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HostGator has a rating of 3.6 stars from 13,422 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.

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Saudi Arabia
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Date of experience: January 10, 2024
New Jersey
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My site looks fine
January 29, 2024

My site looks fine. Getting support is difficult and often i find the answers on google after may failed attempts by your support team. The web editor is missing important functionality related to basic SEO needs.

Date of experience: January 22, 2024
New York
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The chat member was very nice, understood the problem and within 10 minutes or so had it fixed. I was happy!

Date of experience: August 21, 2024
TW
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Website stops all the time, Can pay anymore without a contract with paypal, I don't want a contract, why am I forced to use it?. I see 4 accounts number in payment method. But does not define what those are. The whole new website and functionality is so much worse and harder to navigate than before. Bad user experience.

Date of experience: January 18, 2024
Iowa
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HG was great several years ago
January 16, 2024

HG was great several years ago. Now, every time something is changed in their end my site breaks. Then they blame me. Days to fix. Tired of spending time fixing their mistakes. CSR does not understand issue. Language issues. Took my site and domain elsewhere.

Date of experience: January 9, 2024
GB
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Have been with Hostgator for many years
March 8, 2024

Have been with Hostgator for many years. But since a problem arose, they have been absolutely awful, it is now over 6 weeks later, my website is down and they are doing nothing fast to fix it. Support only passes on messages, nothing gets done!

Date of experience: February 27, 2024
Greece
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Hostgator became quite expensive compared with other top hosting providers. Reduced max site number to 3 for business when others have 15 and 25.
And the last week it has issues all over and I cant finish the rollover of the sites.

Date of experience: January 12, 2024
GB
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Feels like the log in experience changes constantly. Information I need feels like it's hidden and always difficult to find. It hasn't always been like this. When I joined Host gator my experience was much better. But a few years ago price went up massively and support and user experience became much more negative experience. Each year I consider leaving but it feels too difficult to do so. So I stay and I feel trapped.

Date of experience: April 4, 2024
Georgia
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You keep changing the Portal interface
April 6, 2024

You keep changing the Portal interface. You don't make it better - just different. And it still doesn't work on mobile devices? Maybe 20 years of smartphones is not long enough for HostGator to figure it out yet.

Date of experience: March 27, 2024
California
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The new design is awful
April 8, 2024

The new design is awful. I must now spend way too much time trying to find simple things like cPanel and settings like name servers. Seems like a lot of extra steps have been added, none of which are intuitive. If I were new at this, I still don't think it would be easy to find anything.

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Maryland
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My experience has drastically decreased with time
February 2, 2024

My experience has drastically decreased with time. The sad thing is, I have only increased my packages with time, but service has gone down. 24, now 48 hours and no updates on my escalated ticket. I buy a new, upgraded VPS package, and haven't even been able to use it yet. Service and promptness used to be much better, as well as quality of the product. Please convince me to stay...

Date of experience: January 26, 2024
AE
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Issue with Domain
December 17, 2023

We have migrated to our new Billing Interface, and unfortunately, the renewal action for my domain from Launchpad has encountered an issue. After more than a week they still cannot resolve it, I am move to a better hosting provider with better support, this is really effecting my business

Date of experience: December 10, 2023
Ohio
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After finally getting email forwarding back after three months of it being broken, they dropped our windows hosting account with no warning, no opportunity to renew. HostGator sucks. Do not use, do not recommend.

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
Texas
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The level of customer service has gone down a lot. We are always talking to people that do not have access to more technical information when requested. You do not offer 24/7 tech support, real tech support, not just someone who answers phones.

Date of experience: March 12, 2024
Canada
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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.

Date of experience: January 8, 2024
Texas
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Over a month with unresolved issues
March 29, 2024

Over a month with unresolved issues. Majority of reps did the bare minimum to resolve situation. Multiple support tickets were closed without verification of a resolution. Last rep that assisted me (DAN) went above and beyond to resolve the matter and succeeded.

Date of experience: March 19, 2024
Romania
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Wordpress would not work for a couple of weeks
January 20, 2024

Wordpress would not work for a couple of weeks. There is always an advertisment trying to sell privacy to me every time I log in. I will probably change hosts when my hosting fee is due again because of it.

Date of experience: January 13, 2024
Texas
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Your service is horrible
March 11, 2024

Your service is horrible. I have not been able to resolve a refund issue that has been going on for 8 months now. I am looking for an alternative hosting service. Host Gator let me account get hacked and has not corrected the error.

Date of experience: March 1, 2024
Chile
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Excellent service given by this community that give publication facilities

Date of experience: September 17, 2024
Texas
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Was able to quick access my issue and come up with a solution.

Date of experience: September 17, 2024