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Recently, I write an article praising HostGator. Up until then, I had no particular reason to dislike them. I knew that they had been (silently) taken over by Endurance International Group, and I had been warned that the modus operandi of EIG was to (silently) buy out as many of the mega-hosting companies as they can (the current body count is over 50), move everything to less reliable hosting, overload the servers as much as possible, and layoff a substantial portion of the support staff. Then bleed the host dry. Since I had received very good support from Hostgator even after the EIG takeover, I didn’t really take all of the scare stories all that seriously. After all, my sites worked ok, mostly, and I really did get pretty good support.