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Founded in 2002
Houston, Texas, United States
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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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Texas
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The new format has caused issues with billing and the SSL certificates across all sites. The amount of time we have to devote to this issue is unacceptable.

Date of experience: January 5, 2024
Thailand
1 review
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Renewed subscription but looks like I still need to submit a ticket to remove the suspended page. Everything with Hostgator is painful, and to add insult to injury your greedy price mandated price increase, without any consideration to legacy customers that have supported you for decades shows that you are a company without ethics that cannot be trusted.

Date of experience: January 5, 2024
Nigeria
1 review
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My website (nbstaffcooperative.com) has been disabled for more than three weeks now and all efforts made, for Hostgator to resolve and restore it back, proved abortive.
I sent mail, no response.
I chatted with three representatives at different times, but the situation remained unchanged.

Date of experience: January 5, 2024
Zambia
1 review
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So far so good
Just work on your invoicing procedures,.

Date of experience: January 5, 2024
AE
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Web servers are always infected with Malware,Customer Serivce is very poor they dont resovle issue most of the time.

Date of experience: January 5, 2024
California
1 review
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Way back in the day, reputation
January 5, 2024

Way back in the day, reputation. Today, I still appreciate the reputation, AND now many years later, I have always received great product and service.

Date of experience: January 4, 2024
Australia
1 review
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It seemed to offer good value and have a long standing reputation

Date of experience: January 4, 2024
Colorado
2 reviews
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Trying to get used to your new platform and the customer service has changed not for the better

Date of experience: January 4, 2024
Texas
1 review
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It's much more difficult to go to my email, and the chat box is blocking my view. Cannot close it or minimize it.

Date of experience: January 4, 2024
Mexico
1 review
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Why am i almost alwats directed to the library if i wanted to read there is a nice library in the city i live at tech support to me is one on one with a knowlegable person not a go to library and lets mess soething up thank you i was with namecheap before i got out and moved to hostgator because the salesman told me we have great tech support, i thinkyou maybe hire the old librarians from namecheap

Date of experience: January 4, 2024
Zimbabwe
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I love the interface especially the old one. It still is great in many ways.

Date of experience: January 4, 2024
California
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I just added a second website and I do NOT want to use Wordpress there. I want to use the Basic Website Builder like I used on my first website. Wordpress will not work for this new site, and it is forcing me to research other hosting options.

Date of experience: January 4, 2024
Washington
1 review
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Its great and cost effective
January 4, 2024

Its great and cost effective. Best service I have ever used!

Date of experience: January 4, 2024
New York
1 review
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Your customer service is terrible!
January 11, 2024

Your customer service is terrible! I was on hold for 45 minutes for issues that I have not been resolved for weeks

Date of experience: January 4, 2024
Arizona
1 review
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I've been w/Hostgator since 2010 and I have NEVER had a rate increase doubling my monthly payment AND INCREASED WITHOUT NOTICE. All I received is apologies for the lack of communication received from the company.
I am considering another hosting company to house all of my company's business needs. I no longer trust a company that would double it's rates on long standing customers, plus force customers to "save" credit card information on the site so payments can be auto-billed without permission, and so many other things.
Let's just say, I've grown despondent w/Hostgator and maybe it's time to part ways. They're not the only game in town (or didn't they know that).

Date of experience: January 4, 2024
Guatemala
1 review
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I have two contracted planes, a shared plan and a vps plan, I am paying double and now they say I have unlimited space.

Date of experience: January 4, 2024
BO
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The support is not good, and the updates they make cause my website to crash, and the support people do not solve the problem but instead keep me waiting and I have to contact them, the verification phase is also very tedious.

Date of experience: January 4, 2024
California
1 review
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You have made the log in procedure much more extensive, requiring multiple clicks to get to my email. Also, I don't want to keep seeing the promotional page, but I can't get rid of it.

Date of experience: January 4, 2024
Gambia
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The current user interface is not user friendly and very confusing., takes me a long time to figure out what is what...previous interface was much simpler...wish there was an option to switch to that one

Date of experience: January 4, 2024
Honduras
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The changes to the plattform make difficult to navegate in the menu. Asking for privacy (paying an amount) after loging in, is a pain in the a**.

Date of experience: January 4, 2024