HostGator review
High-volume shared hosting from the Newfold group
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Quick verdict
Cheap and familiar, but there is little here that its sister brands or the budget specialists do not do as well.
A long-running mass-market shared host, now part of Newfold Digital alongside Bluehost. cPanel-based with a website builder bundled.
Who it suits
- · Tight budgets
- · First-time site owners
Who should look elsewhere
- · US-only data centres
- · Steep renewal pricing
- · Performance is middling for the money
Hostoholic Score
How this rating is built
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What is good
- 24/7 phone and chat support
- cPanel keeps things portable
- Long-standing brand with plenty of documentation
What is not
- US-only data centres
- Steep renewal pricing
- Performance is middling for the money
The detail
Features and specifications
Anything marked unknown has not been verified by an editor yet. We would rather show a gap than a guess.
Hosting and platform
- Control panel
- cPanel
- UK data centre
- Unknown
- Data centre regions
- United States
- Free SSL
- Yes
- Email hosting included
- Yes
- Free migration
- Unknown
- Money-back period
- Unknown
Performance and tooling
- Staging environment
- Unknown
- CDN included
- Unknown
- Object caching
- Unknown
- Redis
- Unknown
- Automatic backups
- Unknown
- Backup retention
- Unknown
Developer access
- SSH access
- Yes
- Git
- Unknown
- WP-CLI
- Unknown
- Cron jobs
- Unknown
- PHP versions
- Unknown
- Node.js support
- Unknown
Ecommerce and security
- WooCommerce support
- Yes
- Malware protection
- Unknown
- Web application firewall
- Unknown
- DDoS protection
- Unknown
- Support channels
- phone, live chat, knowledge base
Pricing
What it costs
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Pricing not yet verified
Hosting prices change constantly and promotional rates change weekly. A stale figure here would look authoritative and be quietly wrong, so we link you to the source instead.
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Sources
Where this information came from
- HostGator hosting overview· Capabilities and plan structure · checked 17/08/2026
- HostGator pricing page· Entry pricing — not yet verified · checked 17/08/2026
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