Heard they giving problems? Some say Hostgator scams? Can these negative reviews be trusted? Looking for Hostgator issues? Heard some stories about their limitations? READ THIS FIRST!

If you are considering to get a hosting account from Hostgator, you may want to (or probably have tried) searching for the keywords “Hostgator Sucks” on Google. However, the result may confuse you. Perhaps you have read tons of good stuff and rave reviews about Hostgator thus far.

Hostgator experiences and stories like below may make you think twice to signup with Hostgator:

“i left GODADDY and went to HG… 3 months and my site was never up!”

“My saga with them began when they took down one of my websites I had hosted with them back in November 2006 without notice because they claimed my site used 11% of the CPU. ”

“I gave up on Hostgator a while ago, and I thought I’d cancelled my account until I noticed they were still charging me… “

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Battling to choose between Hostgator or ICD Soft? Comparing hostings to host your next website? Considering Hostgator vs others? How good is Hostgator hosting compared to other hostings? In my previous post on Hostgator and Hostmonster Sucks, but ICDsoft is Okay, I mentioned about the alternative method to find the best hosting for your personal blog or business. However, I over simplify the analysis by just looking at the first ”search engine result page”.

You can read the post at: http://reviews.azhan.com/usability/13/hostgator-and-hostmonster-sucks-but-icdsoft-is-okay.html

If you search for “ICD Soft Hosting Sucks” on Google, the first result pages will show only good reviews, despite the keywords that we use. Basically,  0/10 pages listed will say bad things about ICDsoft. On the other hand, doing a “Host Gator Hosting Sucks” search on Google will return 9/10 hate-pages about Hostgator and only 1 good (or neutral page) review page.

Does that mean Hostgator should be avoided totally? Not yet. I over simplified my analysis to not look at the big picture. I did not look at the total pages that talks about both hostings on the internet. Hostgator has 10 times more pages on Google thus probably has bigger volume of complaints too.

Hosting X	Total result pages about Hosting X	Number of Hate Pages	Hate Ratio
Hostgator	2440	28	1.14
ICDsoft	208	0.5	0.24

The numbers above are in “thousands”.

From the above analysis, the ratio of hate pages for every result page indexed by Google still says that there are less complains about ICDsoft than Hostgator. So the choice now is more obvious, ICDsoft is better than Hostgator.

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In a previous post on “ICD Soft Hosting Sucks“, I explained an alternative way to choose a web hosting for your blog or business is to look for a provider that don’t suck, literally. You can find out by doing a Google search for the “hosting company” + “sucks” keywords.

From my observation, doing a search for “Hosting X sucks” or ”Hosting X problems” (replace X with any hosting company) on a search engine for every host X you are eyeing for, can be extremely helpful. I ignored this method and once tried to use this hosting called Lypha Hosting. They were cheap those days with unlimited storage and bandwidth, coupled with few good reviews here and there over the internet. However, it was a total flop for me. Bad customer service and poor bandwidth made me stay for only a few days with them.

Here is a sample of the results when we do a “Hosting X Sucks” search:

Note: The hate/suck SERP pages are based on Google search by Web Hosting Sucks Reviews (HostingsThatSuck.com) on past dates (not current).

Most other big hosting company reviews including Godaddy, Host Gator reviews, Host monster reviews etc have some kind hate-sites or hate-pages dedicated to them by some unhappy customers. Surprisingly, one hosting company called ICDsoft doesn’t have any hate site dedicated to it! Sorry ICDsoft! I hate you ICDsoft, for being too good. Just kidding.

I searched for “icdsoft sucks” on Google. I also tried “icdsoft problem”, “icd soft sucks”, “icdsof sucks”, “icd sucks”, “icd soft sux” and other variation of misspells, just incase some smarter people cannot even spell the host name right or try to avoid being sued by ICDsoft. Sorry still none.

Today I have been with ICDsoft for 5 years and had 7 accounts with them. I also have 3 other hosting providers that I currently use. To be honest, ICDsoft is the cheapest and has answered my support tickets at the fastest time. You don’t need those discount coupons – they are already discounted – and you get more discount with more accounts you have with them. No need of coupon code or discount voucher.

Read more about my review on ICDSoft at http://reviews.azhan.com/web-hosting/10/icdsoft-hosting-sucks.html

Does that mean the hostings that “suck” like Hostgator and Hostmonster should be avoided? They have they advantages and find out what the numbers tell you. Read our reviews about them: Host Gator Complaints and Host Monster Problems. They cost more but offer better disk space, super huge bandwidth, unlimited domain hosting and more emails.

I try not to be biased when I do reviews so I will offer you a challenge. Find a better hosting than what I just recommended (ICDsoft). Go search for some other hostings with no “X sucks” pages on Google, and post them down here in the comment box. Better yet, try find such a hosting company with the same criteria as ICDSoft but with cheaper monthly hosting price (my hosting package at ICDsoft is at about $6 per month but you can get cheaper for about $3.60/month by using ICDsoft promotional link below). If you do find it, please post a comment here and we all may learn something new everyday about choosing a hosting for our websites.

ICDsoft Discount Link

You need to use the link above to get the discount. You will not receive the reduction if you go directly to www.icdsoft.com

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