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Overview

HostGator has a rating of 3.46 stars from 12,663 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with HostGator most frequently mention customer service, long time, and many years. HostGator ranks 2nd among Web Hosting sites.

  • Service
    737
  • Quality
    241

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 51%
Positive
3,490
Neutral
796
Negative
2,559
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What reviewers want you to know

Positive highlights

  • The customer service at hostgator is excellent and has worked great for me.
  • You tube how to by TYLER MOORE with step by step procedures very very big help
  • 2022 Customer Choice Winner

Critical highlights

  • They no longer have any reputable Tech Support: My income sites have been dead for days.
  • My baby plan is now showing as expired because it's showing up under the wrong domain name, an expired domain name.
  • I don't like the current price structure and the new user interface is way more than I need to click through.
How would you rate HostGator?
Business's Favorite Review

“Hostgator Rocks, Local USA servers if needed for that”

Damian S.
10/10/22

Hostgator Rocks, Local USA servers if needed for that. SEO is great for loading and easy to use platform.

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Top Positive Review

“Webpress support is good as well as decent interface”

ecomes Y.
4/7/24

Webpress support is good as well as decent interface. I wish you guys a bit better on renewals. Each time you want to screw us with your high prices but then give discounts. It has been 10 years now still you try every year. You must build a database, lets have his personal site no cost do not try to charge extravagant like it is a giant microsoft website. This is a guy barely pays his house mortagge.

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customer service (647) tech support (128) tyler moore (80) support team (89) domain name (55) user interface (32) control panel (26) web designer (35)
Thumbnail of user ecomesy
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 7th, 2024
Verified purchase

Webpress support is good as well as decent interface.
I wish you guys a bit better on renewals. Each time you want to screw us with your high prices but then give discounts. It has been 10 years now still you try every year. You must build a database, lets have his personal site no cost do not try to charge extravagant like it is a giant microsoft website. This is a guy barely pays his house mortagge.

Thumbnail of user enioc4
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 6th, 2024
Verified purchase

Very poor integration of changes made in Nov. That were not made known to front line and above support techs, regarding admin privileges. Logging in requires so many steps just to get to cp because of the non stop promotions. Nothing is one click access. Terrible design. Also, they push you towards chat vs phone support but you ask a question on chat and wait ±5 minutes for any response, which tells me they are juggling who knows how many calls. Lastly, please change the on hold music to option OFF

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1 review
0 helpful votes
October 7th, 2023
Verified purchase
• Updated review

To host my website and get the free email accounts they offer is the main reason I chose HostGator for my webhosting. It is very disappointing that they discontinued Gator.com and we are forced to either purchase a third party or use WordPress which is the most unfriendly application I have used in my 40 year experience

I have contacted HostGator support several and find that the agents are very impatient and give up without resolving the problem. I have to contact support several times for the same issue in order to piece together my own resolution

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To host my website and get the free email accounts...
July 2nd, 2023
Verified purchase
• Previous review

To host my website and get the free email accounts they offer

Thumbnail of user gregs1095
1 review
0 helpful votes
May 30th, 2022
Verified purchase

Email is increasing spotty. Financial institutions have reported my email addresses bounce back as undeliverable. I suspect the servers are just over whelmed. No good.

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Greg,

We can look into that for you. Give us a call and we will be happy to help!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user haythamf1
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 3rd, 2024
Verified purchase

I've been using HostGator for my websites for a few years now, and I'm overall very happy with their service. Here are a few of the reasons why I chose HostGator and why I continue to recommend them to others:

1. Reliable uptime and performance
2. Easy to use
3. Excellent customer support, They offer 24/7 support via phone, live chat, and email
4- Affordable pricing

Thumbnail of user peggym792
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 15th, 2024
Verified purchase

I have had a number of issues with email that was set up by hostgator, and have had very mixed results getting those issue resolved. It's been really frustrating - "We made a mistake... it will take a few days to fix. No you won't know what emails you missed and no compensation unless the system is down..." for example. I have a sense of uneasiness about whether things will work properly.

Thumbnail of user lindat2677
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 17th, 2024
Verified purchase

I started HostGator with recommendations from another user way back 10+ years ago. You have helped me in many situations probably more lately than before. Today I am grateful for the upgraded servers and PHP. Thank you

Thumbnail of user johns14308
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 2nd, 2023
Verified purchase

I was blocked out unnecessarily as we had slow internet - please give me access asap as need to edit some email accounts for business this morning.

Reason I chose this business:

We have used it for a while and enjoy it

Thumbnail of user alexanderg482
1 review
1 helpful vote
January 7th, 2023
Verified purchase

Horrible support. After a couple of decent experiences, couldn't change active theme on my WordPress site. Two support people tried changing it and couldn't do that either. Escalated to their "WordPress Specialist" and scheduled a support call for 11am this morning. Of course nobody called. I ended up fixing the issue on one of my websites by uninstalling and re-installing WordPress completely. The other site is still broken. No support available. Asked them for my money back because I want to switch hosting company but they refused. Will be initiating chargeback via credit card.

Another issue, Force HTTPS Redirects is not available (grayed out/disabled) for both of my sites in cPanel. Had to edit my.htaccess file to fix that. At least they had a video for that, Still wasted over an hour on that.

They are cheap, but you get what you paid for.

Tip for consumers:
Don't. Just don't. Pick anybody else.

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Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Alexander,

Reach out to us at reputation@newfold.com and we can help!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user mariam4210
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 20th, 2023
Verified purchase

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

Thumbnail of user richardg80
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
February 26th, 2024
Verified purchase

I've been with Hostgator for many years. The new panel is awful - missing half of what I routinely use, obscure with the rest. In particular I can find no way to cancel a redundant SSL and it's really pissing me off. Additionally, some of our sites began to fail because you added an automated WordPress core update, then switched it on without telling anybody, and then it worked like crap, not updating all files, thus rendering the sites unstable. Garbage.

Thumbnail of user julians242
1 review
1 helpful vote
November 3rd, 2022

Host Gator has the worst service and support possible! Their hosting is extremely slow, while their support is unprofessional! My websites are running very slow and whenever I call a support I get a random guy who doesn't have an idea what to do to solve the problem. If you email or try to talk to a senior position, you get promises that your website will run smoothly in a couple of hours, but at the end you only get empty promises. The slow hosting continues and you lose visitors/customers. Avoid them at all costs!

Tip for consumers:
Avoid Host Gator at all costs! Their service is the worst! Their hosting is very slow!

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Thumbnail of user erinnh1
Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey there,

We want to get you taken care of. We have sent you a private message!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user davidc7729
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 14th, 2023
Verified purchase

Not Go, that's for sure. Got tired of getting charged for every little thing, so switched to HostGator a few years ago. Decent rates, good tech support, free SSLs and email accounts, etc. Highly recommended!

Thumbnail of user samuelt490
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 16th, 2024
Verified purchase

Best pricing and decent wordpress performance. Much better experience than GoDaddy especially the free SSL on all domains, GoDaddy is a rip off.

Thumbnail of user johnw5452
1 review
0 helpful votes
June 4th, 2022
Verified purchase

I am still having issues with sent emails, through Google) ending up in the recipients Spam folder. I found on the Google site what I thought might help resolve it and the Host Gator support tech helped me make the changes suggested but I (and my employees) are still having the issue. There is still some "finger pointing" going on between Google and HostGator.

Tech support person was helpful in implementing what was described to me as a "fix" for my issue. Still not resolved and not sure where to turn.

Reason I chose this business:

We Master at the time selected them

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Thumbnail of user pilarm30
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 12th, 2023
Verified purchase

I´ve choosed Hostgator in 2017 when I started my blog, and have been with them since then.
The Support team is the best, they always solved my issues swiftly.
Also it´s super useful that it can be reached by chat since English isn´t my first language and I don´t understand it very well by phone.
My blog grew into a nice business and never went offline (except for the times I´ve messed it up :P )
Great work HostGator!

Thumbnail of user stephaniem2649
1 review
0 helpful votes
May 18th, 2022
Verified purchase

Affordable, but slow and unreliable. I'm hosting some clients' websites on HostGator just while I develop them, but I would never use HostGator for their live sites.

Thumbnail of user erinnh1
Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Stephanie,

Thank you for your review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user ugure2
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 18th, 2024
Verified purchase

You have been a reliable host so far. The new version requires more and confusing steps for me to access to my files to update. I use Visual Studio to create content, then upload to HostGator. Your priority should provide "how to make it easy to access and update my files", instead of selling me features I don't need. Thank you, guys for being a good reliable host. Please continue with your previous model "better service" than your new "more sales" approach,

Thumbnail of user gregm1359
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
August 28th, 2023
Verified purchase

EXCELLENT Support via chat or phone! And more than just host, basic WP support, top notch

Thumbnail of user anar560
1 review
0 helpful votes
May 9th, 2022
Verified purchase

Good service, price and support, but some times You have a big problems with email services.

Godd service and atention, but some times your aupport crew has not the same knowledge.

Reason I chose this business:

Ten years working with your companie

Reason I chose this product:

Becauase you have a good service and offers

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Thumbnail of user erinnh1
Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Ana,

Thank you for your feedback. We greatly appreciate it.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user dannyg476
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 31st, 2024
Verified purchase

Previous administrator was already with HG. I decided to take over the hosting myself under my own account. It was all downhill from there. Nobody speaks understandable English, representatives will outright lie to you (I was told multiple times I was holding for a supervisor. 1 rep finally admitted there was no supervisor). Migration team doesn't accept phone calls. Everything is translated through the customer service team, which can't help at all. I will never, ever use this company

Thumbnail of user mdj66
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 16th, 2023
Verified purchase

I conducted deep research before purchasing and compared the hosting companies' belongings, their CEO's, founder, past history, reviews then, I figured out, this will be best option for shared plan :)

Thumbnail of user jamess6668
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 29th, 2022
Verified purchase

Host Gator has no clue how to handle a server updgrade. Our VPS server was down for 33hrs while the tech support kept saying 5-30min. They had no insight or updates, just "we're performing a migration to upgrade". After 33hrs of downtime the server was back up for about 24hrs and now it's down again. Tech support said the migration will be over "today". So, that's another day of missed revenue and angry clients. 4 days to perform a migration is just awful. Once the server is back up I'm getting a refund and moving my sites elsewhere.

Thumbnail of user erinnh1
Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey James,

We would love to make sure things are fixed. We have asked for more information so we can better assist.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Thumbnail of user brucer745
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 2nd, 2024
Verified purchase

Bait and switch. Dishonest and will trick you into a plan and then start hitting you up for charges. Even provided them with screen shots of their website showing what services were in my plan at the time of purchase and they still demanded addl fees for everything.
I don't understand it, Bluehost and Hostgator are owned by the same company, but one has been top notch, honest and helpful. And the other dishonest, misleading, and unhelpful.

rigid and unhelpful. provided screenshots of their own website and they still refused to honor what was advertised on their website. Took my money back and gave it to Bluehost.

Reason I chose this business:

I tried hostgator because it was the same owner as Bluehost and Bluehost seemed to be getting too expensive. Now I know why. I don't understand it, Bluehost and Hostgator are owned by the same company, but one has been top notch, honest and helpful. And the other dishonest, misleading, and unhelpful. Went back to Bluehost.

Tip for consumers:
Stay clear of Hostgator like the plague

Products used:
Bluehost Hosting. Rock solid and dependable. Great customer service. Had been with them 20 years before trying Hostgator. Went right back to Bluehost. A little more expensive but well worth it.

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Thumbnail of user olivierr37
1 review
0 helpful votes
May 4th, 2022
Verified purchase

So far so good. Wondering why my site seems to go offline for 10 minutes per night for the past two nights. Will inquire further if it keeps happening. Online support is mostly helpfull. Had one experience where I had to repeat myself 2 or 3 times to get the point accross but other than that, all good!

Already described in the previous section.

Reason I chose this business:

Saw a promo on a youtube video and upon visiting and lookimg for reviews, I thought it was a good option for my business.

Reason I chose this product:

I chose the business plan because I don't want to worry about storage space or number of domains as I have 1 site that is live and a second one that is in the works right now, but plan on having more in the near future. I also transfered a domain I had registered with Google in the past, so yeah, pretty satisfied so far with what I got for my money!

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Thumbnail of user erinnh1
Reputation T. – HostGator Rep

Hey Oliver,

Thank you for your kind review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

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From the business

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!

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