Host Gator?
26. Nov, 2009 
3 Comments
Hi Everyone,
I am still looking for a web host, I just went on live chat with Host Gator, as I read what they had to offer it did not make any sense to me, so I connected to the chat feature, I asked do you have a month to month feature or a 3 month payment plan? I waited 5 minutes for the connection. I finanally got connect to an agent, I asked the above question, he said please wait, another 10 minutes went by, and he came back, and said ok what was it you wanted to know? Who needs 200 emails? I have been reading up on web hosts for a while now, and then I read reviews and everyone says they suck, so what can someone do, either they have lousy communication, they bill you extra, or they don’t perform, even GoDaddy should be easy, but they have the worst feedback, can’t someone have a website that is Senior friendly, do you know how many seniors would love to do this, this is a niche market no one has tapped into yet, why not? Please help with referrals? Cudos H2H
I have used literally hundreds of web hosts as I am a web developer and deal with an large array of clients. For my personal hosting I have been with hostgator for about 10 years now. In my experience they have the best prices, EMAIL support, and most reliable servers. I have yet to have my sites go down due to anything but a scheduled update/restart. At hostgator I have multiple reseller accounts and dedicated servers.
Dreamhost is also a great company to deal with.
GoDaddy is at the bottom of my favorites list as far as hosting goes. They have so many problems it is just a headache to deal with them.
Realize that most chat supports are outsourced, level 1 techs, or sales people. They are really only there to redirect you to the people who actually know how to solve real problems, or give you pre-scripted responses.
If you ask hostgator they can give you the email address to a direct technician if you encounter any problems. They also tend to help you with many issues that they really shouldn’t have to deal with. Like if you messed up some code, some are really nice and will tell you how to fix it.