Hostgator Opinions

How much traffic is it?

Hostgator has unlimited bandwidth, but if you use a lot of resources, you'll get suspended from any host including HG.

What type of site are you running? How many visitors?
You may have outgrown shared hosting.

Andrew

HG are amazing.

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Hostgator has worked pretty well for me, and I've never had any traffic issues with them. Can you quantify the amount of traffic your websites were getting on your old host?

Paul

liquidweb is good...you get 3 free domains with them to

were you getting any PPV traffic? I heard of PPV traffic crashing servers

I love HostGator, I hosted a site for my projects I did for school after having bad experiences with JustHost. HostGator is a nice place although I have never used it as a way for money and I don't have any hosting or domains at the moment.

I love hostgator. No complaints at all after about 3 years with them so far.

I think hostgator is one of the top hosting companies. I like Go daddy for domain names, but not hosting.

George, you still haven't told us exactly how much traffic you're getting.

If you want us to help you, you need to tell us how much traffic you're getting.

If VPS doesn't work, go for the cloud.

I wouldn't recommend Hostgator, I've heard of too many problems from them through many friends.

I would recommend IPower. But perhaps Rackspace would be better...

I have two dedicated boxes at LiquidWeb and a Reseller VPS at Hostgator.

My preference is LW because I get full control over the box, no limitations AND they still give me great support. I have been with them for over 6 years.

I haven't had any big issues with the VPS at HG BUT the default setup is restrictive and aome scripts just don't work right. HG has always been pretty good about working with me but I don't like being forced to contact support for something as simple as enabling the default catch-all email address. Just my thing!

If you're getting enough traffic for a hosting company to shut you down I would think you'd be making more than enough for a low end dedicated. At LW that's around $200 a month and you can host as many sites as you want.

Someone mentioned you have to pay for server management. I thought those days were gone but I guess there could still be some out there. All I can say on that point is LW doesn't do that. LW does have shared services but I haven't used them. The only negative I have found with LW is when you have a situation that's outside the box they sometimes bounce the support ticket around to so many techs it's hard to get it resolved in a timely manner. When that happens I just pick up the phone and start nagging them in realtime. :-}

So, my bottom line is LiquidWeb is #1 and Hostgator is #2.

Hope this helps.

LOL, I am very happy with Hostgator, but I have to admit I would be thrilled to have the problem of "too much traffic"!

Touche Beth!!!! Wouldn't we all! Well, quality traffic anyway!

if you are experience high traffic, why not buy a dedi for yourself? Use multiple ip and get your own hosting done for many siteS?

Ive been with Host Gator for over a year now, never once let me down. I'd recommend them

I use hostgator, the service is great and the live support is better than submitting tickets

I find Hostgator very easy to work with. They answer all questions, and help with problems that I have.

Barry

"A Sprat to catch a Mackeral" springs to mind here with no real feedback from originator :-(

Host gator is NOT a high volume host.

They set low limits on concurrent connections and may shut you down if you overuse their resources on economy services.

Host gator is more for companies with low volume or who are just starting out.

Additionally they have had serious security breaches with their shared hosting.

Most people don't do enough volume or ask the hard questions to uncover the limitations of HG. Its great for a quick site or if you are just getting started but not for mature high traffic businesses or those with increasing needs.

It sounds to me like you should be looking for a dedicated server at this time. I recommend you consider SoftLayer® Technologies - Infrastructure as a Service including Dedicated, Virtualized, and Cloud Hosting

I have just joined hostgator like 3 weeks ago and I am yet to have a complaint. There customer service is another thing I really enjoy. I know with time, I will able to give better ratings.

Have a few business accounts with HG. Find them ok! Support is usually fine. Also have some jumpline accounts. Once again, ok! Neither hosts are used for very high volume.

Have tried many other hosts and have had problems with most that caused me to move on. Have been with HG and jumpline[used to be surfspeedy ] for a few years.

In last year always use HG for new client sites as I find them reliable, and the instant chat support tends to be good.

Your problems could stem from a combination of high traffic, no caching and poor software (cms, or blog etc..) configuration, rather than just your high taffic.

Have you tried tweaking your software setup and implementing a proper caching mechanism? This could help keep your resource usage down!

If none of these work or apply to you, then I agree that if you have really high volume then a dedicated server would be preferred.

Anthony

I am running about 30 sites through HG baby plan and I love their online chat support - they have always been really helpful and it is so great not having to submit support tickets. I didn't know they had an issue with using too many resources so it might be time to open a second account with them so as not to overload the first one, but they are definitely good value for money in my book
Lisa

wondering if hostgator found activities that may threaten their whole system.

I have many of my websites on hostgator, and I don't have anything to comply about so far, furthermore I think hostgator rocks

Buy your own server LOL