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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 dianan593
Texas
1 review
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March 30th, 2024
Verified purchase

Not sure what Hostgator did but it has really left customers vulnerable. Very buggy. Can't get SSL Certs to work. Trying to find another way to host websites.

Date of experience: March 20, 2024

Thumbnail of user manuelv134
Texas
1 review
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April 27th, 2022
Verified purchase

Very good helpline services (live). The engineers quickly understood the problem and worked to solve it. They gave me realistic expectations (took some time to be solved)

The team was able to solve complex problems, one related to billing the second with transfer from GoDaddy, and a third to recovering a website from the backup.

Reason I chose this business:

Initially for the price and after a while for the price and for the service

Service

Date of experience: April 27, 2022

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Hey Manuel,

Thank you for your review!

DJ
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Utah
1 review
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March 14th, 2020

Hostgator has friendly and capable chat tech support and affordable service. I will never go anywhere else. They leave me be to do my thing and save my bacon when I'm in trouble.

Date of experience: March 14, 2020

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Hi Becky,

Awe, thanks! We're happy to be of service to you. Thanks for the wonderful review.

Erinn
Customer Advocate at HostGator

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New York
1 review
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June 1st, 2022
Verified purchase

It took me over one hour before tech support said there was an outage in Hostgator. This should be checked first before having me go through what was potentially wrong with our website.

described previously

Reason I chose this business:

Reliability and price.

Service

Date of experience: May 2, 2022

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Hey Ray,

Thank you for your feedback. We will look into this.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

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GB
1 review
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December 30th, 2021
Verified purchase

Chose on recommendation, BUT and its a big but, I registered my domain bought hosting paid over $80 for the services you provide, and now when i type in my website address my site does not open, i get another william Stewart's site in Ontario Canada? I am in Crieff Perthshire whats happening?

Date of experience: November 30, 2021

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Hey Bill,

We would love to look into this for you. We have asked an Escalations Manager to reach out and assist.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

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Missouri
1 review
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September 1st, 2021
Verified purchase
• Updated review

I apologize Host Gator. There was confusion regarding issues that you were not responsible for. Tommy helped me out tremendously. Thank you for your help and patience.

Date of experience: September 1, 2021

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Hey Sylvia,

We are so glad Tommy could help you out! Thank you for your updated review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

I only have domain BUT Ikeep continually getting charged...
September 30th, 2021
Verified purchase
• Previous review

I only have domain BUT Ikeep continually getting charged for hosting. I DO NOT HAVE HOSTING!

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

Date of experience: August 31, 2021

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Hawaii
1 review
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January 22nd, 2024
Verified purchase

Months of constant chat support with no resolution, still taking my money for "hosting" my website when i haven't had access to edit anything via my wordpress since i bought the plan.

Date of experience: January 15, 2024

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Hong Kong
1 review
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April 19th, 2022
Verified purchase

I have encountered some issues with the domain and security cert. The customer support team helped me out patiently and in a very nice manner! Perfect services!

Patient, polite and professional. 5 Stars is a must. Need to give a compliment to the customer services suport.

Reason I chose this business:

Suggested by my website developer

Service

Date of experience: April 19, 2022

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Hey The,

We just love to help! Thank you for your review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

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Saudi Arabia
1 review
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May 19th, 2022
Verified purchase

You stole my money by doubling the payment on my card statement and the support team will just play around not to pay. I'm yet to complain to Trust Pilot with less than one start if there is.

Date of experience: April 19, 2022

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Tennessee
6 reviews
33 helpful votes
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December 8th, 2019

I've used Hostgator for many years on and off. It's been just okay the whole time. I've left them a couple of years ago and opted for other platforms to see what works.

Problem 1: I've experienced a few times where my site could not be accessed. So "downtime".

Problem 2: The worst thing about Hostgator is customer support. They make you jump through SO MANY hoops to chat with someone. It's ridiculous. It should be as easy as filling out a support ticket but it's not. You have to sign in to a separate site from your control panel and account to get to billing. And they ask so many questions and then list a bunch of articles that they expect you to read through before getting help. I only ever need to contact them if I can't find help IN the help articles!

Why make it such a difficult task to get help from an actual person? Sorry but Hostgator has the worst access to support of any site I can think of. I can think of sites that are probably larger that make it far easier to send off an email or fill out a support ticket.

I don't think I will ever use Hostgator again.

Date of experience: December 8, 2019

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Hi TJ,

We're very disappointed to read this review. Our support teams are in fact taught to refer people to help articles, because, you are actually a rarity in that you try the Knowledge Base first. So, thank you for that. We'd like the chance to work with you on your concerns if you'd let us. Please send us an email at reputation@endurance.com and we'll see what we can do to make things right. Thank you so much.

Erinn
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user jalalk11
Florida
1 review
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February 26th, 2024
Verified purchase

It was recommended but i am now realizing it was a mistake. I have been a customer for years and every 6 months i have the same issue and the issue gets fixed temporarily and comes back again. I am paying for every little thing and when i call i get asked to sign up for more things and i do but my core issue never gets resolved. I spent thousands on marketing and when someone types in www.khanfoue.com it shows up as unsecure website. It Hard enough to people to your webpage and they already dont trust you and your website shows up as unsecure website. I have paying 90$ to have a special SSL and i bet if i call about it now i will be asked to pay for some other service and this SSL issue won't be solved. I have lost a lot of money due to this SSL issue and i have calling about this for months and months on and no one seems to understand this SSL issue

Date of experience: February 19, 2024

Thumbnail of user joelc721
California
1 review
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January 17th, 2024
Verified purchase

I have been with this host for many years. Their service continues to degrade. It's impossible to manage domains, addresses, or many services without contacting support.

Date of experience: January 10, 2024

Thumbnail of user donaldg1042
Rhode Island
1 review
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February 27th, 2024
Verified purchase

Have been using Hostgator for many years. I have always had a great experience with the company. Customer service is top notch and you get a lot for your money.

Date of experience: February 27, 2024

Thumbnail of user williamf2532
Australia
1 review
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January 13th, 2024
Verified purchase

Your customer service is amongst the worst I have ever encountered. So much so I am currently looking at alternative providers after 13 years with Hostgator

Date of experience: January 6, 2024

Thumbnail of user genem233
California
1 review
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May 27th, 2022
Verified purchase

Four of my websites FINALLY got live after two weeks of my time and untold hours of my time begging to get them working again. While I am grateful for you finally get them working, someone should have checked the new server long before now and seen they needed to be upgraded to work on the new server.

Never could fix my websites for over two weeks

Reason I chose this business:

Out of desperation I guess.

Service

Date of experience: April 27, 2022

Thumbnail of user daniell1521
Brazil
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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March 4th, 2024
Verified purchase

On my side I just get lies from support, I don't know if they want to give me any answer to get the next in the line, but no one wants to help with the problems that I facing, change from reseller to VPS and just have problems, one of my websites is useless and they claim that the problem is the memory of my VPS and yesterday I've got a chat through email telling me that's not the case, so I'm leaving because hostgator support isn't trusted anymore.

Date of experience: February 23, 2024

Thumbnail of user kwesia12
Ghana
1 review
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March 22nd, 2024
Verified purchase

I didn't. You were chosen before I took office and I am considering moving all 5 domains to another service provider.

I have not been happy with your services,

Date of experience: March 12, 2024

Thumbnail of user monicas1051
Washington
1 review
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April 5th, 2024
Verified purchase

Recommended by a friend many years ago. I have stayed because of the customer service, where I can make a phone call, get a person who speaks clear English, and have answers when I need them.

Date of experience: March 26, 2024

Thumbnail of user marka2426
Australia
1 review
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October 28th, 2022
Verified purchase

After updating my plugins I developed a 'fatal error' and couldn't get into the dashboard to roll back the plugin.
I contacted customer support at Hostgator via the online chat facility and the support person, Jericho, deactivated all the plugins for me allowing me to get into the dashboard, where I was able to run the backup I completed before updating the offending plugin. All was fixed and running again.
Jericho also explained to me how to deactivate the plugins myself through the C-Panel.
I am extremely happy with the service.

Date of experience: October 28, 2022

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Hey Mark,

Thank you for your review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user avenues2
Washington
1 review
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February 11th, 2023
Verified purchase

I've been using Hostgator for over three years to host a Wordpress site on a VPS. When my initial 3 year agreement came to an end, I continued with them because of the consistent, quick and helpful customer chat support.
Since I sell products on my site, I need to keep it PCI compliant, and whenever issues have arisen, Hostgator has been quick and thorough to resolve and PCI issues. And I have no problem maintaining perfect 100 scores LightHouse scores thanks to Hostgator and WP-Rocket and WP-Rocket's CDN.

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Date of experience: February 9, 2023

Thumbnail of user elhiemm
Oklahoma
1 review
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May 15th, 2022
Verified purchase

My sites are down and I am still being charged. I was told to optimize, but cannot due to a PHP limit. I deleted sited thinking this would help and it has not so far been unlocked.

Date of experience: April 15, 2022

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Hey Elhiem,

We will defintiely look into this and get back to you.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user tracim152
Illinois
1 review
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April 19th, 2022
Verified purchase

I've hosted many sites and subdomains with Hostgator. There was never a problem that I didn't get a solution for, quickly! I highly recommend Hostgator. Oh yeah, their prices are the best.

Quality

Date of experience: April 19, 2022

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Hey Traci,

The reviews don't lie! Thank you for your kind review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user traceya31
Illinois
1 review
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April 21st, 2022
Verified purchase

I have had a great experience using HostGator. The customer service reps in the chat room are very very helpful I've used them several times and I've been nothing but completely pleased.

Service
Quality

Date of experience: April 21, 2022

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Hey Tracey,

That is so good to hear. Thank you for your review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user carmele5
Australia
1 review
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March 1st, 2023
Verified purchase

I wanted to cancel my hosting for a site I had not used in years. It was easy and completed in minutes. Info on back up was provided. All great. Thank you

Date of experience: March 1, 2023

Thumbnail of user donw846
Arizona
1 review
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March 30th, 2024
Verified purchase
• Updated review

HostGator needs a VAST improvement in their invoicing process. One would expect that clicking on EXPORTING invoices would download them to a USABLE file! Like csv - but no, the export just PRINTS the files in a tedious repetitive and wholly unusable dump.

Reason I chose this business:

I didn't like I and1 hosting so I researched and chose HG

Service

Date of experience: March 20, 2024

Reputation
March 3rd, 2024
Verified purchase
• Previous review

Date of experience: March 3, 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!

Company Representative

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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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