You may have read thousands of positive and excellent reviews about Hostgator.com. They are a reputed and among top web hosting companies of world. But recently I came across some interesting sneaky tricks being played by hostgator.

• Lots of webmaster claim that, most Hostgator positive reviews are actually paid reviews. Hostgator has paid some amount or provided some free hosting to that website owner for posting a positive review about Hostgator. You may even find some paid forum posts with positive review of hostgator. I will not say, all positive reviews of Hostgator are paid, but some people claim that most positive hostgator reviews are paid.
• Hostgator hijack 404 error page of all hosted accounts. They change 404 error page of all hosted account to theirs own page like "Hosted by Hostgator" or with a "discount coupon" page to bribe visitors to host with them.
• If you install Wordpress on your domain, Hostgator will automatically install their own plugin that adds a footer link to Hostgator on your WordPress blog.
  
  Hostgator plugin Details
  /*
  Plugin Name: Hosted By HostGator.com
  Plugin URI: http://www.hostgator.com/
  Description: This website is proudly hosted by HostGator.com a.k.a. Scumbags
  Author: HostGator.com
  Version: 1.0
  Author URI: http://www.hostgator.com
  */
  
  Hostgator WordPress Plugin
  

  Hostgator link in WordPress footer
  

If you are hosted with Hostgator, but you are facing some problem. First open a support ticket at Hostgator. Hostgator support is very good and you should get reply within hours. If the problem is not solved by Hostgator support, say them that you will write a review about bad experience with Hostgator at Top Web hosting forum and webmaster forum like "Web Hosting Talk", "freewebspace.net/forums", "DigitalPoint Forum" etc. I am sure they will offer you some very good offer with your problem solution.