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This is a hostgator review posted by Barysh on 07 March 2008

I have been a happy hostgator customer for almost 4-5 years, no complaints, and almost no downtime in that time too!

I was kind of shocked to learn that on my reseller domain, and all other resold domains for my clients, hostgator has placed an adwords type shady search page on all mail.[domainname].com and webmail.[domainaname].com subdomains.

Sure, live help said its the mail server and you shouldn;t access it via http??? So if no one uses it, why did they feel it would be a good place to place a shady ad/search page that normally require great deals of traffic to turn a profit?

I wouldn;t really care , but the page actually pulls your domain name into the page as if you are hosting it, and recommending links at the bottom.

This is shady, and I can;t believe my beloved hostgator is doing this on paid hosting accounts without permission or knowledge of the domain owners????

Is there ad profit sharing to help pay for the hosting?

Live help simpy told me it can’t be changed, so stop complaining… unlkess i get a dedicated account.

The worst part is in 4-5 years many clients don;t necessarily have huge traffic, or are very active, but in the first few years, hostgators webmail was accessed though mail.[domainname].com, so not surprisingly today a client using the original login info i gave them 3 years ago, went to their domain, and saw the shady ad/search page, and was ready to tear a strip off me, b/c they thought I was siphoning traffic off them.

I really suggest you all check your mail.[domainname].com links, and let hostgator know what you think of what they have posted there. why not just host a blank page for content? Seems shady to me, these are paid hosting accounts, not free ad revenue supported accounts.

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