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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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Idaho
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Someone chose it for me, and I trusted them. They no longer help me.

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
Tennessee
1 review
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Changing features offered without notice, and continual price raising without adding actual value.

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
Costa Rica
1 review
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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.

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
Australia
1 review
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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.

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
Canada
1 review
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First hosting provider i have tried, but unfortunate that I've had to wait so long to get my php updated

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
Australia
1 review
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Easy to use GUI and helpful support team. Keep it up!

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
Florida
1 review
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The chat message us box is persistent and doesn't collapse or go away. It's very annoying and obstructs my view of the dashboard. This has been going on for some time.

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
Georgia
1 review
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Escalate support threatening to permanently shut my site

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
Australia
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Hard to find the proper information, hidden the information

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
Serbia
1 review
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It was perfect before now its not many viruses many problems with hosting many many problems. It doesn't worth anymore

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
Colorado
1 review
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I can't talk about this now
March 13, 2024

I can't talk about this now. Will report back later

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
Florida
1 review
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I've been here since 2008
March 3, 2024

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.

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
New Jersey
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Tech support sucks
March 13, 2024

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.

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
PS
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Yes I ask you to upgrade the php version to be 8+ before 2 month ago and still 7.4

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
Armenia
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March 3, 2024

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Date of experience: March 3, 2024
Canada
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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.

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
GB
1 review
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Reasonable years ago now just seems prone to annoyance

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
NL
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YOU GUYS OPPOSE MY DOMAIN TO MALWARE, AND WORKING WITH YOUR SUPPORT DOES SEEM TO HELP.
What a pity! THANKS, BUT NO THANKS.
HAD ENOUGH.

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
Saudi Arabia
1 review
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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.

Date of experience: March 2, 2024
California
1 review
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You guys suck everytime, im not sure why im to lazy to movie all my domains to another company.

Date of experience: March 2, 2024