Is Hostgator still great?

dragonlordcs · 12-26-2011, 02:39 PM

I have used Hostgator for about 5 years now and have never had any issues. Anything that went wrong, which is very little, was handled right away. Good review from here!

IM Headlines · 12-26-2011, 07:20 PM

I do host a few websites with them. Overall yes, hostgator's good.

VladS · 12-26-2011, 09:32 PM

No problem here with Hostgator.

sirtiman · 12-26-2011, 09:38 PM

Hostgator is good, I have no problem with down things.

Logicson · 12-27-2011, 03:13 AM

I have account in Host Gator from last 2 Years.Till the time not having any problem with Host gator..so i am always thing Hostgator is Great................

gatorbrent · 12-27-2011, 11:19 AM

Hello Everyone,

The current houston office while having a beautiful exterior is pretty dumpy in many ways.
It has slow elevators, a terrible parking situation, and located adjacent to the freeway in a bad part of town. When we purchased this building we were a much smaller company that had little $$$ and a ton of growing pains to deal with. I risked everything when I signed the mortgage to acquire this building. The 290 location has served it's purpose allowing for us to grow to the size we are now, however it's time to retire it.

We currently are building out a brand new office in houston that we hope to be moved into in less then 6 months. The new office is in nice part of town, parking will be solved, and it will have a $4m interior buildout. Part of this buildout will include an exterior slide on the building allowing for our employees to slide from the 5th floor of the building to the 3rd.

I'd say at most we get a single customer visiting us every two months or so in houston. We don't get much foot traffic other then employees and interviews so yes the signs are indeed lacking.

I'm the owner of hostgator and am typically found wearing shorts and sandals to the office. If we had a dress code I might even quit! =)

-Brent

Bofu2U · 12-27-2011, 11:29 AM

I like HG, have 150+ accounts with them (counting reseller to cPanel accounts etc) and even though I run into some issues, if you call their tech support they're normally on the ball about getting stuff done.

Give 'em a shot. Just remember if you run into an issue, don't freak out until after you talk to their support.

Moorpheus · 12-27-2011, 03:29 PM

Yes, I have been using them for years, and as a web designer I receive commissions by sending my clients there for their hosting. However, when it comes to dedicated servers, there are better deals out there.

onegoodman · 12-27-2011, 05:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onegoodman

I have one answer when it comes to hostgator : NO

I am changing my mind about my review, hostgator owner get in touch with me by himself because of this review.

Any company that its owner will take the time to trace one bad review on a forum to improve the service certainly rocks

.

nickhumph · 12-27-2011, 06:18 PM

Hostgator is great as alwaaaays. Check out HostGator or Dreamhost ? The Hostgator vs Dreamhost 2011/2012 Review for my review!
Compared it to one of it's main competitors Dreamhost.

abhinavsidanaa · 12-28-2011, 01:14 AM

Yeah HOstgator WEbhosting is superb Always.

abhinavsidanaa · 12-28-2011, 01:17 AM

sorry for this post again admin please delete this post, this is happen by mistake

--thanks

charidemos · 12-28-2011, 10:39 AM

If Mc'Donalds is the king of fast food, then HostGator is the king of hosting services.

Both serve their customers in a pleasurable and consistent way.
I hope you liked my metaphor

ckone · 12-28-2011, 11:41 AM

I would say Yes! I have been very happy with there services. There customer service is Excellent too!

The Prophet · 12-28-2011, 12:27 PM

Host gator is still great and secure. Bluehost is also good and very trustworthy as well

eibhlin · 01-01-2012, 06:09 AM

I've used Hostgator for years. I've dealt with so many hosting services over the past 15 years (yes, really), I don't even remember them all. (Bluebox was fun while it was under its original ownership, and it's the only one that stands out favorably in my memory.)

Hostgator isn't perfect, but their support staff (usually bright, funny, English-speaking people located in Austin, Texas) are wonderful. They don't give me the brush-off, they answer even my pickiest questions, and they stay in the chat until the problem is fixed. (Other hosting services often say, "Try this and, if it doesn't work, get back in touch with us.")

Once, back when I was on shared hosting, someone had injected spammy links that migrated through all of my sites. When I discovered it, Hostgator resolved the problem for me, overnight, at no charge. They didn't even reprimand me for not having current, secure WP installs on all of my sites. (I'd neglected a few, but desktop software now handles the updates across all of my sites.)

Hostgator get major points for dealing with that issue quickly and gracefully, and they've secured my loyalty.

I'm on a basic Reseller account, and I'll admit load time can be slow at times. For one of my largest sites that gets hit with heavy traffic, I use Omnis. However, I signed up with Omnis before I tried Hostgator. Today, I'd probably use Hostgator for that site as well... except I'm too lazy to move it and Omnis does a fine job.

No hosting service is likely to be perfect. However, after using about a dozen major hosting services (including GoDaddy, very briefly) over ~15 years, I can confidently recommend Hostgator.

Sonia416 · 01-01-2012, 04:48 PM

I've been with Hostgator for about two years now and Love their customer support! I think it's one of the reasons why I haven't considered changing to a different provider. Definitely recommended.

Jokyv · 01-04-2012, 03:08 AM

hostgator is much much better than the average webhosting provider out there.

and with so many years it has proven that they are very reliable at what they do!

YourProfessional · 01-04-2012, 03:14 AM

Hostgator is amazing.

Their tech staff- some of the best I've ever encountered in my life. every time I've had a problem, I've had a helpful technician literally do it or walk me through the process.

LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM.

Renavon · 01-04-2012, 03:33 AM

Yeh, i would definitely recommend it.

Unlimited domains for $9 a month, i've had a few problems, but they have 24/7 support so you just wait a few minutes for someone to be ready, then they are ready to help. Every problem has been fixed so far within 5 minutes

sarah2472 · 01-04-2012, 12:28 PM

Like eibhlin, I've tried sooo many hosts over the last 10 years. I've only been with HostGator for about 6 months now, but I've been very impressed with their service.

The couple of times I've had to contact CS, the service was quick, friendly and professional. My issues were taken care of immediately.

So... so far, so good!

asiancasanova · 01-04-2012, 01:02 PM

Hostgator has been affordable. I've owned 5 websites with them.

Despite what others have said, hostgator is good if you want to use prosper202.

You just have to learn to install it properly.

MikeTucker · 01-07-2012, 08:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gatorbrent

Hello Everyone,

The current houston office while having a beautiful exterior is pretty dumpy in many ways.
It has slow elevators, a terrible parking situation, and located adjacent to the freeway in a bad part of town. When we purchased this building we were a much smaller company that had little $$$ and a ton of growing pains to deal with. I risked everything when I signed the mortgage to acquire this building. The 290 location has served it's purpose allowing for us to grow to the size we are now, however it's time to retire it.

Well, I can certainly understand that.

Quote:

Originally Posted by gatorbrent

We currently are building out a brand new office in houston that we hope to be moved into in less then 6 months. The new office is in nice part of town, parking will be solved, and it will have a $4m interior buildout. Part of this buildout will include an exterior slide on the building allowing for our employees to slide from the 5th floor of the building to the 3rd.

That sounds awesome.

Quote:

Originally Posted by gatorbrent

I'd say at most we get a single customer visiting us every two months or so in houston. We don't get much foot traffic other then employees and interviews so yes the signs are indeed lacking.

I'm the owner of hostgator and am typically found wearing shorts and sandals to the office. If we had a dress code I might even quit! =)

-Brent

What?! The owner himself coming to defend his business and explain things that he doesn't have to? Hmm....

mwoolerymedia · 01-07-2012, 10:13 AM

I believe hostgator to be the best--godaddy isnt so bad--much faster service than last year. Must have been some changes

rhinocl · 01-07-2012, 10:18 AM

I have found their phone support slower than it used to be. Often it is quicker to use chat. You seem to get the most knowledgeable responders when you leave an e-mail ticket but I don't have enough problems to know if that is always the case.

cdiem72 · 01-07-2012, 08:50 PM

Have used them for about 7 months and have had no problems.

Matt Attack · 01-08-2012, 10:23 PM

I see plenty of people have already answered this for you, but it can't hurt to add my experiences with Hostgator.

I would never even consider using anyone but Hostgator for all of my sites. The deciding factor is their phenomenol 24/7 customer chat support which I've used so many times. I'm no webmaster by any means, but they have helped me every single time I've used their chat service. Without such help it could have taken hours to figure out certain things, that they were able to explain in just minutes.

Hands down, Hostgator is my choice by a longshot!

puedall · 01-24-2012, 05:33 PM

Hi,
I use Hostgator and as everyone else, am super satisfied with support and service.
So, yes, they are still great..

Regards, Geena

Rukshan · 01-25-2012, 03:52 AM

Hostgator is the best one. They give a great customer support when i have a problem. I love it.

Alessandro Zamboni · 01-25-2012, 07:11 AM

Hi, for my opinion Hostgator is simply the best.
I'm running my business through it, and just yesterday I bought my second account to run even more websites and blogs on its platform.

I've also tried others hosting like Midphase, JustHost, Site5 and BrainHost but the best is always the good and old Hostgator for me. I never had servers moving like crazy with websites offline (it happened a lot of times with 1 of 3 above...), and I always can count on Support the moment I need.

More, it has CPanel. And that's really what I need for my Wordpress oriented business.

Thanks and see you soon,
Alessandro Zamboni

Kingfish85 · 01-25-2012, 07:34 AM

Even as another web host. I highly recommend HostGator.

dynn · 01-25-2012, 11:54 PM

I vote for hostgator...good support and easy to deal with.

opt in · 01-26-2012, 06:37 PM

I've been using HostGator since 2006. I did websites for clients hosted by my own HostGator hosting service and never got any complaints.

Used many platforms like PHP, WordPress databases and more and they have great level of updates that makes it easier to be compatible with the industry of Internet websites.

I'm using it now for my internet marketing niches and I rarely had some downtime.

Cheers

Irvan Mhd · 01-26-2012, 08:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NikkiBlue

Hi Jarrett,
Have you had problems with HostGator paying you ?
I trying to decide between Bluehost or HostGator's affiliate program.. but Ive read numerous threads on Hostgator's forums and blogs where people complain about HG not properly tracking their referrals.

I've used HG for years and I love their support very much. And also I joined their Affiliate program and got hundreds payment till now although this affiliate program is not my priority.

Justin_nzpcs · 01-27-2012, 02:31 AM

I don't recommend Hostgator

Over the years I've had everything from shared hosting to dedicated servers with Hostgator lately I had problems with due to issues with Wordpress.

They have suspended a few of my sites due to claims they are using to much of the cpu resources.

Here is a few extracts that they advised me to implement.

We noticed that this is a WordPress blog, and recommend a few different steps you can take to prevent this issue from recurring.

First, try to reduce the total number of active plugins on your blog. The following types of plugins are known to cause high resource usage and should be avoided:

All related posts plugins (WordPress Related Posts, YARPP) can cause significantly high load in most cases.
- WPRobot3 and other auto-posters can also cause high load issues, and should be disabled if they are causing issues
- StatPress and other wordpress statistics software should also be disabled, as these too can consume too much CPU in certain cases. Use Google Analytics instead for statistics as well as Awstats which already comes by default on your account.
- WP Post Views is also a plugin that you'll want to avoid as it causes significant resource usage.
- Any other plugins that are not vital to your Wordpress should be disabled.

On one of the blogs not one of the listed plugin above apart from jet pack site stats was used I however disabled all of my plugins not needed to run my blog and as a consquence suffered a 30% reduction in traffic.

Many of the plugins sold here on the warrior forum will not be able to be used with Hostgator I had this issue on a reseller account.

I did a reverse ip check on the server and found 999 other sites on the same server so my suggestion would that is more likely the cause of server overload...

Anyway moving hosts just thought I'd share an honest review reason why you see so may people recommending hostgator is probaby the $125 dollar affiliate payment.

I notice Brent posting in here I rang support the first time this happened and tore a strip off them because a week prior I submitted a ticket to support when my site was loading extremely slow and asked if I could do anything about it...

So as you can imagine I was a bit irate when after being told it was due to spammers and my site would be monitored that a week later it was suspended without notice due to causing high load due to plugins.

Anyway time to move on ill take my $2k plus spent on hosting with hostgator to someone else who understands blogging requirements.

12-26-2011, 02:39 PM	#51
dragonlordcs SEO Warrior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Washington State Posts: 30 Thanks: 1 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Social Networking	Re: Is Hostgator still great? I have used Hostgator for about 5 years now and have never had any issues. Anything that went wrong, which is very little, was handled right away. Good review from here!

12-26-2011, 07:20 PM	#52
IM Headlines Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,168 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 196 Thanked 679 Times in 80 Posts Social Networking	Re: Is Hostgator still great? I do host a few websites with them. Overall yes, hostgator's good.

12-26-2011, 09:32 PM	#53
VladS Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: New York Posts: 84 Thanks: 35 Thanked 14 Times in 14 Posts	Re: Is Hostgator still great? No problem here with Hostgator.

12-26-2011, 09:38 PM	#54
sirtiman Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 646 Thanks: 77 Thanked 63 Times in 60 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Is Hostgator still great? Hostgator is good, I have no problem with down things.

12-27-2011, 03:13 AM	#55
Logicson Growing New Logics Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Top of Giza Pyramids Posts: 53 Thanks: 3 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Contact Info	Re: Is Hostgator still great? I have account in Host Gator from last 2 Years.Till the time not having any problem with Host gator..so i am always thing Hostgator is Great................

12-27-2011, 11:19 AM	#56
gatorbrent Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 11 Thanks: 0 Thanked 14 Times in 6 Posts	Re: Is Hostgator still great? Hello Everyone, The current houston office while having a beautiful exterior is pretty dumpy in many ways. It has slow elevators, a terrible parking situation, and located adjacent to the freeway in a bad part of town. When we purchased this building we were a much smaller company that had little $$$ and a ton of growing pains to deal with. I risked everything when I signed the mortgage to acquire this building. The 290 location has served it's purpose allowing for us to grow to the size we are now, however it's time to retire it. We currently are building out a brand new office in houston that we hope to be moved into in less then 6 months. The new office is in nice part of town, parking will be solved, and it will have a $4m interior buildout. Part of this buildout will include an exterior slide on the building allowing for our employees to slide from the 5th floor of the building to the 3rd. I'd say at most we get a single customer visiting us every two months or so in houston. We don't get much foot traffic other then employees and interviews so yes the signs are indeed lacking. I'm the owner of hostgator and am typically found wearing shorts and sandals to the office. If we had a dress code I might even quit! =) -Brent

12-27-2011, 11:29 AM	#57
Bofu2U The Automation Guy Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 199 Thanks: 7 Thanked 13 Times in 12 Posts	Re: Is Hostgator still great? I like HG, have 150+ accounts with them (counting reseller to cPanel accounts etc) and even though I run into some issues, if you call their tech support they're normally on the ball about getting stuff done. Give 'em a shot. Just remember if you run into an issue, don't freak out until after you talk to their support.

12-27-2011, 03:29 PM	#58
Moorpheus Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 7 Thanks: 2 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Is Hostgator still great? Yes, I have been using them for years, and as a web designer I receive commissions by sending my clients there for their hosting. However, when it comes to dedicated servers, there are better deals out there.

12-27-2011, 06:18 PM	#60
nickhumph Kid Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Australia Posts: 314 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 83 Thanked 11 Times in 11 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Is Hostgator still great? Hostgator is great as alwaaaays. Check out HostGator or Dreamhost ? The Hostgator vs Dreamhost 2011/2012 Review for my review! Compared it to one of it's main competitors Dreamhost.

12-28-2011, 01:14 AM	#61
abhinavsidanaa Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 10 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Contact Info	Re: Is Hostgator still great? Yeah HOstgator WEbhosting is superb Always.

12-28-2011, 01:17 AM	#62
abhinavsidanaa Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 10 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Contact Info	Re: Is Hostgator still great? sorry for this post again admin please delete this post, this is happen by mistake --thanks

12-28-2011, 10:39 AM	#63
charidemos Active Warrior Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 58 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: Is Hostgator still great? If Mc'Donalds is the king of fast food, then HostGator is the king of hosting services. Both serve their customers in a pleasurable and consistent way. I hope you liked my metaphor

12-28-2011, 11:41 AM	#64
ckone Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Minneapolis, MN USA Posts: 12 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Contact Info	Re: Is Hostgator still great? I would say Yes! I have been very happy with there services. There customer service is Excellent too!

12-28-2011, 12:27 PM	#65
The Prophet Warrior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Seattle Posts: 24 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Is Hostgator still great? Host gator is still great and secure. Bluehost is also good and very trustworthy as well

01-01-2012, 06:09 AM	#66
eibhlin Artist, writer & curator War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Postcard-perfect New England Posts: 418 Blog Entries: 6 Thanks: 430 Thanked 451 Times in 240 Posts Social Networking	Re: Is Hostgator still great? I've used Hostgator for years. I've dealt with so many hosting services over the past 15 years (yes, really), I don't even remember them all. (Bluebox was fun while it was under its original ownership, and it's the only one that stands out favorably in my memory.) Hostgator isn't perfect, but their support staff (usually bright, funny, English-speaking people located in Austin, Texas) are wonderful. They don't give me the brush-off, they answer even my pickiest questions, and they stay in the chat until the problem is fixed. (Other hosting services often say, "Try this and, if it doesn't work, get back in touch with us.") Once, back when I was on shared hosting, someone had injected spammy links that migrated through all of my sites. When I discovered it, Hostgator resolved the problem for me, overnight, at no charge. They didn't even reprimand me for not having current, secure WP installs on all of my sites. (I'd neglected a few, but desktop software now handles the updates across all of my sites.) Hostgator get major points for dealing with that issue quickly and gracefully, and they've secured my loyalty. I'm on a basic Reseller account, and I'll admit load time can be slow at times. For one of my largest sites that gets hit with heavy traffic, I use Omnis. However, I signed up with Omnis before I tried Hostgator. Today, I'd probably use Hostgator for that site as well... except I'm too lazy to move it and Omnis does a fine job. No hosting service is likely to be perfect. However, after using about a dozen major hosting services (including GoDaddy, very briefly) over ~15 years, I can confidently recommend Hostgator.

01-01-2012, 04:48 PM	#67
Sonia416 Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Bay Area, CA Posts: 33 Thanks: 3 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Is Hostgator still great? I've been with Hostgator for about two years now and Love their customer support! I think it's one of the reasons why I haven't considered changing to a different provider. Definitely recommended.

01-04-2012, 03:08 AM	#68
Jokyv Active Warrior Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 51 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Is Hostgator still great? hostgator is much much better than the average webhosting provider out there. and with so many years it has proven that they are very reliable at what they do!

01-04-2012, 03:14 AM	#69
YourProfessional Honest WSO Reviews War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: wait30days.com Posts: 203 Thanks: 77 Thanked 249 Times in 102 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Is Hostgator still great? Hostgator is amazing. Their tech staff- some of the best I've ever encountered in my life. every time I've had a problem, I've had a helpful technician literally do it or walk me through the process. LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM.

01-04-2012, 03:33 AM	#70
Renavon HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 127 Thanks: 9 Thanked 24 Times in 19 Posts Contact Info	Re: Is Hostgator still great? Yeh, i would definitely recommend it. Unlimited domains for $9 a month, i've had a few problems, but they have 24/7 support so you just wait a few minutes for someone to be ready, then they are ready to help. Every problem has been fixed so far within 5 minutes

01-04-2012, 12:28 PM	#71
sarah2472 Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: New York Posts: 25 Thanks: 4 Thanked 10 Times in 8 Posts	Re: Is Hostgator still great? Like eibhlin, I've tried sooo many hosts over the last 10 years. I've only been with HostGator for about 6 months now, but I've been very impressed with their service. The couple of times I've had to contact CS, the service was quick, friendly and professional. My issues were taken care of immediately. So... so far, so good!

01-04-2012, 01:02 PM	#72
asiancasanova Destined Hero of IM War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 81 Thanks: 9 Thanked 17 Times in 7 Posts	Re: Is Hostgator still great? Hostgator has been affordable. I've owned 5 websites with them. Despite what others have said, hostgator is good if you want to use prosper202. You just have to learn to install it properly.

01-07-2012, 10:13 AM	#74
mwoolerymedia Active Warrior Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Washington State Posts: 51 Thanks: 28 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts Social Networking	Re: Is Hostgator still great? I believe hostgator to be the best--godaddy isnt so bad--much faster service than last year. Must have been some changes

01-07-2012, 10:18 AM	#75
rhinocl HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 393 Thanks: 51 Thanked 44 Times in 40 Posts	Re: Is Hostgator still great? I have found their phone support slower than it used to be. Often it is quicker to use chat. You seem to get the most knowledgeable responders when you leave an e-mail ticket but I don't have enough problems to know if that is always the case.

01-07-2012, 08:50 PM	#76
cdiem72 Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 36 Thanks: 12 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	Re: Is Hostgator still great? Have used them for about 7 months and have had no problems.

01-08-2012, 10:23 PM	#77
Matt Attack ♠ Jack of All Trades ♠ War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Dublin, Ohio Posts: 225 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 35 Thanked 64 Times in 27 Posts Contact Info	Re: Is Hostgator still great? I see plenty of people have already answered this for you, but it can't hurt to add my experiences with Hostgator. I would never even consider using anyone but Hostgator for all of my sites. The deciding factor is their phenomenol 24/7 customer chat support which I've used so many times. I'm no webmaster by any means, but they have helped me every single time I've used their chat service. Without such help it could have taken hours to figure out certain things, that they were able to explain in just minutes. Hands down, Hostgator is my choice by a longshot!

01-24-2012, 05:33 PM	#78
puedall Geena Antunovic Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Belgrade Posts: 85 Thanks: 6 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Social Networking	Re: Is Hostgator still great? Hi, I use Hostgator and as everyone else, am super satisfied with support and service. So, yes, they are still great.. Regards, Geena

01-25-2012, 03:52 AM	#79
Rukshan Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka Posts: 1,668 Thanks: 201 Thanked 261 Times in 167 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Is Hostgator still great? Hostgator is the best one. They give a great customer support when i have a problem. I love it.

01-25-2012, 07:11 AM	#80
Alessandro Zamboni The Italian Warrior War Room Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Milano, Italy Posts: 1,035 Blog Entries: 2 Thanks: 220 Thanked 489 Times in 317 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Is Hostgator still great? Hi, for my opinion Hostgator is simply the best. I'm running my business through it, and just yesterday I bought my second account to run even more websites and blogs on its platform. I've also tried others hosting like Midphase, JustHost, Site5 and BrainHost but the best is always the good and old Hostgator for me. I never had servers moving like crazy with websites offline (it happened a lot of times with 1 of 3 above...), and I always can count on Support the moment I need. More, it has CPanel. And that's really what I need for my Wordpress oriented business. Thanks and see you soon, Alessandro Zamboni

01-25-2012, 07:34 AM	#81
Kingfish85 Quality Web Hosting War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Raleigh, North Carolina Posts: 530 Thanks: 35 Thanked 55 Times in 49 Posts Social Networking	Re: Is Hostgator still great? Even as another web host. I highly recommend HostGator.

01-25-2012, 11:54 PM	#82
dynn Active Warrior Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 97 Thanks: 438 Thanked 14 Times in 14 Posts Social Networking	Re: Is Hostgator still great? I vote for hostgator...good support and easy to deal with.

01-26-2012, 06:37 PM	#83
opt in Real Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Canada Posts: 155 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 63 Thanked 29 Times in 26 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Is Hostgator still great? I've been using HostGator since 2006. I did websites for clients hosted by my own HostGator hosting service and never got any complaints. Used many platforms like PHP, WordPress databases and more and they have great level of updates that makes it easier to be compatible with the industry of Internet websites. I'm using it now for my internet marketing niches and I rarely had some downtime. Cheers

01-27-2012, 02:31 AM	#85
Justin_nzpcs Active Warrior Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: , , New Zealand. Posts: 31 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Is Hostgator still great? I don't recommend Hostgator Over the years I've had everything from shared hosting to dedicated servers with Hostgator lately I had problems with due to issues with Wordpress. They have suspended a few of my sites due to claims they are using to much of the cpu resources. Here is a few extracts that they advised me to implement. We noticed that this is a WordPress blog, and recommend a few different steps you can take to prevent this issue from recurring. First, try to reduce the total number of active plugins on your blog. The following types of plugins are known to cause high resource usage and should be avoided: All related posts plugins (WordPress Related Posts, YARPP) can cause significantly high load in most cases. - WPRobot3 and other auto-posters can also cause high load issues, and should be disabled if they are causing issues - StatPress and other wordpress statistics software should also be disabled, as these too can consume too much CPU in certain cases. Use Google Analytics instead for statistics as well as Awstats which already comes by default on your account. - WP Post Views is also a plugin that you'll want to avoid as it causes significant resource usage. - Any other plugins that are not vital to your Wordpress should be disabled. On one of the blogs not one of the listed plugin above apart from jet pack site stats was used I however disabled all of my plugins not needed to run my blog and as a consquence suffered a 30% reduction in traffic. Many of the plugins sold here on the warrior forum will not be able to be used with Hostgator I had this issue on a reseller account. I did a reverse ip check on the server and found 999 other sites on the same server so my suggestion would that is more likely the cause of server overload... Anyway moving hosts just thought I'd share an honest review reason why you see so may people recommending hostgator is probaby the $125 dollar affiliate payment. I notice Brent posting in here I rang support the first time this happened and tore a strip off them because a week prior I submitted a ticket to support when my site was loading extremely slow and asked if I could do anything about it... So as you can imagine I was a bit irate when after being told it was due to spammers and my site would be monitored that a week later it was suspended without notice due to causing high load due to plugins. Anyway time to move on ill take my $2k plus spent on hosting with hostgator to someone else who understands blogging requirements.