HostGator Reviews & Product Details

I think the best part that they have going for them is their dashboard after you're logged in. Everything is organized very well and users can easily find which site to work with, where the CPanel is, the domain settings, and the customer service chat section.

Of all things, I dislike the site speed of my clients' sites that are hosted on Hostgator. I don't know for certain, because their customer service denies it, but it's kind of like a pay to play philosophy. I'd need to "upgrade" to get a faster site. Not cool.

As a website developer, Hostgator gives me a one stop shop option for clients who don't know much about domains or hosting. Here they could manage it all in one place and not be overwhelmed. Another benefit they give is quick response Customer Service. I've never waited more than a few minutes to get a response.

Hostgator offers hosting plans on Linux and Windows platforms. The best thing about their plans is that they are quite economical. The performance of the hosting servers is good. For higher performance, they offer plans under the "PRO Hosting" services. Setting up a website was hassle free. They offer good discounts for long term plans.

Hosting renewal prices are a bit on the higher side. It would be good if they could offer good discounts on renewals too.

Building client websites and hosted the same on HoasGator.

I've used many web hosts for WordPress sites with various clients over the years. The Hostgator cPanel integration made installation and management of a recent site quick and easy. I'll be using it for my next clients requiring an easy affordable hoting provider. From the Hostgator dashboard, I can launch the full-featured cPanel interface I am familiar with to manage all aspects of the site behind the scenes.

Like most hosting providers, Hostgator promotes numerous free offerings when creating a new account. Many of these functions are easily addressed using free WordPress plugins. I've discovered that cancellation for some of these features can be challenging, requiring support tickets and interaction with staff for actions that should be easily accomplished via cPanel.

HostGator allows me to quickly and easily set up website hosting accounts for clients with no server management expertise. This allows me to easily install software, configure email addresses, and manage files for them while providing access to their dashboard for billing and support as necessary.

Hosting is very affordable, easy to set up, they offer a ton of solutions out of the box.

My websites would occasionally have long response times randomly throughout the day and we did not have an increase in traffic to justify these long load times. Come to find out some other users who we were sharing a box with would run scheduled tasks every so often and it would cause everything to go slow.

Host various websites using different technologies

The dashboard is clearly arranged - there are many functions and extensions available, which are installed directly via the admin area. I'm glad that the provider does this - so I can be sure that I'm installing the right application and that it's from a secure vendor.

The customer service works with tickets, which means for us that we always have to wait quite a long time until we get an answer. An additional domain was only activated after 3 days.

I especially appreciate the very fast loading time of our homepage. Our internal analyses have shown that the bounce rate on our homepage has decreased thanks to the fast loading time.

Easy to use interface, low prices, good server load and up time, and more options and automation. Huge choice of domains.

The customer support in night time at India in terrible. Hours of waiting time, with agents disconnecting calls in middle and waiting again for hours is the rust thing I faced with Hostgator.

Using Hosting for some of my and clients websites.

I like that HostGator has both domain registration and web hosting packages. We don't have to go to two different places to get those products. They also have all the common security tools, like SSL certificates, to improve search engine rankings and help keep our websites secure and free from malware. I think that HostGator has been very friendly for our content management systems. Our pages generally load pretty fast through HostGator, except for the occasional page that processes lots of data or contains lots of media.

I think my only complaint is that the interface of HostGator is probably not as clean and modern as some other web hosts' account portals. The pricing isn't so bad, but there aren't very many promotional deals that we can take advantage of like we can at other web host offers I've seen online.

We have created many quality business websites that we've used for marketing and for posting blog posts for a variety of different subjects. We have gotten generally good page loading speeds from HostGator, even with the more standard hosting packages. Instead of having to log in all the time, HostGator keeps us up-to-date with account activities.

There are many convenient account management within HostGator. Most of the services can be activated within a few minutes or so. The basic hosting plans have a good amount of bandwidth, storage space and other features that make it suitable for most common website installations. I like that HostGator stays up-to-date with most of web framework languages so we can create dynamic websites either from scratch or use a content management system.

I think that the speeds on HostGator are probably not among the best compared to other leaders in web hosting. There aren't as many features that allow us to optimize websites for search engines and other marketing needs. I think we can run most applications that we would need for common websites, but I feel like they could probably have more available to us.

The websites that we host on HostGator are used throughout our business for internal purposes, marketing and several business-to-business needs. We can get decent page loading speeds for the price that we're paying. Even though they're not the fastest speeds possible, they are fast enough to run the types of pages and content that we post most of the time. Having a solid up time is very important for any business, and HostGator has been pretty good at providing that for us.

Hostgator gives you a lot of cheap options that for simple deploys is ideal, also the promotions they put sometimes can get you almost 3 years for the price of one including a SSL certificatate, so if you work as freelance it's going to give to your clients a really cheap deployment. Now regarding to the Dashboard is really simple, the curve of learning is almost zero. As a developer you can give a quick training and let a non technical resource to be managing the web server after the end of the project.

Something I dislike about Hostagor are they Shared Solution, If you are a developer working with web solution that implements framework DO NOT buy the shared hosting solution, because you are going to find a lot of roadblock at the moment of implement. In example I have tried to deploy tool made with Symfony 2.* and 3.* and I have had the issue of trying to install all the need libraries with composer and find a limit of memory, and even I have need just like 500Kb the solution by the support team was "Buy the VPN solution"

Deployment of Web Pages, Mail Server, Online stores, among others.

I like that HostGator offers a full range of web-related services that allows our company to register a domain (with or without privacy), have an ample amount of web server space, and email accounts that are reliable with extensive settings options. The pricing for most HostGator products are generally competitive and can often be discounted using promotional codes found online or through emailed newsletters. The support staff at HostGator has been very helpful at following through on service issues and allowing us to provide feedback on their support.

I find some of the HostGator account options a bit difficult to work with. Updating certain items in the DNS settings can be a bit complicated to understand. The repercussions of setting things wrong can mean extensive website or email downtime. The support team has been helpful for fixing things, but I wish some of the DNS and hosting account processes could be more straightforward for the average user.

HostGator has been a solid and reliable place for us to host many web-related business materials such as websites, single promotional pages, web forms and documents that we link to from third-party platforms like social media, collaboration software and message boards. We were able to acquire our HostGator services for very reasonable prices, which I think makes their services among the most valuable we have in our business.