Many people or websites I should say, are encountering difficulty accessing websites hosted by hostgator.com whom guarantee 99.999% uptime, well that’s not true anymore. According to the latest update from hostgator support chat website, it said the following:

You can check status here for Novemeber 20th 2013 http://forums.hostgator.com/network-outage-t302250.html

We are experiencing technical difficulties.
Snappy is currently fixing the issue with his trusty wrench.
At 11:37AM, we became aware of an issue in one of our data centers. Our operations team responded immediately, isolated the issue, and servers that may have been affected are currently being restored.
Some customers may still be experiencing issues that we are in the process of addressing. We appreciate your patience as we work to resolve the situation. We will keep you updated as more information becomes available.

You can get updates on our forums on the issue here.

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Our Provo datacenter is currently experiencing an outage that is affecting both dedicated and shared servers. We are working to restore service as soon as possible and will update this post with more information as it becomes available.