I don't know about now but I used to host a wordpress blog with hostgator back before they sold out to EIG.
A lot of people now are warning people to stay away from any EIG hosting company. But there's many people hosting with them and they must not be having a problem.
I would recommend looking around on the advertising section of
http://webmasterbabble.com webmaster forum where you'll find lots of web hosting offers from web hosts advertising there.
There's a lot of good web hosting companies advertising on
http://webmasterbabble.com to choose from.