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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 markw4108
Illinois
1 review
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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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Idaho
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March 27th, 2024
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Would not recommend since your holding my info for ransom and probably selling my info. I get calls days in for my website. Since this is for school to learning how to code. Once done, will end this hot garbage.

Date of experience: March 17, 2024

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Canada
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March 21st, 2024
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I just had a bad helpdesk conversation that has left me upset with the way I was treated. I feel the person wasted my time and was not knowledgeable or transparent. I am unsure as to why Vinayak was treating me like this. I have been a client for a number of years, and have not received such poor treatment in all that time.

Date of experience: March 11, 2024

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Germany
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April 14th, 2022
Verified purchase

I recently transferred my website from one host to HostGator. The entire process was smooth and fast. The HostGator service was really quick in responding and very supportive, which gives me trust for potential future issues. I am happy to have HostGator as my new host. Thank you.

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Date of experience: April 14, 2022

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Hey Tara,

Thank you for your kind words.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

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Illinois
1 review
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January 31st, 2023
Verified purchase

Paul was so helpful today. I called at around 3:30 pm EST in the USA, and he was polite, patient, and respectful. He also encouraged me to not feel badly because I couldn't figure out how to connect some things. Paul is a tremendous asset to your company.

Date of experience: January 31, 2023

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Sweden
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August 18th, 2024
Verified purchase

I am well satisfied with the service. Continue with what you are doing

customers service was responsive to solve my issue

Reason I chose this business:

Can't really tell but through my google search i found it

Service

Date of experience: August 8, 2024

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Colorado
1 review
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April 19th, 2022
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Really having a hard time setting things up. Email for example, I set it up according to the instructions. However, I can only send emails. I do not receive any emails. At first they would be marked as undeliverable. No they just seem to go into the ether.

Date of experience: March 20, 2022

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Hi Kirk,

Oh no! We definitely want to get this looked into and do whatever we can to help. Our escalations team will be in touch soon to do just that. Thank you for bringing this to our attention!

Marissa
Customer Advocate at HostGator

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Washington
1 review
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January 18th, 2020

I was able to build my site, which has many photos, corresponding dialogue and a store with a shopping cart easily and quickly. I love the drag and drop feature and the flexible page structure. I changed font sizes easily and I'm very happy with how easily it was to publish and to modify the site. I am featuring the books I have written and my nature photographs and poetry.

Tip for consumers:
This is a robust package, which is very easy to use. Customer Service is responsive and knowledgeable. I recommend it highly.

Products used:
Weebly

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Date of experience: January 18, 2020

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Hi Jo-Ann,

Wow! What a thoughtful and thorough review. Thank you so much for your kind words. We're so happy to have you on board.

Erinn
Customer Advocate at HostGator

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Turkey
1 review
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January 12th, 2024
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Lies in the unauthorized and incorrect handling of my account and billing. Initially, I had subscribed to a WordPress plan, but during the Hostgator update on the 1st of December, my plan was changed to a Shared Hatchling Plan without my knowledge or consent. This unilateral decision was made with no communication or approval from my side, which is highly unprofessional and unacceptable.

To make matters worse, there was an unauthorized charge of $46.23 made using my card details. This is a serious breach of trust and privacy. Adding insult to injury, your recent communication implies that I have not paid for a plan upgrade - a plan upgrade that I never requested nor authorized.

Now, I find myself in a situation where not only has my original plan been altered without my consent, but I am also being charged for services I did not agree to. This is not just poor customer service; it's a complete disregard for basic customer rights and data security.

Date of experience: January 5, 2024

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Greece
2 reviews
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September 29th, 2021
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I needed to build a blog, but I pay the subscription since 2018 and I never been able to figure out how to build the blog. The tutorials are too confusing, either skip steps or are made for older versions of sites, and I am actually not using anything from what I pay for. If you have a service for blog building step by step or blog administration I would rather purchase such pack, because now this is useless to me. Thanks Lea

Date of experience: August 30, 2021

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GB
1 review
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February 10th, 2022
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Since creating my account, the hosting package has been pending. I spoke to someone over live chat who said it would take 2 hours just to process. 4 hours later nothing had changed so spoke to another person who then said it would take upto 8 hours. It has now been 15 hours and again nothing has changed I still cant access or do anything. For the amount of money spent I would expect much better service.

Date of experience: January 11, 2022

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Hey Ben,

We hate to hear you had issues. We would have loved to help get this fixed but it turns out you cancelled your account. We do wish you luck on your future hosting endeavors.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user michaelr6710
North Carolina
1 review
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February 5th, 2024
Verified purchase

We were experiencing issues with our site crashing due to it using too many resources. We upgraded to a VPN account per support suggestion. We were told the account included unlimited space which turned out to be false. We emailed support 4 times asking for backups to be deleted as that what seemed to be the issue using too many resources. They never deleted them but kept asking us to send in an email requesting the backups to be deleted. Hostgator almost runied our internet business due to horrible support and suggestions. We will never do business with them again.

If I could choose negative stars I would. Every time you call in, you get a new person who is unfamiliar with your current issue. Everyone you talk to gives you a different answer and no ones actually fixes anything.

Reason I chose this business:

We chose them in the past due to competitive pricing and decent support. Due to ongoing support issues we have stopped doing new business with HostGator.

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Date of experience: January 29, 2024

Thumbnail of user eduardm20
Panama
1 review
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January 14th, 2024
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The layout has changed and this brought various issues:
- I have to search for a while to find the file manager, it was quite easy to access before.
- There's always a ad to buy protection after login.
- Safari has trouble to identify the password field and suggests always a new password upon login. I think it's because email and password are separated now.

Date of experience: January 7, 2024

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Australia
1 review
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April 14th, 2024
Verified purchase

Poor. Online help is not good. There's a regular issue with my security certificate with my site and last time I tried to resolve the issue the online 'help' reloaded my website and in doing so deleted my website set up. It was elevated to 'higher admins' and no one ever came back. I haven't the time currently to resolve and so it is sitting unresolved. I'll be looking to get professional help and move away from Hostgator. Unimpressed.

Very por. As above.

Reason I chose this business:

I followed a youtube video for creating another website and Hostgator was recommended.

Service

Date of experience: April 4, 2024

Thumbnail of user elinamk
Belgium
1 review
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September 30th, 2022
Verified purchase

Hostgator is a great platform for web hosting. What is greater is the Support Team; always ready to help until satisfaction comes through to their clients.
I am satisfied with Hostgator and I can recommend it freely to anyone.

Ready to help and see it through.

Reason I chose this business:

I came to Hostgator from a recommendation too, and I don't regret it.

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Date of experience: September 30, 2022

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Hi Elinam,

Thank you for your awesome review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user thomast2186
Pennsylvania
1 review
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February 13th, 2024
Verified purchase

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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South Africa
1 review
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November 5th, 2022
Verified purchase

I had an issue and it was resolved in a matter of minutes. I will use this service again and again. Everytime you deal with support... They fix your problem immediately and take care of everything gor you. One of the best in their field!

Date of experience: November 5, 2022

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Hey Andreas,

Thank you for your awesome review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user dawnp816
South Carolina
1 review
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February 5th, 2024
Verified purchase

I have had issues with getting our website up for over a month. We have proven payment multiple times and have called customer service multiple times. Administration has not communicated with us in several weeks. Still no website

Date of experience: January 29, 2024

Thumbnail of user tonya1045
Pennsylvania
1 review
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November 7th, 2023

We had our website on HostGator VPS Hosting for a number of years - it's an older site with older software, but we update the products on it at least once a week. Last week they moved our website to a new server with no notice to us. The new server destroyed our website - no pages would load and every link gave a 500 Internal Error. I called their support and basically everyone who I spoke to refused to provide any help at all - they promised to do something (to get a good review on their review system), but did absolutely nothing. We are working with a new hosting company and have spent tons of hours trying to recover from their horrible service. I would never recommend this company!

Thank you.

Tony Auretto

Date of experience: October 8, 2023

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Florida
1 review
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May 14th, 2022
Verified purchase

Billing is not clearly labeled, for example what SSL for what domain you were automatically billed for or getting billed twice for the same SSL while it was not even installed. The portal is very SLOW. Chat takes a long time to help as they usually don't have the answers at hand. I don't feel I can always trust support with people that are not trained properly or don't have enough knowledge and experience. For some overseas tickets, you are not sure they can understand your issue, or they do not respond even after asking the same thing a few times as it's never the same person that answers a ticket. Don't feel that valued as a customer or that I'm getting a quality service.

Date of experience: April 14, 2022

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Hey Pascale,

We don't want you to feel that way. We have asked an Escalations Manager to reach out and assist.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

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Virginia
1 review
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August 1st, 2022

I forgot my pin. They asked for a new email to verify. 2 days letter. They have asked me for a court letter from a judge. Bank statements. Articles of incorporation. Business licenses. I have been hung up on twice. Promised to be called by managers - no responses. I have told them I need my email to work for critical work issues, and for my kids school. No response. Its a holiday weekend and they are still asking for more and more information. They told me to pay more for more storage and that would solve the issue. I paid more money it didn't work - but they asked me for a court order from a judge to prove I am the owner of the company. Unbelievable. Run don't ever do business with this company - their customer service is the worst I have ever experienced in my life on this planet. Not even close.

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Date of experience: July 2, 2022

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Hey Mark,

Something isn't right here. Let us fix this. We have sent you a message asking for more information.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator.com

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California
1 review
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March 21st, 2022
Verified purchase

I heard y'all were great and I have found that to be true. Whenever I have had any issue the HostGator team has always been excellent at answering questions and solving problems. Must admit... I also love the gator!

Date of experience: March 21, 2022

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Hi Christen,

Thank you for the kind review!

Marissa
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user markusw64
California
1 review
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February 13th, 2024
Verified purchase

I've been stuck in a loop attempting to get credit for HostGator locking me out of my account for months and losing revenue. I've been a customer, with 2 business accounts, for many years, yet I've gotten NO help to resolve issues that still exists as of today.

Date of experience: February 6, 2024

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California
1 review
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May 24th, 2024
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Terrible...the people I talked to were pleasant and patient...the following through for migration of site, terrible, had to call several times because it was partial done...don't trust hostgator

Terrible...the people I talked to were pleasant and patient...the following through for migration of site, terrible, had to call several times because it was partial done....don't trust hostgator.....wish I had chosen another hosting.

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Date of experience: May 14, 2024

Thumbnail of user tonyx291
South Africa
1 review
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February 11th, 2022
Verified purchase

Been a Multi media designer for 18 years, and I have learnt through time who the best hosting companies are. I am slowly moving all my clients to host gator as all the staff are very knowledgeable, helpful and friendly each time. Thanks for keeping all my clients websites afloat and for your incredible service.

Date of experience: February 11, 2022

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Hey Tony,

We are so happy to have you as part of the HostGator family. Thank you for your review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

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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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