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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.
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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Someone chose it for me, and I trusted them. They no longer help me.
HostGator is my first choice due to Reliability and price. Please STOP upselling your privacy protection on the splash screen. It looks like a cheap trap, and reduces my perception of trust.
Gator appears to have reduced the help staff, increased wait times, making it painful to resolve issues. The staff are great and pit in extra effort.
I feel that the overall package is not as good as it was.
Great to see proactive customer feedback being checked.
First hosting provider i have tried, but unfortunate that I've had to wait so long to get my php updated
Easy to use GUI and helpful support team. Keep it up!
Escalate support threatening to permanently shut my site
It was perfect before now its not many viruses many problems with hosting many many problems. It doesn't worth anymore
I can't talk about this now. Will report back later
I've been here since 2008. I was with Register.com who were horrible. You guys were nice. However, now it's much more expensive, and I need to shop around. I'm trying to get someone to help me stay, but it's hard talking to a bot. They don't understand exactly what I'm asking.
Tech support sucks. They don't let you talk to the people that are actually handling your case so it is a game of "telephone" where the person you talk to on the phone just relays the wrong information to the people who are working on your case. I had my case "closed" three times because they thought they had resolved the issue when they had not even come close to resolving the issue.
Yes I ask you to upgrade the php version to be 8+ before 2 month ago and still 7.4
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You dirty $#*!ing con artists are the biggest pieces of $#*!ing $#*! on earth, way $#*!ing worse than those $#*! suckers from iPage. You low life $#*!s made a page to show the privacy update bs, and it doesn't even $#*!ing say which domain it is for... I thought it was for the one I wanted to protect and I find it it's for the one I am canceling, you stupid $#*!ing $#*! sucking mother $#*!ers, I hope you burn in $#*!ing hell.
Reasonable years ago now just seems prone to annoyance
Bad bad bad experience support going down not like before (last time 2-3 hours our support will contact you) its joke. Other said we r not a security company. It's your servers you must protect it Gator, i thinking to move to another provider.
You guys suck everytime, im not sure why im to lazy to movie all my domains to another company.
Answer: SITEGROUND FIXED IN HOURS WHAT HOSTGATOR DID NOT OR COULD NOT FIX IN 9 DAYS
Answer: The chat will get you to someone but they will never know what to do to help you. Courteous but useless.
Answer: Hi Bill, We are most definitely a legit company. We've been in the web hosting business since 2002. We've recently been rated in #2 in the top 10 web hosting companies but The Top 10. https://web-hosting.thetop10sites.com/ You can also see our current web hosting offerings here: https://www.hostgator.com/ Please let us know if you have any other questions. Thanks! Erinn Reputation Manager for HostGator

