Is Hostgator working ok?

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Hello Everyone,

I want to know whether Hostgator is working ok today. Regarding my sites, hostgator is telling me that they are transferring the data in a new hardware and my sites will resume after the transfer completes. My question is how long this transfer might take and I have asked this question from Hostgator but I did not get any response yet.

Is there anyone who knows what exactly is going and how soon we can start working on our sites? Please help.

Thank You
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  • Hi

    So far I haven't receive such an email.

    Usually if there are such transfers on the frontend a website visitor wouldn't notice the difference.

    Danny
  • Banned
    Hostgator is a good choice for normal website, tranfer process may need from 4 to 6 hours to finish.
  • Yea I would give them a try if not try godaddy.
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    • Hostgator was sold to EIG group several months ago, and the new owner is in the process of transferring all the servers away from the servers at the Planet/Softlayer to their own servers in Utah. (with something like 8,000,000 domains there's got to be a lot of servers to migrate and no telling how long it's all going to take) This caused major problems for many customers due to some kind of failure at the beginning of this month, but it now appears to be back to something like normal, whatever that is.

      You might have some interruption, but it shouldn't last too long.

      I would never ever host anything at Godaddy, if you begin to consider them search the discussions here on Warrior before you go there. They use a proprietary front end instead of cpanel and many things that work everywhere else don't work at nodaddy.
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  • Hostgator good? No.

  • They're still telling people this!?!? New old hardware packed to the brim, which is why everyone's complaining about performance after they move. Those that say they haven't been affected yet have not been moved yet.
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  • I dont see any problem in hostgator hosting right now its workign quite ok for me, there might be some problem at your end in configuration
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    • Then you likely don't monitor your sites and servers every 3-5 minutes, 24/7/365.

      You could only blame the user (ie, local config issues) if it he was the only one having issues, and the company was known to be good. However, there's thousands of complaints online, and the complaints are legitimate. If you don't pay attention, I'm sure it does seem fine. But if you test it, and expect quality load times, you know it's rather lousy.

      HG is just not a good company anymore. There are better ones.

      Hostgator = Bluehost = 50+ other brands = EIG = avoid them
  • It's working ok for me.
  • Banned
    I used hostgator for some websites, it's ok if your site no more visitors but when you have over 300 users online all the time, It got 500 interval server error, very annoy
  • Yes, Hostgator is a very good choice. They have great support.
    I will recommend "Baby plan" to be able to host unlimited websites.
  • Hostgator is for beginners/starters really nice: but if you wanne grow hmm, i don't sugest it you..
  • Well, they did the migration for my eCommerce site yesterday and a total DISASTER! My site has been down for 20 hours and counting......

    Over a year ago I moved my ecommerce site to Hostgator because of your good reputation. During that time I experienced excellent performance and reliability that I would expect from a large hosting company. However, your migration to a new data center has been a shockingly incompetent disaster. Yesterday (19 hours ago), at about 4:30 est my site went down and as of now is still down. Not only is that alarming but even worse, tech support informs me no one is working on the issue yet. I have called tech support three times now and no one seems to know what the problem is. Even worse I was just told they don't know if they will be able to get my site back up??? I was also told they did NOT do a backup immediately prior to the migration... WHAT ?? SO many questions...... As a web consultant it is unfathomable that a competent "fallback" plan would NOT have been put in place for such a major migration project. I was also told they don't know if the old server is still available. WHAT? How could you do a migration and NOT have complete access to the old server until ALL the sites have been successfully moved and tested ?? This is what you would expect from a low end, one man operation hosting service from some guys bedroom. Not Hostgator...... UNBELIEVABLE !!!
  • i have 5 site on hostGator and it is working very good. Hostgator provides many facilities, till now it never sent me such kind of message.
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    Is Hostgator working ok?

    Hello Everyone, I want to know whether Hostgator is working ok today. Regarding my sites, hostgator is telling me that they are transferring the data in a new hardware and my sites will resume after the transfer completes. My question is how long this transfer might take and I have asked this question from Hostgator but I did not get any response yet.