HostGator Review

Best support, speed and reliable. I have about 25 joomla setup in hostgator and all clients are perfectly happy. Good Work

I created my first Joomla web site back in April 2009. Since I was a total newbie, I relied on a friend's recommendation to go with the cheapest GoDaddy hosting plan. Set up and install was easy enough on GoDaddy, but my site was SLOW from the very beginning and only got worse over time. Then I started experiencing problems getting JoomlaPack to work with GoDaddy after working flawlessly for months. Their help desk was basically worthless. If there was a problem, their pat answer is everything looks fine on our end, it must be how your site is scripted. During the day, it would sometimes take 15 seconds for a page to load. DNS lookups were taking almost 4- 5 seconds because of their oversold shared hosting environment.

I was advised by a more experienced Joomla developer to move off GoDaddy as it would save me a lot of headaches in the long run. He recommended Rochen and Hostgator. Of the two, Hostgator was more affordable. I found a coupon for 20% off my order and a $50 rebate for Hostgator and made the switch. I even had Hostgator move both my sites (domains) for me. The first was free and the second domain only cost me $35 to move. With the $50 rebate, i actually made money on the move. All i had to do was re-point to the new DNS servers on Hostgator.

Within a few hours it was done and the increase in site performance was immediately noticeable. at least 5 - 7 times faster and no degradation in performance during the day.

CPanel is much easier to use than GoDaddy's control panel and I can do everything in half the time on HostGator. One bonus benefit? People can actually access my site from work. It seems like GoDaddy was blacklisted by my work firewall, so i could even check on my site during the day or respond to any type of emergency situation. With over 1400 sites sharing the same IP address on my GoDaddy account, one of them was bound to be blacklisted. I couldn't even get to GoDaddy control panel. That all disappeared when i moved to Hostgator.

I have a client that already had their hosting with Host Gator and I had no previous experience. So instead of transferring to my reseller program I left it there. I was pleasantly surprised. So many so-called Joomla hosts try to do too many other things and fall short with Joomla. Joomla is the only cms I use and host gator is a great host.

I really recommend you Host Gator for many different reasons.

I have read many blog posts about how great and easy was to have your joomla site hosted with them.

So I went ahead and gave them a try and so far I'm enjoying their services and have not experienced any problems.

And using the Fantastico software to up-load and set up Joomla was easier than I thought it was going to be.

One time, I used Fantastico Deluxe auto-installer to set up my Joomla CMS website. I noticed a menu was missing in the Joomla Administrator back-end page.

I emailed them twice -- the first time, it seemed they did not fully understand my question. I emailed them again (with more detailed description of my problem) and within 36 hours, they fixed the problem for me. The problem stemmed from the fact that I was using a "temporary" URL while my main production site was hosted by another company.

I was pleasantly surprised because I was expecting them to tell me what the problem was, and leave me to solve it myself.

I cannot really rate them for their uptime since I've only been their customer for less than 45 days. But, as far as customer support and price are concerned, I say I'll stick with Hostgator and I'll never look back!!