This is an open letter to Hostgator.com in regards to their affiliate webhostingstuff.com. According to your Affiliate Terms of Service: http://www.hostgator.com/tos/affiliate-tos.php “HostGator expressly requires you to disclose that there is a “material connection” between you and HostGator any time you offer an endorsement or testimonial on our...

A few months ago Endurance International Group announced FTC compliance; it appears that Hostgator.com has also done the same. In the middle of last month I had wrote a post and emailed Hostgator.com in regards to their upcoming black Friday promotion. I challenged them to take on the spam which had gotten pretty bad as I was getting it in emails, YouTube comments,...

The week after Thanksgiving I found tons of spam in relation to hostgator and Black Friday.   It was everywhere email, this blog, my personal twitter account and my YouTube videos.  I suppose its not all Hostgators fault.  They did say not to spam forums and email.  Though I did get spam by email, and so far my forum seems to have been ignored.  Yet they offer a...

I am starting to wonder when it is that web hosting stuff changes their rankings. It seems that it was the middle of this month. These are the hosts that were on May 2010 top 25 list but not June 2010 list: 12 Greenville Host 14 Identity Website Hosting 17 Green Geeks 24 Netmar 25 ThePrimeHost While they may be off the list, that does not mean I stop my review of...

We now come to Hostgator number 5 on the top 25 and #5 of 10,293. with webhostingstuff.com. The only host whose top 25 ranking matches its popularity ranking. Also the only company with a single digit ranking in traffic popularity on webhostingstuff.com. It does not seem in the last 2 years that hostgator, while their claims of growing popularity have not been able...