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Overview

Overall, the company has established a reputation for providing reliable services and competitive pricing, with many customers noting ease of use and effective technical support. However, concerns regarding customer service persist, particularly related to inconsistent support experiences and delays in response times. While some users have had positive interactions with knowledgeable representatives, others reported frustrations with unresolved issues and inadequate communication. Despite these challenges, a significant number of long-term customers express satisfaction and loyalty, indicating that while improvements in customer service are needed, the core offerings are generally well-regarded.

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Australia
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My issue putting a paid SSL on my client's domain has been terrible and still not fixed. Between your chat support and your tech team, there is no communication. This has been the most terrible experience and I think issue has been caused by your migration last December.

Date of experience: March 5, 2024
Bangladesh
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The renew fee is exorbitant!
March 28, 2024

The renew fee is exorbitant! I demand to know if there are any options for reducing the cost or if there is a way to negotiate a lower fee. It's important to me that I'm getting a fair price and I will not settle for anything less.

Date of experience: March 18, 2024
Peru
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They do not have the updated PHP version in my account, I should have at least the version to choose from 8.1 but I only have version 7.4 and that means that my page is not secure due to its poor management, I have been paying for years and they do not update my version.

Date of experience: March 22, 2024
Egypt
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A wonderful and excellent experience and the service works very wonderfully as it suits you

Date of experience: September 4, 2024
New York
1 review
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Your customer support has failed to help us renew our domain name for 6 weeks now. Everyone's very nice but nobody can get us an answer.
Domain is drtomfolk.com and we have at least 7 attempts now to correct it. Thank you,
Frank Brady for Dr. Tom Folk
*******720
*******@aol.com
*******@aol.com

Date of experience: January 15, 2024
South Africa
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I have to reload several times before the system can sign me in. I have to do the same to access my cPanel and lastly and most frustrating, you've refused to upgrade us to php 8.3 since last year so nope am not a very happy customer

Date of experience: February 26, 2024
Virginia
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Every time I have trouble logging in to see panel or web Mail, When I login right here, I still can't open. My email takes several tries then somehow I usually get in. I used to be able to login and get to it right away every time. And right now, I won't even let me leave you this rating.

Date of experience: February 2, 2024
Texas
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I love Host Gator because whenever I had a question, I was always able to get a live agent. Instead of having their customers go through the time-consuming, frustrating, none-humaned; FAQ (process of elimination) questionnaire.for their customer service option. At one point, no matter what time of the day I called, someone always answered. But, now-a-days their hours are more limited. Yet, I still love them because, whenever I am able to catch them (because I work so late). Whoever answers, they are always patient, helpful, and attentive to all my concerns. And for these reasons, I just love HOST GATOR.

Date of experience: February 8, 2024
Japan
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The plan is now way too expensive
April 10, 2024

The plan is now way too expensive. I used to pay $11 a month for the baby plan. It is now over $20. With exchange rates, that is even more. I am now in the process of transferring to a different web host.

Date of experience: March 31, 2024
Idaho
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Would not recommend since your holding my info for ransom and probably selling my info. I get calls days in for my website. Since this is for school to learning how to code. Once done, will end this hot garbage.

Date of experience: March 17, 2024
Pennsylvania
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I was very upset, and everyone was professional and helped in the best way they could.
I apologize for being upset. I am new to web design and I am often overwhelmed with simple "back end" issues. I will try to remain calm on future calls. My apologies to the patient and professional women that helped me.
Daniel

Date of experience: April 30, 2022
Reputation T. HostGator Rep
over a year old

Hey Daniel,

We totally understand how issues can be frustrating. No worries. We are always happy to help!

DJ
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Philippines
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First I was so worried maybe I can no longer restore my web files.
When I chat with one of your support staff, they advised me to restore my backup luckily I have restore some of my backup. Plus they have adjusted and restored my old PHP back.
Thanks Support really a great help.

Date of experience: April 13, 2022
Reputation T. HostGator Rep
over a year old

Hey Maritess,

We definitely have good support. Thank you for your awesome review.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Greece
1 review
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The revamped interface is significantly less user-friendly. I find it quite intolerable; there's a sense of chaos, and the payment history is nowhere to be found. It's nearly impossible to locate the option to settle a particular invoice, and the overall impression is that of utter disarray!

Date of experience: January 16, 2024
Belgium
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Sometimes it is slow in signing in
February 16, 2024

Sometimes it is slow in signing in

Quite complicated to use for someone who is not expert in the field (i.e. In many occasions not self-explanatory)

I receive messages to pay for additional services with not much explanation of what I get and some of them may already overlap with previous services I have already paid for

Date of experience: February 9, 2024
Georgia
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Terrible service
January 22, 2024

Terrible service. I am missing tools on my dashboard that I have paid for and for over a month i have been contacting support. They have no clue and don't care to help me. My production is on hold because of this.

Date of experience: January 15, 2024
Romania
1 review
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I had trouble with uploading pictures through wordpress but I guess is because of the shared hosting. Other than ghe slow speeds(which I believe isndue to my subscription plan) everything works perfect!

Date of experience: November 3, 2021
DJ S. HostGator Rep
over a year old

Hey Adrian,

Thank you for your feedback! Feel free to reach out to our support to look into those slow speeds!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Pakistan
1 review
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Accidently chosen the wordpress
May 1, 2023

Accidently chosen the wordpress. Becuase it does not offer the services metnioned in their plane on the website.
Business Plan now e-Commerce Plan has been following offerings:

1.Unlimited disk space: It is limited to 20 GB and 100,000 files which.
2. $500 Google Ad spend match credit AND $100 Microsoft Advertising credit: It is a joke
3. Cloudflare CDN​: yet not configured
4. Dedicated IP address​: I have enabled after requesting the support.

Date of experience: April 1, 2023
Maryland
1 review
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I am struggling creating my website
October 15, 2021

I am struggling creating my website. I completed the form to request assistance. A rep called me back but during work hours so I couldn't answer. They did great by following up via email referring me to make an appointment. However, I made the appointment but the rep never called. I'm still stuck in frustration mode.

HostGator attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: September 15, 2021
DJ S. HostGator Rep
over a year old

Hey Hope,

We would be more than happy to get someone involved here. We have asked an Escalations Manager to reach out and set this up.

DJ
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Utah
1 review
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My website got hacked. Hostgator was slow to respond. Never really offered any help. Back up was not effective. No other options. Found a cheap freelancer who fixed it FAST. Really dissapointed that hostgator couldnt do something, anything. Then I was told hostgator is not that secure and that I should switch to a better host.

Date of experience: November 25, 2020
Reputation T. HostGator Rep
over a year old

Hi David,

Oh no! That is not at all how we normally handle security issues like that. We'd like to take a look at what happened, so if you could please respond to our DM requesting more information we'd really appreciate it.

Also, whomever told you that HostGator is not secure is just plain wrong, our site is very secure and we take that security very seriously. We offer many ways for you to protect your site. Thanks.

Erinn
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Japan
1 review
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The first screen that I have been getting recently after I login to the billing system is a page trying to sell me a product which I have to opt out of to continue. I could do without that. I don't like having sales pushed on me like that.

Date of experience: April 3, 2024