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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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We're facing problems in making payments in dollars every time.

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
Arizona
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This is my sixth time trying to fix my problem. No one has been able to help me.

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
Florida
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I Have been trying to add privacy to one of my domains but nothing was done to resolve the issue? Disappointed with the new service.

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
Canada
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Very disappointed...
March 3, 2024

Very disappointed... this new layout is extremely complicated... not easy friendly. Very friendly support service. (This is not what we pay for) situations that could be resolved in 5 minutes take hours... and then we can't We don't even know how to express our disappointment... where can we file a complaint? Nobody knows... very sad

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
Florida
1 review
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Because godaddy sucks and siteground support has turned into 90% chatbot and 10% support. It was...the other way around. You guys rock!

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
South Africa
1 review
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Originally was great hosting, customer service and price point was good. But customer care and hosting became a massive problem this year

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
California
1 review
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I see an invoice but what I want to know is what domain it is for

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
Kuwait
2 reviews
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I regret choosing HostGator
March 3, 2024

I regret choosing HostGator. For two days I am not able to do anything on my dashboard because I'm getting an error message "something went wrong, please try again later". It has been two days now, I chatted numerous times with customer care representatives, I spoke numerous times on the phone, they opened a case two days ago, I received emails telling me the case has been accelerated and the engineering team is working to fix the problem, and so far after two days nothing has been done. I'm seriously considering to transfer to another hosting company.

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
California
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It's the easiest way to set up unlimited domains with unlimited email addresses. Too many clicks to get to phpMyAdmin every time though.

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
Canada
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Highly complicated site building with highly outdated and unbelievably unfriendly WordPress system

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
Utah
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One of my sites won't attach SSL, but the other site i have that is on the same package and plan that i bought on the same day works just fine

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
Washington
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Takes several tries to get to the option I'm going for; a slight change messes up all our emails once I've finally convinced the interface to navigate to the domain I need.

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
California
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We were promised you would fix our email problems, then you upsold us on a new product that you said would fix our email problems, now we're in a long term contract with you and are terribly unhappy.

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
Missouri
1 review
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Price in the beginning, but excellent customer service has come with it as well.

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
Florida
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You pay for a website and all the extras for 5 years. It doesn't work and they want more money to fix it. Support drops phone call after 456 minutes very frustrating

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
California
2 reviews
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I have been with Hostgator since 2016 and all of my websites have been down at some point. Over 30 Domains and Malware all the time.

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
South Carolina
1 review
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The last provider could not keep me off the spam list. Your hosting is not either, but no one can tell me how to fix it. It hurts my business.

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
Utah
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I;ve had an escalated case open for several days now... I'm not able to access my domains admin panels... I get a 404 error and when I transferred my site and domains to you it wasn't done correctly and old DNS info is still in there. My site is only half working, many images are broken... moving to hostgator has been anything but good so far

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
Canada
1 review
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Long before I subscribed, I heard about Host Gator that it is a very good hosting company. Unfortunately, that was not true anymore when I moved my website to them.
I couldn't imagine that a company can have such a poor customer service. And by poor I mean incompetent, dishonest, and without any respect for their customer's time.
I have had a few positive experiences with customer service, which is why my rating is two stars and not one. Unfortunately, the majority of them were awful.
If I were in a position of power at Host Gator, I would look very carefully at the hiring process for customer service representatives.

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
Arizona
1 review
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Migration site from one of my plans to another has been a total disaster with an incredibly inefficient and almost impossible to reach tech support.

Date of experience: February 21, 2024