A HostGator alternative with a different owner, not a different logo

The usual route out of HostGator is to compare it against Bluehost, pick whichever has the better offer that week, and move. It feels like taking your business elsewhere. It is not: both are Newfold Digital brands, as are Network Solutions, Register.com, Web.com, Crazy Domains and a good many others.

None of that is a secret, and none of it is improper. It is just not advertised, and the brands are marketed as though they compete. So the frustration that made you look around is quite likely to follow you, because the thing you were frustrated with does not change when the logo does.

We are a genuinely different company: independently owned, run from Milwaukee, same owner since 2000, never sold or merged. Whether that suits you depends on what went wrong at HostGator. If it was the support experience or the renewal pricing, a different owner is exactly what you need. If it was a feature you want, check we have it first — ask us and we will give you a straight answer.

The other thing worth going into with clear eyes is the word “unlimited”.

No shared hosting is unlimited, anywhere, including ours. Every provider that advertises unlimited storage or bandwidth bounds it somewhere else — in the acceptable use policy, in an inode cap, in a CPU or process limit. That is not a scandal; it is the only way shared hosting can work, because a single account cannot be allowed to consume a whole server.

What differs is whether you find out from the marketing or from the terms. We publish a number on every plan instead, which looks worse next to an unlimited badge and is a great deal more useful when you are trying to work out whether your sites will fit. If your account is bumping into limits you were told did not exist, tell us roughly what you are running and we will tell you which plan genuinely covers it — or that none of ours does, if that is the answer.