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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 virgils45
North Carolina
1 review
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April 18th, 2022
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The process was easy to work with. I has not run into any unexpected issues (other than the default WordPress not working until I disabled all of the default plugins - once I did that, everything worked).

Reason I chose this business:

Good reviews on-line and good value for the money.

Date of experience: April 18, 2022

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Hey Virgil,

We are so happy to hear this! Thank you for your review!

DJ
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Thumbnail of user alberts499
Pennsylvania
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August 17th, 2022
Verified purchase

When a problem occurs in developing my SW for which I feel I need HG assistance, I receive like NO ('zilch') coherent support. First, Support via phone is never achievable-- it is impossible to get a support repr., so I revert to Chat. The HG Chat reprs. Are ill-trained, e. G,, they do not even know the basics of website development or internet. E.G. They have no clue how the resolution of a domain URL gets to its intended location, or know anything about DNS (not even what the initials stand for). Pls train your support people-- as it is now, they are simply wasting my time!

Date of experience: August 17, 2022

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Hey Albert,

We would love to discuss our support staff concerns with you. We have asked an Escalations Manager to reach out and assist.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator.com

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Pennsylvania
1 review
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June 27th, 2024
Verified purchase

I needed help getting my domains and websites transferred from IPage. It took a few tries, but the agents were very patient and helpful.

Agens were friendly and helpful.

Reason I chose this business:

Because I can actually talk to a person. Not just chat.

Service

Date of experience: June 17, 2024

Thumbnail of user carolynb470
Texas
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February 26th, 2020

I have always had good luck when speaking with HostGator. They have helped me with my problems. Since I am not a computer techie and I don't understand a lot of things about computers, HostGator was very patient in helping me through my problems.

Date of experience: February 26, 2020

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Hi Carolyn,

Our support teams really are fantastic, aren't they? We're so pleased to read this review. Thank you so much.

Erinn
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user ulrikew8
South Africa
1 review
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April 28th, 2022
Verified purchase

I had an issue with my website showing as a 'high-risk' URL on smartphones but not on laptops.
The issue was resolved within a few minutes of contacting Host Gator Support Live Chat.
Thank you for superfast and helpful service

Reason I chose this business:

Recommended by friend

Date of experience: April 28, 2022

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Hey Ulrike,

You are most welcome. Thank YOU for your kind review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

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Utah
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January 29th, 2024
Verified purchase

It's been a month now with no resolution. I have no access to my cPanel, my domain has disappeared and no one is able to fix it. After 4 contacts with customer service with escalation every time, there is still no resolution and no follow up! Disappointed!

Date of experience: January 22, 2024

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Connecticut
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April 6th, 2024

BAD: what has happened to Hostgator?
What has happened to hostgator?

HORRIBLE HORRIBLE

I have been with them for 25 years plus. They were a TEXAS based operation with AMERICAN BASED CUSTOMER SERVICE. They were excellent.

Since early this year...They have doubled their rates from 12.95 to 23.95 per month...so I wanted to understand why.
Well now their Customer service is in the Philippines. You cannot speak to anyone in the US.
I lived in the Philippines so I clearly understand the language barrier
I went through 4 people in 1.4 hours on the phone: ZIG/Bianca /Rica/Dexter who could barley speak English.
I am seeking another hosting company.
We as Americans wanting to support our own country
This is Horrible and I would not recommend them
Date of experience: March 27,2024

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Date of experience: March 27, 2024

Thumbnail of user glennd230
New York
2 reviews
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March 25th, 2022
Verified purchase

So I am pointing my domain here, but I can't find any way to actually edit my website since I can't get to it by domain name. I'm sitting here completely frustrated that I can't reach anything that I can actually edit after installing Concrete this morning. I can't even tell if Concrete is correctly installed.

How do I get to anything I can actually edit while my users start popping in to look?

Date of experience: February 23, 2022

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Hey Glenn,

We would love to help out with that! We have asked an Escalations Manager to reach out!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user rone583
Ohio
1 review
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January 24th, 2024
Verified purchase

It used to be so easy to get into a website and to Cpanel. Now it is almost impossible to find. Between your overbearing new advertising and your "Message Us" that you can't turn off and which covers places you need to click, Hostgator is a mess.

Date of experience: January 17, 2024

Thumbnail of user marlinh24
France
1 review
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January 22nd, 2024
Verified purchase

I've made my choise because Hostgator is a well known hosting company, and on the paper, it seemed to be the most interesting choise. Unfortunatly, the ******* Nodes limit is impossible to deal with if you have multiple email addresses and a medium website. Caching system broke my website and scripts are not working correctly on the website. Tested the same website on a low cost hosting service and it worked better. CloudFlare Integration not working too. Come on guys, update your node limit, at least! Ionos limits nodes to more than ******* files. Twice as much!

Date of experience: January 15, 2024

Thumbnail of user neilp226
Philippines
1 review
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April 14th, 2022
Verified purchase

I love Hostgator! They have a very stable web hosting and I've been using their products to all my website clients! I wish to have a Hostgator Snappy plush doll how can I have one? Or where to buy it! Haha! More power and success Hostgator!

Date of experience: April 14, 2022

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Hi Neil,

Thank you for the amazing review!

Marissa
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user joycef325
Colorado
1 review
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April 16th, 2022
Verified purchase

I had an excellent experience with one by if your customer representatives when I was trying to determine why the emails from my home email account weren't going through to my business email account. Also he helped me to remove an unneeded service from my account.

Service

Date of experience: April 16, 2022

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Hi Joyce,

Thank you for the kind review!

Marissa
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user richardr3903
California
1 review
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January 23rd, 2024
Verified purchase

I hate the new control panel. I almost always want to manage an email list and I have to click through a bunch of crap to get there. There should at least be a setting to select the app/page I want to land on upon login. I HATE THIS!

Date of experience: January 16, 2024

Thumbnail of user luisa677
Panama
1 review
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May 4th, 2022
Verified purchase

Improve backup

I have a Reseller / Silver plan with you for years.

I suggest improving the essential speed for wordpress, improving the back up friendly from cpanel of the site in worpress.

Everything else is fine,

Luis

Very respectful and patient in care. I don't speak English.

Service
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Date of experience: May 4, 2022

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Hey Luis,

Thank you for your feedback. We greatly appreciate it.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user michaelm13951
Nevada
1 review
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April 4th, 2024
Verified purchase

You are hiding prices and to even see them I need to click through another product offering

Prices are inflated

You seem too lazy or dumb to make money by adding value, you just want to charge overpriced fees to make money

Date of experience: March 25, 2024

Thumbnail of user marthas1576
New Mexico
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February 3rd, 2024
Verified purchase

I usually don't have issues speaking with hostgator. Usually, it's a one-and-done deal but not with my latest project. Connecting my site to a third party was supposed to be simple by changing a CNAME and i provided the link to where it was pointing. I had to push back the course release a week because I spoke to 3 different people at HostGator and the first two couldn't get it to work properly. After the third try it worked well. That person said they were going to report the first two who worked with me for not doing it correctly.

Reason I chose this business:

Easy to use and mostly the work they do for me when I contact them.

Date of experience: January 27, 2024

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Texas
1 review
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August 12th, 2024
Verified purchase

Several times I find it difficult to manage my sites since you constantly are updating your portal.

Reason I chose this business:

Cost (which has changed) and service (which has also gotten worse).

Date of experience: August 2, 2024

Thumbnail of user mitchelll166
Virginia
1 review
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March 22nd, 2024
Verified purchase

I have been using host gator for years now and I want to give them 5 stars but I have had a few bad experiences with my information and client information being targeted and have a feeling of being forced to buy the security so that doesn't happen I want more transparency and security as brand for host gator

Date of experience: March 12, 2024

Thumbnail of user basilf21
South Africa
1 review
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February 5th, 2023
Verified purchase

Had to verify my google merchant account on my website pennywisebuy.com. Tried and failed including an HTML tag to the header of my homepage. Got an error message and was asked to use STFP. No idea what that meant. One of their capable assistants came to my rescue. He was an expert that sorted me out under a minute. Service excellence at its best. Thanks basil francis

Date of experience: February 5, 2023

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Pakistan
1 review
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August 9th, 2024
Verified purchase

This is not a good experience, it turns out its not what i expected

Reason I chose this business:

I heard good good things about it but i was wrong

Date of experience: July 30, 2024

Thumbnail of user patl452
Washington
1 review
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March 5th, 2024
Verified purchase

I received a notice this morning of a service (code guard basic) being expired. There was no mention of which domain(s) that particular codeguard was for. Now I am going to spend a lot of time looking around your site which is incredibly difficult to navigate to try to find out which of the domains it is for which I need to do to determine if it needs to be renewed.

Date of experience: February 24, 2024

Thumbnail of user yolandad164
Mexico
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May 11th, 2022
Verified purchase

The best experience, I sleep peacefully, because I know that I am in the best hands, they always attend me with a fine attention and are very kind, professional and efficient in what they do... I do not change it for anyone, I have been with hostgator for 10 years and I am happy...

The service is the most professional and they always answer my questions and support me in whatever I require... They do the work for me with pleasure.

Reason I chose this business:

Because they recommended it to me as the best in the world

Reason I chose this product:

They are the best

Service
Quality

Date of experience: May 11, 2022

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Hey Yolanda,

That is awesome. Thank you for your great review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user brianb4193
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
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April 5th, 2024
Verified purchase

I get an error every time I try to open bowmano.com. Under websites it still has an address of gator4229.temp.comain (and on it goes). I transferred this from godaddy weeks ago. I realize I might be doing something wrong also

Date of experience: March 26, 2024

Thumbnail of user thilinas3
Sri Lanka
1 review
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January 26th, 2024
Verified purchase

Hello, can you guys stop changing the login page so that safari can enter the password automatically? It's a pain in the butt to got to keychain and copy paste password. If you guys could keep the login page simple it would be nice.

Date of experience: January 19, 2024

Thumbnail of user jeromeg116
Thailand
1 review
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April 28th, 2022
Verified purchase

I wanted to change the main domain name. First contact with the support team, the technician did half job, meaning the domain name was changed. But after more than 48 hours, my site was still showing ERROR 404. I had to contact the support team to fix that issue.
But in general, very goos service

Reason I chose this business:

Good review on the net

Date of experience: April 28, 2022

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Hey Jerome,

We are so happy we could fix your issue. 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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