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  "@type": "Dataset",
  "name": "HostGator hosting test results",
  "description": "Uptime, response time, load test and support results for HostGator: HostIdea's own monitoring windows under tests[], and published third-party measurements under thirdParty[], each attributed to its source.",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "creator": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "HostIdea",
    "url": "https://hostidea.com"
  },
  "measurementTechnique": "https://hostidea.com/methodology",
  "url": "https://hostidea.com/reviews/hostgator",
  "dateModified": "2026-10-14",
  "host": {
    "id": "hostgator",
    "name": "HostGator",
    "website": "https://www.hostgator.com/"
  },
  "overallScore": 7.4,
  "scores": {
    "performance": 7.5,
    "uptime": 8,
    "support": 7,
    "features": 7,
    "value": 6.5,
    "easeOfUse": 8
  },
  "scoresUpdated": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
  "pricing": {
    "lastVerified": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
    "source": "https://www.hostgator.com/web-hosting"
  },
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      "id": "hatchling",
      "name": "Hatchling",
      "type": "shared",
      "intro": {
        "amount": 3.75,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "renewal": {
        "amount": 10.99,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "term": "triennial",
      "termMonths": 36,
      "websites": 10,
      "storageGb": 10,
      "bandwidth": "unmetered",
      "freeDomain": true,
      "freeSsl": true,
      "backups": "Weekly courtesy backups, restorable from the portal",
      "moneyBackDays": 30,
      "highlights": [
        "Guidance of 40,000 visits a month",
        "Chat support only on this tier",
        "Cloudflare CDN with Argo routing, staging, object caching, SSH and WP-CLI",
        "Malware scanning and removal, WAF, DDoS protection"
      ],
      "mailboxes": "Unlimited POP3 and IMAP accounts (Pro Email is a paid trial)",
      "terms": [
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          "months": 1,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 12.95,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 17.59,
            "currency": "USD"
          }
        },
        {
          "months": 12,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 4.21,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 13.19,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "total": 50.49
        },
        {
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          "intro": {
            "amount": 3.75,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 10.99,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "total": 135
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "baby",
      "name": "Baby",
      "type": "shared",
      "intro": {
        "amount": 4.5,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
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        "amount": 16.49,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
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      "websites": 20,
      "storageGb": 20,
      "bandwidth": "unmetered",
      "freeDomain": true,
      "freeSsl": true,
      "backups": "Weekly courtesy backups, restorable from the portal",
      "moneyBackDays": 30,
      "highlights": [
        "Guidance of 50,000 visits a month",
        "Phone and chat support",
        "Cloudflare CDN with Argo routing, staging, object caching, SSH and WP-CLI",
        "AI-powered malware detection and removal"
      ],
      "mailboxes": "Unlimited POP3 and IMAP accounts (Pro Email is a paid trial)",
      "terms": [
        {
          "months": 1,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 13.95,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 24.19,
            "currency": "USD"
          }
        },
        {
          "months": 12,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 5.1,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 18.69,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "total": 61.2
        },
        {
          "months": 36,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 4.5,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 16.49,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "total": 162
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "business",
      "name": "Business",
      "type": "shared",
      "intro": {
        "amount": 6.25,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "renewal": {
        "amount": 21.99,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
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      "termMonths": 36,
      "websites": 50,
      "storageGb": 50,
      "bandwidth": "unmetered",
      "freeDomain": true,
      "freeSsl": true,
      "backups": "Weekly courtesy backups, restorable from the portal",
      "moneyBackDays": 30,
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        "Guidance of 200,000 visits a month",
        "Phone and chat support",
        "Domain privacy free for the first year",
        "Cloudflare CDN with Argo routing, staging, object caching, SSH and WP-CLI"
      ],
      "mailboxes": "Unlimited POP3 and IMAP accounts (Pro Email is a paid trial)",
      "terms": [
        {
          "months": 1,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 18.95,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 30.79,
            "currency": "USD"
          }
        },
        {
          "months": 12,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 7.01,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 24.19,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "total": 84.15
        },
        {
          "months": 36,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 6.25,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 21.99,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "total": 225
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pro",
      "name": "Pro",
      "type": "shared",
      "intro": {
        "amount": 13.95,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "renewal": {
        "amount": 29.69,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "term": "triennial",
      "termMonths": 36,
      "websites": 100,
      "storageGb": 100,
      "bandwidth": "unmetered",
      "freeDomain": true,
      "freeSsl": true,
      "backups": "Weekly courtesy backups, restorable from the portal",
      "moneyBackDays": 30,
      "highlights": [
        "Guidance of 400,000 visits a month",
        "Phone and chat support",
        "Domain privacy free for the first year",
        "Sold as more speed and processing power; the page prints no CPU or RAM figures"
      ],
      "mailboxes": "Unlimited POP3 and IMAP accounts (Pro Email is a paid trial)",
      "terms": [
        {
          "months": 1,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 34.99,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 38.49,
            "currency": "USD"
          }
        },
        {
          "months": 12,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 16.11,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 31.89,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "total": 193.29
        },
        {
          "months": 36,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 13.95,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 29.69,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "total": 502.2
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "thirdParty": [
    {
      "publication": "HostingStep",
      "author": "Mohan Raj",
      "url": "https://hostingstep.com/hosting-reviews/hostgator/",
      "title": "HostingStep, HostGator review",
      "kind": "independent",
      "updated": "2026-08-19T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "plan": "Hatchling",
      "location": "Northern Virginia, US (origin per the page)",
      "uptime": [
        {
          "pct": 99.97,
          "windowDays": 243,
          "window": "1 October 2025 to 31 May 2026",
          "outages": 7
        }
      ],
      "responseMs": 496,
      "responseNote": "average TTFB from US locations over the window (374 to 865 ms range, 349,920 tests)",
      "loadTest": {
        "concurrentUsers": 100,
        "avgResponseMs": 213,
        "errorRatePct": 2
      },
      "notes": "1 hour 21 minutes of downtime in the window, about 10 minutes a month. Cached global TTFB 426 ms across 40 locations, 79 ms from Northern Virginia and 400 ms from São Paulo; the page notes HostGator's CDN caches static files but not HTML. WPBench server score 9.6 out of 10, matched only by Bluehost. Monitoring tool not named on the page."
    },
    {
      "publication": "Cybernews",
      "author": "Aurelija Tomkevičiūtė",
      "url": "https://cybernews.com/best-web-hosting/hostgator-review/",
      "title": "Cybernews, HostGator review",
      "kind": "independent",
      "updated": "2025-09-19T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "location": "United States",
      "uptime": [
        {
          "pct": 100,
          "windowDays": 30,
          "window": "about a month of monitoring between August and September",
          "outages": 0
        }
      ],
      "responseMs": 112.04,
      "responseNote": "average response during the monitoring window",
      "loadTest": {
        "concurrentUsers": 50,
        "avgResponseMs": 21,
        "errorRatePct": 0
      },
      "lcpMs": 793,
      "notes": "Reachability 99.73 percent; fully loaded time 821 ms. Plan not stated; the page says the site was hosted in a US data center."
    },
    {
      "publication": "WPBeginner",
      "url": "https://www.wpbeginner.com/hosting/hostgator/",
      "title": "WPBeginner, HostGator review",
      "kind": "independent",
      "updated": "2025-03-22T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tool": "UptimeRobot",
      "uptime": [],
      "responseMs": 143.4,
      "responseNote": "average response time in the summary table; Bitcatcha measured 26 ms from the US",
      "loadTest": {
        "concurrentUsers": 50,
        "avgResponseMs": 126,
        "tool": "k6"
      },
      "notes": "Pingdom full load 989 ms. Uptime was monitored but the page prints no percentage. Shared plan, data center and window not stated. By the editorial staff."
    },
    {
      "publication": "HostScore",
      "url": "https://hostscore.net/review/hostgator/",
      "title": "HostScore, HostGator review",
      "kind": "aggregate",
      "updated": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "uptime": [],
      "notes": "Overall HostScore 59.6 percent. Describes basic speed and uptime without publishing figures. Dates the founding to October 2002 by Brent Oxley in Boca Raton with the move to Houston in 2006. User submissions on the page: 44 positive, 20 negative."
    }
  ],
  "supportTests": [],
  "changelog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "change": "First version built from verified sources, read in a browser because the site blocks plain requests behind Cloudflare: the web hosting page (four plans with their inclusions, the comparison table), the prices for the monthly, 12-month and 36-month terms from the page's own price service (getProductPrice, which returns the discounted and regular price per term), the general terms of service (30-day guarantee by phone or chat, not on monthly terms, $22.99 domain deduction, no refunds after 30 days, auto-renewal), the about page (2002, Houston and Austin) and the help center article on data centers (Provo and Atlanta, no choice). Published measurements by HostingStep (243-day window on Hatchling), Cybernews (September 2025) and WPBeginner (March 2025) are stored in thirdParty[]; HostScore is kept as an aggregate; no Kripesh Adwani review of HostGator exists. No HostIdea monitoring window is open, so the scores are provisional: uptime rests on HostingStep's 99.97 percent and Cybernews's 100 percent month, performance on a slow US TTFB against fast load tests, support on chat-only entry support and mixed feedback, features on the inclusions against weekly backups and no resource figures, value on renewals of $10.99 to $29.69 behind a three-year term. The weekly price check needs a browser that the site's bot filter accepts: a headed browser received the prices, a headless run on 14 October 2026 saw placeholders.",
      "source": "https://www.hostgator.com/web-hosting"
    }
  ]
}