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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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Pennsylvania
1 review
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April 29th, 2024
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Responses were a little slow but the rep did resolve my issue. He also let me know the possibly reasons why the issue happened and how he fixed it which.

Reason I chose this business:

Name recognition

Date of experience: April 19, 2024

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Florida
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September 20th, 2023
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The team was exceptionally supportive, professional, and timely. They never said "NO" to any of my requests, even when they were very challenging. I would highly recommend your services to everyone!

Reason I chose this business:

Friend referral

Date of experience: September 20, 2023

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Missouri
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February 25th, 2023
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Over the past few years I have helped several people start their journey in setting up an online presence. It started with a few non-profit organizations and then grew into developing commercial platforms. When it came down to selecting the best webhost, HostGator always proved to be the best choice. HostGator has an amazing selection of hosting plans that meet or exceed expectations. From their most basic shared hosting plan to the more advanced ProHosting options, customers will receive all of the tools needed to quickly set up a website at an affordable price. Their self-hosting and managed plans guide you through the necessary steps to build and deploy a high quality site. HostGator has a robust customer support system using chat, phone calls and email to assist customers when questions or issues arise. There are a lot of options when it comes to picking a webhost but HostGator always rises to the top when factoring in the standard features included, consistent uptime and low cost.

Tip for consumers:
For shared hosting, the Baby Plan offers the best value.

Products used:
Website hosting plans and Domain registrations.

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Date of experience: February 24, 2023

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TZ
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February 25th, 2024
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The price adjustments are not reasonable,and why not informing us before last year end so we inform our clients to put the adjustment on their budgets?

Date of experience: February 18, 2024

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Malaysia
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February 22nd, 2024
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Some of your team support didn't know what they talking about. Get more person with experience and knowledgeable. No need to see their degree if they don't know what the problem is.

Date of experience: February 15, 2024

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Illinois
1 review
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August 2nd, 2024
Verified purchase

So far there has been no issues it has been a great host for my start up

Date of experience: July 23, 2024

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Pakistan
1 review
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May 30th, 2020

Host gator is shoulders above most of the hosting sites out there. On a personal level I will entrust all of my current as well as future domains to them

Date of experience: May 28, 2020

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Hi Nadeem,

Thank you so much for your kind review. We're so happy that you're happy. Thanks for being the best part of the HostGator family!

Erinn
Customer Advocate at HostGator

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Arizona
54 reviews
434 helpful votes
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May 10th, 2022
Verified purchase

Hostgator has been a great for my small business. Very easy to use and if I ever have any questions, their customer support is very quick to help. Definitely recommend!

Date of experience: May 10, 2022

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Hey Traci,

That is so great to hear! Thank you so much for your awesome review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user jamesj2638
Connecticut
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May 15th, 2022
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Just overall more help with the technical side of things from support versus trying to rush us out of chat when we're looking to get something done then & there.

Date of experience: April 15, 2022

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Massachusetts
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April 30th, 2022
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I love hostgator, I'd recommend it to people. Chanel is easy, I pretty much use it for my test sites, demo and once and a while I get someone who wants me to host a site. I've never had a problem and pricing is reasonable.

Thanks,
Tom

Ps I have 20 years cyber security, networking and criptung programming. Heavy into osquery mitre framework, Linux, coding. I previously worked at sophos (18 years) I specialized on their firewall and email products.

T

I had an issue with Joomla and they helped me resolve it quickly.

Reason I chose this business:

I looked at other hosting and the hostgator baby account is perfect for a small hosted server where you have a maintained management system. I could have just rented from aws or azure, but the ease of use of hostgator services along with hosting my server makes the most sense for me.

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Date of experience: April 30, 2022

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Hey Tom,

Thank you for your awesome review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user michaelb12157
Denmark
1 review
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April 13th, 2024
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I love host gator. Ive been a user for a few years. Maybe 6. All my interactions are great. Imperssively so. I dont remember how i found HG in the first place. But im glad i did.

Date of experience: April 3, 2024

Thumbnail of user davidk4861
Arizona
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March 22nd, 2024
Verified purchase

I'm not sure anymore
Ive been with your company for many years...recently I've had tons of issues and the support is very poor. Im considering moving to another hosting company

Date of experience: March 12, 2024

Thumbnail of user lucu1
New York
1 review
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March 29th, 2024
Verified purchase

You're making it difficult to navigate my subscriptions and renewals. You send me an email about automatic renewal, but when I click on it it doesn't take me to what it's renewing. That's confusing.

Date of experience: March 19, 2024

Thumbnail of user kennethn538
Washington
1 review
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April 17th, 2024
Verified purchase

The newly designed dashboard interface makes it incredibly difficult to get to the basic control panel (Cpanel). I often have to click through about 10 different things to get to what I want. This is INCREDIBLY frustrating and is causing me to reconsider my move back to hostgator.

Date of experience: April 7, 2024

Thumbnail of user ianm697
California
1 review
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December 4th, 2021
Verified purchase

I saw tyler on youtube explaining how to make a wordpress website and it was through hostgator, so far the service has been really good. I would recommend it.

Date of experience: December 4, 2021

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Hey Ian,

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

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user vincentx46
California
1 review
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May 25th, 2022
Verified purchase

The techs do not listen. Kept sending confirmation emails to a mail box that was not accessible. This caused our site and email to be down for 9 days.

Reason I chose this business:

It won't happen again.

Date of experience: April 25, 2022

Thumbnail of user phillips427
Arizona
1 review
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April 15th, 2022
Verified purchase

I have used HostGator for a number of years and it has proven to be a great platform in addition they have excellent customer service unlike most hosting websites.

Date of experience: April 15, 2022

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Hey Phillip,

That is awesome! Thank you for your review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user oasisv1
Pennsylvania
1 review
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April 13th, 2024
Verified purchase

It appears it was a mistake to do so as I can never get anyone to solve the many problems that I have been having since joining your hosting plan. It's been a complete, miserable mess.

Date of experience: April 3, 2024

Thumbnail of user sandroi1
Australia
1 review
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May 20th, 2022
Verified purchase

Did not receive password reset link after trying 3 times

Not all support staff provide suitable advice and/or are not knowledgeable on certain issues relating to hosting management

Date of experience: April 20, 2022

Thumbnail of user elizabethk1372
New Jersey
1 review
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January 15th, 2022
Verified purchase

I gave you 1 star because the customer support I received today was extremely horrible. They kept me on phone for over 1 hour without solving my issue.

Date of experience: December 16, 2021

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Hey Elizabeth,

That is not okay. Let us see what we can do. We have asked an Escalations Manager to reach out and assist.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user theodored120
Texas
1 review
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October 7th, 2023

After hosting my website for four years on Hostgator, I discovered today that it had been infected with malware. I was told by customer service at hosthator that my web hosting account wasn't secure and that I would have to pay more if I wanted it to be secure. In the meantime, I would have to contract with a third party to have my website cleaned, then go back to hostgator to have my site restored. According to customer service, Hostgator doesn't have access to the files they host. That's why a third party must be paid.
Go with godaddy. They suck, too, but not as bad as hostgator.

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Date of experience: September 7, 2023

Thumbnail of user kimg842
California
1 review
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April 13th, 2022
Verified purchase

My brother was a referral. Thank goodness. I just love this web company. There is a few things I would like to tell you about the Website Builder if I could.

Thanks
Kim
*******888

Date of experience: April 13, 2022

Thumbnail of user erinnh1
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Hey Kim,

Thank you so much for choosing us!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user ronaldh1608
South Carolina
1 review
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February 26th, 2024
Verified purchase

Time and time again I can't get into my email accounts. They just won't open after logging in. I must be on the bottom rung of the ladders for server access.

Date of experience: February 19, 2024

Thumbnail of user jeanm704
Cyprus
1 review
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May 18th, 2021

I bought a domain name and a hosting plan from Hostgator. Though it is not my usual area of expertise, I am trying to build up my website. At some point Ihad difficulties and Hostgator support team was up to the task in supporting me to resolve the issues. One of my main issues was a registral mistake I amde at the beginning but this was solved after escalating my issue to admins. Thank you Hostgator.

Date of experience: May 14, 2021

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Hey Jean,

We are always happy to help. Customer support is super important to us and we want to make sure our customers felt cared for. Thank you for your kind review.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user noors37
Turkey
1 review
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February 22nd, 2024
Verified purchase

Many mistakes and problems and weak support. For me as customer for 10 years I see your scale is going down too much recently. Hope you would fix this and make your customers in better experience!

Date of experience: February 15, 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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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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