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HostGator has a rating of 3.6 stars from 13,422 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with HostGator most frequently mention customer service, long time and many years. HostGator ranks 2nd among Web Hosting sites.

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Wisconsin
1 review
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The price has gone up dramatically over the past couple of years. I've paid the full amount every year, but this year it went up even more, and it's getting out of hand. New customers get 75-80% off, while long term customers get nothing.

I contact customer support and they offered me the "best deal" they could, which was insignificant, and still nowhere near what a new customer gets it for. I've been with Hostgator for over a decade, but plan on leaving as soon as possible.

Date of experience: January 17, 2024
Nigeria
1 review
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Its been over 2 months since I renewed my domain subscription. I have been trying to resolve the same complaints since. Its become rather frustrating and embarrassing that such a minor issue even after escalation has remained unsolved.
My business is grossly impacted and im practically on the verge of asking for contract termination with host gator.

Date of experience: April 20, 2022
Florida
1 review
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Our website was taken down without notice
April 17, 2022

Our website was taken down without notice. We need this corrected ASAP
We have been with HostGator for close to 20 years. Overseas Tech Support
Is not knowledgeable of sympathetic of issues at hand and the seriousness of this issue. Our Business is completely shut down without our data. Had to call sales dept to get tech support in the USA spent 4 hours yesterday trying to get this issue resolved and the calls were either drop or i was hung up on after 30-40 minutes on hold waiting 3 times. Please call me *******059 to see how we can at least do a temporary fix so we can pull our data out. We are losing our google #1 rankings that took years to obtain.

Date of experience: March 18, 2022
Reputation T. HostGator Rep
over a year old

Hey Mike,

We will be more than happy to take a look into this. We have asked an Escalations Manager to reach out and assist.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Saudi Arabia
1 review
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I've been using HostGator to host 2 of my websites for over 3 years. It's been a great experience. I'm not super techy, so I have to often contact their customer support. And they come through each time. The response time is fast and the service is efficient. They send payment reminders on time too, but everyone does that. The hosting and domains are reliable as well. Haven't had any problems so far. Hope to continue with them for a long time if they can maintain their services.

Date of experience: April 28, 2023
Thailand
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Pure evil
February 21, 2017

These guys became market leaders on good support and customer care. A while back they were acquired in a buyout and since then their attitude has dropped off a cliff. They do not support ticket system any more and if you wish to wait on the phone for 1+ hour waiting on their phone support I wish you luck. I had been a happy client for 10 + years but earlier this year they put their prices up, did not advise me and then just charged my paypal account the 30% increase without my consent. When I questioned them they said oh we notified everyone via their online blog. Avoid them like the plague!

Date of experience: February 21, 2017
California
1 review
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You were a good choice 10 years ago but now my website can't be seen and you haven't solved the problem during the two months I have been in contact with your support. You haven't even replied to my last email. But you keep on sending emails where you want me to evaluate your services.

Date of experience: March 12, 2024
Guatemala
1 review
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It's been more than a month and they have not been able to resolve this problem, we have many problems with our clients because of this. Please help us.

Tickets:
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Setting ns servers from our account is not working.

Date of experience: February 18, 2024
Australia
1 review
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I am happy with Hostgator and the service and reminders. The support chat line is the best help and i use it when stuck or the site is down or I have made an error. I don't know what i would do without that.

Date of experience: June 4, 2024
Virginia
1 review
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I paid for the migrations but
October 13, 2024

I paid for the migrations but. After the migration contact didn't work. So I have to create website just wasted money paid $499
But, I created new website it's working good now

Date of experience: October 2, 2024
Bangladesh
1 review
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Wonderful and efficient service team
May 10, 2022

I always find the support team very helpful. They always offer timely solution and resolve promptly which I like most. Support does counsel in value added features to run my business. As an industry expert, it hells us a lot who are just new in content writing. It would be good if they could build product like AI tools on business and automation.

Date of experience: May 9, 2022
Reputation T. HostGator Rep
over a year old

Hey Fanaullah,

Thank you for your awesome review about our support team.

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

GB
1 review
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I found HostGator through a blog by simply hatch, I had seen ads for you on other blogs to and everyone seemed super happy. I can now say that the customer service I received today, after a few issues which were entirely my own doing, was excellent, really helpful and quick to get back to me. Simple site to use just as everyone said it was.

Date of experience: November 2, 2021
Reputation T. HostGator Rep
over a year old

Hi Abbigale,

We are always happy to hear this. Thank you for being apart of the HostGator community!

Marissa
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GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Many years ago I joined Hostgator
January 18, 2024

Many years ago I joined Hostgator. It was easy to use and good value. It is no longer good value as they suddenly doubled my monthly fee without warning or explanation. I remain, reluctantly, whilst looking for an alternative.

Date of experience: January 11, 2024
California
1 review
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I have different domains and websites from various providers, but Hostgator is my go-to one. Their customer service is unmatched by any other service provider.
Thank you to all the hardworking customers care service people for making the experience much smoother.

Date of experience: April 22, 2022
Reputation T. HostGator Rep
over a year old

Hey C,

Thank YOU for your awesome review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Oman
1 review
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Working with Hostgator is very nice
April 29, 2022

Working with Hostgator is very nice. I am always got positive and full time priority of my tickets that make me feel so happy and satisfied.
Appreciate the team and technical staff who are very knowledgeable and supportive.
Thank you.
Abdul.

Date of experience: April 29, 2022
Reputation T. HostGator Rep
over a year old

Hey Abdulghani,

That is so great! We appreciate you!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

New Zealand
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I chose you for your service, and it has been mostly good. But I have several times experienced losing access to a paid for and operation SSL, so that visitors to the site start to get privacy error messages. And it is pissing me off.

Date of experience: March 18, 2024
California
2 reviews
15 helpful votes
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I've been hosted by HostGator for several years now and they're hosting service is just like any other web hosting service out there, it's alright. I recently moved my domains from mydomain.com to HostGator and what a terrible idea, the domain management for HostGator sucks $#*!, it's literally coming from an automated process to one that you have to deal with support so they can manually fix the domain right. Such a hassle.

Date of experience: February 5, 2020
Reputation T. HostGator Rep
over a year old

Hi Zek,

We're sad to hear that your experience with transferring your domains hasn't met your expectations. We'd like to speak with you about this experience, please check your DM's and let's connect to see what we can do. Thank you.

Erinn
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Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Price
April 5, 2024

Price. I am not happy with the constant ads upon logging in. As a user - I want to be send DIRECTLY to the file manager so I can actually work on my website, not thorugh 4 or 5 different folders to access it. Please make this a better experience.

Thanks!

David Earle

Date of experience: March 25, 2024
Texas
1 review
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The free Website Builder enabled me to create a site that is much better than one I might have built by writing code myself in HTML, etc. - 10 times better. That saved me so many hours of work, and it was fun to use. And the low price for a 3-year subscription was very helpful as well.

Date of experience: April 28, 2022
Reputation T. HostGator Rep
over a year old

Hey Don,

Thank you for your review!

DJ
Customer Advocate at HostGator

Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Customer service is very, very poor
March 12, 2024

Customer service is very, very poor. Extremely long wait times and with how difficult your tools are to use, the poor customer service makes this a real waste of money. Your service is for folks with expert skills in web development. Not regular folks like my mom and me. If your customer service were better, it may have worked. I hope you guys can do better.

Date of experience: March 2, 2024
New York
1 review
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You have made a lot of GUI changes that are foreign and it's forcing a learning curve on me. Additionally, I'm having to contact tech support several times because of your system changes.

It's impacting my impression negatively

Date of experience: January 13, 2024