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This Hostgator thread was started by boss on 2009-04-08 23:43:05:

I regged at hostgator to move a few of my lower traffic sites from my dedicated hosted outside of hostgator to save some money.

Their support is great, Instead of talking to people who don’t speak english fluently, I get friendly staff who sounds American. Fast support as well.

But there is one major flaw that totally voided my relationship with hostgator-

I cant CHMOD 777 any directories or files!

I dont think yall understand, people don’t just use static pages on their websites. Most complex PHP, CGI or ASP scripts REQUIRE 777 permissions.

ALL of my sites that I was planning on using hostgators servers for use a TGP rotator script that absolutely needs 777 permissions, even if I try to use 755 perms.

So because of this, I have lost a lot of traffic, and have to move all my sites back to my other server.

Yall should really consider dropping that. Or, atleast have a disclaimer on the billing page saying "WARNING: We do not allow 777 CHMODs."

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