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We used HostGator to host our websites. We didn't have a lot of traffic going to the site so we needed a cheaper hosting option and went with HostGator. We reviewed a bunch of other web hosts and this fit what we needed the most for the price. We also got a really good sign-up promotion so it was a great deal.
- They are a very cheap option to host websites.
- They had a simple interface.
- There were plenty of how-to articles and videos online.
- Customer service was pretty good.
- The interface was a bit dated and could have been refreshed.
- There was occasional downtime that seemed like it lasted longer than it should have.
- Renewal prices are higher.
January 15, 2020
HostGator: Fill your needs without emptying your wallet
- I have used HostGator in 2 capacities. First, in daily use, our district utilizes HostGator for our web hosting services. When our previous host became too expensive and unresponsive, we found HostGator did everything we needed better. It was cheaper and more efficient than our last host. Tech support was responsive at implementation, and there have been very few times we've needed to contact support since the product is stable and reliable.
- I've also used HostGator in another organization through which email services are provided. In this capacity, I also find it stable, and it offers a variety of email clients to help fit our needs the best.
- The Control Panel for web hosting is very user friendly.
- Tech support is always responsive.
- Tech support is responsive and helpful, but not without a special pin code. Since we need tech support infrequently when I do, I can never find that pin. It would be nice to have a quick client verification system.
- Publishing updated pages are quick but could be faster by eliminating a couple of extraneous click.
My client required a new website, domain, and Webhosting. The company wanted to keep the website operations within one company platform as much as possible and at a reasonable cost, and after some extensive research and advice from colleagues, she decided on HostGator for domain and Webhosting, and the HostGator website builder to create and maintain her new website.
- cPanel is a wonderful one-stop-shop. Multiple web building support tools.
- If my client hadn't chosen the HostGator website builder, we would have gone with WordPress Installer, included in the package. Additional HostGator website builders included.
- Emails provided with the domain. Better than having to rely on 2nd party email servers.
- Decent add ons, such as SEO Gears.
- Too many supported website builders competing with one another (Gator, Weebly, goMobi, Joomla, HostGator website builder). One or two plus WordPress Installer would be sufficient and cut down on the confusion of choices. Why have Gator AND HostGator website builders?
- Unnecessary to offer Constant Contact as a carrot. It's an expensive add-on.
- Navigating around the cPanel is great if you know what you need to do, but not so intuitive for first-timers.
February 22, 2020
HostGator's hosting is reliable and a value for the price
I use HostGator's reseller shared hosting for client websites and a couple of my own sites. I use it for less-trafficked websites and lower budget clients. HostGator's shared hosting allows for a cheaper alternative to VPS hosting while sacrificing speed where it isn't needed. The service's uptime is very decent and a good value overall for the money.
- Inexpensive
- Reliable uptime
- Wait times in support chat can belong.
- First-tier support isn't always knowledgeable in technical details.
January 18, 2020
HostGator is a great value for the price.
My company uses HostGator as our web host. Their services have been exemplary and they have almost 100% uptime. Part of our reason for choosing them was their cPanel access, which I find very intuitive and full of value added features. Our website is WordPress-based, and HostGator makes updating our site a very straightforward process.
- CPanel access makes accessing my information easy.
- Adding and deleting sub-sites is simple.
- Their packages are geared more toward bigger companies.
- Login process is a bit convoluted, and they bury too many important controls.
October 29, 2018
HostGator will Eat You Up and Spit You Out, but will do it with friendly and professional support.
HostGator provides the company with internet hosting. The company started using HostGator several years ago on a shared server, and gradually upgraded to a dedicated server. It hosts my website, and the websites of some clients. It was chosen based on price, as the business owners were capable of providing their own tech support.
- The pricing is a big feature for this hosting company
- Every three years when the hosting contract is coming to an end, they offer a reduced fee to upgrade your server plan, which is more cost effective than renewing at the regular rate for whatever plan you're currently using.
- The customer service workers are professional and friendly.
- The technical support is very deficient. If you are going to be relying on your host for all things technical, HostGator isn't a great choice for you. They're professional and friendly, but when you actually run into an issue, it will be a challenge to resolve.
- During the latest server upgrade HostGator was to handle the migration of all sites on our Windows based server over to the new Linux based server. While doing so, the technicians left open a gap for hackers to infiltrate the old server which was then partially encrypted with ransomeware. A half a dozen sites hadn't yet been fully migrated at that point. HostGator said nothing about not finishing the migration - we figured it out when specific sites weren't working properly. They then said it wasn't possible to migrate them. Fortunately, one of the business owners had the technical capability to migrate 4 of the 6, and then rebuilt the two that were lost.
- Unless you have a solid technical background, you're going to be disappointed with HostGator. They often can't determine the cause of technical issues, or claim it's impossible to fix the issues. However, the business partner always ends up solving the issues.
We use HostGator to host our website, and to provide automated backups of the website. We get our SSL certificate through them, and also have their SiteLock add-on for providing an additional piece of security. To manage the site, we use their cPanel interface. Until about a year ago, we also had them hosting our email addresses but we migrated off of that plan, and retained only the website services.
- A simple backup is included at no cost
- Haven't experienced any downtime for 2 years
- Uses cPanel, which is familiar and easy to work with
- Support could be better, it takes a long time to connect with somebody
- You need to pay extra for a backup you can rely on
- SiteLock is sold separately, but did not help when we were hacked
- Site seems to slow down from time to time
February 15, 2018
Good product for starting your business
I have been using HostGator for my business and personal domain for well over 10 years. I use HostGator's services for my website, emails, Moodle platforms, and custom projects. I've set the members as well to use their services. I have also used HostGator to manage my domains. Their service has been solid and reliable.
- Setup and management is easy.
- Customer and Technical Support is fantastic.
- Prices are reasonable.
- I use a shared server and I've had some confusion with setting up a unique IP. It didn't perform as expected.
- My website has been hacked a few times and HostGator had no alarms in place to notify me.
- I've had some email issues where my emails were blocked from some servers. But I don't do SPAM. And HG was unable to help me figure out the reason.
September 08, 2017
Great for the run of the mill site
HostGator is being used to host ~10 WordPress, Drupal, and static site installations along with ~15 mailboxes and multiple forwarders. For certain clients, backend usage of PHPMyAdmin for direct database manipulation was used to build and administer custom applications within their sites. DNS is not used, but almost all aspects of vanilla hosting (i.e. no value-add components like CloudFlare) are used.
- cPanel is clear and functional; administrative areas are clear
- Power to do what you need to yourself with nominal fee -- <$10 to enable SSH, or to have them install an SSL cert of your own
- Good analytics to track CPU usage and general resource allocation
- Convenient billing interface makes managing multiple hosting packages simple and easy
- Support team response time is fairly slow; be prepared for long holds.
- Only recently is the company coming out of a reliability slump -- in months past, sites would go offline, sometimes for as long as hours, with no explanation or ETA for fix.
- The upselling is massive -- be prepared for borderline spam from HostGator partners.
September 06, 2017
Using HostGator from a reseller's perspective.
We are a web hosting company reselling HostGator's services to our customers. We had made the decision to become a web hosting company initially because of our eCommerce clients that we process their credit card payments for to ensure that they were processing via a secure method. From there, since we had the extra capacity, we made the service commercially available to others and have been happy with the service.
- Support - while it's not always the greatest and more on-time of other companies, HostGator does help with the support of my clients' sites when needed.
- Pricing - For our needs, the HostGator reseller pricing was acceptable to us without us needing to put too much in up-front.
- I'd like to see faster response times to trouble tickets as there are some issues that are very time sensitive and cannot wait several days for resolution.
- It would be good for HostGator to allow resellers the ability to join Windows and Linux servers under a single reseller option instead of requiring double reseller packages if a reseller requires both servers.
March 23, 2017
HostGator: Above Average Site Hosting
Our organization has used HostGator for years with no interest in moving to other host servers. We use its web hosting services for all our digital content. It's cost effective and has offered good support in time of need. I find the control panel to be easily navigable and like the helpful reminders and alerts it gives me when I need to do a backup or any other issue that we need to deal with.
- Support staff - this is key for any hosting company. If something happens to your site you want a dedicated crew who will be friendly, supportive and work fast to solve any issues.
- Price - working for a nonprofit this is key. Host gator offers reasonable packages.
- Backup options - we like the variations of backup options (DIY or having a team conduct the backup).
- Speed- it's a little slow at times, though we're looking into trying HostGator Cloud which is apparently much faster.
- Even despite decent pricing, it does use pricing tricks which get a little annoying (i.e. sign up for a year of service in order for us to get the best price). Not unreasonable, but might be a con to some.
- Extra Fee for ‘True’ Backups - these can add up.
August 08, 2018
A very good choice for shared cloud hosting
I used HostGator to host my most important websites. I chose HostGator because it is one of the most popular hosting services. It offers a very affordable cloud hosting service which is faster and more reliable than traditional shared hosting. I used several hosting plan types on HostGator. I like the Business Cloud hosting the best because it offers hosting for unlimited websites and unlimited bandwidth.
- HostGator is a very reputable company. So you know that your website is in good hands.
- They have one of the most affordable cPanel cloud hosting services that you can find.
- The speed of HostGator's hosting is pretty fast. And little to no downtime.
- The hosting dashboard is always slow for me. And it's hard to navigate around.
- Not providing free SSL certificates and not allowing installation of free SSL certificates are big minuses for me
- The pricing is not straightforward.
June 14, 2018
Don't Go With A Start Up - Go with HostGator
We use HostGator for our current website and hosting and for over one hundred client's hosting and servers. It solves the hosting problem of our clients. They need quality hosting and HostGator provides this. They also have servers that have a great price and high quality. You can't go wrong.
- Hosting
- Servers
- Customer Service
- Hackers can slide in and they take a while to catch those. Or at least update you that someone tried to hack.
September 06, 2017
HostGator - Not just hosting for alligators!
HostGator has allowed our business to host our own website and host our clients' websites. It's been a great solution to not hosting MySQL and PHP on our own servers. The management fees for what you get are a great value.
- They have a great knowledge base of FAQ information.
- HostGator has excellent support teams - I've needed both account and technical support and never been let down.
- Their library of quick installs for different platforms or CMSs has options other companies don't offer.
- As far as things that could be done differently, they updated their site and now it's two different areas to log in to.
- The email to renew a domain name has the domain name in an attachment rather than the body of the email.
- The service ticket area could be updated more often to straighten out closed issues - they'll complete the task or close the issue but not update the ticket status.
October 02, 2017
Okay Hosting - Terrible Customer Service
HostGator was one of my first web hosts about ten years ago. They were and still are very affordable. We stopped using HostGator about seven months ago, though, had been using another hosting company for a few years previous to canceling altogether with HostGator. Initially, HostGator solved hosting needs along with PHP support and cPanel access.
- Affordable
- Fast Set up
- Free cPanel
- Customer Service
- Renewals are confusing
- Adding items to your shopping cart for you instead of asking you if you want them.
September 08, 2017
Fantastic hosting for your clients!
We use it daily to host clients websites and email accounts.
- Hosting
- Email Packages
- Business Account is the best deal!
- Customer Service
- Easier Cpanel
- Easier Billing
August 29, 2017
Take a bite out of your hosting needs
We have used HostGator for entry level web clients who need affordable hosting options.
- HostGator provides good hosting for website clients looking to save money while building a digital presence.
- Customer service has been helpful.
- Additional WP optimization options would make them a better competitor.
- User interface lacks compared to platforms like GoDaddy and WPEngine.
September 06, 2016
Affordable and robust web hosting plans with HostGator
I use HostGator for my personal website and a few freelance sites that I've created for clients. When we need to select a hosting provider for a client I've found that HostGator has very competitive product offerings, competitive pricing, and often has excellent promotions.
- Affordable hosting plans
- Reliable web hosting
- Excellent up-time
- Quick and efficient support
- Confusing navigation throughout their large menu of options on their site and control panel
- Spam filtering on their basic level email package. You have to upgrade to a higher-tier email plan for an inbox that's not flooded by spam.
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