HostGator Uptime
Uptime is an important factor while choosing web hosting service. Along with uptime, response time is also equally important.
Hostgator gives 99.9% uptime guarantee. Does it really mean that hostgator give 99.9% uptime? If you check www.hostgator.com website to know the uptime, then you’ll obviously get more than 99.9% uptime.
We are here talking about customers. How much uptime each customer gets? Well, I will say uptime is largely depends on luck. If you are really unlucky then you will get really poor uptime.
You can’t judge hosting reputation just by looking at only 1 week or 15 days uptime report. You’ll need solid 1 year record to decide.
There are frequently times come when you will have to face down time due to hardware failure or any other network problem. These kinds of failures happen in every web hosting but the reliable web hosting is one who solved the problem quickly.
To find out the exact uptime of hostgator, I have setup uptime checking service with Service Uptime. Till now, I have just checked the free service. So uptime is checked every 30 minutes but now I am subscribing to paid service and uptime will be checked every 3 minutes.
So here is a result of free checking service from 13th January, 2010 to 18th January, 2010.

Every month this page is updated with new uptime. So you can now check uptime checked with 3 minutes interval.
HostGator Uptime For January 2010
Uptime : 100%
Avg. Response Time : 0.26s
HostGator Uptime For February 2010
Uptime : 99.924%
Avg. Response Time : 0.24s
HostGator Uptime For March 2010
Uptime: 99.993%
Avg. Response Time : 0.225s
HostGator Uptime For April 2010
Uptime: 100.000%
Avg. Response Time : 0.221s
Uptime: 99.931%
Avg. Response Time : 0.217s
HostGator Uptime For June 2010
Uptime:99.972%
Avg. Response Time : 0.187s
HostGator Uptime For July 2010
Uptime:100.000%
Avg. Response Time : 0.177s
HostGator Uptime For August 2010
Uptime:100.000%
Avg. Response Time : 0.185s
HostGator Uptime For September 2010
Uptime: 100.000 %
Avg. Response Time : 0.193s
HostGator Uptime For October 2010
Uptime: 100.000 %
Avg. Response Time : 0.192s
HostGator Uptime For November 2010
Uptime: 99.95 %
Avg. Response Time : 0.195s
HostGator Uptime For December 2010
Uptime: 100.000 %
Avg. Response Time : 0.180s
HostGator Uptime For January 2011
Uptime: 99.972 %
Avg. Response Time : 0.186s
HostGator Uptime For February 2011
Uptime: 99.977 %
Avg. Response Time : 0.191s
