Office Tour

Written by Jay Weissman on May 28, 2007 – 9:53 pm -

As some of you may or may not know, back in September of 2006 HostGator made the big move from a small 2000 square-foot office in Boca Raton, Florida, to a four-story 25,000 square-foot building in Houston, Texas. With it went 40 of the 50 HostGator employees, including myself! This was a huge change for HostGator and since then we’ve expanded to over 100 employees in-house. Imagine only 2 and a half years ago, HostGator had 6 in-house employees and an outsourced support team!

Unless you are currently in the Houston Area, you likely have not seen the office yet. So as I promised a hundred times on the forums, here are some pictures of the new office. (Finally!)

Pictures courtesy of our System Admin/Photographer extraordinaire Adam Dunin.





Yep, that is one BIG gator up there. The sign took days to assemble, and caused our ears much grief as they drilled and hammered. Of course, no office is complete without its fair share of cubicles. And we have that covered.





Not everything is about work, and after a hard day of keeping our servers from reaching meltdown status we head over to the game room to relax. Check out that pool table!



Hope you all enjoyed the tour, there is much more to come!


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25 Responses to “Office Tour”

  1. By HostgatorReview.org on May 31, 2007 | Reply

    supprise! first time i saw the photo of hostgator.com office building. It’s a wowwwww.

    very outstanding!

  2. By ufopsi.com on Jun 2, 2007 | Reply

    Building looks great and modern. I regret though the cubicles, the most anti-social solution.

    Would be nice to see pics of you.

  3. By Dave on Jun 8, 2007 | Reply

    I like the double and triple monitors!
    The gym is a nice touch though it looks a little crowded lol.

    On a side note for “Gator Favorites” I noticed you did not include http://www.DomainPeeps.com :)

  4. By Carla on Aug 12, 2007 | Reply

    Welcome to Houston! I love that my hosting company is now in my hometown.

    I’m sure the humidity will make you feel right at home, but hopefully not as many hurricanes. :)

    Come hang out in Kingwood for some of the events (www.kingwoodconnection.com and http://www.picniconthepark.com), both presented to the web on a Hostgator server.

  5. By Jason on Oct 9, 2007 | Reply

    I wanna work there!…

    …where do I apply!?

    -jason

  6. By Vivian on Oct 17, 2007 | Reply

    i likes that office partitions for each individual & snookers room which currently my office do not have one… we are sharing terminals everyday & no permanent seating :(

  7. By toppy on Oct 19, 2007 | Reply

    This building picure is fake! its computer rendered image!

  8. By Jeff on Oct 21, 2007 | Reply

    I saw the building on the way to Austin for the first time in June. Very impressive!

  9. By Rae on Nov 9, 2007 | Reply

    Was driving down the freeway and almost had a wreck when I saw the Hostgator sign on a building off the side of the freeway ;-), especially since I am searching for better, more reliable hosting and had heard nothing but good things about Hostgator. Couldn’t believe HG’s actually in my town!

  10. By Curt on Nov 16, 2007 | Reply

    Sounds like Toppy is a little jealous or optimistic!!!

  11. By ruben on Nov 22, 2007 | Reply

    necesitamos soporte tecnico en español.
    Need support in spanish!!!

  12. By john on Nov 23, 2007 | Reply

    I saw a Canadian flag and I like that cause I am from there ! good employer hire good employee from Canada WOW !

  13. By Jean-Luc on Jan 9, 2008 | Reply

    Nice building ;)

  14. By Adam D on Jan 11, 2008 | Reply

    The building is not fake. Its 100% real, I know I took the photographs =)

    http://www.adamdphotography.com

  15. By Miguel on Jan 11, 2008 | Reply

    i know spanish well, contact me if you need any help ;)
    yo hablo bien el español, contactame si nesesitan alguna ayuda ;)

  16. By Sam Kidd on Jan 17, 2008 | Reply

    Nice, I like the games room. Love the air hockey table. Nice touch

  17. By Fred on Jan 28, 2008 | Reply

    ruben
    Nov 22nd, 2007 at 1:07 am
    necesitamos soporte tecnico en español.
    Need support in spanish!!!
    —————————————–
    This is to ruben and his comment above.

    This is the United States. We speak English as our primary language. If you want to be understood, speak English. If you don’t want to speak English, then go to some other country where they speak Spanish. I am tired of people like you who want to make over our country in some self centric satisfying image and culture.

  18. By earncow on Feb 20, 2008 | Reply

    Nice game room I love it

  19. By fred on Feb 27, 2008 | Reply

    Fred your an idiot. This is a internet business, you have no idea what country this guy lives in. Web Hosts and software companies have clients from all over the world. I’m tired of retards like you that jump to conclusions.

  20. By Mack on Apr 3, 2008 | Reply

    I was a little disappointed in the tour.

    1. We didn’t get to see Brent’s office.
    2. We didn’t get to see the fridge.
    3. We didn’t get to see the restroom.
    4. Nobody was using the recreational facilities.
    4. We didn’t get to see what the view is looking out the windows.

    These are all very important factors that were left out of the tour.

    PS. Fred, you live in a country founded by immigrants. You’re an idiot.

  21. By bozebo on Apr 4, 2008 | Reply

    A P-P-P-POOL TABLE!!!! i wanna work for Hostgator lol..

    Looks a bit dark in there doesn’t it? (prolly the camera’s auto correction thing)

  22. By Adam D on Apr 15, 2008 | Reply

    This is a very old tour. I was using natural lighting instead of flash cause the flash would have made things look bad. The office has greatly changed. Maybe I”ll snap some more photos soon. our new rec room is SICK!

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