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Hostgator Review by arnoldq - Hg Tops For Me

HOST GATOR, here’s my 5 star review for you guys. You guys have been great from the beginning as I have shared and dedicated hosting. I know that sometimes folks expect 100% perfection but that’s not realistic; however I will say you guys have been pretty darn close. Excellent hosting with excellent support. Now I have to jump on the affiliate program.

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Hostgator Review by BobA - 8-month review

Early on during the first two months I had some ocassional problems with e-mail being down and sometimes couldn’t access CP or my website. However, the HG team most likely threw a few sites off the shared server that were screwing things up and everything has been great for the past few months…. no down times, no need for tickets.

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Hostgator Review by ufopsi.com - Almost 1 year review

Since there is a wave of reviews at the moment, here is mine.

I joined on November 28, 2006 because my second host, Fasthosts Ltd, just got worse and worse. To give you an idea, it took many attempts to download a db backup from phpBB. Plenty of troubles, pages hardly loading, support kind but unhelpful.

So I searched on WHT and firstly I went to live chat for pre sales questions. Staff was very kind, friendly and honest. Transparency, that’s what FH missed. The decision was made within days. DNS updated very quickly (one day or so).

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Hostgator Review by leopard - New HG Customer and Initial Experience

Having been hosted with Powweb for over 5 years and a couple of other hosting programs, I am very happy to be with Hostgator.

Let me start by saying I am brand new. So I am just posting my experience with other hosts so that we all can learn.

I am very happy to see that Hostgator does not oversell their bandwith. The issues in some old posts with one reseller getting angry because he had to wait for an upgrade. After being with Powweb where they upgrade everyone immediately seemed like a nice idea. Know what happened, they have major issues. Upgraded to MySql 5 around 45 days ago and my databases have been crap since the upgrade. Way to many people accessing them. I would guess my php scripts and mysql are down over 50% of the time. This is not an exaturation, they are always down (and not just for a day or week but 45 and counting)!

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Hostgator Review by dave-dave - Customer Support Responses

I just signed up with hostgator and to be honest, am concerned with the quality of the replies I get back from support tickets. I have yet to receive a well thought out answer on any of the questions in my emails.

Most of it is “correct” or one sentence answers. This angers me because not only do I have to send another email in asking for clarification, but i have to wait for it to be responded to. I understand that support people have quotas to fill and that there are little competitions going on behind the scenes for most tickets answered, but a little more effort into emails (especially sales!) is a must.

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Hostgator Review by blackcab - My 2nd day and so impressed!!

I would just like to say that this is my second day with Hostgator and I am really impressed, I was having quite a few issues with my old hosts (DreamHost) as they were blocking POST messages with paypal, and do not answer tickets for over 24 hours, so no good if your running E-Commerce!!. After a quick online LIVE chat with support here they assured me that this would not be an issue with Hostgator, and guess what?

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Hostgator Review by JoeThaMan - Bad Review: AIT.com/globat.com Good Review: HostGator

Just a couple of hosting services I would not recommend.

I was with both of them for almost a year until I got fed up and switched to the other. Initally I was with globat, then went to AIT.com. Globat had excellent prices and I had very little experience with hosting companies (and a little broke, too). I had an ecommerce (oscommerce) site. Initially everything was fine, for about 3-4 months then started becoming very slow, taking up to 5 minutes to load the home page (with 6 queries). The site would se 20-30 visits a day so it wasn’t that busy. I asked them to see if they could do something and all they could say was it was due to the “load” of the shared server and nothing they could do and then offered me a “dedicated hosting plan” for $200 a month that would solve the problem. After a couple more months I got tired of it and moved to ait.com.

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Alleged Russian crime hosting service folds tent

web-hosting service the Russian Business Network (RBN) is gone but maybe not permanently. This week it turned in most of its allocated Internet addresses after being implicated in nefarious hacking.

Like in 2005 when somebody took advantage of a previously unknown security flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser to install keystroke-logging software on computers when users visited legitimate Web sites which had been hacked.The keylogging software then sent data back BRN’s network.

Then in autumn 2006, insecurity experts saw RBN sites implicated in an attack against Hostgator, a large web-hosting provider in Florida. In May 2007, more insecurity experts reported a large percentage of the sites belonging to Ipower Inc., one of the web’s biggest inexpensive web site hosting firms, had been hijacked with code that silently redirected visitors to malicious RBN sites.

Nearly every major advancement in computer viruses or worms over the past two years has emanated from or sent stolen consumer data back to servers at RBN.

Our October 15 article was one of the things which sent RBN customers looking for new places to park their data. The writing was on the bathroom walls when RBN’s biggest upstream provider - Tiscali.uk - began refusing to route Internet traffic for RBN, according to our sources. A few days later, the second of RBN’s three main upstream providers - C4l - dropped the Russian ISP as a customer.

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Hostgator Review by jckhosting - Going good…then I found this out

So I signed up on the Copper Reseller package back in July. Everything has been pretty smooth since then. The server has only had issues twice that I can remember. Can’t really complain.

However, recently, a majority of the domains I host had issues with their sent emails being flagged as spam. After a little bit of research, I found that the default ip address that my accounts were set up on was actually shared among other resellers on the same server! Now, I’m not expecting the world from HostGator on this reseller plan. However, I do think it would be a safe assumption that when I sign up with a reseller account they would at least give me an ip address that is not in use by anyone else.

I have since bought 4 other ip addresses for other client’s SSL needs. I would like to avoid going through the hassle of buying another ip and then having to have all of my other domains updated to that ip. However, it seems as though that is my only course of action to resolve the issues.

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Hostgator Review by dvduval - Happy Customer Since February 2006

I started using Hostgator around February 2006. I started with a reseller account. I have since opened a total of 3 reseller accounts, and have been very satisfied.

Whenever I need help I use the chat feature, and I’ve been able solve most problems this way. Occasionally, the support personel in chat have asked me to create a ticket, and tickets were also solved quickly and professionally.

I can’t remember ever having a site down, and I have close to 100 sites hosted with hostgator. I also can’t recall any major issues with slowness.