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HostGator has a rating of 3 stars from 5,436 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with HostGator most frequently mention customer service, long time and many years. HostGator ranks 2nd among Web Hosting sites.

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Oregon
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While porting one of my websites to my existing account with hostgator, my ported website somehow ended up in a separate business plan (meaning additional hundreds of dollars). Unfortunately I didn't notice that until many months later (I was on multi-year billing plan). When I asked hostgator about this they said there was not anything they could do about it because of "policy." I finally got it escalated to the "admins" who would not communicate with me directly. They just reviewed the front-end communicate and sent me an email saying they couldn't do anything. In the meantime, my other business plan was renewed for three years without a notification. They say they sent the notification, and maybe they did, but it was not in my inbox or spam (and this has happened multiple times where there hypothetical notifications do not show up on my end). Even just after a few weeks they again said they could not cancel or refund the plan because it was already charged. Can't or won't? I think that's obvious. The admins again made no effort to talk to me directly. They just send out their front end people who have no power to do anything except say what they are supposed to say, and the admins hide behind their electronic screens. I've never experienced such poor customer service in this type of situation. I'll be moving to another host that communicates with customers and gives them the benefit of the doubt.

Date of experience: March 2, 2025
New York
2 reviews
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I'm pretty hands off with it
December 5, 2024

I'm pretty hands off with it. I made my website but I don't really update it.

Date of experience: November 25, 2024
Pennsylvania
0 reviews
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Everything has been going well
October 16, 2024

Everything has been going well. I haven't had any issues in a while. The sales thing that popped up when I'm trying to make changes is annoying--gets in the way.

Date of experience: October 6, 2024
New York
1 review
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Good site to navigate
October 17, 2024

Good site to navigate - I don't like that the first page is an ad for additional services and it keeps coming back even if I click that I'm not interested

Date of experience: October 7, 2024
California
1 review
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I have a lot of problems with hostgator
October 12, 2024

I have a lot of problems with hostgator. So much so I'm actually thinking about switching to somebody else. Your customer service is terrible, your people are poorly trained, I supposedly have an SSL certificate that you guys loaded onto my page but people are constantly having problems saying there's no SSL certificate. You guys need to do better

Date of experience: October 2, 2024
California
1 review
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The services offered are great and competitive
October 6, 2024

The services offered are great and competitive. They set up process is fairly quick and easy, even for someone like me who is not an expert. Unfortunately, the customer service experience (for me at least) has not been the best. I have had to call on issues only to get wrong and unclear information.

Date of experience: September 26, 2024
Israel
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The site is active, thank you
October 15, 2024

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Date of experience: October 5, 2024
California
1 review
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Ever since my provider became HostGator about 20 years ago I've always had a good relationship except when I was losing webpages and that may have been my fault. But every time I've called I've got a real person who has helped me get my website back on track.

Date of experience: September 29, 2024
TW
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Very helpful
October 16, 2024

Very helpful. The knowledge base is great. I learn a lot from it. Live chat is always there to help me anytime.

Date of experience: October 6, 2024
Pennsylvania
1 review
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The Gator has got it going
October 3, 2024

The Gator has got it going. Awesome pricing and quality service! I don't have much experience with their customer service in all of the years I have been using them. It's been a while since I last had to contact support. To me however that is a good thing. For me, the less times I have to call customer service for any product and not just web hosting services, is just a confirmation that I have a great product! Kudos HostGator!

Date of experience: September 23, 2024