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!
Posted in Gator Politics, Jay Weissman | 52 Comments »
52 Responses
to “Office Tour”
6 Trackback(s)
- May 30, 2007: Hostgators - Take a tour of Hostgator Office in Houston, Texas
- Jun 8, 2007: HostGator is Hiring at HostGator Blog | Gator Crossing
- Jan 16, 2008: Employee Referral Program at HostGator Blog | Gator Crossing
- May 26, 2008: Whoot! » Blog Archive » Employee Referral Program
- Aug 10, 2009: Anatomy of an Outage | HostGator Web Hosting Blog | Gator Crossing
- Sep 10, 2009: 200,000 Web Hosting Clients and Climbing | HostGator Web Hosting Blog | Gator Crossing
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!
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.
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 :)
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.
By Jason on Oct 9, 2007 | Reply
I wanna work there!…
…where do I apply!?
-jason
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 :(
By toppy on Oct 19, 2007 | Reply
This building picure is fake! its computer rendered image!
By Jeff on Oct 21, 2007 | Reply
I saw the building on the way to Austin for the first time in June. Very impressive!
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!
By Curt on Nov 16, 2007 | Reply
Sounds like Toppy is a little jealous or optimistic!!!
By ruben on Nov 22, 2007 | Reply
necesitamos soporte tecnico en español.
Need support in spanish!!!
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 !
By Jean-Luc on Jan 9, 2008 | Reply
Nice building ;)
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
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 ;)
By Sam Kidd on Jan 17, 2008 | Reply
Nice, I like the games room. Love the air hockey table. Nice touch
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.
By earncow on Feb 20, 2008 | Reply
Nice game room I love it
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.
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.
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)
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!
By Samantha on Jun 21, 2008 | Reply
i like work with you company
By Karla on Jul 20, 2008 | Reply
Why is soo dark?
By HybridGene on Aug 10, 2008 | Reply
And now we can see this bulding in google’s street view in their latest google earth version. It’s looking pretty nice, I’ve spent some time walking around and watching.
By arnab on Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
wow, I am so excited to see the hostgator office! I wish to be an employee in hostgator.
Thanks.
By Karmen on Oct 27, 2008 | Reply
WOW i didnt know you guys where in houston tx, thats where i live lol i havent seent he building, it must be in a nicer place. it looks hella nice :D
By Adib Cervantes on Oct 30, 2008 | Reply
It’s amazing the growup of host gator… congratulationssss
By Xudikkor on Nov 1, 2008 | Reply
HG looks like EA, minus the evil empire dark cloud hovering above everyone’s head.
By Yunus Beg on Nov 5, 2008 | Reply
woooooooow, I am so excited to see the photo, really nice to see office and facility of employee
By ReviewHostgator.org on Nov 17, 2008 | Reply
Hmm..from the photo the gym room is a bit small. the equipments are arranged so tightly.
By James on Jan 15, 2009 | Reply
fred,
Yes your right about everyone from over the world being a customer Im from Australia but, I can see Freds point of view, they are an internet website host which does cater the world which would mean they could be giving support in all different languages…also if im correct the US has a very large Spanish speaking community and has the worlds second largest spanish speaking community if i stand correct.
By Jason on Jan 19, 2009 | Reply
The grounds look awesome. It is so great! It really looks like you guys care about your employees. I’m sure it provides for a good working environment and high morale.
By easydev on Feb 14, 2009 | Reply
i think hostgator is the best thing on earth! I LOVE U GUYS!!!
:D
By Lee on Feb 14, 2009 | Reply
after reading about the reguirements and seeing the row of Semi complete cubes.
I would just want to escape.
By Nader on Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
Hey guys,
I just found this blog :)
Just wanna say :
Great Support
Great Host
Great building :)
do i get free host ??? ;)
No really best hosting ever tried, been with the guys for over 2 years and never had a not resolved problem :)
keep the good work
By Rob C on Feb 28, 2009 | Reply
Gotta love that last picture. It’s really hard to exercise and maintain the norm on an everyday time-frame.
Really nice that lunch is on the company as well, lets hope that those lunches are healthy :p
R.
By urgator on Mar 4, 2009 | Reply
good to see you having a nice workplace :D
By Jay on Mar 14, 2009 | Reply
Wow, most hosting companys are just home based… this is awesome! If I lived remotely close to you i’d apply but sadly I dont.
By German Cadena on Apr 9, 2009 | Reply
I was just looking for a hosting company and saw a comment that I needed to send a reply for. I just saw a comment from an idiot called Fred regarding Ruben asking for support in Spanish. Just a MORON AND RETARD can still think that way where a web hosting business is now a global enterprise. FYI – according to the latest statistics, the number of Spanish speakers on the planet have surpassed the number of English speakers – Spanish is second only to Chinese now. I suggest that retard begins learning Spanish..because he will need it. In my case, I am fluent in English and Spanish to begin with…and other languages…and I love when a company makes the effort to speak MY LANGUAGE…the CUSTOMER LANGUAGE!
By Reece on May 9, 2009 | Reply
Looks like a great pleace to work! too bad, i dont know enough, i live in canada, and im not 18, yet
By jagdeep on May 13, 2009 | Reply
very good looking building and inside office looking very good peacefull environment . you are really no 1 hosting company.
By BestListingz.com on May 20, 2009 | Reply
Nice offices, at least i know my money will be well spent.
By Cathy on Jul 4, 2009 | Reply
Wow…nice office. Would love to be one of those working there. :) The gym!! aaahh
Nice to know that im hosting with a stable and growing company like you. Im at ease.
By Dora on Sep 11, 2009 | Reply
I want to work part-time here!!! This looks like a decent place to work at.
By Coupons on Oct 29, 2009 | Reply
Not bad at all..much better than my office!