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HostGator Review 2026: Beginner-Friendly and Budget-Priced, but Only Acceptable for Casual Users - CNET

HostGator’s relatively low-cost shared hosting and excellent WordPress tools make it a decent web host for casual users building for-fun hobby sites, blogs or other personal websites. However, in my 2026 testing, I experienced an appalling amount of downtime, suggesting that HostGator’s servers are unreliable. As such, I don’t recommend using HostGator if you’ll be relying on your website for income.

Along with tracking downtime, I spent one week testing HostGator’s server speed, website-creation tools and customer service. Overall, I found HostGator to be a thoroughly average web host, with its main benefit — its intuitive WordPress tools — being pretty similar to tools offered by hosts with more reliable servers, like Hostinger.

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Fully guided WordPress setup
Intuitive tools for basic domain and server management
Excellent server speed
Unusually high downtime
Automated backup system may be unreliable
Customer service struggles to deal with even...

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Mind-reading tech aims to make AI actually intelligent

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There isn't a single Wi-Fi 8 device on the market, yet this Asus router is already outperforming everything you…

Asus has beaten every other manufacturer to market with the ROG Rapture GT-BN98, the world's first commercially available Wi-Fi 8 gaming router. It's a bold flagship release for a wireless standard that isn't even finalized yet — and with zero Wi-Fi 8 client devices currently

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Control Resonant composer says it's his duty to 'represent the story,' but sometimes offers it 'in a different light, as contradicting the on-screen events can be really delicious'

What Are Amplifiers For And How Important Are They To Your Sound System's Quality?

Mind-reading tech aims to make AI actually intelligent

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