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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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  • Returns
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Maryland
1 review
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April 14th, 2022
Verified purchase

I was the victim of a fraudulent transaction last year and I am still feeling the harsh repercussions of it. My card registered for automatic payment with HostGator was replaced. I tried to cover everything the card had on auto payment, however I had not remembered my HostGator account. I just found out everything is gone. It was deleted on 2/28/2022. I found this out through customer service yesterday. I never received 1 notification of failure of payment by email or mail. I would like to think there are systems in place when something like this transpires. The customer service rep worked with me yesterday to try to restore my website and "escalated" the issue. I was told it would be back up within 24 hours and I would receive email communication. I have not received anything and the website is still down. Someone, please contact me on this issue. Christina Magdaleno *******936 and email is *******@gmail.com

Date of experience: March 15, 2022

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Christina,

We would just love to get this taken care of for you. We have asked an Escalations Manager to reach out and assist!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

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Minnesota
1 review
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January 15th, 2024
Verified purchase

Initially, a Dave Ramsey ad. Then, I love it over GoDaddy (my clients' previous host) and even Bluehost (I know they are in the same company as HostGator). I prefer the previous UX and layout in the portal. Not a fan of the new changes but that's life.

Date of experience: January 15, 2024

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Michigan
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August 10th, 2024
Verified purchase

Mostly good. Domain transfer was more challenging than expected, and I could not do several steps.

Reason I chose this business:

It was cheaper with a decent reputation.

Date of experience: July 31, 2024

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Washington
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April 15th, 2024
Verified purchase

Most prominent, but it's so confusing with some features, i need to be able to change email passwords faster and then they get disconnected on my computer, also editing wordpress files is tricky

Date of experience: April 5, 2024

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Uganda
1 review
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August 10th, 2024
Verified purchase

Good and good and good and good and good and good and good good

Good

Reason I chose this business:

I wanted hosting and domain to be with one vendor

Service

Date of experience: July 31, 2024

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Australia
1 review
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October 22nd, 2022
Verified purchase

I have been a Hostgator customer for over Ten years now, and I say VERY sincerely, that I could not speak more highly of the after sales support and service I have received from Hostgator. The service and enthusiasm for my business shown by these people as truly amazing. I regard Hostgator as "the standard all others should try to compete with".

Date of experience: October 22, 2022

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Hey Les,

Thank you for your great review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

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Mexico
1 review
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January 22nd, 2024
Verified purchase

The dashboard has been confusing, the data given by support is very fragmented, we lost Sitelock service, eventhough we are going to have a refund, which we really appreciate, this provoqued our client to get pretty annoyed. Keep the good work guys have a great 2024

Date of experience: January 15, 2024

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Texas
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November 2nd, 2022
Verified purchase

I received a "critical error" notice and couldn't access my site at all today. I called and spoke to Paul in the Phillipines. (we were blessed with a good connection!) His English was excellent. He spoke at a pace that was easy to understand and he was so polite, kind and thoughtful! As I suspected, the problem was complicated so it took him awhile to resolve the issue, but he kept checking in with me to let me know what was going on to ask me to continue holding. When Paul explained all that he had done, I can tell you that he went above and beyond to resolve my problem. My site came right up perfectly with NO glitches. I am so grateful for Paul's help, and the fact that he handled everything in 1 call! Thank you, Paul! Thank you, Hostgator for wisely hiring Paul! (I hope you give him a big raise!)

Date of experience: November 2, 2022

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Hey Heather,

Thank you for your review on Paul!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user anthonyr1032
Indiana
1 review
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August 6th, 2021
Verified purchase

I've used in the past. What I don't like is that the Cpanel password is different from my main hostgator account and I don't really know what it is. It may be the ID is different, but that isn't clearly stated anywhere that I remember seeing.

Date of experience: August 6, 2021

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Hey Anthony,

The reason we have two log ins is because some people have developers that work on the back end but do not need access to their billing information. It's a safety measure we put in place.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

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Florida
1 review
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November 7th, 2023

I would not recommend a company that even after you remove the website from their hosting that they keep billing for a website that does not even exist there. I ofcourse called them to cancel and they said I did not. But yet, the website is not hosted there. Go to Siteground it is muuuuuch cheaper and you won't get ripped off like I did for 4 months getting billed for a website that was no longer hosted there.

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Date of experience: October 8, 2023

Thumbnail of user karenv1067
Illinois
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April 30th, 2022
Verified purchase

I've had a Hostgator Baby Hosting package for several years. Originally I designated one of the domains I owned as my primary domain, but recently I let that domain expire. So I called Hostgator and requested that they change my primary domain to a domain that I still owned. They carried out my request, but a few days later when I tried bringing up my remaining domains on the Internet, they weren't showing up properly. I called Hostgator back and found out that my request had actually not been necessary (due to a misunderstanding on my part as to how primary domain setups work), and that's why things didn't turn out right. The Hostgator techs used a cPanel backup to get everything back to normal and in the end it all turned out fine. Thanks, Hostgator.

It was all fine. Everyone I spoke and communicated with was professional, helpful, and worked together as a team until my issue was resolved.

Reason I chose this business:

Back when I chose HostGator I was new to website building and had heard of HostGator as one of the major website hosting places. I'm happy with my account and experience with Hostgator to this point.

Service

Date of experience: April 30, 2022

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Hey Karen,

Thank you for your awesome review! We are so glad we could help.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user mauriciom126
Ireland
1 review
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January 9th, 2024
Verified purchase

Hi there, i bought one domain and website hosting, i have one shopify store oline and i would like to connect my domain there but i have many problem about it. First of all i got problem in SSL and i've already contacted support and they haven't been able to resolve it.
I would like to resolve that problem because I need to connect my domain in that store.

Thanks in advance.

Date of experience: January 2, 2024

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New York
1 review
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October 17th, 2021
Verified purchase

I encouraged a client to sign up with Host Gator (I'm usually a GoDaddy fan... this was my first time referring someone to Host Gator). As soon as I got into the WordPress dashboard, I updated the WordPress version and plug-ins and got a fatal error. I'm back on the phone with tech support instead of doing real work.

* HostGator attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond

Date of experience: September 17, 2021

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DJ S. – HostGator Rep

Hey Deena,

We would be more than happy to get this taken care of so you can get back to doing what you need to do. We have asked an Escalations Manager to reach out and assist.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user davidr7393
Texas
1 review
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July 18th, 2024
Verified purchase

Front line service not good. Had to go to corporate Newfold to get the job done. Newfold did great work, Host Gator, not so much.

front line service not good. had to go to corporate Newfold to get the job done. Newfold did great work, Host Gator, not so much.

Reason I chose this business:

Long time customer

Service

Date of experience: July 8, 2024

Thumbnail of user lynettem203
Kenya
1 review
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January 18th, 2023
Verified purchase

I dialed tech support the other day. Anjali was my assistant. I had an issue with my SSL. Anjali was swift to assist and sort out my issue in no time. They went further and offered me invaluable advice on what I could do to permanently sort the issue and were more than helpful to offer workable options to my SSL problems. I was more than happy to have dealt with Anjali at Tech Support.

Date of experience: January 18, 2023

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Kentucky
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April 12th, 2024
Verified purchase

You make it so difficult to cancel services and remove forms of payment that then customers get over charged recurring fees because they can't cancel. Short term thinking

Date of experience: April 2, 2024

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Ireland
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April 15th, 2024
Verified purchase

YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE YOUR LANDING PAGE (AFTER USERS LOG IN) MISLEAD YOUR CLIENTS INTO SUSPECTING THAT THEIR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS NOT PROTECTED WHEN IN FACT IT IS AFTER THEY HAVE PREVIOUSLY SIGNED UP FOR WHOIS PROTECTION. YOU ARE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO BUY SOMETHING THEY ALREADY HAVE USING THE TACTIC OF FEAR. $#*! YOU FOR DOING THAT. IT IS BAD PRACTICE AND UNETHICAL FROM A BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE. THAT'S A $#*!TY WAY OF RUNNING AN OPERATION. WHEN MY CONTRACT IS OVER, I AM SWITCHING TO ANOTHER PROVIDER JUST BECAUSE OF THIS.

Date of experience: April 5, 2024

Thumbnail of user scottr2505
Connecticut
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March 17th, 2024
Verified purchase

I am a web developer, I developed not only my own site but also help my customers develop their sites and familiarize them with cpanel and wordpress. Last month a customer of mine had her site lose it's SSL cert, I called support, I chatted with support. I got through 4 technicians before my issue was resolved. Now I go onto my site, which nothing has changed I haven't signed into it for over a month and I notice that my SSL is not active, I attempt to activate it and it does not go through. I again call support, I get a tehnician and I get is 'well the IP address changed'. Well it's on you because I haven't changed anything so please fix it. 'We can't', well I know for a fact you can, because I just went through this same issue not even 2 weeks ago. So now I have to contact someone in support to help me configure the SSL for my site.

Date of experience: March 7, 2024

Thumbnail of user williamh5749
California
1 review
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August 9th, 2024
Verified purchase

Tech support was helpful with a small issue that I had. Blah blah blah blah

Reason I chose this business:

Recommended by sonic.net

Service

Date of experience: July 30, 2024

Thumbnail of user henryo285
GB
1 review
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January 21st, 2024
Verified purchase

Hostgator scammed me of 35 pounds after i purchased a domain that was on error and your customer service told me that it has been cancelled. I was told to start expecting my refund in 24 hours after the 24 hours i didnt receive any thing and when i requested to know why after several attempts, several days, i was told that i cant get a refund for something i didnt buy? Till date after many chats with you guys you ended up taking the money. Hostgator are the worst. Even before the domain will work or propergate, you have to chat with them to activate ssl and others. Their service is a crap.

Date of experience: January 14, 2024

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Nigeria
1 review
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July 11th, 2024
Verified purchase

I'm impressed and satisfied with your service, your customer service line i.e chat is amazing. Kudos to you.

All issues were resolved as soon as possible.

Reason I chose this business:

Its service is affordable and seamless

Service

Date of experience: July 1, 2024

Thumbnail of user kathyk1278
Texas
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July 30th, 2024
Verified purchase

They explained it in a way so I understand what I need to do from now on.

They explained not only what I needed to do to update users and accounts, how to delete no longer used domains, etc but why so I will know what to do from now on.

Reason I chose this business:

Godaddy was breaking the bank, never any help with anything.

Service

Date of experience: July 20, 2024

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Cameroon
1 review
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May 2nd, 2022
Verified purchase

Iam always satisfied since i have started hosting my sites in hostagtor the online web advisory chat is one of the best service that can be among all hoster iam gratefully pleased to be HostGator client, otherwiy i would like to have some advantages in terms of security tips

One of the most professional

Reason I chose this business:

I needed a professional hoster

Service

Date of experience: May 2, 2022

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Hey Elokam,

That is great! Thank you for your review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

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New Jersey
1 review
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April 12th, 2024
Verified purchase

THIS IS THE WORSE SERVICE EVER. BAD TECH SUPPORT. THE COMPANY STRAIGHT-UP LIES TO YOU AS YOU SET THE ACCOUNT. THEN, WHEN YOU MAKE CHANGES, SUPPORT STAFF DO NOT HELP AND CREATE TICKETS THAT NEVER GET A RESOLUTION. THINK ABOUT IT BEFORE GOING SOMEWHERE ELSE.

Date of experience: April 2, 2024

Thumbnail of user michaelb11987
North Carolina
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March 18th, 2024
Verified purchase

Constantly issues with unauthorized changes being made to our DNS, yoast SEO premium which we paid for is not working properly and no one can give us an answer. Wish I had gone to a different copany because my concerns and case are being swept under the rug.

Date of experience: March 8, 2024

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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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I am the Manager of Brand Reputation for HostGator (Newfold Digital) It's my job to ensure our customers are happy! What a great role huh? You'll be hearing from my team in response to your reviews, Marissa & DJ will take great care of you!

HostGator is a leading provider of web hosting and domain name services. Whether you’re a small business and are looking to improve your online presence, or you’re an individual looking for a hobby or portfolio website, we’ve got you covered. With our drag-and-drop website builder, and our application integrations with WordPress, Drupal and Magento, we have the website solution for you. Our award-winning, 24/7/365 support and seamless upgrades will ensure you never get stuck. Try HostGator today! https://www.hostgator.com/web-hosting

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