Hostgator status: hosting issues and outage reports

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.

Most Reported Problems

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

• Hosting (41%)
• Cloud Services (29%)
• E-mail (12%)
• Domains (12%)
• Web Tools (5%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Goiânia	Hosting	20 hours ago
Milford	E-mail	5 days ago
Ciudad Jardín	Web Tools	7 days ago
Araguari	Cloud Services	14 days ago
Bogotá	Hosting	15 days ago
Bogotá	Cloud Services	15 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Hostgator Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Ghayas uddin (@ghayasbst) reported 6 minutes ago

  @HGSupport Dear Hostgator, why is there still no solution for cpanel Security issues. Almost 48 hours are gone, our website is OFF. And not giving any ETA on this issue. We are losing our viewers which we built in years.

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  Zombyboy (@zombyboy) reported 8 minutes ago

  @HostGator @DanMicovic I've been on two chats and three calls. I did get chat transcripts, but no emails with any information at all about how long I will be waiting. Not sure how sending you my information will help. I do know that tomorrow morning I'll be talking to my boss about KnownHost and InMotion as our new host. I'm hoping you will help make migration as easy as possible.

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  Block News Media Global 🌞 ಠ_ಠ (@BlockNewsMedia2) reported 10 minutes ago

  FFS @HostGator - hold for 25+min tech support line?

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  Follow Me On GETTR Instead. I’m @AmericasMansMan (@PeterVadala) reported 11 minutes ago

  I asked support to escalate it after an hour and a half where they attempted to fix it but couldn’t, and took over an hour to reset the server after which it promptly crashed again. @hostgator

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  Daniel Micovic (@DanMicovic) reported 12 minutes ago

  @HGSupport @HostGator Nothing is connecting. No cPanel or WHM access, sites and email still down.

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  HostGator Support (@HGSupport) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Gabbybooks82 @HostGator To assist you further and address the issue related to your account, we need to verify your account ownership. Please send us a direct message so we can send you a token and move forward with assisting you.

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  Rad Web Hosting (@RadWebHosting) reported 14 minutes ago

  @ZennieAbraham62 @HGSupport A better question is why does this process even require support, or for you to request it, then escalate your request? Automated SSL installs, renewals and replacements at $0 for life or ****!!!

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  Karen Lakeman (@KarenLakeman) reported 20 minutes ago

  terrible #CustomerService from @HGSupport today! @HostGator #CaveatEmptor if this organisation crashes your website they will blame you! #TheCustomerIsAlwaysWrong

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  HostGator (@HostGator) reported 21 minutes ago

  @betocreativo @Hostinger If your account is US-based, we offer 24/7 phone & chat support with real humans, the AI can help route you to them if needed. If you are a HostGator LATAM customer they also offer chat support were you can reach a live agent, anytime.

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  Daniel Micovic (@DanMicovic) reported 24 minutes ago

  @kishorksukumar @HostGator @HGSupport They have no idea, they sent this email on 04/30 and server was taken down 05/03: Your website is secure. We have successfully applied a critical cPanel security patch to your server. No action is required on your part.What HappenedOn April 28, 2026, cPanel's security team disclosed a critical authentication vulnerability affecting cPanel & WHM. As soon as we received notice of this vulnerability and the corresponding patch, our team moved swiftly to apply the update.

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  Mehmet (@mettersoy) reported 27 minutes ago

  HostGator support eventually confirmed it: “All outbound connections are blocked.” Yes. The server could not make outbound HTTPS requests (port 443). If you’re a dev, you already know: That breaks EVERYTHING.

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  Juan luis | JLP (@juanluis_JLP) reported 27 minutes ago

  @HostGator Apparently it was a server issue but HG support was able to help and resolved it within minutes. Thank you, we are going on 5 years with HG 🐊🙌🏻

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  Chan Walrus (@chanwalrus) reported 30 minutes ago

  I think you've done really well. As someone who hosts all my clients on Namecheap, yesterday was absolute chaos for me. :D Lots of phone calls. Woke up this morning and things were fixed. Thank you very much. I still trust Namecheap and I do have something that needs to be said: One of our customers is on wix, but their domain name is on Namecheap. To the people who were talking about hosting across platforms, their website lost connection. The more you split up your hosting information, the more problems can happen in a system. Let's say you host your site on Namecheap and your domain name is on Hostgator. If either go down for an outage like this, you still have the problem, there are just multiple risks. More potential points of failure.

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  DN (@danielnardicio) reported 34 minutes ago

  When looking to replace the dreadful @GoDaddy @GoDaddyHelp with a better company with better customer service, try out Bluehost SiteGround DreamHost HostGator HostPapa InMotion Hosting. You dont have to accept terrible customer service.

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  Tawheed (@tawheedsofia) reported 35 minutes ago

  @BigRock one of the worst companies every -friends be careful - they dont ifnrom u anything - they migrated me from hostgator then blackmailed me into taking expensive VPS server and then now emailed me to change name servers - did it - BOOM full crash !!!!!

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  Joe Moore (@aafc795) reported 35 minutes ago

  @cybernaira I had HostGator (the one I mentioned earlier with the Blue and Yellow colors) and Namecheap 9 years ago, and HG's follow up is excellent. They sent me emails to make sure everything was in order and if I needed any help. The dumb thing is, I never did anything with the Website.

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  Makarand Mane | Organising #WCAsia 2026 (@mkrndmane) reported 36 minutes ago

  Dear @HostGator I am using your reseller hosting for more than 9 year & your @HGSupport quality is now gone down to dumb level. Seating for 2 hours on chat & no resolution yet. Your novice agent is not able to understand issue even after 2 hours. @NewfoldDigital

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  Nicky D COYR! (@nick_donellan) reported 38 minutes ago

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

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  Zennie Abraham ZENNIE62 #SuperBowlLX #NFLDRAFT (@ZennieAbraham62) reported 40 minutes ago

  Hey @HGSupport @HostGator I am on chat with Vinayak, who insists on being difficult in helping me wiht my Wordpress problem. Please make him act in accordance with good standards. He does not know Wordpress. I need someone who does. Thanks.

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  Spank (@mentaldischarge) reported 42 minutes ago

  @DerNord036 I miss HostGator. They were a great, local Texas company with excellent service, then they sold to some conglomerate and now it's trash manned by jeets.

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  Kishor K Sukumar (@kishorksukumar) reported 45 minutes ago

  @HGSupport Yesterday your team gave hopeful mail like started transferring data new updated server, now it is back to square one they stopped it with some technical excuse and no estimate time for resolution to fix my issue and Also it is 1 week now since my service stopped

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  HostGator Support (@HGSupport) reported 49 minutes ago

  @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.

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  Zombyboy (@zombyboy) reported 50 minutes ago

  @DanMicovic @HostGator Not a single email has been sent to me since last week to let me know what is going on. For me, it's been two days (2 chat sessions and 3 phone calls at various times). The only email I received was last week telling me that our server had been patched and I didn't need to take any action. Then, a few days later, I woke up to our sales guys and editors asking why all of our sites are down. Tomorrow I will be looking at migration options.

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  Dayna | Startups & Growth | #AI (@dayna12121) reported 50 minutes ago

  @voytekbereza @HostGator Support quality matters just as much as uptime and pricing. Hoping this gets addressed quickly. Would appreciate an update from the team soon.

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  Tommy Flavio (@tommyflavio) reported 50 minutes ago from Town of Hamden, Connecticut

  @ionos_help_US I called support. They needed my ID and something else. Sadly, I ended up just using @HostGator which went right through and I was up with cpanel in less that 20 minutes.

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  denith (@denith969) reported 53 minutes ago

  @HGSupport @HostGator been on hold for almost 30min, my website/email been down for around 8 hours, any ETA to resolve it? can't login into file manager or cpanel at all

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  Cris R (@chriscrm) reported 54 minutes ago

  Hey @HostGator — your support portal sends users to a knowledge base with no way to open a ticket or access live chat. This is unacceptable. I need a PTR record configured Gmail silently rejects all outgoing emails from our domain. This is a basic mail server configuration

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  Joe Youngblood - SEO, Futurology, AI, Marketing (@YoungbloodJoe) reported 58 minutes ago

  We have a client hosted by @HostGator's shared hosting system and has been for around 20-years or so. They've hit the limit of 'inodes' on the highest shared hosting plan so were forced to upgrade either by leaving Host Gator or going to a VPS. After a discussion with Host Gator they decided to take a discounted offer and switch to an HG hosted VPS server, HG graciously tossed in free migration from the shared hosting to VPS for a smooth transition. It has been a nightmare since. The website's images are almost all no longer displaying. Host Gator's "migration" team is in India and has screwed up the migration twice now all while a USA based sales person keeps assuring our client that things are going to be fixed asap and it should be done any minute. At one point they took up ALL of the storage space on the VPS for this one site to be moved over. Then they were silent for a full 24-hours before sending a disclaimer and asking permission to delete the data on the VPS server. We are 5 full days into this ordeal without a successful server migration and client is now in a full blown panic. They decided to keep ads running, etc... after being told it would be done in less than 24-hours. They paid for a full year of this hosting up front saying HG's support had improved in recent years and are now getting completely wrecked. Client is worried they might accidentally delete the website or other websites they had built on the shared hosting (which they are keeping). GoDaddy often gets numerous (and extremely valid) complaints about being the worst hosting solution, but all of @NewfoldDigital is right behind them.

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  Hephzibah Magazine TV (@Gabbybooks82) reported 58 minutes ago

  @HostGator Pls, I can't see you solving this problem, it happened 3weeks ago, and you asked us to pay thousands of dollars and we paid. Now you are engaging us with tete talks that will certainly go no where, delay tactics so the money will expire without serving it's purpose

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  Karen Lakeman (@KarenLakeman) reported 60 minutes ago

  @hostgator bad customer service again!