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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.


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HostGator Reviews Summary

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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Canada
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Prices and reliability
January 7, 2024

Prices and reliability. They provide good client service.

Date of experience: January 7, 2024
South Africa
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The old Hostgator Billing Portal use to be functional and easier to navigate. Now its a struggle just to jump to your Cpanel or Emails quickly as a site / server owner

Date of experience: January 7, 2024
PG
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Because it is the first and only web hosting service I ever use.

Date of experience: January 7, 2024
South Africa
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The new layout and menu options is so confusing and not easy to understand. Even thing of switch to a different service provider.

Date of experience: January 7, 2024
Denmark
2 reviews
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The new Billing site has many issues, why do you launch something with so many issues?
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Date of experience: January 7, 2024
Florida
1 review
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Customer service is great, except when it comes to billing. I had an issue where I explicitly said I wanted to cancel a service but forgot to turn off auto bill. Now, that is on me, but billing wasn't helpful in getting the account canceled and refunded. Now I have to carry and pay for two accounts (one I do not use). THis was enough annoyance to make me reconsider a new hosting site in the future.

Date of experience: January 7, 2024
Arizona
1 review
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Sitelock being broken on our site,(winip.news) and your technical team not fixing the issue is a dangerous problem. It cant be a development issue if it works on my other site!...(portofwinlock.com) You still advertise it as one of your features which I pay for... What else can I expect to go wrong?

Date of experience: January 7, 2024
Missouri
1 review
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The Portal changes suck
January 14, 2024

The Portal changes suck. I need quick access to the file manager.

Date of experience: January 7, 2024
Viet Nam
1 review
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You have made logging in and access to the cpanel so much harder than it needs to be. I am tired of having an add be shown to me in order to manage my server.

Date of experience: January 6, 2024
Brazil
1 review
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I did in the past but the pricing increased ridiculously.

Date of experience: January 6, 2024
North Carolina
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I have no idea, tbh
January 13, 2024

I have no idea, tbh. At this point, you've made it incredibly difficult to edit the website I manage.

Date of experience: January 6, 2024
Colorado
1 review
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Long time customer; good value for cheap hosting... in the last several years, interface and usability have gone down considerably - why doesn't the immediate login take me to my cPanel?

Date of experience: January 6, 2024
Australia
1 review
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Your customer service is amongst the worst I have ever encountered. So much so I am currently looking at alternative providers after 13 years with Hostgator

Date of experience: January 6, 2024
Texas
1 review
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You try to sell me something before I can eben get to the dashboard. I've bought hosting if I've gotten this far. Distracting and greedy.

Not intuitive. Not user friendly. Not easy to find anything. Everything is a funnel to Hostgator trying to sell you something additional instead of simply providing the product I purchased...hosting. I've been with hostgator for 4 years and am looking for a new vendor.

Date of experience: January 6, 2024
Virginia
1 review
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Love the interface, ease of use, and customer service

Date of experience: January 6, 2024
New Jersey
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Cost and supposed ease
January 13, 2024

Cost and supposed ease. Although I am having issues because I am trying to learn wordpress on youtube while building this site.

Date of experience: January 6, 2024
Czechia
1 review
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I am customer for HostGator more than 8 years, but i am not happy from the support, i have a lot of problems not resolved until now such as i have emails, and i can't receive all my emails from customers, they call me daily they sent emails, but i did not received

Date of experience: January 6, 2024
Austria
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A bit of a learning curve on the hosting management portal

Date of experience: January 6, 2024
California
1 review
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Because it has the most features I am looking at at a reasonable cost, but our site has been hacked twice so Hostgator security appears to be suboptimal and the cpanel is not that easy to use.

Date of experience: January 6, 2024
Georgia
1 review
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I originally chose Hostgator because it seemed like a good option to build and host my website. Now I have had so many issues with my hosting plan and talking to the support team to resolve my problems that I am now shopping for another hosting provider.

Date of experience: January 6, 2024