HostGator Servers Down For Over 1 Hour Now

ehh, the mods will disable it anyhow..

Based on what?

If true, I'd question the competence of somebody that made thousands or more from a $10 "unlimited" account at a crappy budget host.

But I often doubt it's true at all. It betrays them, and shows them to be a fraud.

In the hands of many, "IM" is not really marketing. Most of these folks are not even educated in what marketing really is. To these people, it's all about cheating Google, writing schlock "articles", etc. They lie and have a severe ego issue.

When guys refer to each other by name, it's almost like a fraternity atmosphere around here. "Wow, Johnny Rotten slept with 25 women! He's the man! The guru! All hail Johnny!" But the truth is, you really don't know how successful they are. Its often ego stroking ... that the person himself started via fake names! (The "sales funnel letter" is often complete BS.)

As they say, "those that can, do". And "those that can't, teach".
But in "IM" it's often "those that fail (and thus lie about success), teach".

It's always hilarious when somebody cries about losing $XYZ because of downtime at a cheesy little Walmart-grade host like Hostgator. And it's pretty much always an exaggeration to make others want to feel sorry for them, or to try and drum up bandwagon anger.

This place does, of course, have some great and genuine people. But they're harder to find. And they're not using budget "unlimited" hosting, "SEO" hosting, etc, all while bragging about making $XXXX money per month day, week, month, blue moon, or whatever, using a method that you too can learn for only $49.95! ("Act now! Limited slots available!")

To be honest, some of this should be common sense stuff.

But whatever. People believe what they want, waste money as they want.

Again, this should be a warning sign.

It's really not a bad idea for them to have their own site on a different server or in a different data center than their clients sites. At times like this, when a hosting company has client sites down, their own site on a different server/network/dc allows them to have a means to communicate with clients and provide support.

Everything that's been said has been true. I recall specifically pointing out when EIG first acquired them that it was their history to have issues like this. I was told I was "self promoting" and didn't know what I was talking about.

HostGator isn't the first acquired host that they've pretty much destroyed and most likely won't be the last.

It's kind of one of those "I told ya so" moments...

Mark my words, the problems will continue, and will only get worse.

I'll need to spend some time and dig up those old posts in my post history...as long as the mods didn't delete them.

I've never heard of so many "raid" failures in my 10+ years in this industry as there have been since EIG acquired HostGator. That's their "lies" on covering up moving datacenters until KPmedia brought it up over at WHT. THEN the whole issue came out about their "dedicated" servers actually being VPS's...but that's a whole other subject.

One instance before the move came out was that IP's were turning up in different locations "After" the so called raid array was fixed. It was never failed hardware, it was a lie to cover up moving.

I was shocked when I migrated a customer using a HostGator dedicated server & found a vnet interface. For those who don't know, vnet is a "virtual" adapter, IE VPS.

This is burying your head in the sand syndrome. Myself, KP, KingFish are giving you advice in advance because it will happen to you.

Yes, I have another hosting interest. Yes, I'll happily recommend good competitors that I respect (that was HG when owned by Brent). But yes, I'm offering this advice so you don't get caught out.

Matt