HostGator Reviews

- Affordable hosting
- A wide variety of tools to host, buy a domain, edit php, install Wordpress and experts help.
- Customer service experience was great as they offer live chat that can help solve issues whenever you need help.

- By default, php limits are low which require you to increase them if you are using an imported theme.
- They often try to sell you additional features and one should be careful at checkout as some additional options are checked by default and you need to uncheck them if you do not want them.

I'm a fan of their shared hosting especially because every time when I picked Hostgator shared hosting, it was much enough for me. Pricing is perfect, support is amazing, even the server performance is outstanding with almost 99.9% uptime. Hostgator provide WHM/cPanel that make the server configuration and management easier. However, they have multiple plans and packages build with a focus on users need. I tried all those packages and it was good enough for me from all sides.

My experience with Hostgator is really good, I don't have any cons in my mind about this company. But there is one small thing I really hate about HostGator. I don't know it is maybe a bug related to the IP-Address of the users. When I try to do portal login to my Hostgator account, or one of my client's accounts, I can't do it simply. Page does not load properly, or sometimes shows an IP related problem from my country, this is really annoying.

From my 5 years of experience in the web development i have found hostgator one of the best hosting providers things i like the most about hostgator is everything is crystal clear here. They provide a instant support by chat and call which is a great thing when it comes to hosting.
The pricing is also kind of good as compared to other providers

Everything is good for me but i thing the shared hosting has a little bit of inconsistency in the uptime of shared hosting.

Hostgator is web-hosting software. The things that I like the most about this product:
- The interface is actually navigation-friendly and intuitive, with the different sections and tabs clearly separated and well-disposed. There’s a cPanel that offers the same intuitiveness: We can type in a searching bar (located on the up-side of the screen) to find apps or any other function available, from the right-side of the cPanel there are pieces of information about the IP address for the server and some statistics such as the bandwidth capacity being used. It is a smooth ergonomy indeed;
- Unlimited bandwidth for all three plans. This is a good thing because Hostgator is one of the few softwares in the market that offer unlimited traffic;
- Regarding the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) topic, the loading speed is good: Hostgator loads at 2.7 seconds. It can be improved because the Google standard is 2.5 seconds. But, it is not a bad result at all! As soon as it is not below 3 seconds it is good. Many web-hosting opponents are behind in terms of loading speed.

- Some security features like Sitelock (a security layer that protects us from hackers) need to be integrated into the basic plans without trying to sell them separately in other plans;
- It would be better to decentralize the servers outside of the U.S to optimize the loading speed which will improve the SEO in the ranking competition.

My favorite thing about HostGator is the value! I use HostGator to host my website through a cheap shared hosting plan, and it was super simple to build my website and get it online using the tools that HostGator provided for a few bucks per month. I would certainly recommend HG to anyone starting a small business or needing a relatively simple way to give their business an online presence.

The biggest difficult I have had so far with HostGator has been with correctly setting up DNS to properly direct a doman that I purchased from Google Domains to the HG servers while also allowing the Google Workspace email I purchased to function correctly. And this is something I really can't blame HG for. HG appears to allow integration with Gmail if you purchase your domain and hosting via HG and then add Gmail to handle your email. But, when you purchase your domain through Google and setup a Gmail account before purchasing hosting from HostGator, getting everything to work right did take a bit to figure out.

I loved the fact that their chat support was available 24/24 when we used them.
And fast resolution was their key strength when it comes to chat support.
It was also a very good value for the money, uptime was good, servers were quite fast as well.
I've been a very happy customer with Hostgator.

There was no cons I could find.
For the price we paid, it was way above the competition, especially compared to french providers.
In the end, we moved away from them, because we needed more RAM and CPU to run our client's product launches, which was way out of the original scope of a shared hosting. I'd still recommend hostgator for someone getting started with a website.

They have good pricing and for a single website and you are restricted by budget, then they are good.

The amount of down time our clients have had is not ok. We deal with many clients and have had to move them from Hostgator to other hosts depending on their budget and needs, but pretty much any website that we move from Hostgator experiences better uptime as soon as they are moved. The support staff are not helpful and seem to be reading from an updated set of notes. When you move to the very high tiers then you get to deal with the "proper" support guys who can actually help and answer questions. But I don't want to have to deal with the VPS guys for every issue that we face.

Hostgator has good support. They may not be fast, but they can really try to help with each of your queries (depends on the person who holds your ticket).

They offer pretty decent plans, which can be helpful for newbies to make a choice and host more than 1 million websites, which can make you feel safe and trust them.

While Hostgator has some great features, they have problems with their servers. The loading times are often slow, and the downtime is more than what someone could wish for.

HostGator is a great hosting company for hosting and building websites with all the necessary support one can get. When you talk of prominent web hosting companies out there, HostGator always makes the list. This is because nearly every web designer uses it to host their websites or blogs. With HostGator, creating a professional website with a peace of mind that one would probably not get elsewhere is assured. With their swift customer support, it is hard not to have your issues resolved within a single chat.

Like all other products HostGator has its little hitches. For instance, their rate of down-time is increasingly becoming worrisome these days. Something that was unknown to the company since knowing them. Apart from this, the HostGator should also have a security product against malware that is affordable, the current one is expensive.

Shared hosting ok but VPS not. No more pros

Customer support, professionality, messy to use