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HostGator dashboard tour: the customer portal, cPanel and checkout, from a real account

By Fathi Arfaoui · Screenshots from my own account, November 2026; site names, domains, usernames, IPs and paths blurred · Read the review

What HostGator looks like after you pay. 51 screenshots of the new portal, cPanel, WordPress tools, carts and plan pages, grouped by what they do. Click any image for full size.

Customer portal

HostGator customer portal dashboard with site card, domain search and Black Friday and AI upsell banners — Portal home.

HostGator Websites list on a Business plan: 6 of 50 websites used — Websites list and plan usage.

HostGator Hosting page: Business plan using 5.42 of 50 GB and 6 of 50 websites, Phoenix data center — Hosting: plan, storage, data center.

HostGator site overview tab with backups status and Pro WordPress Live upsell — Site overview.

HostGator Insights tab with a Lighthouse report: 96 performance, 100 best practices, accessibility and SEO — Insights: Lighthouse report.

HostGator Advanced tab: plan usage, PHP version, automatic updates, cron jobs and site deletion — Advanced settings.

HostGator Domains tab showing an unfinished domain connection warning — Domains: an unfinished domain connection warning.

HostGator Manage Redirects screen with 301 permanent redirects — 301 redirects.

HostGator Users tab with one-click WordPress login per user — WordPress users with one-click login.

HostGator Plugins tab listing installed WordPress plugins with toggles — Plugins with toggles.

Performance and security

HostGator Performance tab: caching control, clear cache, Cloudflare and PageSpeed Insights — Caching, Cloudflare and PageSpeed.

HostGator site Security tab: SSL, malware protection, core file check, IP blocker and hotlink protection — Security tab.

HostGator Security products list with Malware Scan and Upgrade Available on every site — Security products: "Upgrade Available" on every site.

HostGator SSL Manager: free Let's Encrypt certificates on every site — SSL Manager.

Backups

HostGator Backups tab: weekly Basic Backup with restore, file and database options — Weekly backups.

Restoring or downloading file backups from a chosen weekly backup date on HostGator — File backup restore and download.

Files, SSH and cPanel

HostGator Files & Access tab: SSH, FTP, File Manager, folder index, directory privacy, file ownership and error logs — Files & Access tab.

HostGator SSH management with shell access disabled by default and SSH keys — SSH management.

HostGator Fix File Ownership tool to reset file permissions — Fix File Ownership.

HostGator Cron Job Manager — Cron Job Manager.

cPanel File Manager on HostGator with a 19 MB error_log file in a WordPress folder — cPanel File Manager (a 19MB error_log).

cPanel Errors page on HostGator showing recent web server error log messages — cPanel error log. Visitor IPs blurred.

phpMyAdmin on HostGator: Percona Server 8.0 database and PHP 8.4 — phpMyAdmin: Percona 8.0, PHP 8.4.

Full cPanel Tools page on HostGator (cPanel 134) — The full cPanel Tools page. Account sidebar blurred.

cPanel Optimize Website with gzip compression enabled for all content — Optimize Website (gzip).

cPanel PHP PEAR packages installer on HostGator — PHP PEAR packages.

Webalizer usage statistics: 12 months of visits and traffic for the account — Webalizer: 12 months of stats.

WordPress

HostGator plugin home screen inside WordPress admin — HostGator's plugin home inside WordPress.

HostGator WordPress onboarding wizard — The WordPress onboarding wizard.

Upsells, email and services

HostGator AI All-Access Pack upsell inside the dashboard at $20 a month — AI All-Access Pack.

HostGator Email & Office: Google Workspace or Professional Email, both paid — Email & Office.

HostGator Services page selling site design, SEO and Pro WordPress Live — Paid services.

Plans and checkout

HostGator WordPress plans: Baby, Business and Pro with renewal prices — WordPress plans.

HostGator WordPress plan comparison: sites, storage, paid migration — WordPress plan comparison.

HostGator cart: Hatchling 3 years at $3.75/mo, $135 today, renews at $10.99/mo, email trial pre-added — Hatchling, 3 years.

HostGator cart: Hatchling 1 year at $4.21/mo, renews at $13.19/mo — Hatchling, 1 year.

HostGator cart: Hatchling monthly $12.95, renews at $17.59/mo — Hatchling, monthly.

HostGator cart: Baby plan monthly $13.95, renews at $24.19/mo, Madrid data center — Baby, monthly.

HostGator cart: WordPress Pro 3 years $502.20, renews at $29.69/mo, features list shows only free SSL — WordPress Pro, 3 years.

HostGator cart recommended add-ons: malware protection, eCommerce, Yoast Premium and daily backups — Recommended add-ons.

HostGator Products menu with AI products: n8n, OpenClaw, GatorClaw and Claude Code — Products menu.

HostGator contact menu with 24/7 phone and live chat — Contact options.

VPS, dedicated and SSL

HostGator self-managed VPS plans NVMe 2 to NVMe 16 with renewal prices — VPS plans.

HostGator VPS Claude Code tab: NVMe 2 at $2.09/mo for 24 months — VPS: Claude Code tab.

HostGator VPS one-click app catalog — One-click apps.

HostGator comparison of self-managed VPS, managed VPS, shared and dedicated — VPS vs shared vs dedicated.

HostGator dedicated server plans with renewal prices — Dedicated plans.

HostGator SSL certificate comparison: free, single domain, wildcard and EV — SSL comparison.

My HostGator emails, 2013-2020

HostGator account info email from September 9, 2013: first Hatchling order — First order, September 2013.

HostGator invoice email from October 3, 2015: Hatchling shared hosting $8.95 — Invoice, October 2015.

HostGator account info email from April 8, 2020: Baby plan order and auto-renewal policy — Baby plan order, April 2020.

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