Comments on: Godaddy Vs Hostgator

By: mARK pUTNAM

mARK pUTNAM — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:00:08 +0000

I seriously doubt Hostgator’s going to contact you through the comments on this post.

I suggest you try emailing affiliates@hostgator.com or calling them directly, 1-866-96-GATOR (42867). If you still can’t get an answer try Brent’s email.

By: John Zarlino

John Zarlino — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:38:06 +0000

Dear Hostgator,
Could you please provide me a point of contact with your company concerning consideration in exchange for a contract to do business with your company. I look forward to your response.
John Zarlino – Internet Visionary

By: mARK pUTNAM

mARK pUTNAM — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:22:19 +0000

Nope, cpanel is included free on ALL Hostgator plans!

By: bb goyal

bb goyal — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:22:58 +0000

godaddy has its own control panel, which i am not very familiar to. i am familiar with whm/cpanel. but hostgator charges 10 dollars extra for it.

By: brent oxley

brent oxley — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:19:12 +0000

Hi Guys,

I’m Brent with HostGator and first off thank you Mark for your honesty.

My goal is to build Hostgator through honesty. If we ever stop doing it the honest way I hope we are torn down just as fast as we’ve been built.

If I ever stop responding to brent@hostgator.com personally we have lost what we stand for and don’t deserve your business.

Godaddy is at least 10x our size so it’s definitely easier said then done responding to customers.

However I’m sure I could handle at least 20x the responses I currently receive with further delegation of other tasks.

The truth is we have 275 employees and with that we mess up a lot. I messup a lot!

Anyone reading this please give me a chance to make things right with Hostgator before writing us off as a bad company.

You can’t blame Mark for attempting to take it to the top and getting ignored. I only wish we were giving the opportunity as Mark gave. What more can you ask for seriously?

I’m writing this as my Girlfriend is driving 80mph+ down the highway on my aircard. Usually I wouldn’t respond to blogs posts like this since most are affiliate spam. Thanks Mark for what to me seems to be the truth. If we ever do you wrong I hope you tear us down as fast as you’ve built us up.

If there is anything I can ever do for anyone please email me at brent@hostgator.com

-brent

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:30:15 +0000

First of all, congratulations Mark on your move. You are one of many that have moved away from GoDaddy and as a former customer of GoDaddy myself, I can agree that GoDaddy isn’t all that great… Unless of course you’re into dumb brunettes with big boobs and great advertising campaigns.

What I sorta laughed about was the comment quoted below:

“Hostgator is a good company and does a nice job, but when you try and build up one by tearing down the other, the intent comes through loud and clear, and to be honest with you, I don’t think Brent Oxley is looking to build up his compnay that way.”

In response: if this was Brent Oxley’s blog, then I would see the validity in your comment but it’s not. Brent can build up his company as he sees fit and Mark has every right to blog about his bad experiences with GoDaddy. To my knowledge Mark isn’t working for Brent and Brent isn’t building his business through Mark’s blog so what difference does it make?

For professionals, GoDaddy flat out sucks! It’s cluttered, it has too much focus on bells and whistles, (and boobs) and not enough on functionality and clients. GoDaddy is the largest domain registrar because they are tailored to meet the needs of newbies coming into the domains or getting a website. GoDaddy is usually the first place of business for domains and hosting and I’m sure a lot of you know how much of a headache it is to move hosting or transfer domains away or even into GoDaddy.

I’ve been a client of HostGator for 4 years. Worry not that your money and your hosting is going into the right place.

By: mARK pUTNAM

mARK pUTNAM — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:25:42 +0000

You don’t have to “come up” with $47.88 it’s the automatic renewal price. It says so right on the godaddy receipt! (below)

By: Vince D.

Vince D. — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:00:20 +0000

12 months of their economy hosting is $53.64 which is advirtised on their website. That reflects a 5% discount for renewing for a year. Without the 5% discount it would be $59.88. If you add in the domain renewal you have either $64.51 or $70.75. You can not take the 5% discount if you renew for a year PLUS use the $10.00 coupon. Like O’Connor told you, if you went with the $70.75 then you could of used the $10.00 coupon. Trying every calculation imaginable for their economy hosting plan, I could not come up with a figure of $47.88 for a 1 year renewal. Their prices are plain as day on their site, and I recieve multiple coupons through email and regular mail from them, and when used correctly and within the guidelines, they all work perfectly. For about 5 years now I have never experienced any bait and switch schemes, in fact, I have experience the opposite when dealing with a salesperson over the phone with them actually increasing a discount for me because of my past business with them. Hostgator is a good company and does a nice job, but when you try and build up one by tearing down the other, the intent comes through loud and clear, and to be honest with you, I don’t think Brent Oxley is looking to build up his compnay that way.

By: Restoring Tally

Restoring Tally — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:43:36 +0000

I signed up for GoDaddy hosting for a Drupal site. After spending 3 hours trying to copy over a Drupal site, I looked for another hosting service. I found Hostgator. I had my Drupal site installed and running in an hour. GoDaddy is good for domains, but I don’t like their interface for hosting sites.

By: GatorDoug

GatorDoug — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:50:15 +0000

I’m glad to hear that your sites got transferred over to HostGator without any trouble and that you’re enjoying your hosting with us. Thanks for your business.