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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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Thumbnail of user umangm2
India
1 review
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January 31st, 2024
Verified purchase

$#*!ty new iterface. Cant see past and present invoice. Seems like a scam to hide the invoice. Will switch after this term

Date of experience: January 24, 2024

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Brazil
1 review
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January 16th, 2024
Verified purchase

New interface is sucks. Asking me everytime I login to buy a privacy service is beyond belief and lack of respect to your clients

Date of experience: January 9, 2024

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Texas
1 review
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May 16th, 2022
Verified purchase

I pay almost $500 for this service. And the customer services has been outsourced, and every since... this has been the worst experience. I'm so frustrated b/c I have been dealing with issues and calling for support since last year. Unfortunately, it seems that I will have to cancel this service after being with you all for 10 years.

If I can't get customer service when I needed, if the supervisor never calls back, when there is a language bearer with the customer service rep, and I have to call back repeatedly for over 7 months for the same issues that have never been resolved. What's the point of paying for this service.

Most recently, I finally found two people to build to of my websites... and you do not have an option to add a user for those purposes. This is very sensitive information and I don't want to give my password, and access to all of my account information.

I should be able to add a user only to the website building platform, without them having access to my password and my billing information.

Again, your customer service is the ABSOLUTE WORST! I loved it when I could call, get the same person, and they stayed on the phone until the issue was resolved. Now, you all collect your subscription payments and can careless if we have good service, get things resolved.

I use to refer Hostgator. I can honestly say that I absolutely HATE this service now. I'm so angry that I have been calling for this long to no avail.

And the fact that I've called several times in the last couple of weeks and asked for a return call from a supervisor, or for the call to be escalated... they have either voluntarily hung the phone after I've been on hold over an hour, or they say someone will call back, and I never get the call back.

It makes no sense that you do not have a way to add a user to an account. Most people don't know how to personally build their own website. This should be fundamental to this service.

Date of experience: April 16, 2022

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Washington
1 review
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January 15th, 2024
Verified purchase

I need it to stay logged in will am working and the login page one page way batter. 2 pages for login take time.

Date of experience: January 8, 2024

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Bhutan
1 review
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June 27th, 2024
Verified purchase

The customer support was very prompt and knowledgeable. My request was served

Service

Date of experience: June 17, 2024

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Albania
2 reviews
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January 15th, 2024
Verified purchase

I have been a client since many years now...thinking to leave you, because your Employee Demie Dacayana (*******@newfold.com) has stolen money from us recently through fraud and lies

Date of experience: January 8, 2024

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Brazil
1 review
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January 19th, 2024
Verified purchase

I'm having problems with the website and I have to answer a survey to see if Hostagator's service is good, of course not!

Date of experience: January 12, 2024

Thumbnail of user neilc548
Ohio
1 review
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March 4th, 2024
Verified purchase

I needed a webhost. It seemed good but the add ons seem to be too difficult for the customer support to figure out.

Date of experience: February 23, 2024

Thumbnail of user naiknamk2
Pakistan
1 review
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April 18th, 2024
Verified purchase

I have been using hostgator for last many years but now i have decided to switch as the quality of services have dropped substantially.

Date of experience: April 8, 2024

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Massachusetts
1 review
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March 24th, 2024
Verified purchase

Where did the billing section go? I have been unable to access my invoices and thus haven't been able to be reimbursed. The old portal was better.

Date of experience: March 14, 2024

Thumbnail of user frankd1642
Mexico
1 review
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March 21st, 2024
Verified purchase

Mainly support. Years ago HG used to be unexpensive and flexible. But it has become very restrictive and expensive. And the new panel needs work

Date of experience: March 11, 2024

Thumbnail of user raphaelc81
TZ
1 review
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April 7th, 2024
Verified purchase

Admin portal has bad interface and bad experience from my side you be simple not including many pop ups and ads

Date of experience: March 28, 2024

Thumbnail of user yannickm12
New Zealand
1 review
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March 30th, 2024
Verified purchase

Hi there,

Our company could not receive any external email from Monday, March 11th, 10am Ireland time and Tuesday, March 12th, 2pm Ireland time, because Hostgator made some changes to our DNS records without telling us.

This incident stopped our company to receive request for proposals during that time and costing us business.

When we reached out to Hostgator support during this time to help us, the support did not know what was the issue, and did not provide a solution. Fortunetly, we also reached to our email provider, Microsoft, who kindly helped identified the issue, and passed this information for Hostgator to fix.

First, we still did not know why Hostgator changed our DNS records. Second, this incident costed our business money. We have still customers reaching out to us because they did not understand why we did not reply to their emails they sent between Monday, March 11th, 10am Ireland time and Tuesday, March 12th, 2pm Ireland time. We never received their emails.

We need explanation and a way to recover all emails sent by our prospects/customers to us during that time.

Hope you will understand that such incident has a big impact for a startup like us.

Many thanks in advance.

Date of experience: March 20, 2024

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Japan
1 review
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April 17th, 2024
Verified purchase

Used to be good and cheap, now its expensive and the customer service is bad and it's wasting my time with this stupid survey

Date of experience: April 7, 2024

Thumbnail of user peterh2597
Canada
1 review
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June 20th, 2024
Verified purchase

Some challenges with removing the coming soon page, and getting wordpress set up and functioning.

Reason I chose this business:

I have used HostGator in the past

Service

Date of experience: June 10, 2024

Thumbnail of user sangjoonl1
Canada
1 review
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March 9th, 2022
Verified purchase

Your site is fraudulent. Automatic charge without consent on renewal and non-refundable is how you lose clients.

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

Date of experience: February 7, 2022

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hi SangJoon,

I am sorry to hear that this has happened while you were using HostGator. We definitely want to look into this and see what we can do to make it right. Our escalations team will be in touch soon to do just that. Thank you for letting us know!

Marissa
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user alleng276
Florida
1 review
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March 10th, 2022
Verified purchase

Cannot get email working. On with support all weekend and still cannot receive emails. Frustrating beyond belief.

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

Date of experience: February 8, 2022

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Allen,

We would be more than happy to assist you. We have created a case and asked an Escalations Manager to reach out and assist.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user jorgec732
Peru
1 review
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September 11th, 2024
Verified purchase

A pesar de tener algunos problemas, en terminos general el servicio es adecuado.
Todo bien ahora mismo.

fui atendido de manera correcta y oportunamente.

Reason I chose this business:

Fue recomendado por el analista de sistemas.

Service

Date of experience: September 1, 2024

Thumbnail of user jorgoq1
Greece
1 review
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March 31st, 2022
Verified purchase

Your feedback is greatly appreciated, and will be used to better inform and assist future HostGator customers.

Date of experience: March 31, 2022

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Jorgo,

Thank you for your rating!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user nalakaw
AE
1 review
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August 3rd, 2022
Verified purchase

Recommendation from a friend. Its good. Sometimes page opening bit slower. Other than that everything was good.

Date of experience: August 3, 2022

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Nalaka,

Thank your friend for such an awesome recommendation!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator.com

Thumbnail of user kapilj12
India
1 review
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February 25th, 2024
Verified purchase

Because of its quality services, but my faith and trust is shattered, you have reduced my package from unlimited website to limited website

Date of experience: February 18, 2024

Thumbnail of user brianw1703
California
1 review
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December 17th, 2021
Verified purchase

Pricing.

I'm having trouble figuring out how to have my own hand-coded website hosted on my domain.

Date of experience: November 17, 2021

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Brian,

We will get you answers. We have asked an Escalations Manager to reach out and assist.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user davido1518
Washington
1 review
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April 30th, 2022
Verified purchase

HostGator made an error, but took responsibility for the error. I was very impressed with customer service.

CS Agent solved my problem, excellent service.

Reason I chose this business:

Easy to setup, easy to use, reliable.

Service

Date of experience: April 30, 2022

Thumbnail of user erinnh1
Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey David,

Our customer service is awesome. Thank you for your review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user jeromed96
Philippines
1 review
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November 1st, 2021
Verified purchase

Hostgator was really a great hosting site- aside from the features its has great standby support team!

Date of experience: November 1, 2021

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hi Jerome,

We are always happy to hear this. Thank you for being apart of the HostGator community!

Marissa
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user lisad2403
Washington
2 reviews
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April 27th, 2022
Verified purchase
• Updated review

So far so good. Need to more efficiently use my website set up, then I'll be fine. It's just going to take some time.

Date of experience: April 27, 2022

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Lisa,

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

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Reviews
April 10th, 2022
Verified purchase
• Previous review

Reviews. Having a hard time with SSL but hope to figure it out soon.

Date of experience: April 10, 2022

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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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