If you are considering to get a hosting account from Hostgator, you may want to (or probably have tried) searching for the keywords “Hostgator Sucks” on Google. The result may confuse you. Perhaps you have read tons of good stuff and rave reviews about Hostgator thus far.

Stories like below may make you think twice to signup with Hostgator:

“i left GODADDY and went to HG… 3 months and my site was never up!”

“My saga with them began when they took down one of my websites I had hosted with them back in November 2006 without notice because they claimed my site used 11% of the CPU. ”

“I gave up on Hostgator a while ago, and I thought I’d cancelled my account until I noticed they were still charging me… “

If you go through each of Googles result pages, it seems there are thousands of unsatisfied customers who have been through some sticky situation with Hostgator. If you search for the keywords “Hostgator sucks”, you see that there are more than 28,000 results by Google. That is a lot of bad things said about one hosting (assuming all those result pages talks about why this hosting provider really sucked). There may be more result pages (more than 50,000) when you search for “Hostgator scam”. Should these hate or complaint sites worry you after you have read so many positive reviews? Should hate sites like hostgator-sucks.com and hostgator-scam.com (these sites may have been taken down due to some legal actions) make you change your mind?

Think again. Do not dismiss the fact that Hostgator is one of the better known web hosts in the industry. You have read the reviews. Though nothing they do is completely spectacular or unbelievable, they do what a hosting company should do. That is, HostGator actually answers their phones, replies to their emails, responds to live chat requests, doesn’t rip you off, and provides quality hosting. So among the millions of satisfied clients, surely they will be some who disagree. Let us look at the numbers:

From the above number, only 1 out 100 pages about Hostgator hates the hosting. This is not so bad considering other hostings also have similar or worst ratio. The hate pages is negligible if we look at the numbers above.

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Adapted from: Host Gator Sucks – Ate My Review