Comments on: HostGator Doesn’t Allow Customers to Host Torrent Files

By: Get ready for long downtime and laughable support

Get ready for long downtime and laughable support — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:50:49 +0000

I’ve had nothing but problems since I started using HostGator. A couple of the guys in tech support are friendly…….

I’ve had problems with the following in about a month of service:

1: When I deleted and tried to redo a blog, I had to get support involved. They pointed an add-on domain to my primary domain which messed both websites up for 2 days. Serious branding issues occurred and nobody at host gator believed this was a mess up on their end.
-When I finally convinced them to do what I told them needed to be done, they were like “okay, that’s weird, I wonder why he did that”…. Like I said, this was 2 days later.

2: I came home last night to find my primary domain, and all my domains were timing out. I called support who said that the server was under attack, and I could either deal with it or find another hosting company (that was jeff). the 2nd guy hung up when I said I could access the page through pagewash.com, but he hung up while I was trying to tell him that I still needed to access it through my regular channels, that other people were having the same problems, and that the website that was showing on pagewash wasn’t formatted correctly. The 3rd guy submitted a ticket, and suggested I pay them $15 to send me the back-ups.

Bottom Line with HostGator. Get ready for downtime and hassles.

By: Daro

Daro — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:15:01 +0000

Does anyone know of any host that allows direct-linking to copyrighted files? I ran a forum awhile back hosted on (hostmonster.com) and they shut it down because my members were uploading files via (rapidshare/megaupload/etc) and direct linking to them.

By: fedmich

fedmich — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:54:13 +0000

yup, thats too bad. I was planning a torrent site before, anyway, I guess just get another webhost for that.

By: nadie4ever

nadie4ever — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:57:47 +0000

I got all my files deleted. Now I upload passworded RAR’s

By: slimetoner @ yahoo.com

slimetoner @ yahoo.com — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:56:20 +0000

To all hostgator customers…

what did you hate about bluehost?
what is your new web hosting now?
what makes your new web hosting better than previous hosts?

Your answers will help me find a better host. Thank you.

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By: untitled pe mnz | psihopatu’ din ‘96

untitled pe mnz | psihopatu’ din ‘96 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:56:43 +0000

[...] Hostgator nu le permite clientilor lor de hosting sa tina fisiere .torrent pe servere – atentie! nu se refera la fisiere .torrent care distribuie materiale sub copyright ci se refera la ORICE fisiere .torrent, fapt foarte aiurea deoarece marele merit al bittorrentului fata de downloadul direct este ca economisesti banda si loadul serverului fisierul practic distribuindu-se singur din peer in peer. [...]

By: piltdown

piltdown — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:33:35 +0000

Expect more MiiVi style content enforcement. You can’t seriously think MediaDefender was alone in what they were doing. Hell, they were spying on their own competition. Do you think there aren’t 3-4 companies doing exactly the same things?

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Torrent Parties at bavatuesdays — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:45:47 +0000

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