Talk:HostGator

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This article reads a lot like an ad. Maybe the awards and recognition section isn't so necessary!67.252.23.196 (talk) 21:12, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Get on with it!122.59.241.220 (talk) 04:06, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

2010 Revenue?

2007 Revenue ???

This is really like a Ad because of no any info on 2010 revenue???

If Its a company then they must be need to update this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.102.49.66 (talk) 11:43, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Some changes to 2012

Perhaps we should mention the acquisition by EIG and the launch of Hostgator Singapore - hostgator.sg. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.126.159.247 (talk) 18:04, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Semi-Protection

Hey guys I think it is time to see if we can remove the SEMI PROTECTION lock on this webpage. There must be less Spam since the WHMCS Deunick (talk) 23:18, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

August 2nd Blackout

Almost all the websites hosted with Hostgator were down for around 16 hours yesterday, this has been posted on the article for Hostgator's parent company (Endurance International Group). Can some of that be pasted over to here? Due to the downtime and the way the company handled it there's a lot of people leaving and thinking about law suits. (Kinda sad, Hostgator had good service until a month ago) Ikmxx (talk) 16:53, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Is there news coverage? Can you provide a link? We can't use personal experience nor forum postings as a source for content, we need sources that meet our reliable sources guideline. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:18, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Yes, there's been coverage:

http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/network-issues-cause-hostgator-provo-data-center-outage

http://mashable.com/2013/08/02/bluehost-down/

Here's their blog, and a lot of angry comments:

http://blog.hostgator.com/2013/08/02/dear-hostgator-clients/

Their forum is getting ugly and the staff are not replying anymore:

http://forums.hostgator.com/customer-reviews-f16.html

Ikmxx (talk) 17:56, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

The forums and comment postings are irrelevant for Wikipedia purposes - we can't use them as a source, and attempting to write about activity on them would be original research.

From the reliable sources listed above, all that can be said is that there was an outage - and not much else. To add anything further would require reliable sources that actually state the additional information. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 03:38, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

http://hostgator-vs-dreamhost.weebly.com/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.45.44.144 (talk) 18:48, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

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COI edit request: parent company and 2021 ownership change

Disclosure: I am employed by Newfold Digital, HostGator's parent company. I am requesting this edit rather than making it myself, per WP:COI and WP:PAID.

The article's ownership information stops at the 2012 Endurance acquisition. Endurance was itself acquired in 2021 and no longer exists under that name, so the infobox and lead are currently inaccurate. Three changes:

1. Infobox parent. Please change:

| parent = [[Endurance International Group]] (2012–present)

to:

| parent = [[Newfold Digital]] (2021–present)<br />[[Newfold Digital|Endurance International Group]] (2012–2021)

2. Infobox revenue and headcount. Please remove these three lines:

| revenue = $100 million (2012)<ref>...</ref> | num_employees = 1,000 | num_employees_year = 2012<ref>...</ref>

These figures describe HostGator as an independent company in 2012, before the acquisition. No separate financial or headcount figures have been published for HostGator since, so the values cannot be updated and read as current when they are not. (The two citations are used only here, so they would go with the lines.)

3. Lead. Please change:

HostGator is a Houston-based provider of shared, reseller, virtual private server, and dedicated web hosting with an additional presence in Austin, Texas.

to:

'''HostGator''' is a [[Houston]]-based provider of [[Shared web hosting service|shared]], reseller, [[virtual private server]], and [[Dedicated hosting service|dedicated]] [[web hosting]], with an additional presence in [[Austin, Texas]]. Founded in 2002, it was acquired by the [[Endurance International Group]] in 2012 and has been a brand of [[Newfold Digital]] since that company's formation in 2021.<ref name="newfold2021">{{cite press release|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/clearlake-completes-acquisition-of-endurance-international-group-and-strategic-investment-transactions-with-webcom-and-affiliates-of-siris-announces-formation-of-newfold-digital-301226338.html|title=Clearlake Completes Acquisition of Endurance International Group and Strategic Investment Transactions With Web.com and Affiliates of Siris; Announces Formation of Newfold Digital|publisher=Newfold Digital|via=[[PR Newswire]]|date=February 10, 2021|access-date=August 25, 2026}}</ref>

4. History. Please add the following paragraph at the end of the History section, after the paragraph ending "...web hosting service in the United Kingdom and Australia":

In November 2020, [[Clearlake Capital]] agreed to acquire Endurance International Group, HostGator's parent, in a transaction valued at approximately $3.0 billion including debt. The deal closed in February 2021, when Endurance's web presence business was combined with [[Web.com]], a portfolio company of [[Siris Capital Group]], to form [[Newfold Digital]]. HostGator became one of the new company's brands alongside [[Bluehost]], Network Solutions, [[Register.com]] and Web.com, and Newfold Digital is held as a joint venture between Clearlake and Siris.<ref name="newfold2021" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/news/2021/feb/11/web-com-merges-with-competitor-becoming-newfold-digital/|title=Web.com merges with competitor, becoming Newfold Digital|newspaper=Jacksonville Daily Record|date=February 11, 2021|access-date=August 25, 2026}}</ref>

Thank you for considering this. PedroBraga (Newfold LatAm) (talk) 14:55, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

COI edit request: Latin American operations and Oracle Cloud migration

Disclosure: I am employed by Newfold Digital, HostGator's parent company; requesting per WP:COI and WP:PAID.

The article does not mention HostGator's Latin American business, which has operated since 2007 and is a substantial part of the brand, nor the 2025 infrastructure migration. I have kept this to three paragraphs plus a short infrastructure section to avoid WP:UNDUE weight, and attributed all company-supplied figures rather than stating them as fact.

1. New section — please add after the History section and before "Incidents":

==Latin America== HostGator began operating in Brazil in 2007 and, according to the company, opened an office in [[Florianópolis]] in 2010 that became the hub of its Latin American business; the Brazilian operation passed to Endurance International Group with the 2012 acquisition.<ref name="hgbr-sobre">{{cite web|url=https://www.hostgator.com.br/sobre-a-hostgator|title=Conheça a HostGator: saiba mais sobre nossa história|publisher=HostGator Brasil|language=pt-BR|access-date=August 25, 2026}}</ref> The company entered Mexico in 2014 and Colombia and Chile in 2019, and by 2025 marketed its services in nine Latin American countries, including Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic.<ref name="hgbr-sobre" /><ref name="itsection2025">{{cite news|url=https://itsection.com.br/2025/11/06/hostgator-investe-r10-milhoes-em-ia-e-amplia-presenca-na-america-latina/|title=HostGator investe R$10 milhões em IA e amplia presença na América Latina|website=IT Section|language=pt-BR|date=November 6, 2025|access-date=August 25, 2026}}</ref> In January 2023, HostGator made its first acquisition in Brazil, buying DLoja Virtual, an e-commerce platform company based in [[Canoas]], [[Rio Grande do Sul]], for an undisclosed sum. Newfold Digital chief executive Sharon Rowlands said the deal was intended to pair HostGator's customer acquisition with an e-commerce product already used by Brazilian merchants.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://startups.com.br/negocios/hostgator-faz-sua-1a-aquisicao-no-brasil-e-ataca-no-e-commerce/|title=Hostgator faz sua 1ª aquisição no Brasil e ataca no e-commerce|website=Startups|language=pt-BR|date=February 1, 2023|access-date=August 25, 2026}}</ref> In 2025 the Latin American unit repositioned its offering around generative artificial intelligence, launching a conversational assistant for account and domain tasks and a tool that generates websites from natural-language prompts. The company said it was investing R$10 million in the effort and reported about 620,000 customers in the region.<ref name="itsection2025" /> ==Infrastructure== In October 2025, HostGator's Latin American operation migrated its Brazilian customers to [[Oracle Cloud Infrastructure]] in [[São Paulo]]; until then most Brazilian sites had been served from data centres in the United States. The company attributed reduced latency and faster page loads to the change.<ref name="baguete2025">{{cite news|url=https://www.baguete.com.br/noticias/hostgator-migra-para-oci-em-sao-paulo|title=Hostgator migra para OCI em São Paulo|website=Baguete|language=pt-BR|date=October 22, 2025|access-date=August 25, 2026}}</ref> The move formed part of a wider migration of Newfold Digital's brands to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. In November 2025 the company said close to one million [[Bluehost]] customers had already been moved, with the remainder scheduled for 2026, and reported four- to fivefold improvements in median response times and lower cost per customer.<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bluehost-strengthens-global-web-hosting-platform-with-the-power-of-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-for-smbs-302604837.html|title=Bluehost Strengthens Global Web-Hosting Platform with the Power of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for SMBs|publisher=Newfold Digital|via=[[PR Newswire]]|date=November 5, 2025|access-date=August 25, 2026}}</ref>

2. Lead sentence. Please add at the end of the lead:

HostGator also operates a Latin American business headquartered in Florianópolis, Brazil, serving customers in Brazil, Mexico and other Spanish-speaking markets.<ref name="baguete2025" /><ref name="itsection2025" />

A note on sourcing, so a reviewer can weigh it: the 2007 start in Brazil and the office dates are sourced to the company's own site, which I have attributed in the text ("according to the company") — I could not find independent coverage from that period. If a reviewer prefers to drop those dates and keep only the independently sourced material, that is fine by me. The remaining claims are from Brazilian trade press and from company press releases, the latter attributed. PedroBraga (Newfold LatAm) (talk) 14:58, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

Unsourced evaluative sentence in "2013 service outages"

Disclosure: I am employed by Newfold Digital, HostGator's parent company. I am raising this precisely because I should not act on it myself, and I would rather an uninvolved editor decide. Per WP:COI and WP:PAID.

The "2013 service outages" section opens with:

Since its acquisition by Endurance International, HostGator has suffered an increased incidence of server outages and downtime.

None of the five citations in that section support a claim about frequency over time. They document two specific incidents, on 2 August 2013 and 31 December 2013, at an Endurance data center in Provo, Utah. The sentence generalises from those two events into a trend, which is unsourced analysis (WP:V, WP:SYNTH).

I am not asking for the section or the incidents to be removed — they are well sourced and belong in the article. My request is only that the first sentence be deleted, so the section begins:

On August 2, 2013 and December 31, 2013, Endurance International Group's data center in Provo, Utah, experienced network outages that affected thousands of customers of Bluehost, HostGator, Hostmonster and JustHost.

If an editor finds a reliable source that does document an increase in outages after the acquisition, then the sentence should stay and be cited to it — that outcome is fine. I am flagging the sourcing gap, not the conclusion. ~~~~ PedroBraga (Newfold LatAm) (talk) 17:05, 25 August 2026 (UTC)