After all the glowing reviews of hostagtor, I signed up and uploaded 2 sites. Since then, I've noticed the site has been down a hell of a lot. Is this really normal? Is dedicated the only solution? Cheers, Eamo
i'm on shared hostgator and have never experienced downtime, touch wood They are currently doing PHP5/SQL5 Upgrades , so maybe that has something to do with your downtime
eamo, where do you live? Apparently a lot of people within the last 1/2 hour who live outside of the United States are having trouble access hostgator and their sites. Thread on it: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=704574
I'm having the exact same problem. My site has been down for over an hour now. It's getting ridiculous.
I had problems with performance on and off for the last couple of weeks and today it just went down completely. Support said it would be back up within an half an hour, that was over an hour ago. I've never had issues like this before. I was with my last provider for about 5 years and never had issues like this. I'm seriously considering switching. Very frustrating.
Micksss, I'm in Ireland - thanks for the thread link. I joined hostgator 3 weeks ago and every day there has been downtime. I was putting adsense on my site earlier and it went down for an hour! But every day I've had problems accessing my sites - I was beginning to think this is normal for shared hosting.
It's not normal to have downtime all days. You might want to check with them to ask why there are many downtimes. If that server has trouble, they can move you to another server. They are running many servers in The Planet, so I think there is no trouble for them to move you around. If they dont do it, and you are sure it is not because of your Internet connection, prepare to move to another host
I've been using hostgator for the past year and never noticed any downtime yet "touch wood" I live in australia and been on my site the whole of today - no problem so far