HostGator
Budget cPanel hosting with unmetered bandwidth and many sites per plan.
HostGator, another Newfold Digital brand, sells cPanel shared hosting with unmetered bandwidth, a Cloudflare CDN and a free domain for a year. Prices are set on a 36-month term, and even the entry plan allows 10 websites. Its servers are in the United States.
HostGatorOne floor per score. Lit windows out of five.
What comes with the flat
- Hatchling plan includes 10 websites and 10 GB SSD
- cPanel on every shared plan
- Unmetered bandwidth and free Cloudflare CDN
- Free domain for the first year on terms of 12 months or longer
- Trustpilot score of 4.6 from about 18,000 reviews
The small print
- Intro price needs a 36-month term and renews at about three times the rate
- Data centers only in the United States
- Cancelling in the first year costs a non-refundable domain fee
- Phone support starts with the Baby plan
Floor plans
Hatchling
Baby
Business
Pro
Read on 2026-10-14 on HostGator's own pricing page, USD excl. tax. Work out the rent year by year
What the neighbours say
17,938 reviews, read 2026-10-14
Our verdict
HostGator fits people who want classic cPanel hosting for several small sites at a low three-year price. Visitors outside North America will be better served by a host with servers in their region. The entry plan renews at $10.99 a month, and the page is unclear on whether migration is free or paid.
The details
- Kinds of hosting
- shared, wordpress, vps, dedicated, reseller, cloud
- Control panel
- cPanel
- Backups
- Weekly courtesy backups, not guaranteed
- Support
- 24/7 chat on all plans, phone from the Baby plan up
- Moving in
- Free migration tool for WordPress sites, paid migration offered for other cases
- Free domain
- yes, first year on 12, 24 or 36-month plans; $17.99 domain fee if you cancel in year one
- Free SSL
- Yes
- Data centers
- Provo, USA, Houston, USA
Sources
- HostGator web hosting: Prices and renewal per plan (rendered in a browser), term, sites, storage, visits, support, guarantee, domain fee, panel, backups
- Bitcatcha, HostGator review: Response times of 32 to 36 ms in the US, 190 ms global average, data centers in Provo and Houston (review dated 2025-06-19)
- WHTop, HostGator: Second view on data centers (Provo and Atlanta)
- Trustpilot, HostGator: Score 4.6, 17,938 reviews, complaints about slow chats and refund delays
Scores are our reading of the sources above, on a 1 to 5 scale. We did not run our own server tests for this listing.
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