide to us
Date of experience: February 18, 2024
Have used HostGator off and on for many years. Have had great service.
Date of experience: October 19, 2023
Because they were owned by americans when I started many years ago
Date of experience: February 18, 2024
It was what the former webmaster chose. I am just fumbling through
Date of experience: February 18, 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!
