Beware of hostgator!!

I'm honestly not the biggest fan of hostgator anymore
but I was with hostgator for a year and had no troubles until recently

it's just the customer support that sucks (no offense hostgator, but I've talked to some douches from your support)


so my vote, for shared hosting, is hostgator

 

I have some sites with hostgator and they work great, sry your having trouble just email with a new email and give you domain on main account. They will reply most likely.

 

wow hostgator you're really good to come and talk to these people, and then to offer $100 if you're proved wrong! I've never actually used your company and I don't really need to but good going .

 

this topic is becoming a mega topic, LOL.... well... in my country i get maximum 50 KBPS, i wish i could get 10 MBPS line so that i can start my own hosting business,and host my sites on my own server, LOL.. maybe after 10 years, joking

 

ive been pleased with hostgator for over 2 years now.

i had a billing issue before, so i called, it was resolved within 10 minutes.

 

All of these hosts are fine for shared hosting if your requirements are small. If your site starts getting more than 10,000 - 15,000 page views per day expect trouble from all of these.

Shared hosting solutions promise bandwidth etc they never intend to provide if actually required. 99 out of 100 websites will not use 1% of the resources promised. The 1 out of 100 sites that does start using a fair chunk of the resources promised gets burned because that's only 1 dissatisfied customer while all the other 99 are happy.

Hostgator and the others are fine for small hosting but if your site gets big you'll need a dedicated server or VPS. Slicehost, ThePlanet, and EC2 are good.

Don't worry about it until its an issue but have a contingency plan. Back your sites up to your home computer hard disk daily once your site starts getting big so you can quickly move it to a new dedicated account if the situation becomes necessary.

 

Mods should close this thread...it has become pointless!

 

ThePlanet.com is the best company for dedicated servers.

I highly reccomend you them!

 

This thread should be closed now since everything is solved.

- Prilep :d

 

Meth do you have a ticket number I can review?

Most of the problems are from our live chat techs which our usually the trainees. When they don't know something they ask you to put a ticket in which upsets a lot of people.

 

Preach it brotha!

 

That is a pretty sad statement about shared hosting in general, you are unhappy with them but still recommend them?

 

Why can't you manage to get few experts on technical live chat, else shut-down this live chat feature if you want your clients to mail you for their issues.

 

This thread was a very interesting read.. and i think HG was in the right.

 

I stoped using hostgator and started servage instead

 

Hey,

thanks for the heads up on that. i was actually looking at purchasing from them the other day but opted for another company. their support response times were very slow.

 

Go with servage.com and use the free coupon in my signature

 

Yeah
they done me good for a year
I've been in the website business for 3 years now(going on 4), and hostgator is the only place that I've stayed with for a year

I've tried a lot of webhosts, and hostgator was the only one that gave a decent download speed, good uptime and a decent price

it's just some of the technical support are... well.... retards.... or huge trolls?

 

oh no, please don't

every 10 seconds someone on my forums would complain about a database errror, it always lost the connection... or failed to connect to the database server




servage, good for non-database sites but I wouldn't touch them if I wanted to host a site with a database

 

Plain bad luck for being charged twice for the dedi.
I'm sure they would fix it up for you soon.

I've been with HG for about an year and no problems till now.