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HostGator is a Houston-based provider of shared, reseller, virtual private server, and dedicated web hosting with an additional presence in Austin, Texas.

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Hostgator reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Hostgator users through our website.

  • 32% E-mail (32%)
  • 29% Domains (29%)
  • 23% Hosting (23%)
  • 10% Cloud Services (10%)
  • 6% Web Tools (6%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Hostgator outage reports came from the following cities:

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Santiago Domains 4 days ago
San Miguel de Allende E-mail 5 days ago
Santa Clara Web Tools 8 days ago
Oaxaca Hosting 9 days ago
Thornton E-mail 16 days ago
Chisinau E-mail 16 days ago
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Hostgator Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • zrkann
    Zak Kann (Fractional CTO) (@zrkann) reported

    @FakeUncleNemo Agree generally, but not with Hostgator. EIG subsidiaries (Hostgator, Bluehost, etc) lure people in with cheap intro rates but they quickly raise the prices, their defaults are slow and often have security vulnerabilities, and their customer support, well, I'm not sure it exists.

  • JordanBlum87
    Jordan Blum🤘 (@JordanBlum87) reported

    Can any tech people help? We use Outlook for The Bookends Review and once a week, it'll stop sending and receiving mail because "503 Valid RCPT command must precede DATA." Then, I'll delete the emails we have in the HostGator CP and it'll work again. Any ideas how to fix?

  • Info4funbr
    Info4Fun Brasil (@Info4funbr) reported

    @BrunnooPacheco @HostGator Site is Very Slow... The Customer Portal is down...

  • nick_donellan
    Nicky D COYR! (@nick_donellan) reported

    @HGSupport our email server is running incredibly slow. Do you have an ETA on the fix for this?

  • HGSupport
    HostGator Support (@HGSupport) reported

    @seanrogers8 @HostGator No need to worry, this is not a hack. DNS tools can show SPF/DKIM/DMARC records more than once when zones or hostnames overlap or if the browser has some caching issues. If you reach out to support, we can review your DNS directly and make sure everything is set correctly.

  • script_codes
    Fabiyi | React | TypeScript (@script_codes) reported

    @MudiTheInvestor @myarmone @HostGator Tbh It’s also happens with network providers. Most people they have answering the calls don’t know or can’t really provide a solution to your problems. Many times where I had to insist on them transferring me to their superior.

  • laurustravel
    Laurus Travel (@laurustravel) reported

    @HostGator Our websites hosted by you have been down for 10+ hours. How much longer do we have to wait?

  • okdeplorable
    Deporable (@okdeplorable) reported

    @HostGator Apparently this company has moved all of it's customer service overseas. Consequently you can only understand every other word.

  • seochrismcelroy
    Chris McElroy SEO (@seochrismcelroy) reported

    I can't believe hostgator support has gotten this bad. I needed help with a domain transfer. Called them. Selected help with domain names in the menu. The people I got said since I don't have a hosting account with them they can't help me. I asked them to connect me with somebody that could. But the only thing you can do is chat when it comes to domain names. Never register your domain name at hostgator.

  • TheSatyamGupta
    Satyam Gupta (@TheSatyamGupta) reported

    Our website has been down for 6 hours and the server issue is not yet fixed. @BigRock @HostGator claims 99.9% uptime in spite of this we are facing this issue.

  • Eder55164219
    Eder (@Eder55164219) reported

    @HostGator That's the problem, there's no way to contact them. send DM with case number

  • amainyebriggs
    Amainye Briggs (@amainyebriggs) reported

    @ethanjaack I have never had support issues with HostGator and hostinger

  • seanrogers8
    I REFUSE (@seanrogers8) reported

    @HGSupport @HostGator @spamhaus Your tech support sucks. They have been working on it for 2 days. My company email still doesn't work!! If your employees were competent your service would work

  • HGSupport
    HostGator Support (@HGSupport) reported

    @academicoweb @HostGator We hear you that you are having trouble with the auth code and have concerns about the price and specs of your hosting plan. Repeatedly mentioning us in posts and replies keeps us going through notifications instead of being able to help you. Hence, "spam." Our DMs are open.

  • halting_brenton
    Brenton Bostick (@halting_brenton) reported

    @HGSupport I'm trying to buy a new domain. I agreed to terms of service and clicked Checkout Now. And nothing happens.

  • PeterVadala
    CENSORED BY T!!TTER (@PeterVadala) reported

    . @hostgator I had to cancel a credit card because of your billing vulnerabilities. What the heck is going on over there?!?!?!?! @bluehost help!!

  • akhilpw
    Akhil P Walia (@akhilpw) reported

    @hostgatorindia All our websites hosted on #Hostgator are down for the last 45 minutes, and the support is hard to reach. After waiting in-line for over 20 minutes to reach chat support , the agent is totally unresponsive.

  • itsjustmetwo
    Lissa (@itsjustmetwo) reported

    @HGSupport Why is it impossible to get anything escalated to people who can actually help?

  • tb6___
    Tyler (@tb6___) reported

    I didn’t think it was possible but HostGator made their ****** website even worse If anyone reading this ends up needing web hosting use literally any other service

  • _tapish
    Tapish Jain (@_tapish) reported

    @BigRock The migration has so many bugs that it is impossible for me to renew my hosting that I had on hostgator. If I didn't renew by tomorrow, my servers will go down, while bigrock support says they are helpless.

  • MayankKothari09
    Mayank Kothari (@MayankKothari09) reported

    @BigRock @hostgatorindia X HostGator → BigRock migration. Same email on both platforms = migration failed. Domains moved there, hosting stayed here. Now they want me to hand over hosting directly to clients. Not acceptable. Indian businesses deserve better service standards.

  • okyall55
    OkYall (@okyall55) reported

    @HostGator is the WORST! Refuses to honor links (says file doesn't exist). More than 2x expensive as @IONOS. Loses posts, media and just generally SUCKS! Customer Service is AWFUL! I'm like IONOS they have a partner who will back up your file for an expensive fee. Otherwise, they just delete your stuff and you have no option if you haven't backed it up yourself. I paid to restore a backup and didn't get half of what they deleted. The reason I know I didn't delete it myself is because it's not in the trash folder. HOSTGATOR DELETED and it's my opinion that they did it intentionally so that they could charge me for a restore and then they didn't really restore much of anything. I lost a lot of memories.

  • Hal_chair
    Guy (@Hal_chair) reported

    @HGSupport How to you access the live chat support. It has been disabled for months now. All live chat support does is show you a list of "is this your problem" crap.

  • Stelladmarco
    Stella DiMarco (@Stelladmarco) reported

    @HostGator - their support staff has repeatedly displayed minimal to zero knowledge and are not much more than phone answering clerks. Numerous times we've been given false and varying info. as for the reason for issues #badwebhosting

  • Mrchispa8
    Mrchispa (@Mrchispa8) reported

    @HostGator almost 10 hours no service!

  • seanrogers8
    I REFUSE (@seanrogers8) reported

    @HostGator @HGSupport When will you fix your email hosting? You provide the worst service ever!

  • YoungbloodJoe
    Joe Youngblood - SEO, Futurology, AI, Marketing (@YoungbloodJoe) reported

    Rocketship SEO Plugin: We have identified a memory handling issue with our plugin that appears to largely impact Yoast users on Bluehost (though not HostGator which is the same company) and could impact other shared hosting environments. in 100% of cases we've investigated the issue goes away in a few hours as memory used subsides. You might get an error immediately after activating the plugin that says there has been a critical error on the site. Your site and Admin area are fine though you may not be able to edit plugins / posts / pages, this is the memory issue manifesting itself. You might also get a report emailed by WordPress saying the issue was caused by @Yoast using too much memory, but it is our plugin causing the problem not Yoast. Our best guess at the moment is that this error is caused by our compatibility settings with Yoast which is performed automatically upon install and activation. We are looking at making this process more efficient and improving our compatibility so sites in shared environments like Bluehost do not encounter this issue.

  • PeterVadala
    CENSORED BY T!!TTER (@PeterVadala) reported

    @HostGator @HostGator or anyone out there can you verify this is actually #Hostgator before we attempt to do tech support via #X instead of over the phone

  • HGSupport
    HostGator Support (@HGSupport) reported

    @NoiseReturn @HostGator Thanks for flagging this. Our teams are available 24/7, and we’d like to help get you connected. If chat isn’t loading, try using incognito mode, disabling browser extensions, and ensuring JavaScript is enabled. Please DM additional information if that doesn't get you connected.

  • kkabsherwrites
    Kimberly K Absher (@kkabsherwrites) reported

    @HostGator It’s super straightforward. Cancel the Titan email, make sure it doesn’t auto-renew and REFUND the charge.