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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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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 53.7%
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Thumbnail of user jaylenc27
North Carolina
1 review
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April 8th, 2024
Verified purchase

I like the wide array of tools that came with the shared hosting business package. I loved the Hostgator Website Builder. It's really unfortunate they're no longer supporting it.

Date of experience: March 29, 2024

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Peru
1 review
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January 9th, 2024
Verified purchase

Your database server met my requirements, but now Hostgator is going backwards in its ability to provide solutions to problems. I have 30 days and it still cannot solve my problem.

Date of experience: January 2, 2024

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North Carolina
1 review
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April 4th, 2024
Verified purchase

Easy to launch my website. I was, however, disappointed by the cPanel, which only allows E-mail management. We will see if that becomes problematic in the future

Quick resolution

Reason I chose this business:

Affordable price for longer term

Service

Date of experience: March 25, 2024

Thumbnail of user timr984
Florida
1 review
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March 2nd, 2024
Verified purchase

You pay for a website and all the extras for 5 years. It doesn't work and they want more money to fix it. Support drops phone call after 456 minutes very frustrating

Date of experience: February 21, 2024

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California
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February 6th, 2024

HostGator customer service is atrocious. Only sales are good, which would make sense since they are the ones selling you on the product. But once you're in, every rep I've experienced on the tech team has been painful. They are all foreign reps, not that there is anything is wrong with that, but I have been on numerous chats with reps for multiple hours in the last few weeks and they either don't provide the help I need or they end the call after saying I "haven't answered in a while" when I literally respond immediately, within 1 or 2 seconds. I have also tried service by phone three times. Today I called and finally spoke to someone on the phone. Asked for a supervisor because I was done with incompetent customer service reps and no resolutions. After waiting on hold for thirty minutes I was told a supervisor would call me back. Of course, no call back. And my issue still remains. I can't access or create my website because I can't get to Wordpress. This company is terrible. Stay away from HostGator. Their low prices aren't worth the terrible customer service.

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Date of experience: January 30, 2024

Thumbnail of user osvaldov24
Georgia
1 review
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March 1st, 2024
Verified purchase

I don't like how you splash the screen with an ad for the private domain feature. I have to look at it every time I log in and that doesn't feel right.

Date of experience: February 20, 2024

Thumbnail of user paulettec153
Georgia
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March 25th, 2024
Verified purchase

I have since the new update not been able to access emails at my convenience It is imperative that I have access without any success it gets worse PLEASE PUT THE LINK BACK so my team and I can find it under Brownstone Worldwide its been such a time monster for us

Date of experience: March 15, 2024

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SX
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January 8th, 2024
Verified purchase

Recommended by another, BUT: Your lower tier customer support is abysmal and time wasting. It takes too much time and energy to get people who know what they are doing. Also, when you upgraded my server, you took data that was almost TWO YEARS OLD, not what was currently on our server. So I'm OK now but happy? NO, NOT HAPPY.

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Date of experience: January 1, 2024

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Texas
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September 15th, 2021
Verified purchase

The Chat agent Scott C. Has been extremely helpful. You should hang on to him as he is very knowledgeable and patient when there are question after question.

Date of experience: September 15, 2021

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DJ S. – HostGator Rep

Hey Denise,

We are so glad Scott could help you out! Thank you for your review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user wesleyh189
Connecticut
1 review
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August 26th, 2022
Verified purchase

I"ve left feedback on every live chat nobody has ever responded. I"ve already wasted 10 plus hours of my time here not going to sit out and type it again.

Date of experience: July 27, 2022

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Wesley,

That's not okay. We will get this resolved for you. We have asked an Escalations Manager to assist.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator.com

Thumbnail of user kathyp1147
Canada
1 review
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November 29th, 2022
Verified purchase

Website down for a week not resolved by technical support and zero communication on the issue. Will be cancelling web host package. Terrible customer service not even 1 stat

Date of experience: October 30, 2022

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Kathy,

Don't give up. Let us help!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user pamelat902
California
1 review
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March 27th, 2022
Verified purchase

Hosting features are excellent and extensive, and so much is included at no extra cost, such as unlimited email addresses with my domain. Quite unlike GoDaddy, which I just left.

Service

Date of experience: March 27, 2022

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hi Pamela,

We love to hear this! Thank you for the amazing review!

Marissa
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user mu33
Pakistan
1 review
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December 18th, 2021
Verified purchase

It offers best options for professional developers like me. I am giving 4 stars because i cannot change/update my mobile phone number in billing information profile.

Date of experience: December 18, 2021

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey there,

That's strange. Reach out to our frontline support! They should be able to change all that for you!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user sonyat74
Australia
1 review
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February 8th, 2022
Verified purchase

Im having a huge amount of trouble connecting my gator host website with wordpress and updating my emails. This seems to be extremely not user friendly.

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

Date of experience: January 9, 2022

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hi Sonya,

Oh no! I am sorry to hear you have been running into these problems while using HostGator. We are more than happy to reach out and see what we can do to help you out. 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

Thumbnail of user talg6
Israel
1 review
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February 7th, 2023
Verified purchase

My experience was good, the supporter did all to help me fast.
I'm just wondering why renewing my subscription is so expensive.
ID: SH-******* PLAN: SHARED / BABY RENEWS: 2024-01-26 PRICE: $358.20
Also is not mentioned for how long / how many years

Date of experience: February 7, 2023

Thumbnail of user alizn1
Bangladesh
1 review
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April 3rd, 2022
Verified purchase

So far they are brilliant. I have been able to perform my web opt with their furnished platform as a hosting and domain provider. Good wishes to them.

Date of experience: April 3, 2022

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hi Aliz,

Thank you for the amazing review!

Marissa
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user ricardop171
Guatemala
1 review
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May 17th, 2022
Verified purchase

Email Delivery Error 451 bounceback directly back to the sender's Outllook or Thunderbird has been tormenting my Reseller customers. Countless hours of troubleshooting since last year and the best advice I got is to get a VPS (or die with it). You know this errors, it's a problem with all of your shared infrastructure in peak times around 10am CST. And I keep loosing clients, time and money for years. I'm 10+ years a client, referred many clients who spent thousands on dedicated servers and so on. You need to rethink reseller packages. Also, the customer service is more about service than solutions. Pardon me but I rather be treated just about fair and get things done instead of being "serviced" with callcenter scripts by agents that have to get into a second chat with real admins.

Date of experience: April 17, 2022

Thumbnail of user shawnb629
Texas
1 review
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April 20th, 2022
Verified purchase

Lower restrictions on content types and "unlimited" bandwidth/storage. Unfortunately the latter part of that appeal does not seem to be the case after all. RIP.

Date of experience: March 21, 2022

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hi Shawn,

Thank you for the feedback!

Marissa
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user sivakumars9
Oman
1 review
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May 2nd, 2022
Verified purchase

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Reason I chose this business:

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Date of experience: May 2, 2022

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Sivakumar,

Thank you for your review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user ramithj
Sri Lanka
1 review
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May 4th, 2022
Verified purchase

Sri Lanka being a poor country the price of your product is very expensive. Try to make price reductions in countries like this. That way even we can market this hosting service

Reason I chose this business:

Because of the massive discount offered the years ago

Quality

Date of experience: May 4, 2022

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Ramith,

Thank you for your revew!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user irajd
Texas
1 review
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March 9th, 2024
Verified purchase

Initial low cost and free SSL but now is more expensive than others and features removed like unlimited website with baby plan...etc. I feel like you all are trying to milk people for all you can.

Date of experience: February 28, 2024

Thumbnail of user donb760
Idaho
1 review
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August 28th, 2021
Verified purchase

Because Dollar2host always had problems and screwed me over big time about a year ago. I was just waiting for my domain renewal date was drawing near to leave them for good!

Date of experience: August 28, 2021

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Don,

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

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user haroldl422
Australia
1 review
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April 4th, 2024
Verified purchase

Have been a customer for 20 years, but I am disappointed how malware infection is handled these days. Never had a problem, yet my server is inundated, and I cannot get any help to solve it.

Date of experience: March 25, 2024

Thumbnail of user revdrnancyn
Georgia
1 review
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April 7th, 2022
Verified purchase

Not just a web host - a team of individuals ready to chat or talk in person when there is a challenge. Thank you so much - our website feels 'at home' with HostGator.

helped me with so much...

Reason I chose this business:

Referral from IT tech son

Service

Date of experience: April 7, 2022

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Rev Dr Nancy,

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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Canada
1 review
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December 8th, 2022

I've done a lot of research on hosting companies when I was in the market for one. Hostgator by far is the best ive used. Reliable, full-featured, easy to use. Highly recommended.

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Date of experience: December 8, 2022

Thumbnail of user erinnh1
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HI Nick,

Thank you for choosing HostGator!

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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Customer Advocate at HostGator
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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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