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What did you like and not like about Hostgator?

I was with Rackspace for years, but Liquid Web bought their cloud site service and I am not too fond of the support I have been getting from Liquid Web and am looking to make a change.

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I've had to deal with Hostgator on a number of occasions and I can tell you they don't know how to utilize SSH keys their systems are misconfigured and their support people are clueless.

Also I believe they're now owned by EIG which is a corporation that owns a thousand crappy shared hosting companies and is universally reviled in professional circles.

A lot of things to like and not.

Support is terrible and unlimited claims are false because of other rules around inode limits and cpu limits.

They are still one of the better bigger shared providers. Speed isn't bad. Cpanel itself saves lots of time.

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