HostGator

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Website building software for eCommerce businesses

About HostGator

HostGator is a website building software that helps businesses utilize different hosting options including shared, WordPress, dedicated, and VPS to create websites, online stores, and portfolios. Administrators can register domains, securely store files in compliance with secure sockets layer (SSL) protocols.

The platform enables managers to access cPanel to track website visitors, manage marketing campaigns, and automate site backups. HostGator allows teams to launch websites using personalized logos, images, custom fonts, and theme colors. Operators can also manage image libraries and create mobile-responsive and search engine optimization (SEO) friendly web designs.

HostGator lets businesses protect the system against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and malware attacks and control server configurations. Supervisors can also lock domains to prevent unauthorized transfers of names and manage domain name system (DNS) routing.


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3.8 /5
(63)
Value for Money
3.7/5
Features
4/5
Ease of Use
4.0/5
Customer Support
3.4/5

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Joe
Joe
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

HostGator Is Hands Down The Best

Reviewed on 2024/05/14

Phenomenal! Like I said, I have four websites now and all four are through HostGator.

Phenomenal! Like I said, I have four websites now and all four are through HostGator.

Pros

When I needed a professional looking website for my organization from a website builder that understood creating websites is not my strength, HostGator was perfect. Their 24/7 customer service is the best.

Cons

I ended up getting four websites through them I was so pleased. At first understanding the difference between the two site building options was challenging, but with the assistance from customer service everything was great.

Tayeb
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Hostgator is the best hosting service I use

Reviewed on 2024/03/24

Hostgator has always been my main hosting service, I tried the free hosting services and you can...

Hostgator has always been my main hosting service, I tried the free hosting services and you can rarely reach the point of making a working website the way you want it. I like the many tools offered, Softaculous is probably the best in the CPanel as it allows you to properly install Wordpress in seconds without the hassle of uploading folders. I give it 4 out of 5 stars, I remove a star because I do not like their upselling tactics even if their customer support via live chat was always very helpful and solved issues within a few hours.

Pros

- 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.

Cons

- 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.

Marvin
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Hosting Worth the Money

Reviewed on 2025/01/31

We have been using HostGator for many years now, and it has been a great experience, the price, the...

We have been using HostGator for many years now, and it has been a great experience, the price, the support, and the features it provides. We use HostGator for our website and domain.

Pros

What I like most is the use of CPanel for the management of all features it comes with.

Cons

Sometimes it takes a little while to get customer support.

Michel
Michel
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  • Industry: Broadcast Media
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

worst service of my life

Reviewed on 2024/07/29

Pros

no tracking. Very slow to respond staff for a business like mine.

Cons

no serious follow-up to my request after 6 days. I want my access. I have provided all my proof of identity and you tell me to do it as quickly as possible after 6 days? 6 days? Really? Your servers are located or in the world please.

Torikul
Torikul
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Fantastic web hosting company that is suitable for all kinds of websites

Reviewed on 2021/09/18

My overall experience is fantastic with Hostgator, this hosting company helped me to grow up my...

My overall experience is fantastic with Hostgator, this hosting company helped me to grow up my business and take it to the next level. Most of my clients like Hostgator web hosting even I also. In my web development carrier as a freelancer, I have used Hostgator so many times, can't explain how much helpful it was.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

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HostGator FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for HostGator.

HostGator offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$2.75/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Not Available

$3.84/mo $5.95/mo $19.95/mo $89.98/mo

HostGator has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

HostGator supports the following languages:

English

HostGator supports the following devices:

We do not have any information about what integrations HostGator has

HostGator offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep)

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