HostGator?

[dfe]

I noticed in other threads HostGator is recommended by some members, I had a look and their pricing is fine for me as well.

I'd like to see some VB's running there, can anybody who host there post some links for me pls!

[no mods]

CHeck Me Sig.

[blind-eddie]

Isn't HostGator & BlueHost the same company?

[tipoboy]

i use them, best move i made was to hostgator!!

[cpvr]

Isn't HostGator & BlueHost the same company?

I have no idea, but Hostgator uses Theplanet's datacenter - so it has 99.9% uptime.

[Shazz]

Isn't HostGator & BlueHost the same company?

Not that im aware of...

[SEOvB]

Hostgator is a good company to host with indeed

[chick]

Here ares some vb's running at hostgator http://corvettemechanic.com & http://gk43forum.com

[Itworx4me]

I would recommend www.inmotionhosting.com. Great support and Software.

[toonysnn]

HostGator runs great with vBulletin, almost no downtime, and less than a second response (for a default installation of vB on gator273) :)

Check my sig :)

[EmpireZ]

Hostgator is pretty good for thier support and hosting. Only thing that I know of on the downside about HG is thier shared and reseller plans have a 25 continuous click feature. Which for a board with over 600 or more members is bad.

[Robert Paulson]

Dude, I'm a total noob. I bought the vB software, registered the domain name(through HostGator), then signed up for their Swamp Croc (http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml) package.

Their service and support has been top notch! My board (http://www.audioandanarchy.com/index.php) has been up for less than a month but has grown rapidly, and there's never even been a glitch with the server. And the support staff and community(running vB, I might add) is awesome!

[edgecutioner]

I would recommend x10Hosting. They have a really friendly support and affordable package. Their servers are at The Planet and I am currently a happy cutomer ;)

[bell19189]

My forums running on Hostsgator ands fine, the package is one of the cheapest I've found and have had no problems with downtime.

http://www.gamezod.co.uk/forum

[UberMensch]

<a href="http://forums.theshadys.net" target="_blank">I use HostGator as well</a>. While I don't like some of the way it's setup (which is actually due to cpanel, so not much they can do about it), the service is excellent.

In terms of full customisation, try DreamHost. If you're after a mix and are in the UK/Europe, HostGator is a good choice due to the speed.

[hostgator]

If anyone has any questions at all about HostGator service, or using vBulletin with HostGator please send me a pm anytime. We use vBulletin for our main forums (forums.hostgator.com) and support it 100% :)

[bxbigt]

i use hostgator and i havent had 1 sec of downtime since i started my site , also im not bragging but one of the fastest forums i ever been on....

[AdrianH]

Hostgator :up::up::up::up:


www.theblueroomforum.org

[ChU v2]

I've been with HostGator on a few different sites for over 7 months, I love them... Great support and awesome prices.

http://xboxinformer.net - Runs off HostGator.

[Jongo]

HostGator is superb, the support and speed of the servers are fantastic. Also a little tip:

When purchasing, use the coupon Jury and you get about $9 off your first purchase.

[TCE Killa]

I am using HostGator for my website (www.hiphoprapcommunity.com) and I think the server is great, especially since, I have an arcade with over 100 games, a music and video page, radio and tv streaming, css custom profile styles, two different skins, interactive profiles, profile gallery pictures, and mp3 uploads to user profile, no problems with the host so far :).

[SBlueman]

I use HostGator for my football site. I switched to them in June and haven't looked back.

[iulianh]

I never seen what hostgator offers, now i am sure i am moving all my site to them !

[Shazz]

I never seen what hostgator offers, now i am sure i am moving all my site to them !

That did not make too much sense lol.

[vNew]

Hostgator is pretty good for thier support and hosting. Only thing that I know of on the downside about HG is thier shared and reseller plans have a 25 continuous click feature. Which for a board with over 600 or more members is bad.
600 members are not that many. Which host would you recommend if you expect to have, say, 10 to 50 thousand members after a year or two, and 500 to 2000 members on line simultaneously during peak time?

[bxbigt]

hostgator is awesome
however they wanted to shut me down for sending a damn xmas email out of no where and they shut down my freinds site

[Greek76]

Ive been using them for almost a year with absolutely no problem. I use the largest shared plan they have. My board is modded photoplog, arcade,vbseo and vbplaza. Problem I have with them is the emailing method.

One note that I read a lot throughout different vb forums is that if you have 15-20 members on at once they shut down your site without a warning (shared plans). Something about too many connections. So since my forum has picked up Im considering moving to realwebhost.net. I read great reviews about them..

[nexialys]

One note that I read a lot throughout different vb forums is that if you have 15-20 members on at once they shut down your site without a warning (shared plans). Something about too many connections. So since my forum has picked up Im considering moving to realwebhost.net. I read great reviews about them..

instead of listening about gossips, why don't you ask the guys in the support system?!

[sp0okz]

I bought a board second hand before i bought my new key and hostgator knew that it wasnt a real key even tho i thought it was . They suspended my account so i bought a new key. I think the are secure fast and look out for vbull :)

[Greek76]

instead of listening about gossips, why don't you ask the guys in the support system?!

If you read about the same issue a lot under reviews you are led to believe it no? So why bother with the hassle of asking them. ;)

[loonytune15]

I have posted a few questions to their support board. Hope to get an answer fast.

[SVTCobraLTD]

Hostgator here... works good but you need the hack to limit the amount of outgoing emails to 200. I have over 800 members on my site.

SVT

[1 Hiking Freak]

I've been on Hostgator its good reliable hosting. Be sure to look for a hosting coupon at one of the web hosting review sites before signing up.

I am now on Downtown Host which is also awesome, but a smaller company which I like.

What ever you do don't sign up for any hosting with out phone support.

[edongski]

instead of listening about gossips, why don't you ask the guys in the support system?!

I did. They offered me their dedicated plan.

I can't really understand that the most users I had ever online was 400. Most of the time, I have less than a hundred simultaneous online users in my forum and they wanted to me to upgrade to dedicated.

I also got into trouble with them for the inactivity mod... for sending out 200 emails at a time.

Now my account was again suspended for this.
Hello,

This message is to advise you of a temporary block placed on a file or folder under your account. The account referenced above was found to be consuming an inordinate amount of system resources, to the point of degrading overall system performance.

While we do limit each account to no more than 25% of a system's CPU in our terms of service, we do not actively disable accounts until they greatly exceed that number, which is what happened in this case. Fortunately, we were able to isolate the cause to a small set of files/folders. Rather than disabling the entire account, we were able to disable just those files/folders.

It was necessary to disable these items to maintain a minimum level of proper service for everyone else. From this point, the following options are available:

a) Block heavy users of your site, if any, that may be causing excessive load.
b) Optimize scripts (php, etc) that may be consuming a large amount of cpu.
c) Upgrade to a dedicated server; your site may have outgrown a shared environment.

Please let us know if you have a solution you feel would resolve this issue. Should a solution not be forthcoming, we are happy to assist you with an upgrade to dedicated services, where your site will have room to grow without affecting other customers. I appreciate your attention to this matter. Thank you.

Log of activity:
[root@gator## ~]# scores
Top Host : my forum
Top 5 Reqs :
43 <my forum>

22004 S <my forum> 50.00% 0.02s GET /images/smilies/Yahoo/1.gif H
21618 S <my forum> 10.53% 0.19s GET /showthread.php?t=28358 HTTP/
21603 S <my forum> 7.69% 0.13s GET /forum.php HTTP/1.1
22011 S <my forum> 7.69% 0.13s GET /showthread.php?t=27800 HTTP/
21670 S <my forum> 7.14% 0.14s POST /misc.php?show=ccbmessages H
...and the list goes on and on...

In fairness, hostgator support USED to be fast and efficient. It would usually take less than an hour for me to resolve my issues... but now, the shortest waiting period for me is 3 hours.

Anyway, you go figure it out. I still agree that HG is great... but I'm looking for a better deal.

Oh, BTW, there is a 10 mb limit in uploading files if you are using the shared plan

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Not sure if i understand this list. Showing an image (1.gif) uses 50% of the server resources?

[hiphopave]

Every time I've emailed them, I get a reply in about an hour (4 hours tops on weekends). Good uptime...and there is NOT a 10mb limit on shared, I just uploaded a 90mb file a few hours ago.

Never tried sending out mass email, so don't know about that. But I routinely have around 30-60 members online and no trouble here.

[Mythotical]

I use HostGator, have for about 2 years now. Check my sig for site link.

[edongski]

Every time I've emailed them, I get a reply in about an hour (4 hours tops on weekends). Good uptime...and there is NOT a 10mb limit on shared, I just uploaded a 90mb file a few hours ago.

Never tried sending out mass email, so don't know about that. But I routinely have around 30-60 members online and no trouble here.

You can attach a 90mb file in a vBulletin post? Are you using a shared hosting?

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Not sure if i understand this list. Showing an image (1.gif) uses 50% of the server resources?

Same here.

[WreckRman2]

They aren't bad if you don't mind being on a shared server with only reseller permissions. If you want root access to a server I like the VPS solution and have had great luck with ServInt.com.

[edongski]

there is NOT a 10mb limit on shared, I just uploaded a 90mb file a few hours ago.


I want to follow up my question that you can upload more than 10 mb of file in vBulletin under a shared plan.

[loonytune15]

I want to follow up my question that you can upload more than 10 mb of file in vBulletin under a shared plan.

maybe you need to change something in your .htaccess file..

[edongski]

I got this when I asked the question about the size limit

Hello,
The server-wide maximum size is 10M. We cannot increase it any further.


Regards,
Richard F.
Systems Administrator
Hostgator Support

[TCE Killa]

^What is 10M? Megabytes?

I am currently on 195 megabytes with them, what is 10M? Thanks.

[MrPHD]

Very very nice Hosting and resellers servers.

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^What is 10M? Megabytes?

I am currently on 195 megabytes with them, what is 10M? Thanks.Really i don?t understand!!!!

[edongski]

^What is 10M? Megabytes?

I am currently on 195 megabytes with them, what is 10M? Thanks.

10M I guess is 10 megabytes. I was referring to a single file that can be uploaded/attached in vBulletin. I tried attaching a 40 mb file and I get errors. I emailed them and that is what they told me.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

If the host limits this and is unwilling to increase, then there is not much you can do.

[nexialys]

If the host limits this and is unwilling to increase, then there is not much you can do.

The point is not that they are not "unwilling"... they fixed a range of ratios that the clients have to follow. This is how works professional hosts. They are not giving anything "unlimited" because they would have to give permissions to a lot of things that are causing problems on most of the sites that are hosted by them... spam, spoil of resources, etc...

when you have specific needs for your own site, the suggestion is to negociate a commercial account, not a "mostly free" hosting... when you have near-to-free accounts, you have to consider that you will have near-to-no-permissions...

[Marco van Herwaarden]

The server-wide maximum size is 10M. We cannot increase it any further.


Regards,
Richard F.
Systems Administrator
Hostgator SupportUnwilling!

PS Increasing the max upload limit might affect performance, but has nothing to do with security or "problems".

[nexialys]

This is a per-server setting... like i said, you can negociate to have your site on a different server, under different configurations... you have to pay for what you need... (i actually have my own hostgator account having the mailing limit (200 emails per hour) raised because i have negociated with them that i needed to send email all day long...)

and you are right, there is no security risk with bigger files... just a larger risk to have people uploading porn or pirated softwares... and this is against their policies... i suppose this is a way to avoid a part of it.

anyway, when are you in need to upload a 50 gigs file?!

[sp0okz]

Watch what you hostgator as they are a bit of a joke, there is a ded who works there called richard hes aprat with a cap P, the only dude worth working with is a dude called Ford the billing team if you ask for a refund take a week to reply then ask you if you would like to pump it into hosting, the support team replys are sometimes realy slow. You cant have vbseo running as they says you need a server for it. Normal forum runs fine with them here is my recorded server load with them i have 4 mods installed stats cyb rules auto reply bot force users to read

4.98 2.40 0.93 | 102 Users Online (18 members and 84 guests)

16.23 37.11 38.12 | 199 Users Online (34 members and 165 guests)

6.45 11.96 13.40 | 174 Users Online (31 members and 143 guests)

[Quarterbore]

I have four seperate hosting accounts with Host Gator... Best move I ever made!

[WreckRman2]

4.98 2.40 0.93 | 102 Users Online (18 members and 84 guests)

16.23 37.11 38.12 | 199 Users Online (34 members and 165 guests)

6.45 11.96 13.40 | 174 Users Online (31 members and 143 guests)


I tried them once and had the same problems... when I questioned it they simply said to ignore it. It meant nothing. Needless to say I got out before the 30 days and they did refund me what I had paid.

[Krumbz]

Isn't HostGator & BlueHost the same company?

No HostMonster = Bluehost

[Powerofdreams]

Hostgator is a good company.My board uptime and speed is wonderful.Thanks to Hostgator;)

[sp0okz]

Im now using pulseinternet got a vps off them. They had my vps set up with in 30 minutes the support is even on msn and i dont think the dude sleeps its a great company to use here is my stats


0.09 0.17 0.17 | 382 Users Online (340 members and 42 guests)


https://www.pulseinternet.co.uk/vps/

[B_Pages]

I use them
no probs so far..........

[360junkie]

the360junkies.com i love hostgator but there billing blows

[meissenation]

Host Gator is horrible. As soon as your site starts to get somewhat big, they'll throw the resource card on you and shut your site down with no forewarning, you'll just browse to your site and find it shut off. They shut my site off on me constantly for resource limits, I kept upgrading and was upgraded all the way up to semi-dedicated paying $75 a month to share a server that was ABSOLUTELY slower. I finally said screw them and left their shady company. Support is horrible, I also had a lot of down time too.

[hiphopave]

Host Gator is horrible. As soon as your site starts to get somewhat big, they'll throw the resource card on you and shut your site down with no forewarning, you'll just browse to your site and find it shut off. They shut my site off on me constantly for resource limits, I kept upgrading and was upgraded all the way up to semi-dedicated paying $75 a month to share a server that was ABSOLUTELY slower. I finally said screw them and left their shady company. Support is horrible, I also had a lot of down time too.

How large is your site? Mine has around 50-100 on at a time and has a ridiculously high server load (spikes to 20 =\) and they've given me no troubles.

Re: 10 mb limit
My mistake, didn't know you were talking about attaching to a vb post.

[TerrorKalle]

^What is 10M? Megabytes?

I am currently on 195 megabytes with them, what is 10M? Thanks.

10M/10MB refers to megabytes, but MiB does NOT refer to megabytes, they are different, read more on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiB

[UberMensch]

I thought MB, M and MiB were the same. Mb and MB are different.

I might be moving away from HostGator, not because of the company, but because I'm basically restricted with any shared hosting it seems.

DreamHost are the closest thing to "unlimited", but they're a little too far away for me.

I'm hoping to get one of these with the 30 domain Plesk addon:

http://www.streamline.net/f1.php

[Yours]

I thought MB, M and MiB were the same. Mb and MB are different.

I might be moving away from HostGator, not because of the company, but because I'm basically restricted with any shared hosting it seems.

DreamHost are the closest thing to "unlimited", but they're a little too far away for me.

I'm hoping to get one of these with the 30 domain Plesk addon:

http://www.streamline.net/f1.php

I wouldn't go with DreamHost -- they made a "7.5 Million Dollar Mistake" they ended up overcharging ALL of their clients BY TWO YEARS.

Its on their blog, they made a big joke out of it. Rather unprofessional if you ask me.

[kiFF]

I used to use DreamHost. I didn't like their support, so I asked for a full-refund (since I was within their 90 day money-back guarantee). They told me that they refunded all of my money, but the next month they charged me over $200 on my bank statement, lol. They said they refunded my money but forgot to take me off their bill. -_- Good thing I noticed. :D

[Yours]

Ouch.. Thats pretty harsh..

I personally like www.crissic.com -- fantastic support and fantastic uptime

[greatthings]

All I can say is Hostagator have a great marketing team and are experts at building the best 'image'. I won't say anymore, read between the lines

[ajm4481]

the best decision i ever made about my site was dropping netfirms and switching to hostgator. havnt had a problem since.

[WFZ]

Hostgator do tend to oversell a bit, but they're still a good host for the prices they offer.

[Sunray]

Hello,
I use hostgator since 2 months, it is very good, the traffic and support also and all is good except the restriction for sending email. We can't send correctly the mass mail as we just can send 200 per hour.
I'm try to find a solution for this as I would like to conserv this hosting.

[DaFlameking]

I used to use DreamHost. I didn't like their support, so I asked for a full-refund (since I was within their 90 day money-back guarantee). They told me that they refunded all of my money, but the next month they charged me over $200 on my bank statement, lol. They said they refunded my money but forgot to take me off their bill. -_- Good thing I noticed. :D

Dreamhost is one of the worst hosts you can go to. Their customer support is so bad, their up time is unstable but they lure you in with false cheap prices and high space and bandwidth. I had a plan which was 500 Gigs and around 200 gigs in space and I got banned because I used, 300 of it. They said I used too much and I couldnt get a refund (and they still charged me for the remaining 3 months I didnt use.

Host gator was the best move I made and has superior uptime.

http://kartextreme.net/forum/ Is my vBulletin board.

[Mayhem51]

AmpedHosts.com is the best IMO i have a safe web forum on it and I love their support. They don't limit anything and by Megabytes they mean Megabytes its safe and secure. I love it. And they have cheap hosting plans. I really enjoy there hosting and what it offers. I would definitively recommend them to anyone 10/10 and yes hostgator has always been a pain for me.

[UberMensch]

Quick update, I've now moved my forums onto my own dedicated webserver with RapidSwitch Ltd, so the link I posted before in this thread isn't an indicator of HostGator's service ;)

[DieselTruck]

What about HostGators response time on transfering a Domain? I had to purchase one though another company since they had it locked down..

Also. How big do you boards have to get before you need a different option for hosting?

[DaFlameking]

transfering domains to host gator takes from 20 mins to 6 hours. mines was around 40 so i was very happy. Usually at other hosters it takes like 1-2 days

[Realbigsource]

Hostgator is the best, my forum is using HostGator: http://realbigsource.com/forum

[glennybee]

Currently using Hostgator and very very happy with the service.

Just starting out so not sure about big boards, etc.

But ticket system and Live Chat have been very helpful.

[Cobro]

i use http://www.bluehost.com

super service !!! check it out cheap as mofo :)

and will use it till i die

[SVTCobraLTD]

Well I have been happy with HostGator but I was told when I signed up my site wouldnt have a problem running on the Baby level. But yesterday I got my first error saying too many members are connected. I did sign up for a 3 year contract with them too. Guess I will have to wait and see and if it keeps happening, upgrade.

[Nineaxis]

Hi guys, I just did a quick live chat with them, check it out:


Please wait for a HostGator operator to respond.

A HostGator operator should be with you shortly! Thank you for your patience.

A HostGator operator should be with you shortly! Thank you for your patience.

A HostGator operator should be with you shortly! Thank you for your patience.

Welcome to HostGator Live Chat! You are now chatting with 'Priscilla T.'

Priscilla T.: Welcome to HostGator, how may I assist you?

Me: Hi Priscilla. I am running a web forum, and I heard good things about HostGator. On the other hand, I have also heard that HostGator shutsdown accounts that have moer than 25 users, and send more than 200 emails an hour. Is this true?

Priscilla T.: There is a 500 hourly email limit per domain on all shared servers;

Priscilla T.: That is true

Me: Ok, what about 25 members on at one time (with vBulletin)

Priscilla T.: What you mean by HostGator shutsdown accounts that have more than 25 users

Me: I was just reading reviews, and they said that for popular forums (mine has 6500 members), that Hostgator doesnt allow moer than 25 connections at once

Me: I want to move to you guys, but am just worried about this

Priscilla T.: Hostgator allow maximum of 25 connection simultaneously. If you having 5 domains, then its 25 connection each domain, and total of 125 connections.

Me: Wow ok... so it wouldn't work on a popular forum then

Priscilla T.: Correct

Me: Ok, Thank you.

[DieselTruck]

Anyone who has 25 or more users on at one have troubles with HostGator?

By the above quote. Doesn't look like you can..

[SVTCobraLTD]

Anyone who has 25 or more users on at one have troubles with HostGator?

By the above quote. Doesn't look like you can..

The other day I had 32 members of the site online at once. I was suprised I did not get an email about it. Not sure why but I am not complaining.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

These are 2 different things.

Users online is measured during the cookie timeout period (default 900 seconds), so if 50 people in a 15 minute period come online, you will see 50 online users.

The number of MySQL connections is the maximum number of connections at 1 time. As a MySQL connection only last as long as it takes to generate the page, you could be having 100 online users loading pages with a 5 second interval, and never have more then a few MySQL connections at the same time. On the other hand 1 single user loading simultaneous 50 pages in different windows could (try to) create 50 concurrent MySQL connections.

[pbradish]

My clients run on dedicated HostGator servers and they are blazing fast. Couple that with great support and I've never had a reason to shop elsewhere.

[linkknight]

I use Hostgator, www.d2-link.com and its awesome !
They make Db back ups every sunday :D

[SBlueman]

HostGator makes db backups every Sunday? I didn't know that.

[MikeHolohan]

Ok didn't know this, I am using HostGator Reseller account, now I need a new host... any recommendations?

Mike.

[AndyPandy]

Hostgator; best and most reliable shared servers. Period. *** Advertising removed ***

[SEOvB]

what does you spamming your site link have to do with hostgator being "best and most reliable shared servers. Period."???

And i've heard far less complaints about other hosting companies then HostGator. But i guess its good if you've got 11 members.

[Hex_legend]

www.netsixers.com

Their client area is http://clients.netsixers.com

[Jase2]

Hostgator; best and most reliable shared servers. Period.

I agree with FRDS, why have you posted your sites link? SPAM!!!!!

Regards Jason :)

[360junkie]

Well there billing blows..they put a hold on my site(it had ONE person on) AND there hosted by Ipowser so there kanda fake

[sdfaheem]

Are the Bots and spiders counted under users?
My forum has seen an increase from 20 members online to 200 users including spiders.
And on an average my forum uses 35-40 GB of Bandwidth per month.
Which cheap and reliable host is recommended for me?

[comicus]

I have a dedicated server with hostgator. i normally have at least 100 users on my forum at a time and i've been very happy with hostgator. speed has not been a problem since switching to them and for the most part, their customer service/support team is outstanding. as with any "level 1" type environment, you'll run into the occasional person who is just phoning it in....but I would definitely recommend them overall.

i have never had to wait on the phone (or their live online chat system) for more than 5 minutes....and it's usually less than 2 if that helps.

[hippiesimz]

speed ok... but. they have so many restriction.... we cant put adbrite inline on it or your board will be suspended as spam .... i suggested NO.. big NO...

[garala]

Host Gator is the worst hosting company I've ever encountered.

I highly don't recommend them!