Only tangentially related to ham radio, but it did have an impact on this blog, so I thought I would document things.
I had changed from Godaddy over to HostGator a year ago when it appeared the only options offered by the former for enabling HTTPS was going to cost me hundreds of dollars a month. HostGator was ready to offer HTTPS for free (for those of us not doing eCommerce, which I wasn’t).
I have been fantastically happy with HostGator ever since I changed over. They saved me a ton of money and I never have any strange quirks which I always used to have before (like doing an update of a plug-in would sometimes stick the site in maintenance mode, or backups would time out).
With the latest version of WordPress installed, WordPress itself started complaining of an out of date PHP version; a potential security flaw. I went over to the cPanel and the PHP tools and discovered that HostGator was only allowing an update to version 7.1 of PHP, plus they called it “not stable”. During a quick online service chat I was informed that HostGator had not updated to the latest version of CPanel yet, but they were happy to manually change me over to the latest PHP 7.3.x version. I had called them on a Saturday and it was done on Tuesday.
So now WordPress is very happy, my site is much more responsive, and I continue to be impressed by HostGator.
I host several sites on HostGator, but I didn’t realize they offered ssl certificates at no charge. I wonder if they will do the same. Like you, I migrated everything from GoDaddy several years ago due to limitations they imposed upon my sites. I’ve been very happy with Hostgator.