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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 luisc462
Mexico
1 review
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March 24th, 2021

I bought a dedicated server from HostGator on March 10th, 2021. Since the first day, I have been requesting help from their IT team. When I contact chat support they always explain they could only do first-level tech support which is okay but then when I ask to get further help, they explain that the case needs to be escalated. The level 2 tech support can only be contacted via email. It takes forever to get a response. It is now 14 days after, I made the purchase and I am still not set up. I am still waiting for IT support from HostGator. They need to have a direct number for help that is level 2 tech support. It is unacceptable.

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Date of experience: March 24, 2021

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Hi Luis,

We're so sorry to hear that you've had a bad experience so far. We'd love to ensure that all of this gets resolved and we make things right. Can you please drop us an email at reputation@endurance.com and provide the primary email address on your account and the best phone number to reach you? We look forward to helping you soon. Thanks!

Erinn
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California
1 review
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March 2nd, 2020

I migrated our company's website over from NameCheap because of security breaching issues and because HostGator provides cleaning. It's been a over a year and when it renewed, our entire website and email was down because they didn't make sure to switch our email over to their host as well. When we told them about it they said email wasn't paid for. So we asked for the bill. They said there was no bill. So we said "Create one!" They said they couldn't. Finally, it all got taken care of. Not everyone is a professional website builder or coder, so they definitely need to keep that in mind. Some of us are just regular people who know nothing about this stuff, but need to have a business website.
Another thing is that they offer different priced security packages, though they're telling you that if you don't get the most expensive one, you'll still have breaches... I don't understand that. Then why even offer packages that DONT WORK?

Date of experience: March 2, 2020

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Hi Pao,

Thanks so much for taking the time to share your experience with us. You've made many good points and we have shared those with decision makers here at HostGator. We're glad to have you here and we thank you for your patience as we worked through your concerns.

Erinn
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user marilyng928
New Zealand
1 review
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June 13th, 2024
Verified purchase

It was very good and easy to use. Some things didn't make snese and a couple of times I needed to work with an assistant to sort. I found everyone helpful.

They were always helfpul. Of course they are often dealing with multiple queries at once whjich takes a while to get used to and sort out, but they were efficient.

Reason I chose this business:

I had been hacked on Siteground and on searching, HostGator had been recommended as being secure.

Service

Date of experience: June 3, 2024

Thumbnail of user karlr54
Paraguay
1 review
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March 18th, 2020

The service and options of this Server are very good.
Both support and inquiries are answered quickly.
We are already using the service for more than 5 years.
It is always available, there is no problem of system crash.
The platform is very intuitive and very practical.

Date of experience: March 18, 2020

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Hi Karl,

Wow! What a delightful and thoughtful review. Thank you so much for your kind words. We're so glad to have you as part of the HostGator family.

Erinn
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user catherinew1030
Canada
1 review
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March 3rd, 2024
Verified purchase

I finally did double authentication and I have yet to receive a text message, which means I have to go find my recovery key each time I log in. I just changed my phone number to not include the "1" before the number. I hope that works. Plus, every time I log in, I have to turn off my sound because the chat box keeps dinging constantly. The new interface is limited and as a long term client, I am not impressed with all the new changes and tripled price overnight with no notice.

Date of experience: February 22, 2024

Thumbnail of user gabriell258
Chile
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April 27th, 2022
Verified purchase

I liked that the Information was given when asked, but I don't liked that the issue took longer than the expected, and by the social media announcements it was a shorter time than the real time that it needed to be solved, since our site needs to be live at least at 2 important times in the 7 days of the week

The customer service is great, the majority of time they help you solve the issues, or at least try to do it

Reason I chose this business:

Because i needed a good Hosting for an important businness, and I never had problems with hostgator till the date, in my other domains, and if there was a problem always we reach a solution between the customer service and myself

Service

Date of experience: April 27, 2022

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Hey Gabriel,

Thank you for your review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user lees903
Nevada
1 review
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October 23rd, 2022
Verified purchase

My site was going down. Tech took the time to resolve and figure out why my sites were going down. Installed script to prevent bot attacks. No other tech support could figure out or take the time to solve the problem. This tech did a great job.

Date of experience: October 23, 2022

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Hey Lee,

Thank you for your kind review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user ashleyr1126
California
1 review
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October 29th, 2022
Verified purchase

My mother and I were trying to make/put up our website. Trying to connect it to Wordpress. Of course, we didnt know how to do it. Paul was soooo great and informative in guiding us in this process. Very professional. You should give him a raise! He dealt with all of our problems and made sure everything went through and it did! Thank you so much Paul! You the man!

Date of experience: October 29, 2022

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Hey Ashley,

Thank you for your review on Paul!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user dimitrijg2
New York
1 review
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March 16th, 2024
Verified purchase

1) you don't ever refund the money when I get a service by accident
2) I called to get my SSL on my website and it's still not working
3) You changed the entire interface and now I don't know how to see my host expiration date.
4) I am really disappointed and will move on to another hosting company.

Date of experience: March 6, 2024

Thumbnail of user robbys45
Washington
1 review
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January 20th, 2024
Verified purchase

This new update is a nightmare. I used to have my page saved so I can easily change my website. As an auction company, I have to change our website often. Now I need to hunt around on the Host Gator website just to find my page. When I find it, I have to figure out how to edit it. This whole process sucks now. It used to be easy and fast to edit. Was 5 stars... now 1.

Date of experience: January 13, 2024

Thumbnail of user jeans1417
Pennsylvania
1 review
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March 25th, 2024
Verified purchase

The company that own the two hostgator and bluehost care more about making money by forcing people to buy security than taking care of their people. They inject malware to cause panic and force the customer to buy security. It is injustice, cruel, unethical and down right ugly. I hope the government can audit the company for malicious business attempt. My site can't run and i wasted my money twice on both HostGator and Bluehost which owns by the same company. My business has been taking a big hit because of the company immoral approach to business approach.

Date of experience: March 15, 2024

Thumbnail of user davisj74
AE
1 review
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March 15th, 2024
Verified purchase

Gave me best deal and features than other when I was switching. Now I find it difficult to manage with constant email delivery issues, with blacklisted IP, backend configuration issues. Some customer care representatives never understood the issue and finally someone escalated issue to admin to get it resolved. Wished the representative who handled 2nd or 3rd time, instead of redoing the whole process escalated the issue. We had close to 28 days of downtime.16 days trying to resolve from hostgator side.

Date of experience: March 5, 2024

Thumbnail of user pammel
Maryland
1 review
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February 4th, 2024
Verified purchase

I have attempted to resolve several issues with my account and my websites. You will see several call logs and chats. I'm reaching a point that I'm thinking of pulling everything off HostGate altogether and tell my friends/business associates to avoid your service altogether.

Date of experience: January 28, 2024

Thumbnail of user michellee1721
Canada
1 review
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April 11th, 2024
Verified purchase

Stop it. Stop trying to get a review, stop trying to sell me $#*! when I just need to login and stop trying to make it harder to navigate what used to be a good cpanel. Try offering some customer service. It use to be good, now it's nothing but frustrating.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024

Thumbnail of user tonyl538
Virginia
2 reviews
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March 26th, 2024
Verified purchase

There is no explanation that the $14.95 privacy is PER DOMAIN It is bait and switch marketing. It was not until I pressed buy now that I was provided with the fact that I had just paid $14.95 X 10 for 10 domains. It is NOT clear! Very slick / poor marketing!

Date of experience: March 16, 2024

Thumbnail of user jeanp698
New York
1 review
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November 29th, 2022
Verified purchase

In the past, I had spoken with people in the technical support of Hostgator that unfortunately didn't have the knowledge to resolve my issue or didn't take the time to resolve my issue and always recommended me to other companies to resolve my issue. Things honestly damage the reputation of the company. Today I called the company for the last time and May Ann Rose was very polite and with a lot of knowledge was able to resolve my issue. I think Companies should be more selective with their employees and hire people like her or promote people like her who understand the importance of good customer service to help other employees.

Date of experience: November 29, 2022

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Hey Jean,

Thank you for your review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user juliec2578
California
1 review
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February 5th, 2024
Verified purchase

I was told last week that my DMARC record would be updated. I gave the gentleman the record, but didn't know how to input it. Anyway, I just checked and it's not been done. Going to attempt to do it now.

Date of experience: January 29, 2024

Thumbnail of user ronm1393
Florida
1 review
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August 15th, 2024
Verified purchase

I don't know much about website design and development but the panel is easy to navigate.

Great customer service. Step by step assistance

Service

Date of experience: August 5, 2024

Thumbnail of user josee600
Texas
1 review
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August 15th, 2024
Verified purchase

All it's good responses customer service I will recommend you

Service

Date of experience: August 5, 2024

Thumbnail of user bhargavm3
India
1 review
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April 3rd, 2023
Verified purchase

Hello, I have almost purchased 3 server from hostgator, from India for my various customers. Unfortunately on hostgator.com there are no support for Indian clients as having US number only and live chat option (which rarely working else no response). At may occation I tried to contact them on live chat but even though after waiting many hours, there is no response and it keep loading. No email or no other support and even 1-2 time I got to connect them but not getting server level support at all. Even though still there are 2 years pending from 3, I have moved all my website to another service provider and do not want to get any further service from hostgator. They do not have any concern with their clients. I do not recomonded any services from hostgator at all, if you do not want to waste time and money.

Tip for consumers:
move to another server provider

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Date of experience: March 4, 2023

Thumbnail of user yorained
Angola
1 review
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March 9th, 2023
Verified purchase

Hello,
My experience has been great, hostgator has all the features to publish my website in one place. Prices are affordable. I couldn't speak to customer service though through a chat, I kept getting links to access. I still solved my issue.

Reason I chose this business:

Because I could pay once and still have all the things necessary to publish my website without having to look anywhere else.

Date of experience: March 9, 2023

Thumbnail of user tamaras454
Arizona
1 review
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December 1st, 2021
Verified purchase

I have asked someone to help me with my issue(s) and all they do is give me the "run-a-round" and not answer my questions. They are not reading my replies when i have typed them clearly to explain my situation. The issues have still not been resolved. I am highly frustrated

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

Date of experience: November 1, 2021

Thumbnail of user erinnh1
Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hi Tamara,

It's unfortunate to hear you have been running into these issues with our support team. We want to make sure you get the help you are needing so I have brought this to the attention of our escalations team. They will be in touch soon to see what we can do to help you out. Thank you for bringing this to our attention!

Marissa
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user jeffreyb1135
Texas
1 review
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September 23rd, 2021
Verified purchase

Very cumbersome. I have THREE accounts and it's like pulling teeth to get everything synced and to remain synced. I have websites that keep popping up as "Not Secure". The cPanel name is quirky when everything else requires my email address. An agent CHANGED my associated email address and never bothered to change it back.

I've spent a lot to get my sites up. These things need to resolved and I need a much smoother user experience. Otherwise, I might just switch hosting platforms. Very cumbersome!

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

Date of experience: August 24, 2021

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Hey Jeffrey,

We would just love to help you with your issues. We have asked an Escalations Manager to reach out and assist.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user nicoles2701
South Carolina
1 review
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July 8th, 2024
Verified purchase

Your support team was extremely helpful in getting our site live. I was very pleased with the level of customer service that I received.

Date of experience: June 28, 2024

Thumbnail of user yvonnes507
Florida
1 review
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December 13th, 2022
Verified purchase

Louise took care of the EPP Registration, she really listened to what I needed. She went back to see what was done before (footprint, as she called it) and found out what I was asking for. My domains have been with Hostgator.com for about 15 years. I wish I could have talked with her first. She did an excellent job for me and for Hostgator.com.

Thank you.

Date of experience: December 13, 2022

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Hey Yvonne,

That is so good to hear! 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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