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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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Thumbnail of user davidh6032
Illinois
1 review
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October 28th, 2021
Verified purchase

HostGator seemed a good choice to switch from WP.com to WP.org. I already own a domain name and the transition was supposed to go smoothly.
Update: After a conversation with another technician, my problem was resolved. The followup has been very good.

Service

Date of experience: September 28, 2021

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Hey David,

We don't want you to be confused. Let us help! We have asked an Escalations Manager to reach out and assist.

DJ
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GB
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January 8th, 2024
Verified purchase

I think HostGator doesn't have the right be emailing anyone on my emails I created here. All emalis from hostgator about domain payments should come to me since I am the owner. The pop up message as I log in since the new update is so annoying please remove it.

Date of experience: January 8, 2024

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GB
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September 10th, 2022
Verified purchase

Dear Quality team,
Overall we are satisfied with the services only issues is some time server response time is long if you could work on that specially for emails side as we usually encounter issues from emails sending side. Rest is good.

Service

Date of experience: September 10, 2022

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Hey Muhammad,

Thank you for your feedback!

DJ
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North Carolina
1 review
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September 3rd, 2021
Verified purchase

The regular price was similar to my current provider and included SSL (what i feel is essential to running a website). While they often brag about their customer service, it has not been my experience that their customer service is anything special, while I have been impressed with the care i have received so far.

Date of experience: September 3, 2021

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Hey Geoffrey,

Thank you for an awesome review!

DJ
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California
1 review
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January 14th, 2024
Verified purchase

It's been over a month. I've been on the phone for over 15 hours now! And I've called over 12 times! Still no update!. And still no help with my transfer in. It seems like the overseas support has gone down because they don't help at all!

Date of experience: January 7, 2024

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Georgia
1 review
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January 13th, 2024
Verified purchase

I originally chose Hostgator because it seemed like a good option to build and host my website. Now I have had so many issues with my hosting plan and talking to the support team to resolve my problems that I am now shopping for another hosting provider.

Date of experience: January 6, 2024

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Israel
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December 1st, 2022
Verified purchase

Hi, I'm a web developer specializing in the internet field, I received support from you in transferring a website to HTTPS and I just enjoyed the kind, patient, smiling and good service,
As a seasoned developer I can say that one of the most important things in hosting services is support. Is there support? Good storage service! Nothing? Don't get close
I really enjoyed (and especially) your representative (whose name I don't even know) I would like you to know who I spoke to why he is simply excellent!
Have a good day
Glory

Date of experience: December 1, 2022

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HI Glory,

Thank you for your kind review!

DJ
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Canada
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April 5th, 2024
Verified purchase

I always get great customer service when I call. The reason I am giving a 3 star rating is because I shouldn't have to call every three months to get someone to renew my certificates so that my website works--this should happen automatically. This is an issue that needs to be fixed.

I always get great customer service when I call without a long wait on hold.

Reason I chose this business:

It came recommended as a quality low cost alternative to other, more expensive, hosting services.

Service

Date of experience: March 26, 2024

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Finland
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January 29th, 2024
Verified purchase

CS does not understand the problems at hand, you get to explain yourself 5 times and even that might not be enough, one person says the other thing and other person says something different, and both of them are wrong and not knowing what the other one has said... You should really read your FB wall and take from that..

Date of experience: January 22, 2024

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California
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April 9th, 2023

Sold a web site design for our account that was to contain ability to store files on it. Condition of sale for a lot of money to us. Now that the site is built we get multiple answers as to why we cannot do this. This company oversells there product.

Tip for consumers:
Get what they promise in writing. The story changes minute by minute

Products used:
Web site design and support

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Date of experience: March 10, 2023

Thumbnail of user michelleb4903
New York
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March 24th, 2024
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I chose hostgator for its simplicity and already integrated website builders, now they are not available. I bought the business suite so i could have a store, ever since the upgrade i can no longer use the integrated website builder and i have to pay more to have the store that i already paid for.

Date of experience: March 14, 2024

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Colombia
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April 8th, 2022
Verified purchase

I started using HostGator a few days ago. It has been well recommended but although the support team has been really nice, sometimes when I ask for help, I end up with a link for me to investigate and try to understand how to solve my question. For example, I was interested in knowing how to check my emails from my cell phone, and they sent me some links on how to do it, and I started, but I don't know if the info isn't updated or it's just that is something new for me and I just couldn't do it.
I've had a similar question with other platforms, where they provide help, especially when it's someone who is new to the subject, and they either send step-by-step tutorials or stay to help you along the way, checking that your problem is solved. The rest of the experience has been great.

Reason I chose this business:

Someone recommended it to me

Service

Date of experience: April 8, 2022

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Hey Stephen,

Thank you for such an awesome review! We truly appreciate it!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user judiths1530
Australia
1 review
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March 15th, 2024
Verified purchase

My issue putting a paid SSL on my client's domain has been terrible and still not fixed. Between your chat support and your tech team, there is no communication. This has been the most terrible experience and I think issue has been caused by your migration last December.

Date of experience: March 5, 2024

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Nevada
1 review
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May 19th, 2022
Verified purchase

I did not appreciate the email which included: "If you do not agree, you can choose to discontinue using the products and services, and close your cPanel account." If I thought HostGator would make changes and only give me the option of "accept it" or "close it", I surely would have taken my business elsewhere. Now is not the time for me to make changes. As to the link offered for a summary of the changes --- it made little sense as far an explanation for what you are doing.

Date of experience: April 19, 2022

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New York
1 review
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July 26th, 2022

So I've had hostgator for about 2 years and had no problems but then my business name changed and I've had all these problems and nothing working. Ive needed help every day since and no one fixes the problem. The answers I get are it will take 2-4 hrs and the site will work and its been over a week and still the same problem.

Date of experience: June 24, 2022

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Hey April,

We want to get you the help you deserve and get this problem resolved once and for all. We have sent you a private message so we can better assist.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user jeffreyb2372
California
1 review
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February 23rd, 2024
Verified purchase

For the third day in a row, I am unable to access my email cpanel. I have "chatted" with your tech support repeatedly, tried different browsers, two different computers, all without success. I hate what you have done to the site. I used to be able to access the stuff I needed and not I cannot. So I get to spend some time today looking for a new hosting company.

Date of experience: February 16, 2024

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Wisconsin
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April 16th, 2024
Verified purchase

New UI and design is poor. Finding billing, getting to email addresses, etc. is all over the place. It's targeted at adding services, not managing existing. Old UI would give an option to be directed to CPanel right off the bat. Also when I attempted to enable MFA it repeatedly gave me incorrect codes that never worked and kept locking out the account. Had to remove it via the security questions just to able to get into my account. Would like to enable that but can't risk getting locked out of all of my domains again. Now it's forcing MFA confirmation every time I login to a single email account which is unsecure. Also lists a domain I do not own nor have ever owned as the primary account.

Date of experience: April 6, 2024

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Egypt
1 review
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November 11th, 2020

Hello,

Yes my sites is live, I just didn't get my salary to pay it due date and I've asked the live support before 1 day due date about grace time to let me allow pay and keep my work online. And he told me that I've 10 days to pay within as a grace time.

Thanks. For any update eMail me please..

Date of experience: November 11, 2020

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Hi Royal,

Thanks for the great review. It's our pleasure to be able to be flexible from time to time with payments. Thanks for being here with us.

Erinn
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user roryk32
Massachusetts
1 review
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April 10th, 2024
Verified purchase

Still have not received the refund for the Site Lock you all cancelled with them that I am paying for. Still have the prior issue on my site. Customer service is atrocious and I have actively been recommending GoDaddy to the ten people this month I've helped with sites rather than you as I previously have.

Date of experience: March 31, 2024

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Florida
1 review
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January 16th, 2024
Verified purchase

I originally chose host gator because of the unlimited subdomains, which allows me to help small companies and nonprofit afford to have a web presence. Since the change to the new plans, I have had nothing but problems.

Date of experience: January 9, 2024

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Virginia
1 review
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February 24th, 2024
Verified purchase

Account compromised and I am unable to manage my domains and email. Very poor customer service. You should think about a us based system. I am still not up and running 100% and if I would have listened to your two customer service reps I would have never been able to operate my business. Zero stars.

Date of experience: February 17, 2024

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Massachusetts
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April 2nd, 2024
Verified purchase

The recent changes to your website and phone customer service are pretty bad. I used to be able to call 24/7 for assistiance and always had great help from your reps. One of the main reasons I chose Host Gator in the first place. Now everytime I log into my account on the website I see some offer that is trying to get more money from me that I have to decline and click through before I can access my site info. I need to maintain my websites not be bombarded with offers from you like that. And charging me for services prior to the renewal date is also awful. What happened. I used to love hostgator. Also I recently had to pay for site privacy when I already had paid for site privacy and that matter was never resolved. But I had to pay for it again to get my personal information off the internet and didn't have a good experience the last time I called for support so I just paid it again to resolve the issue. Pretty disappointed.

Date of experience: March 23, 2024

Thumbnail of user todds1194
North Carolina
1 review
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March 30th, 2024
Verified purchase

When I first started with hostgator, the ability to add "A" records and it almost immediately allowed the user to connect to the device using the hostname on the web was incredible, something happened, it has gotten slower but faster than most.

Date of experience: March 20, 2024

Thumbnail of user coreyp251
Wisconsin
1 review
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February 23rd, 2024
Verified purchase

Poor customer service. I was told that it would take 2-5 business days for my account to be set up and running, instead it was a month, and I had to make over 20 calls, and send over 10 emails! It cost me a whole month of business traffic, I had no access to my email or website!

Date of experience: February 16, 2024

Thumbnail of user moinm2
Sri Lanka
3 reviews
5 helpful votes
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October 2nd, 2016

Server up time was great but I am not happy with their security side, they don't apply security patches to shared cpanel servers that makes your website vulnerable to cyber attacks, they keep increasing prices and trying to up sell their products, technical support was unacceptable, I prefer iweb4 hosting

Date of experience: September 30, 2016

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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.

Business History

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!

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