Host Gator?

[AKapadia]

What you think about host gator I m planing to move my site there. I have 100,000 member but 90,000 are not active and around 50 to 60 online at a time so what you think about it..

thanks

[choppers4life]

They are an overseller. With that many members You would be best to go with a small vps. Shared might work for awhile It depends on the host.

[alemcherry]

What you think about host gator I m planing to move my site there. I have 100,000 member but 90,000 are not active and around 50 to 60 online at a time so what you think about it..

thanks

A shared host might work okay for you. Hostgator is a good host, even though they oversell. If you take too much CPU, they will give you a kick, but thats the case with any shared host.

[Vindictive]

They are way more strict about CPU usage than others.

[booher]

I would suggest byethost

[Chelf12]

I don't suggest Byethost. IMO, they are very unprofessional. For example, let's say your URL is:

www.sitename.com

But you misspell it

www.sitenam.com

It redirects you to a page with some serious pop-up and lag issues. Horrible. But that's just my input.

I'd go Bluehost, but that's just my input.

[royo]

That misspelling part has nothing to do with your webhost.

[J2jcs]

I am with hostgator, but do not host my forums there. Our database is very small, so it doesn't matter anyway.

However, I would recommend a VPS. For mine, I use Futurehosting.biz , and their support is excellant, as well as lots of VPS choices, free ram upgrade and choice between cPanel/WHM and Plesk on your server. Thats my choice.

[Zorinea]

I left hostgator two months ago, they have too many customers per staff. www.bionic-hosting.co.uk are good. They offer shared or vps which should could cover your forum.

They are still quite small but growing. Some great reviews.

Have a look or drop them an email sales@bionic-hosting.co.uk

[Wrestling-Forums]

I would never go with Hostgator. They are such oversellers. Is it true if you have more than 15 users on at once they suspend your account?

[kinosabi]

I would never go with Hostgator. They are such oversellers. Is it true if you have more than 15 users on at once they suspend your account?



Can anyone confirm this ??????

[Abomination]

Can anyone confirm this ??????
Hostgator works well for me.

We have had 60+ users on at the same time, no problem for us. As far as I'm concerned it works amazingly well. Not even close to using up significant resources.

[noserver]

Hostgator still good for me too :) nothing big problem at all

[j3suss]

I would never go with Hostgator. They are such oversellers. Is it true if you have more than 15 users on at once they suspend your account?

:eek: I had listened that Hostgator was/is a good companion...

No?

[Chimpie]

I've been using HG for two years, running three forums on one server. No problems here.

[GeorgeB]

I also recommend hostgator.com. There support is phenomenal and any and all issues I have ever had, they have resolved them quickly.

I love their 24/7 support, and all the features that I receive. No one can beat them in my book.

[Bizstudent]

For all those recommending Hostgator with past experience, please state which plan you are using?

Also, if i open a new forums, I expect only about 50 users max at a time in the future? Which plan should i choose?

[mcrider]

I host a small forum on a hatchling plan and have had absolutely no problems and the support is top notch.
I just had an issue with a mod_security setting and was able to have it fixed in less then 10 minutes using live chat support.
The only issue you may have is that HG limits you to 30 concurrent connections per mysql user

[Abomination]

For all those recommending Hostgator with past experience, please state which plan you are using?

Also, if i open a new forums, I expect only about 50 users max at a time in the future? Which plan should i choose?
If you need more than 1 domain name then the smallest package will not work, there may be other differences as well. Otherwise I cannot tell any difference. You should be fine, I am.

[Abomination]

I host a small forum on a hatchling plan and have had absolutely no problems and the support is top notch.
I just had an issue with a mod_security setting and was able to have it fixed in less then 10 minutes using live chat support.
The only issue you may have is that HG limits you to 30 concurrent connections per mysql user
25, not 30. It still works fine for me.

[mcrider]

It was increased to 30

Edit: added link
http://forums.hostgator.com/showpost.php?p=16172&postcount=1

Edit again:
The support portal says 25....lol
Either way there shouldn't be a problem

[dodgeboard.com]

I've been using HG for two years, running three forums on one server. No problems here.


Hostgator still good for me too :) nothing big problem at all


Hostgator works well for me.

We have had 60+ users on at the same time, no problem for us. As far as I'm concerned it works amazingly well. Not even close to using up significant resources.

I also use HostGator. I've had anywhere from 35-235 users online at one time. No Problems. Their support has been great going on 3 years now. SwampCroc shared hosting.

[moleculo]

I'm using hostgator right now and am having a difficult time. I have about 2500 users/day and growing on my site and their server is killing vbulletin DB queries. I have tons of "query killed" messages in the log. It's killing my performance and they won't do anything about it.

[schwab2clarkson]

oxxus.net is a better option.
The guys at bigfooty.com I think use hostgator and they are always getting server busy messages.

[blacksurfer]

Bottom line: For a small forum HG is fine. But the 25 simultaneous MySQL connection is too low for a growing forum.

[Abomination]

We have had 30-50 users online all day today. I modified the vb code to allow identical posts to be made as fast as possible. I downloaded a fire fox macro add on and had some posts with lots of smilies made over and over. 300 posts is 5 minutes/once per second. I was attempting to see how close we are to outgrowing host gator shared hosting.

There was no difference in performance or resources used in the cpanel.

[Dilly]

I would be very surprised if BigFooty is using hostgator for their hosting.

[sd2310]

I've never been a customer at us but I always had very good feedback: competent customer service, fast servers and for most, no downtime.