Feedback on Hostgator?

Hey there Sister P! Was wondering where you went.

I have a hostgator acct. and I'd recommend it. It's something almost $10 a month, unlimited sites and domains. As long as I don't go over the bandwidth, which I don't.

If I have a problem, I submit a support ticket and get a reply within a few hours.

There has been downtime occassionally which of course I don't like. But it's not often.

They are good but every now and then somebody seems to have a problem with them. I never have in 3 years.

I had a shared hosting account at another hosting company, but it had a domain limit of 20... I changed recently to Hostgator because they offered unlimited domains for the same price. And it works like a charm. I have never had any problems with them and the admin interface is cool (cPanel).

I've been with the Gator for about a year and can't fault them. Support and tools etc are excellent. You could also look at namecheap for the domains tho. With them you can get free ssl certs on all .com domains and the price is about $10.

Patrician, I was a H4P customer for,well,almost forever because I still have one site hosted with them,but I got to the point I had so many sites that made it mosre cost effective to switch,and I switched to Hostgator .
I now pay $25 a month, can host as many sites as I want/need and like Kay said, you get CPanel with each site and WHM management.
I think the only thing that you would need to adjust to is the CPanel as it's entirely different than H4P.

I have a reseller acct with HG and I'm not switchin' for nothin'. They
have their issues like anywhere else but for all the problems I've had
other places they are minimal. I have a couple of sites that won't
show up in China but I've determined that the problem isn't HGs.

Tom

I can also vouch for HostGator. They work great for me and I've rarely had any downtime with them. In the rare case of downtime a email to them and they would get back to me with the details and an estimated time for the servers working again. The times it happened to me they normally had a forum post with the details that they linked me to so I could follow that to see what the problem & progress was.

Also if I had any problems with my account they have a live online chat service and the techs there are very helpful and were able to fix most of my issues on the spot. The few they couldn't were solved with an email to their supervisor who responded quickly.

well this thread has sold me. I've been struggling with which host to go for, and since it's cpanel and get's all these thumbs up, I'll be grabbing an account tonight. Thanks all!

I think Host Gator is the best webhosting especially for newbies.

First of all, Most instructional videos that I see online uses hostgator to set things up, so i highly recommend hostgator for newbies!

About HostGator.com

HostGator.com, LLC is privately held and based in Houston, Texas.

In 2008, HostGator was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in America.
According to Inc. Magazine, HostGator is the 21st fastest growing private company in America, the second fastest growing private company in the "business services" sector, and the fastest growing private company in Texas.

Growth 5,297.7%
2004 Revenue $346,124
2007 Revenue $18.7 million

Headquarter: In order to keep up with the company's rapid growth, HostGator moved from its original office in Boca Raton, Florida into a new 20,000 square foot office building in Houston, Texas. Since moving to Houston in January 2007, the company has added more than 150 employees. The company is growing rapidly and expects to add roughly 200 employees within the next two years.

CEO: The company was founded in 2002 by current President and CEO Brent Oxley, who started the company from his dorm room at Florida Atlantic University. Since then, HostGator has grown from a small hosting company with just three servers into a world leading and industry recognized hosting provider with more than 5,000 servers under management.

Free Nonprofit Web Hosting: HostGator strongly believes in giving back to the community and to the greater good. In response to this belief, HostGator established the HostGator Technology Grant in September 2008 that provides free and discounted web hosting to worthy causes and organizations.
HostGator Technology Grant:
The HostGator Technology Grant provides one year of completely FREE web hosting on HostGator's Business Hosting Plan to all qualifying non-profits that are selected by HostGator management. The Business Hosting Plan provides customers with 1,000 GB of disk space, unlimited bandwidth, and the ability to host unlimited domains. Alternatively, the cash value of the plan ($180) can also be applied as a discount to any other HostGator product or service.

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Hostgator still looks good to me and is still an option. But it does have its detractors although they have not responded here.

As part of my comparative analysis I have also looked at BlueHost.com and KnownHost.com

Bluehost is even cheaper than Hostgator - KnownHost over twice as expensive and sounds a little too technical for me -

So any input on either of these two would also be appreciated, either positive or negative.

(I called Hostgator to ask some questions and the guy was really nice - I couldn't resist telling him how you all love them and it made his day).

Thanks everyone for your help.

Guess I'm one of the few that are not a fan...

I had a total nightmare with a previous web host.

And since I've been with Hostgator, just over a year, been total smooth sailing no bumps in the road.

Their support was awesome when I needed it, some of the best tech support I have ever had in fact.

I have to say tho, no luck whatsoever with their affiliate program. I've given up. Maybe I was sending clicks from the wrong niche or something, but I've sent them thousands of clicks and zero conversions.