hostgator

ilushkin · 12-29-2005, 07:04 PM

What kind of expirience you had with hostgator.com ?

**South** · 12-29-2005, 09:32 PM

Mine has been fine so far. No problems with down time or sluggish response.

What I like most is the support. They have real time "chat" help that someone actually answers. I've had no problem getting useful support no matter what the issue or time of night.

Michael Allison · 12-30-2005, 02:16 AM

Yep.

I've only had them for a month, but I really like what I see.

Great support.

-Michael

talkfreelance · 12-30-2005, 03:21 AM

Hostgator are very professional and reputable, i've worked with Ben from them for sometime now on some promotions for my forum and he's always helpful and accomodating. They have some very good prices and plans and all the reviews i've seen have been good.

Sabeur · 12-30-2005, 06:52 AM

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HostGator are a great host repected by all.

ilushkin · 12-30-2005, 12:36 PM

thank you

Sabeur · 12-31-2005, 06:46 AM

Np, glad to help.

etech-peter · 12-31-2005, 07:25 AM

Hostgator are a professional and reliable host.

You can check out their reviews here http://www.webhostingunleashed.com/

spacefem · 12-31-2005, 09:31 PM

my experience was absolutely terrible.

http://www.v7n.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13355

Now, I was putting some big sites on their servers... big sites need things that yours might not. Here are things they angered me about:

1) Support- they suspended my account without telling me why. Their live support couldn't help me. I had to do everything via e-mail and it was slow... it took me two days to find out why I was suspended. Their live support people can tell you how to click cpanel icons. I think it's horrible false advertising for them.

2) Resources - they put 800 sites on a server, and if you use more than your fair share, they kick you off. It's impossible to pull 100GB a month of bandwidth and not use up more server resources than you should. Why they offer a plan like that I have no idea.

So, like most hosts, they can handle happy little brochure sites just fine, but if you have a real website, they're downright painful to deal with. That was a $50 lesson for me. Hope you have better luck.

ilushkin · 01-01-2006, 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by spacefem

my experience was absolutely terrible.

http://www.v7n.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13355

Now, I was putting some big sites on their servers... big sites need things that yours might not. Here are things they angered me about:

1) Support- they suspended my account without telling me why. Their live support couldn't help me. I had to do everything via e-mail and it was slow... it took me two days to find out why I was suspended. Their live support people can tell you how to click cpanel icons. I think it's horrible false advertising for them.

2) Resources - they put 800 sites on a server, and if you use more than your fair share, they kick you off. It's impossible to pull 100GB a month of bandwidth and not use up more server resources than you should. Why they offer a plan like that I have no idea.

So, like most hosts, they can handle happy little brochure sites just fine, but if you have a real website, they're downright painful to deal with. That was a $50 lesson for me. Hope you have better luck.

you right dude! they banned my php script for no reason, they banned me from the support forum for no reason. My complain to BBB didnt get much results. However, I had a talk with Brian who runs Hostgator, and he fixed all problems, exept my banned script. Well after my phone conversation to Brian, thangs have changed. Dude you can go back to Hostgator. Support is awesome. In spite of numerous sites on 1 server...

bwb · 01-04-2006, 09:23 AM

I've had a dedicated with them for about 8 months, no problems and great support.

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2) Resources - they put 800 sites on a server, and if you use more than your fair share, they kick you off. It's impossible to pull 100GB a month of bandwidth and not use up more server resources than you should. Why they offer a plan like that I have no idea.

CPU/Memory usage sounds like it would be a bit high and that you need a dedicated.

John Scott · 01-30-2006, 12:47 AM

bwb, welcome to v7n.

I'd have to disagree with you about that assesment. 100GB is not killer b/w. If it were 1,000 GB and a lot of MySQL processes, yeah, get a dedicated server, but in itself 100GB a month isn't seriously going to put a load on a server.

It's hard to say whether any site needs a dedicated server without seeing what kind of load they do. I used to host never.com, and that thing was a nightmare from the email alone. It was getting something like 30,000 emails every minute, and we hosted it for as long as we could but politely asked the client to find an alternative solution, and that load was high from email alone.

When we had issues with clients using too many resources, we worked with them to find a solution. Besides the never.com account, I can't recall any time we requested a customer find an alternative host. And I don't think putting 800 sites on a single box is responsible, either. We limited ours to 100 sites each.

bwb · 01-30-2006, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnScott

bwb, welcome to v7n.

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Thanks! Great set of forums!

I'd have to disagree with you about that assesment. 100GB is not killer b/w. If it were 1,000 GB and a lot of MySQL processes, yeah, get a dedicated server, but in itself 100GB a month isn't seriously going to put a load on a server.

Its not always a killer yes but I think in most cases it is, or at least a good indication, as with those type of CPU/Mem limits and if you are using 100GB the only way would be if you are using it as a file download setup, as 100GB of text indicates that you are probably going to cause apache problems in a shared server.

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When we had issues with clients using too many resources, we worked with them to find a solution. Besides the never.com account, I can't recall any time we requested a customer find an alternative host. And I don't think putting 800 sites on a single box is responsible, either. We limited ours to 100 sites each.

Well sites shouldn't matter, really its just what they are doing, adding more domains doesn't cause load its how people are using them. You can host 1000 domains easily if they are small business sites that are non dynamic and low traffic on a small server.

John Scott · 01-30-2006, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by bwb

Well sites shouldn't matter, really its just what they are doing, adding more domains doesn't cause load its how people are using them. You can host 1000 domains easily if they are small business sites that are non dynamic and low traffic on a small server.

It doesn't matter how many you can host, it's matter of avoiding risk. With 1000 sites on one box, the chances are much higher that you'll run into problems. And instead of that problem affecting 100 sites, it'll affect 1,000.

bwb · 01-30-2006, 12:47 PM

Thats true, I just don't think that is as big a factor as looking at bandwidth usage.

WireNine · 02-05-2006, 07:22 PM

I think if you do a little bit of research you will find that they have amazing reviews, they provide reliable service and fast support