Hostgator Sucks Review - Scam, Fraud, Shit, Crap, Rating

Instrumentalist said:
This looks pretty good, but for me my biggest hurdle is that I've been using cPanel since forever. If I were to switch, what would be some things that I should know?
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Dude, set aside a couple of afternoons and for $5 get a slice and just try out the various open source panels until you find one you can live with and cut the cord to CPanel. Plenty of info on the DO forums. Unless you're reselling to a bunch of chimps wearing diapers, you don't need CPanel exclusively.
 


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Fatbat said:
I have a fully managed dedi running WHM/cPanel with Liquid Web for $160 a month. You can get cheaper hosting elsewhere, but I don't mind paying a little more knowing that there's someone I can call on 24/7 to do pretty much whatever I need.

I've had the server for two years now and I've had them help migrate my own and client sites from other hosting, assign more IPs (I can have up to 16 included in the price with this box), install SSL certs, restore sites from backups, and they've helped troubleshoot issues with WordPress and OpenCart including a hacked WordPress site. Pretty much everything I've asked of them they've done even if they don't officially support some of the tasks they've taken care of for me.

Trouble tickets are usually dealt with in 10-15 minutes while phone calls are answered immediately by tech support sat in their facilities. I have no complaints and would recommend them to anyone looking for a hosting solution.
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Just looked now, cheapest for a fully managed dedi with whm/cpanel is $199
 
same situation... hostgator is now terrible they used to be the place to be...

from quality, load times, to customer service. i plan on leaving them as soon as I decide who to run with myself
 
King. said:
Just looked now, cheapest for a fully managed dedi with whm/cpanel is $199
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Adevictus said:
https://www.liquidweb.com/configure/?code=SBridgeSpecial&id=c4504b5bf8a90b36e3a126f86b181d25848f8104
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^^^ Not bad with the SSD and whatnot. Their hardware configurations change from time to time. I have an i5 Intel, 4gb RAM, 2 x 1 TB drives, up to 16 IPs, 6 TB traffic, and cPanel.

I'm actually paying $164 a month. My server started at $189 + 2gb RAM + cPanel.

I negotiated a 10% discount (took a couple days of back and forth with their sales team), a free RAM upgrade (like I'm going to pay $20 a month for a $20 stick of RAM, it's such a scam), and also paid the largest setup fee to take an additional $35 off per month. It's worth it if you are going to be with them for more than 10 months. I've already been with them 2 years and was with my previous host Rackshack > EV1 > The Planet > Softlayer for 10+ years, so it's well worth it IMO.
 
Fatbat said:
^^^ Not bad with the SSD and whatnot. Their hardware configurations change from time to time. I have an i5 Intel, 4gb RAM, 2 x 1 TB drives, up to 16 IPs, 6 TB traffic, and cPanel.

I'm actually paying $164 a month. My server started at $189 + 2gb RAM + cPanel.

I negotiated a 10% discount (took a couple days of back and forth with their sales team), a free RAM upgrade (like I'm going to pay $20 a month for a $20 stick of RAM, it's such a scam), and also paid the largest setup fee to take an additional $35 off per month. It's worth it if you are going to be with them for more than 10 months. I've already been with them 2 years and was with my previous host Rackshack > EV1 > The Planet > Softlayer for 10+ years, so it's well worth it IMO.
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Damn $164 is pricy. I got a burst net Dedi 250GB ssd, i5, 8gb ram,1gb port, for 69 a month, 5 ips, cpanel and whm. Burstnets VPS suck balls but I have had 0 down time on their dedis. Gotta love ssd speeds.
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Adevictus said:
https://www.liquidweb.com/configure/?code=SBridgeSpecial&id=c4504b5bf8a90b36e3a126f86b181d25848f8104
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Where did you get this link, this actually has twice the ram and is $20 cheaper. However like the other deal you need to add cpanel/whm which brings this up to $179

conjamuk said:
Damn $164 is pricy. I got a burst net Dedi 250GB ssd, i5, 8gb ram,1gb port, for 69 a month, 5 ips, cpanel and whm. Burstnets VPS suck balls but I have had 0 down time on their dedis. Gotta love ssd speeds.
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got a link to that deal? cant find anywhere near that price for those specs on their site. cheapest deal with ssd is $150ish
 
Not to be mean, but some of you guys have no clue what you are doing, do you?

Hostgator fucking rocks on the shared plans. I have a shit ton of client sites and my small sites/test sites on Hostgator shared and I can tell you I have not had 1 issue in 4 years. EVER!

Why on earth you guys decided to get on VPS and Dedi's though with them is beyond me. Hostgator is pretty much the low end hosting company which means they are good for 1 thing, low end.

Its like my point A to point B car, its a small Dodge Caliber. Its good for one thing, getting me from point A to point B and parking at the airport on long stays. However, that doesn't mean I would then go and purchase a high end Dodge when I need something bigger and different for a bigger job. For that I have 2 other vehicles.

^^That is pretty much what you guys did with your hosting plans if you stuck with Hostgator past the shared hosting stage.

BTW, for VPS and dedi I have always had a wonderful experience with LiquidWeb, Linode, and RackSpace.
 
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King. said:
Where did you get this link, this actually has twice the ram and is $20 cheaper. However like the other deal you need to add cpanel/whm which brings this up to $179


got a link to that deal? cant find anywhere near that price for those specs on their site. cheapest deal with ssd is $150ish
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https://service.burst.net/cart.php?gid=64 I used a coupon and haggled them down a bit through sales and paid annually which its cheaper.
 
eliquid said:
I have a shit ton of client sites and my small sites/test sites on Hostgator shared and I can tell you I have not had 1 issue in 4 years. EVER!
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Wait for it... you will.

I had the same mindset you did, had been with them for years, very few issues and support was pretty good, plus I only kept small unimportant things there. I'm telling you they're not even good for small/test sites anymore, much less any client sites.
 
conjamuk said:
Damn $164 is pricy. I got a burst net Dedi 250GB ssd, i5, 8gb ram,1gb port, for 69 a month, 5 ips, cpanel and whm. Burstnets VPS suck balls but I have had 0 down time on their dedis. Gotta love ssd speeds.
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Is that fully managed? You got a link to that, or similar, server setup?

Edit: yeah, add a SSD to your link, cPanel, fully managed, etc. and it works out much closer to what I am already paying. Keep in mind server specs are changing month to month too. I would go with something like the Xenon that was posted earlier and save a few buck more. It's the fully managed part that adds the most to the cost, but it's like having an internal server admin at your disposal without having to pay for staff.
 
Go to serverbear.com and compare benchmarks of these various hosts and your configuration before you commit.
 
Fatbat said:
Is that fully managed? You got a link to that, or similar, server setup?

Edit: yeah, add a SSD to your link, cPanel, fully managed, etc. and it works out much closer to what I am already paying. Keep in mind server specs are changing month to month too. I would go with something like the Xenon that was posted earlier and save a few buck more. It's the fully managed part that adds the most to the cost, but it's like having an internal server admin at your disposal without having to pay for staff.
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Its probably a bit more expensive now, I used a coupon code but I only paid 69. Forgot to add i ordered the 60gb ssd but they put a 250gb for free. Yeah mine is unmanaged but I like to admin my own server.
 
AdamC said:
My experience with them/him was pretty negative, was around the time they launched (on here). Peter behaved unprofessionally, hopefully he's chilled out now.
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I just hate the name HostWinds. It's not as bad as HostGuts though. I judge books by their covers.
 
mattseh said:
Host stuff like pumpers as static sites on Amazon S3. Very little downtime, very little maintenance.
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How much traffic can it handle? We are using rackspace for shit that we need to guarantee uptime but the boss has hundreds of domains at bluehost he keeps trying (or has me trying) to host apps from and it's terrible so I need something in between.

He's never heard of subdomains so he has literally a hundred versions of whatever project/campaign idea he comes up with.

A couple projects need tens of thousands of requests per second for short bursts of time.
 
shindig said:
How much traffic can it handle? We are using rackspace for shit that we need to guarantee uptime but the boss has hundreds of domains at bluehost he keeps trying (or has me trying) to host apps from and it's terrible so I need something in between.

He's never heard of subdomains so he has literally a hundred versions of whatever project/campaign idea he comes up with.

A couple projects need tens of thousands of requests per second for short bursts of time.
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I doubt you'll have scaling issues, but to be safe, benchmark it. There are multiple big sites that host all their images on S3.
 
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