Comments on: Hostgator Bites Spam

By: Mattie

Mattie — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:43:20 +0000

This is way better than a brick & mortar esatbilshmnet.

By: All my domain’s outgoing mail received as spam in gmail/yahoo/hotmail

All my domain’s outgoing mail received as spam in gmail/yahoo/hotmail — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:26:05 +0000

[...] the email originates from hostgator – a provider favoured by spammers (e.g. 1,2, [...]

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Hostgator Coupons — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:57:14 +0000

I didn't know that . I ti is really nice to know the big company is actually living up to its reputation .

By: dude92

dude92 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:57:14 +0000

I didn't know that . I ti is really nice to know the big company is actually living up to its reputation .

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:06:18 +0000

I am currently having problems with HostGator. Despite cleary seeing in the source code of one of the site's they're hosting that it is simply copying my site, HostGator is making me jump through hoops to get the offending site taken offline.In my opinion, HostGator should have its assed sued off, in oder to be discouraged from harboring online criminals in the future!

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Recent Links Tagged With "subdomains" - JabberTags — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:34:08 +0000

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By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:37:29 +0000

Ok, I have to say here that it is funny you posted this. I just had an experience with Hostgator that really soured my relationship with them. In my case it was a huge spam blog where they allowed the spammer to simply remove the infringing links in the DMCA notice and not shut down the operation.

It definitely seems they've made their peace with spam, much of this seems to have started AFTER their partnership with ThePlanet. I'm not sure why that is…

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:26:56 +0000

In my experience, Hostgator bites quickly, but lets the spammer drop back into the swamp with little more than a tiny scar, free to spam again. Several times I've reported a prolific Craigslist spammer that posts hundreds of ads for some truly horrendous art from coast to coast. At first they were hosted with Yahoo along with Yahoo serving as their domain agent. Yahoo killed their site and it has remained a corpse since then. They got a new domain name and set up shop on Hostgator. After they dumped a couple hundred spamvertisements on Craigslist again, I reported them to Hostgator abuse. Hostgator suspended the site, but for only half a day. When I emailed abuse again that the hundreds of spam posts were still on Craigslist and I felt their “zreo-tolerance” policy was worthless considering the site was back up, they told me the spammer “explained” the situation and to report any future spam activity. A few weeks later, Craigslist is hit with another spam wave of this pathetic excuse for art. I sent links to Hostgator abuse and the site was suspended again, this time for only a few hours. Unfortunately, Hostgator has proven itself to me as being quite spammer friendly.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:08:00 +0000

I don't think you'd need to go all the way to dedicated, a VPS would give you a private IP, which is what I am on. I think that would work better for you. But yes, that can happen in any shared environment, as long as you share an IP with a bad guy, you can get bit by the blacklist.

Luckily, those blacklists aren't treated as highly as they once were, most spam filtering is content-based now…

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:35:15 +0000

Yeah that was always one of the issues that has bothered me with HG. There's been numerous times that my server has been put on e-mail blacklists due to the spam other users send out. It's quite a mess to clean up – but at least it hasn't happened in a while.

Maybe one of these days when I get a few extra hundred bucks per month I'll just get a dedicated server and end the shared hosting torment.