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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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Romania
1 review
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April 10th, 2024
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Only problems i have with you in past months. I will not recommend you anymore to anybody. I am considering moving all my website to another hosting provider wich treats the clients with dedication and involving in problems not squeeze money on the clients who already are paying the bills.

Date of experience: March 31, 2024

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North Carolina
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March 30th, 2024
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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

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California
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February 20th, 2024
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Hostgators performance has been deteriorating over the years. I probably won't renew when my term is up. Asking me how my experience for this session is when i haven't done anything yet other than log in is pretty ridiculous.

Date of experience: February 13, 2024

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Sweden
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January 22nd, 2024
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Three times, I suddenly lost access to my website, domain and emails without notice and after contacted them there were no clear explanation on why this happened. I have contacted Hostgator three times and I always I got a bromis that it will be solved after two days or so but no progress. 767 USD is withdrawn from my account for a service that I never asked for and without my agreement, which they paid back but after effort. They did not respond to emails or some telephones but they do well to chat.

Date of experience: January 15, 2024

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California
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February 24th, 2024
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I don't feel I got the service equal to the value I paid. My websites and hosting are insecure. Even they have been hacked and some installed they domain on my package. Never got comfortable with the way Hostgator displays the billing or help to keep them safe and organized renewal. Never happy!

Date of experience: February 17, 2024

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Georgia
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March 9th, 2023
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I have not worked on my site for many years and recently received an error message that I spent hours trying to resolve. When I decided to contact HostGator customer support I received wonderful assistance. Akshay immediately was positive in his response, said he could help me and did. After asking a few questions he went to work and now everything is working wonderfully. Thank you Akshay and thank you HostGator.

Date of experience: March 9, 2023

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Minnesota
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September 8th, 2024
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Ive been with you guys for over a decade now and you helped me grow my business!
Thank you!

Reason I chose this business:

My tech guy recommnded me

Date of experience: August 29, 2024

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Ghana
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August 7th, 2024
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Always available to resolve your issues whenever you call customer service. The site is also always active. I just love host gator.

It was excellent.

Reason I chose this business:

It was introduced to me by a friend.

Service

Date of experience: July 28, 2024

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Florida
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November 24th, 2023

Technical support was asked to wipe server and reinstall os. No data recovery or backup was needed as the VPS was pretty much new. 60 hours later the server issue is still not handle. I was told 3 times already that it would take 6-7 hours.

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Date of experience: November 17, 2023

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Mexico
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April 3rd, 2024
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My experience with hostgator has been very satisfactory, I have more than 15 years and the service is excellent, especially in the stability of the servers, especially in the last 10 years it has been very stable...

Excellent service

Reason I chose this business:

Stability and service

Service

Date of experience: March 24, 2024

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Australia
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March 15th, 2024
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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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Florida
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March 29th, 2024
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Lately my website is being getting shut down. My card changed or expired. I was unaware. I used to go 3 months without making payments. My website would always be running and then I would go pay when I realized the payment wasn't made now. It's just getting shut down on top of being double the money.

Date of experience: March 19, 2024

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Illinois
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February 14th, 2024
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Pricing and was once know for awesome customer support. Now it is all about up sales and scams; scams as in broken presale agreements, and stating i do not have services which i clearly do have in attempt to scare me into buying services i already have. I am looking for a single host for all my domains and webhosting needs. This dishonest practices will not help me choose HG past my current contract.

Date of experience: February 7, 2024

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Ohio
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March 26th, 2024
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It takes multiple calls to resolve any issue. Reps open my email after I tell them no, and then managers don't call back so I don't know if I have to send breach data to my clients. Your tech supports sends me screenshots of my site saying it is "up for them" and disregard me when I say your DNS and Nameservers are not showing the website available globally. Your tech support seems to give the opinion that because my website is available locally in the Philippines', it is not their problem to resolve the problem of my site being down elsewhere because of bogus DNS records and your managers don't return calls. I have had over 10 calls trying to get my website functional due to missing DNS records, and now the email violation without permission. Avoid using HostGator. Go elsewhere.

Date of experience: March 16, 2024

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Martinique
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January 18th, 2024
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Very nice people but very very poor hosting quality, always email problem or whatever and problem are not solve efficiently, lots of may client are gone, and now I am on the point to look for another hosting company

Date of experience: January 11, 2024

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Colorado
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January 23rd, 2023
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Best web hosting services around and best priced. Also their customer service is 24/7 and they have a amazing team of highly intelligent individuals that work for them. They hear from me quite a bit but they work any issue that I have out I'm a matter of minutes.

I will only use HostGator

Date of experience: January 23, 2023

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Kenya
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March 17th, 2024
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Over 24hours Account Suspension and Account is not Due yet.

I have chatted 7 agents all they keep saying is Admin Admin will look at the issue.

Your Admin support is wanting...At this day and age messing a customer business like this is unacceptable.

Am one soo disappointed customer

Date of experience: March 7, 2024

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California
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January 12th, 2024
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I've been dealing with a virus that I keep getting even though I have SiteLock paid for, for another year. I had to hire an outside source to remove the virus because Hostgator wanted to charge me over 700.00 to take care of the virus. Since I don't have root access we can't kill the PHP server on our own. I've dealt with support and Manage who are unable to take care of it. I'm now in the process of switching to another Hosting company.

Date of experience: January 5, 2024

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North Carolina
3 reviews
12 helpful votes
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May 4th, 2023
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I've found Wordpress kind of hard to work with and you guys haven't been the greatest at helping me to figure it out. Very much hit and miss with your technical people with some of them obviously not being very motivated to help...

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Reason I chose this business:

Referral from YouTube channel on using WP

Service

Date of experience: April 4, 2023

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Argentina
1 review
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May 2nd, 2023
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I thought it was a good choice, but instead of a stable service we received almost a month of websites full of errors, just now it appears that the sites are working fine, but no one mailed me to tell me the fix is already done.

Date of experience: April 2, 2023

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Florida
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June 8th, 2024
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Our website went down due to communication mishaps between HostGator and ourselves. After several phone calls, the issue was resolved and the website was back online.

The customer service representatives were friendly and helpful with resolving the issues.

Service

Date of experience: May 29, 2024

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Pennsylvania
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February 13th, 2024
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The $3+ / month price, plus the option to ditch WordPress and host my files via old-school FTP meant that I could keep my hand-coded site that I've been hosting since 1996. Affordable, simple, and super-customizable. The tech help staff are great, too!

Date of experience: February 13, 2024

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Florida
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March 22nd, 2024
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I choose HostGator because the plans pricing was quite competitive back then, but now the pricing are more expensive, and I have a recurrent issues with the billing that Hostgtor team didn't solve yet on my account. Hostgator Agents cannot found a solution of my getting double billing by the new updated system.

Date of experience: March 12, 2024

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Arizona
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January 9th, 2024
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Looks like things have changed and I don't care for that. You required I made a pin with 6 numbers yet I already had one with 4 numbers so it was confusing and now I have to hunt for stuff after getting assaulted by ads.

Date of experience: January 2, 2024

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Missouri
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January 10th, 2024
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HostGator generally provides a quality service for a reasonable amount of money with good support that is always available. However, they upgraded the user interface recently and there has been nothing but problems recently. I hope once these issues are resolved that the service returns to the reliablity that I have come to expect.

Date of experience: January 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!

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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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