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Why GoDaddy Web Hosting Sucks!

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Until October 2009, I was a GoDaddy Partner / Wild West Domains Reseller, and although I made some money by selling their hundreds and thousands of unneeded services, I had a very hard time pushing a product which I myself had serious doubts about.

Over the 3 years that I’ve been selling Wild West or GoDaddy Services, I tried many different hosts, and I recommended GoDaddy hosting to many small businesses, because for a website that doesn’t really drive traffic, GoDaddy pricing really isn’t all that bad.  However, I’ve never been too convinced about their hosting services and some of the functionality that comes along with it and today, I will give you the inside story, based purely on experience, as to why you should not use GoDaddy for hosting a website if you plan to build a reputable website.

So why haven’t I been comfortable selling GoDaddy Hosting?  Well, put simply, because it just sucks.  It fails terribly when it comes to speed, reliability and user friendliness, and if you ever have to depend on their customer service, well, you may have to ask Jesus to intervene, because GoDaddy or Wild West Domains Customer service is really, really lost.  So lost, in fact, that they do need a Messiah for enlightenment.

Hosting with GoDaddy?  Better Make Time…

Let’s put it this way: access to the GoDaddy Hosting Panel was so slow that at times I could brew a cup of good old Spiced Indian Tea before the page would load.  It’s one thing to have the front end run slow, but to log in, create email addresses, or use their file manager, or create databases with their custom interface was the most painful experience I have ever had as a web designer.  In addition, if you ever had to log on to the customized phpMyAdmin interface to access the MySQL Databases, well, you’d have to go make some more tea.  Run time between queries with phpMyAdmin is very slow, and it makes for an over all pathetic experience as a webmaster.

Now, when you’re running the front end, it’s just as bad.  I switched to several different packages as a reseller: from VPS Hosting to Semi Dedicated to Economy to Deluxe.  They all run at stone-age speeds, and the front end experience is so bad, especially if you’re querying a database, that the website may occasionally time out.  That’s bad news for those of us who wanted to do testing on the server, because oh my, we wasted some mighty precious time.  In any case, it made for a bad user experience, especially if you’re running an ecommerce site, as no user wants to wait 3 minutes for the next window to load.  AJAX could act as saving grace, but the minute your AJAX application would query your sever, well, you’re at GoDaddy’s mercy; and let me tell you, they really are running their hosting service like they’re in the Wild Wild West.

One of the reasons the database access is so painfully slow is that it sits behind an SSL connection.  This is a rather silly move, as most successful hosts don’t employ it simply because it can drastically slow down the performance, of, say, a massive wordpress blog that could be pulling along the lines of 70 queries a page.

70 MySQL Queries, you say?

With GoDaddy, they claim to be able to monitor the simultaneous number of connections to the MySQL Database and the simultaneous number of active visitors (whatever in the hell that means) on the website.  Now, GoDaddy staff isn’t clear on this, but apparently, if you have more than 50 consecutive MySQL Connectinos or 50 active users, well,  you’re fucked.  You’ll get a 503 site temporarily down error, and it can last for over an hour, because apparently, you have 50 active users who are consecutively glued to the MySQL Database.  How awesome is that?  And yet, neither google analytics or extreme tracking could detect more than 1500 pageviews in a day @ that point.  But these daddy goners had their own agenda.  According to some of the intellects at Wild West customer support, the number of open MySQL DB connections or the number of consecutive visitors would change based on which package you had, where as some claimed to have no knowledge of any such thing.  But nobody really knew what triggered this 503 error.  Apparently, as it turns out, all the staff needs maintenance.

FTP Access, you say?

This one really pissed me off.  No more than 2 simultaneous FTP connections, and no FTP connections lasts more than a 120 seconds.  So, if you’re testing on the server, you’re fucked!  And if you’re hosting multiple sites on the account, you’re penetrated twice because more than one webmaster can’t upload files to the FTP server.  That’s just bad; really, really bad.

Email?

Well, the folks over at GoDaddy may have developed their own email interface, but they still don’t have control over spam.  Either that, or they’ve got too much.  While I was at Wild West, I had several clients complain about their clients complain about how their emails would net get delivered, and the folks over in Scottsdale, Arizona really had it out for everyone.  At times they’ll block hotmail email, even if originates from a valid SPF policy domain, and if you ever emailed them, they were just about as useful as, well, useless.  Besides, if you didn’t pay extra money, you only got 10 MB per email inbox!  Hello!  Free email comes with 2 GB now.  I know you guys are from the same state as McCain, but please keep up with what’s happening!!

Installing Applications

If you’re buying a third party software like an eCommerce Solution or blog etc., please let the party you’re buying from know you’re using GoDaddy, Wild West or Secure Server services, because for so called ‘security’ reasons, their settings are all screwed up. For instance, with several ecommerce providers, you’ll have to point to a specific URL to be able to use the curl() function in php with GoDaddy & Co., and it can be very frustrating if you’re new to this stuff and don’t know that your host is the one that’s been screwing you over for hours while you kept thinking your code was all screwed up.

Worst of all things with GoDaddy is the overall experience if you are a professional.  Just like Sage has mesmerized the UK with it’s marketing and taken over as the defacto accounting software despite being the worst accounting package on the market, GoDaddy with Wild West has marketed itself extremely well, with thousands of affiliates, to the point where they can easily trap the newbie consumer with absolutely low quality service.  Well, I’ll be having no more ofana part to play in  that crime.

If you’re a starter, go with GoDaddy.  If you want good, reliable hosting that works, go for cluster based hosting, and please don’t go with Servage.  I’ve already cussed them out on this website a couple of years ago.  I have finally settled with IMountain.com Solar powered Hosting, and they’re not paying me to write this, which is why there’s no link to them in this post.  I’ve been using iMountain for a few months now, and I can tell you that I’ve been pleased with their speed, FTP, customer service, etc. etc.  They’re not about giving you fancy marketing stuff or spending too much time writing their own cluttered interface.  They’re using respected software in the hosting industry to run their service, and it comes with great speed.  It’s not the cheapest hosting you’ll find, but it is definitely worth the money.

In about 4 months, I’ve only had downtime for a couple of hours one day, and this is the day it took a couple of hours for me to get a response out of them.  But as it turns out, the problem was that someone had a launched a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on one of the servers, and they were busy trying to counter it.  For those of you who’re not familiar with DDoS, it’s somewhat equivalent in cyberspace to what Israel is currently doing to Palestine; you can hardly blame them for fighting the terrorist off before responding, eh?

But that’s IMountain.com.  With GoDaddy and Wild West Domains, I’ve never been able to figure out why I got a 503 error three times a week!

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  • http://blog.godaddyhosting.com Alicia

    Good afternoon,

    I work with the GoDaddy.com hosting team and recently came across your post. I’m sorry you feel this way about our hosting services. I’d really like to speak with you more in depth about these concerns. Please contact me by email with a phone number and the best time you can be reached. Thank you.

    Sincerely,

    Alicia R.
    Go Daddy Hosting

  • John

    I am very interested in this article because I just set up a GoDaddy account as a testbed for a new eCommerce package we purchased. I looked through their specs and figured for $15/mo for a Windows hosting account I couldn’t go wrong.

    It has only been 24 hours and so far I am very unhappy!

    After I purchased the account it took overnight before the account was set up. Then today I tried to set up the secure cert for this account and ever since then my account has been listing as pending account changes.

    I called GoDaddy tech support (on my dime of course) and they said it is an automated system but because they have so many customers (alarm goes off!) that it takes awhile for account changes to be completed.

    I have many other web hosting accounts with other hosting companies, both Windows and Linux, and they all provide a control panel that allows me to make instant changes to my accounts.

    One more thing…when I use FTP to log into this account it is INCREDIBLY SLOW! I am using WS-FTP and when I click to login it takes 11 seconds or more before I can see the files and access them; on my other hosting accounts this happens in less than a second. And it takes 10 seconds just to open a folder!

    GoDaddy tech support told me that delay was because the account is currently in a setup/change mode but I kinda doubt that is true. We’ll see how responsive the FTP is after they finish the current pending account changes.

    I had hoped to switch several of our accounts to GoDaddy but if these delays are standard I’ll have to keep looking.

  • Frank

    I am currently migrating my client away from GoDaddy. It’s the most convoluted mess of a customer area I have ever seen and I have dealt with all of the big name registrars/hosts. I have NEVER had so many problems trying to FTP as I have with GD! You are completely correct when you describe their idiotic customer admin area. GD is designed for people who don’t know what they are doing and don’t want to know. GD relies heavily on the ignorance of their customer base. The worst host hands down!

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    I recommend imountain.com

  • J Smith

    I totally agree with this. I have tried using GoDaddy for hosting, but have had to migrate over to BlueHost. Hosting at BlueHost is much cheaper and their support is top notch!

    Cheers,
    -Jay

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  • Rahul

    It sucks BIG time. Took me 8 times to create an user

  • magallanes

    Limited by concurrent connection?. and using mysql?.

    WTF?!

    Whats a scam.
    Truly, it is pretty hard to determine the number of concurrent connection, mainly because many technologies (including mysql and specially php) keeps by default (and because performance) a session opens a extra number of minutes even if the user has log off or closed the browser.

  • DieselWebservers

    I actually cam across this site/post while I was waiting for godaddy FTP to upload a <1M mb graphics folder to upload (its been 2 minutes and counting).I totally agree with this post on network performance! I am dot com entrepreneur and have been with godaddy for more than 4 years and have had hosted about 5 websites with them and over 20 domains.

    Their web interface for hosting/resellers and general users is absolutely, hands down the WORST in the industry (actually the worst i have EVER seen). You CAN design an easy user friendly site with easy navigation AND STILL SELL all the useless bells and whistles they do…so i don’t understand why they don’t get get rid of the cheesy graphics and stupid NASCAR/bimbo celebrities that could the main page and the redundant links and pop-ups that litter the hosting/domain mgt control panel. The FTPs are slow as hell (setup a new one and watch, it will say pending for like 30 min-WTF is that all about). I am NYC and have several websites with ok traffic (~700 visitors a month) on Godaddy. They sometimes go dead (you have to refresh them several times for pages to load).

    I used run a co-located server (P4 with 1 gig of ram) with PLESK server mgt on it on an ok network and i can tell you, non of these function took more than a few seconds. I suspect they are overloading their servers and one traffic mgt is less than perfect. I do have to say that i disagree with the above posts about customer service. Their ever increasing # of customer reps are friendly, answer the phones fast but are sometimes less than helpful. Frankly, their customer service is better than most in the industry.

    I stay with go daddy because of the cheap domains and ever cheaper website hosting. If you have a small business website that gets little traffic, park it there (set it and forget it). If you have a website that makes you money, take it elsewhere.

  • UnImpressed

    As a user, I want to yell and pull my freaking hair out. I have a domain, and I want to setup web hosting. HOW THE F@#& do you do that simple FREAKING TASK!

    WTF! WHERE’S THE SETUP WEBHOSTING FREAKING BUTTON. I DON’T WANT A FREAKING FREE WEBSITE WITH A GANGLY GODADDY BANNER….I WANT TO GIVE THEM MY MONEY, TO HAVE AN AD-FREE WEBSITE. HOW THE HELL DO THEY GET OFF MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR A GEEK TO DO THIS? WHO PAYS THEM? IT’S LIKE SPAMMERS…WHO THE HELL CLICKS ON SPAM, WHO THE HELL PAYS GODADDY?

    Omg..that felt good…I can relax now.

  • Thank goodness I searched first.

    Well, I’ve been searching for a hosting site, and came across GoDaddy, which sounded pretty good. My hubby suggested I search “GoDaddy Sucks” and see what comes up. Now I know why their prices are so cheap!

    Next.

  • Meanmachine

    Just started with GoDaddy a few days ago.

    Mainly using web hosting as a back up FTP site for my data. The price is right, but the upload speed is seriously lacking. My ISP claims I get 500Kbps, which measures out correctly with various speed tests. However, my FTP connection with GoDaddy is a whimpy 30 – 60Kbps. I talked with an account manager regarding their bandwidth (speed), and his response was that I will be the limiting factor (as opposed to them). But again, my speed tests show otherwise.

    I plan on talking to this guy again to find out what the story is. Granted I do not require blazing speed, but my backup is taking about week via Syncback (total backup size is about 50Gb). I just can’t ignore the fact that it should be going 10 times faster.

    I also agree with a previous comment regarding the amount of time it takes to connect or open a directory. It sits for 5-10 seconds before anything happens.

    So far, very disappointing.

  • Meanmachine

    CORRECTION.

    I was stupid and did not realize that my FTP program was giving me numbers in KBps (kilobytes per second), and that all the speed test programs gave me results in kbps (kilobits per second.

    And of course my ISP (roadrunner) claims the upload speed to be in kilobits per second. Therefore, my transfer rates are appropriate.

    I apologize for any emotional pain I may have caused Go Daddy with my complaint.

  • Mark in SF

    I second what you say about the GoDaddy admin pages. WOW! I mean those admin pages are *absurdly* slow. They won’t allow me to use my own sql client, so I’ve got to use mysql. But for some reason they won’t let you bookmark the page to go right to it. You’ve got to wade through 4 pages of their ultra-slow time-wasting nonsense after logging in just to get to the mysql page.

    It’s an embarrassment. I don’t know how GoDaddy can take itself seriously with performance like that. I don’t think I’ve seen slower loading pages *anywhere*!

    Mysql performance is ok once I get there, but pretty sluggish as well.

    FTP is frustrating too. Sometimes I continually get the “too many connections(2)” message even though I’m supposed to get 50 connections according to their docs. Honestly though, I seem to get that problem with whatever host I’ve used, no matter what my FTP client or “max connections” setting. I can’t believe FTP is still even used when there are better protocols out there.

    On the plus side, I find the responsiveness of the shared hosing to be acceptable, and downright fast in off hours. It’s the admin side that needs a complete overhaul. Their support response time has been pretty good too (though often usually just to say: “we don’t support that” )

    I’ve been a customer for about 6 months to try them out. I’m Glad I took the monthly plan, because I don’t think I can take working with their admin interface any more. Just hope the next one doesn’t suck as much. GoDaddy is probably fine for people that don’t need to do lots of admin work, but for me….I’m just not into wasting 1/2 hour or so a week waiting around for page loads.

  • http://WatsonN.com Nate

    I just bought a web hosting plan with GD earlier today and I am already think of going back to 1&1. With 1&1 I had unlimited ftp admin was fast and easy to find, MySQL worked fine.

    But With Godaddy 2 FTP thing is killing me and they have to move my server everytime i add somthing that came free in my package like SSL and SSH.

    And i havent been able to even setup my e-mail account yet.

    GODADDY YOUR KILLING ME!!!!!

  • Lockjaws

    We recently Took up a shared hosting plan with Godaddy, I have to say everything you have said in your blog i have experienced, Slow loading times on the front end Ftp, Admin section, i even wrote 3 emails Demanding a explination from the why it was so slow i even did a reverse ip on the domain name and found my domain is on a sderver with get this, 3,254 other websites No wonder its so shit, the pack as much on one server and on a shared ip to make as much money as possible.

    After 2 days I got a email response (it says 24 hours response time). In short the mails told me tough shit go you are bound to experience slow load times during peek hours ( i mean come one WTF so there telling me THey are fine with overloaded servers? then they told me to go buy a VPS or a dedicated server from them.

    What sort of company offers you a battery chicken house webhosting in the poorest of conditions known to humanity? That would be GoDaddy my friends GoDaddy.

  • http://realhomeincomes.com Matt

    I called Godaddy support about the database connectivity issue. It is sooooo slow. It took me a few days to figure out the problem, because sometime wordpress themes can be very slow with widgets and all. I finally tested a simple select statement, which took forever, and tested against a massively bloated php file with no database connection, which loaded super fast.

    I called tech support and asked to be moved off the server and why…He said they can’t do that. He asked me for the website and then told me it loaded really fast for him, instantly almost… I was so fed up at that point I knew this was going nowhere so I just said, well I guess my laptop must have a virus and hung up…

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Yeah GoDaddy staff is always in denial. Either that, or they put you on hold, come back and say oh it’s working just fine because they actually fix the problem whilst on the phone.

    It’s just bad service ethic, or lack of one.

  • Sinschild

    You know, after bullshit answer after bullshit answer from godaddy about various problems with the service, and getting 1-2kbps upload for several days across multiple domains on a VPS, I am done. Looking for a new host, and I am up for an experiment with google to see if we can get “Godaddy Sucks” into the top five for any query containing “Godaddy”.

    Protip: Canned support answers to users who actually have a clue will piss them off. I suggest you guys purchse some more bandwith and boatload of clue for your support reps.

  • Sinschild

    I told them in the email support request that I had tried multiple computers connected to different ISP’s with the exact same result. Advised them that I do network support for a living and to not even think about blaming my ISP.

    I will not do business with a company if their first tier support is incapable of reading a simple email.

    And of course the reply from Godaddy support:

    We have tested your upload speeds from an internal and external connection and also tested the upload speeds of other virtual servers. The upload speeds were similar and within acceptable limits. As we do not have access to your local network and cannot compare our external connection with yours our average FTP upload speed was 200 Kbps on your server and a test server.

    If you feel that you are experiencing connection issues with an external network we suggesting contacting your ISP provider to see why the connection is experiencing issuese. If you feel it is an issue with the server please provide us with data that shows the connection issue is within our network. We suggest researching online for tools or ways to trace your connection and upload speeds to the server.

  • http://www.passportinternational.com Julian Glenn

    I fully agree goDaddy sucks. goDaddy is slow to the point of stagnation. I have taken the exact same site that I have hosted on a Virtual Dedicated server at goDaddy and transferred it to a simple shared account at WebECS and queries that were taking 10/secs at goDaddy execute in less than 2/secs at WebECS. And at WebECS it’s PHP running on a Windows box, go figure. I’m dumping goDaddy as soon as I can migrate the full site over to WebECS or another host.

    to reiterate… goDaddy hosting sucks

  • Zach

    I’m currently leaving Godaddy at this very moment.

    I am having problems, simply backing up my website before I migrate it to a new host…. its only 30MB and I can’t even download my complete site via FTP without my transfer crashing out….

    I hate and will never use godaddy for anything.
    YOU SUCK GODADDY!

  • http://www.fxcomponents.com/ Em

    I’ve been using GoDaddy’s hosting for some time and I would agree on most of the issues raised here. The bad performance of phpMyAdmin will have to be the most annoying for me.

  • Sam

    I hear all of you on this. GoDaddy truly is a corporate crap company who spent a lot of money on advertisement and spokespeople (if you want to call Danica Patrick a spokesperson) to get people to join. And this crap actually works? I guess so. I had a client join GoDaddy to host an ASP.NET site we created for them. It has been two days and they have refused to tell us why our application times out after 10 minutes or so. They come back with the same crappy line about third party/custom software includes very little customer support and they would not be able to help me unless I can prove that it is their server in error. How about I’ve installed the exact same application on two other hosting sites and several IIS boxes I have not that I should have had to for something as simple as a timeout issue and the fact that I’ve only been doing this for about 15 years. Their response was that the same. Can you freaking believe it? I personally paid a years worth of hosting to switch companies for the client. GoDaddy will not only nickle and dime you all the way to what other companies charge (and sometimes more), but they don’t offer the same level of support nor are their servers or control of your applications the same as other companies. All I can say is that if you decide to go with GoDaddy, good luck. I hope you have nothing more than a static HTML site. Otherwise you will be back here writing the same stuff about them.

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    I hear you Sam. Unfortunately, corporate mumo jumbo really works in the US and the rest of the world, so GoDaddy do pretty well. They thrive on the newbies, not the pros, so you’re best staying away from them. They’re pretty much only good for .com, .net and .org domain registrations.

  • Mr. Talent

    GoDaddys web hosting simply sucks , I am discontinuing with their service

    I am sure they know about it but dont bother to do a thing about it

  • A Pryce

    I’m just hours into trying out Godaddy hosting and I am ready to SCREAM. I took over a volunteer project to redo a website that is hosted on Godaddy — which the previous webmaster has paid for until 2000-and never. WHY!! I searched “Godaddy hosting f*#$%%@-up” because I knew I wasn’t the only one.

  • suck gd

    I use, it’s so shit,

  • http://gvidaho.com/weather Gary

    I agree too – I have had domains through GD for a long time, but hosted through Hostway who doesn’t have great WP support. I wanted better WP support so I moved to GD. I also run a weather website that has several continually updating FTP — guess what GD cannot handle it (FTP connections limited to 2 or so). I am dead meat. I swithced my hosting. Moved about 10 GB of data over. ANd it won’t run live. Arggghhhh — I have probably spent 100 hours on this crap.

  • Joe

    I thought I’d get a better deal with godaddy, as I didn’t care for netfirms’ making downgrading your account so tough during a time I didn’t need much bandwidth. Godaddy starts of sounding cheap, but after adding the missing elements included with the barebones hosting package, I’m paying a comparable price to my netfirms account for less than I had.

    Worst of all, the hosting sucks. FTP access is like pulling teeth ad having them pulled.

  • George

    My client is hosted on godaddy and wanted a new CMS system on his site. Within an hour of launching the site it crashed (my client had just launched a power plant and was getting hits!)Godaddy did nothing to help and stonewalled every request acting clueless. It was terrible. The client though we messed up and we lost a lot of money. Go daddy really sucks.

  • http://www.pcwatchdogs.com Cory

    I found this post looking for information regarding concurrent connections. I have to say, as a GoDaddy customer for over 5 years now, I have not had any issues. I am not here to say people have not had bad experiences, but I myself, have not. I am on a deluxe plan, which is in the middle. I have recommended this company to many of my customers, and manage about 30 sites / hosting accounts for customers with no problems. At the time of this writing, I am uploading numerous large files to my site via FTP (FileZilla v 3.3.0.1) and I am getting my full capacity upload speed (2Mbps / 250KBps). Also, on the note of customer service, I have had to make a few calls for changes in services or plans at the request of my customers and I did not have any problems with their staff. They knew what they were doing. I did have to ask one rep to let me speak to someone “more advanced” as he did not understand a request, possibly above his knowledge, but I ended up speaking to the other person and the change was successful. I know that things happen, but I am just here to say that I have had nothing but positive experiences with godaddy and I will continue to use their hosting services. If anyone reading this is having issues, feel free to contact me, I would be happy to help you with your concerns.

    Cory
    PCWatchdogs.com
    775-624-8574

    P.S.
    I am in no way affiliated with godaddy.com nor do I get anything from them for posting this, I am simply a happy customer voicing his opinion

  • osman

    I have exactly the same problems with godaddy. I have a joomla web site on shared hosting and it is really slow and I mailed them this situation, they said that there seems nothing wrong. wtf? please spread the word that GODADDY SUCKS.

  • Brandon

    I too used GoDaddy hosting…. just the basic windows hosting for a very basic ASP.NET site.

    I only had it there for a week. The hosting service was horrible. It would show users 304 redirects and take forever to load. There were random outages and even worse…. is that Google was indexing the bogus redirects and error pages that Godaddy was displaying. Those pages were not part of my site.

    I would not recommend godaddy hosting services!

  • R. Arashi

    Oshare Curry’s been on GoDaddy servers for a couple of years now, has been constantly bogged by stupidity and malware infections.

    I have no reason to see that wordpress or joomla could serve anything with malware on it. WordPress maybe, but even THEN there’s the issue of how the plugin got it where did it come from.

    I think godaddy intentionall infects customers so they’ll pay to get things fixed… especially for the clued up customers who get irate.
    8D LIKE ME!

    HostGator here i come.
    Blue host i’m sure would’ve sufficed if i didnt use several domains across one account (too cheap to use other hosting!)

    So yea, i’m all for anti-godaddy, cept unfortunatley for now they’ve got me by the tit, i still have all my domains there and can’t afford to move them yet.

    Any good domain registrars that are out there? That i can cheaply, saefly register them to?

  • munirash

    it is the best hoster ever! for god sake

  • Gio

    I have been a web designer for over 6 years. In that time I have seen Godaddy devolve from a respectable web and domain hosting provider to a deceitful money grubbing machine.

    I would never recommend Godaddy for any of my clients under their current business platform.

    Whatever happened to providing a quality product? Godaddy should be less concerned with quantity (providing cheap domains and hosting) and pay more attention to improving their product.

    I guess you really do pay for what you get!

  • http://www.phillipransburg.com Phillip Ransburg

    Ok, so I’m building a site for a client and why in the hell does Godaddy Servers keep crashing? Hold on a sec, WHAT THE &$%^# IS GOING ON WITH THIS MUTHA#*$(% COMPANY TO WHERE I CAN’T COMPLETE A SIMPLE TASK WITHOUT SEEING THIS F*CKIN’ MESSAGE,

    “There was no response from the server while transferring the file “stylesheets.css” or better yet,

    “Some Files were skipped during the last operation. A list of these files has been logged in the FTP log Window.

    Ok sorry for the outburst but Godaddy is really making me look bad. Here I am, giving deadlines (which is totally against freelance rules) and Godaddy simply can’t get it together. Thank GOD they are NOT my hosting company. I spoke with tech support and was told they have a lot of customers on the servers. I was thinking, “what the hell kinda response was that”? I just hung up and right now, I’ve lost about 4 hours of work because Godaddy Servers are crap.

    Ok, I feel a lil better now that my venting has been done.

  • Nate

    Godaddy ………. is just awful!!!!

  • http://www.khanada.com Jennifer

    I’ve had my domains at GoDaddy for quite a while, and I moved my hosting to GoDaddy last year. For me, customer service has been great (when needed – which is not often). The couple times I’ve called, I got a very helpful and friendly individual.

    However…….

    My account is up for renewal, and I am going to move my account AND domains.

    Why?

    Commercials:
    What can I say, They are stupid, sexist, and have nothing to do with the product. Obviously they are not marketing to me, so they must not need my business that badly. I might have let this “slide” if it weren’t for the other issues.

    FTP. It’s fine doing a few files at a time, but if you do a download/backup, the connection times out after downloading a few hundred files (small image files 5-30k). Then the connection cannot be re-established for 15 or so minutes. Finally, it reconnects and downloads about 500 files (again, nothing large html and jpg, mostly), then disconnects again and the process starts over. Same thing when using Dreamweaver. Very annoying.

    Administration:
    The GoDaddy account interface is not at all intuitive and it’s SLOW. My final decision to NOT renew with them and to move my domains to a different registrar, was because I felt like they were trying to “trick” me into renewing stuff I didn’t need or use (that came free with my hosting account when I got it). The renewal process is somewhat confusing, if you don’t pay very close attention, and I firmly believe this is done on purpose.

    …. it’s been an hour, and I’ve downloaded only 3500 of 11877 5-10k jpeg thumbnails from my photo album because the “Connection cannot be established”.

    Oops.. wait.. there it connected again….

    Crap… downloaded about 300 files and dropped off again.

    Argh.

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  • sobaah

    go daddy suk. i used that too… it takes too long.. too much waiting…

  • http://www.starlightsolar.com L Crutcher

    What I am so put out with is that they are CONSTANTLY trying to sell me something through their difficult to navigate pages to their offensive phone menu. I DON’T want to buy anything…leave me alone! I just want a place for my domain names and 1 hosting site. They change their main page often so the next time I go I can’t even find HOW to get to my email account to find out WHY it has quite working again. They are extremely frustrating to deal with because my time is valuable and they waste so much of it. I am looking for someone else NOW!

  • Johnny

    I’m a web designer so have worked with more hosts than I care to remember while setting up and working on client sites. Godaddy, or as I like to call them Slowdaddy, is the only host I have had continuous problems with. Hell, just setting up FTP client access is a huge pain in the ass. I gave up recently and have refused to work with clients unless they are willing to switch host providers, which most do once I explain how much easier working with your host should be. The hoops they make you jump through to find or do anything is ridiculous.

  • Zertopa

    I purchased a domain name with free hosting from godaddy for a business I am starting with a few friends. Last night we finally got to upload and launch our website using the free hosting provided with the domain name. Then we learned that godaddy forces you to advertise for them on all of your pages. Stupid but if that’s the way it is then that’s the way it is until I let them extort me for $60 to remove their banner. Well using Firefox it all loaded fine, then we checked IE and their banner pushes all of my pages off to the right hand side of the screen so that it does not appear without the user scrolling to the right. We called their tech support only to be told that the error is on my side in how the page was scripted. Throughout all of our development and testing of the sight this was never an issue until it was hosted with godaddy. I told their rep this and he informed me that godaddy will do nothing to fix this situation and that it is my responsibility to recode all of my site to be compatible with their banner ad. So earlier today I did, it was really easy too all I had to do was add to all of my pages. As none of our site uses any java scripting this fixed my issue for now, until I move my hosting to a provider that’s not going to try to extort me for another $60.

  • John

    My experience of godaddy has been a terrible one. Excruciatingly slow FTP speeds, and my html files have had malicious code put into them twice now that renders the site unviewable due to anti virus kicking in, this resulted in my site being black listed in google as a threat. The online control panels are a complete mess of incoherent rubbish.

    Avoid this company like the plague.

    regards

    John (Scotland)

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    OK GoDaddy is bad, no doubt. But if you’re after free hosting, that’s just plain cheap. You get what you pay for, ultimately.

  • Chuck

    Thanks for this article. Godaddy is the WORST ever! They should just be shut down.

    Funny that someone from their service team took the time out to post on here. Maybe they should be doing their job rather than reading articles bashing their JUNK SERVICE!

    I am posting here to hopefully add to what everyone else is saying and stop you or someone you love from doing something they will regret.

  • bret

    FUCK YOU GODADDY, I CANT EVEN CREATE A NEW DATABASE WITHOUT WAITING HOURS FOR THE “PENDING” MESSEAGE TO BE OVER…AGAIN FUCK YOU!

  • mxcape21

    I cant seem to get any RSS feeds to display on Godaddy, I’m using mylastrss which is on sourceforge now. I have a shared windows hosting package with Godaddy, and I think switching to linux would solve this problem but would prevent my ajax scripts from running. If anyone here is familliar with Godaddy has any idea how I can remedy this without switching to a linux server I would be in your debt. I know the best solution is switch hosts but that will have to wait about a month. I would love to correct this in the meantime because that’s a large portion of my site content.
    Godaddy has the best support if you want to consider basic answering service support with no real technical support, just arrogant “it’s not the server check your code” responses and at the same time the same code will run on most other hosts un altered….but don’t take anything for granted with Godaddy, the most basic code seems to not function on their servers and don’t go looking for support, you will get none. You mysteriously begin recieving tons of spam as soon as you activate an email account, dosent matter that you had spam free email accounts, as soon as you sign on with Godaddy you are opening the spam mail floodgates and you will be constantly bombarded by Godaddy solicitations. I would only recommend Godaddy to someone with a site containing only static pages. If you thought you had problems running some scripts or software…believe me Godaddys’ server config has to be the worst for compatibility, second to none for the worst and hardest to navigate Admin and Hosting control center. My advice to all is AVOID Godaddy like the PLAGUE.
    Yeah…what Bret said above, heres to all the 4 letter words used to describe Godaddy.
    They truly are the worst and after the arrogant responses that I recieved from them, let’s just say when I get away from there my mission will be to spread the words of WARNING far and wide.

  • GoDaddy Sucks

    i host my site on Godaddy, damn is too slow! any don’t choose Godaddy. They Sucks

  • A J

    I’ve had GD for a while simply to host some brainless sites that get little or no traffic. It’s more of a sandbox for me. I just would like to be able to change settings on the server without have to wait a couple of hours for them to complete.
    From a corporate standpoint, it’s operated under one figurehead, who apparently is undergoing a mid-life crisis by throwing cash at softcore porn models to market his product hoping not only to drum up business, but maybe to get some. Being a private company, I don’t know if they’re beholden to the same sort of regulation as public entities. In any case I don’t think the company’s actually turned a profiit. They’ve flirted with IPO’s only to cancel them due to their financial condition. I honestly don’t think they’ve ever turned a consistent profit. I know back in 2004 they were on a 5-yr ‘in the red’ stretch. I can’t provide stats because I challenge you to find any of their financials ANYWHERE online.
    Put it this way, when someone mentions GD, they mention their commercials and not much else, so that should tell you something about their actual product.

  • surprised customer

    I just found out that the IP where deluxe hosting is hosted points to 4080 domains. Whoa! I’m not sure whether or not that’s going to be a performance issue in the future when more and more users are beginning to use the resources. If all of those clients are professional, heavy users i’m going to experience a lot of trouble with my deluxe account.

  • Steve H

    Concur. Wish I would have read these comments sooner because I have torn appart my website only to find the problem is with the server Slow Daddy. Site sometimes loads in 3 seconds or 30 seconds, you never know. They have me on the same line with over 6000 other sites – it’s ridiculous. And I am glad I have not upgraded to anything more expensive because it looks like there is no solution but to go with someone else.

  • jeffrey s.

    My expereince has been the following:

    Despite what they may claim, they do NOT have even a BASIC windows hosting service. Period. For example, you can’t even set directory permissions unless you give everyone your hosting admin account and password.

    Extremely slow. Forget using their online control panel to do anything related to hosting. Times out all the time.

    Wanted to try GoDaddy for two new websites. Not anymore.

  • Roy Vincent

    godaddy sucks errr, my client have godaddy and he give me the access to install a magento to it….

    the problem when im about to create my own ftp user it says username should compose atleast 1 uppercase character and then putting a one uppercase character message says username should only compose lowercase only wth!?

    and if you are about to create database its sucks you need to wait until its active… jezz

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  • Mike

    Extremely slow database performance.
    I have been with Godaddy for a good 10years (with a 3 years break) and I must say that I am shocked about the performance of their database servers.

    They very often time out for the most simple queries…

    I am going to contact their support and will see what can be done about it. Either they fix this or I will chargeback.

  • http://lol.net RickyBobby

    For some stupid reason, I went with GoDaddy. I figured since my domain was registered with them, it would be easier to just get the hosting package. After all, it came with a free SSL cert. Big mistake! It took 24 hours for the account to set up. Another 24 for my SSL to set up. Whenever I make a change, any change, even if it is changing content on my site, it takes forever to load! I just changed the header on my site, and 2 hours later, still nothing! This is ridiculous! I e-mailed them complaining about this, and this is their reply:
    Changes to the settings of a domain take an average of 48 hours to become effective because of the number of networks involved, and because these networks are controlled by several different agencies. This delay applies to all domains with any Registrar, not just Go Daddy. Please allow for this delay when planning web sites or configuring a domain to work with your services. John P.

  • Pixelplay

    GoDaddy is slow dam slow, I cant even update my account details let alone my website. Constant time-outs and the info above about making a cup of tea hell I could sever more than 100 cups of tea and still be waiting for something to happen.

    It shouldn’t even be legal for a business to sell such a absolutely hopeless hosting plan. It the hosting plans were cars there would be major worldwide recalls. Don’t buy one of these hosting plans they are terrible.

  • http://spacepimp.net Chilipal

    I have been developing websites for 14 years, have used many many hosting platforms and manage 3 dedicated servers myself.
    I wouldn’t dream of using a company like Godaddy for anything other than a BJ from one of their bimbo celebs.
    However, I was forced to use them a few days ago, because a client of mine had already purchased his domain and hosting package from Godaddy.
    Let me tell you, WHAT A NIGHTMARE!!!!!
    I could honestly write a book about why you should not use Godaddy. But I”l make it quick:

    A) User Interface- Worst piece of shit I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. So counter-intuitive I dont understand how anyone can even use it. It took me,a professional WEB DEVELOPER 2 hours to figure out how to install wordpress. This task usually takes me 5 minutes, and thats a manual install! I don’t use one-click install scripts on my servers.

    B) Criminally Slow – speaks for itself. This goes for everything from the godaddy website itself, to the account management pages, to the FTP access, to the support (whether you use phone or email).

    c) FTP access- well, considering I still can’t access it after 3 days of trying. It sucks. I’ve tried everything I know after more than a decade in this business. I’ve sent a support ticket through the account management ticket center, but since I cant find out how to read the update ticket, if their even is one… umm yeah. garbage.

    I could go on and on…

    Bottom line is STAY AWAY FROM GODADDY! I don’t care if you are a pro, newbie, or anything in between. Everything about the company is inferior in one way or another. All you need to do is look at the front page of the site, the clutter, the junk, the cheesy graphics. It only gets worse as you dig into it.

    Put it this way, if Godaddy offered me a FREE server cluster with a dedicated support team for life, I would still tell them, NO THANKS! I’m surprised another hosting outfit doesn’t publicly mock them and go after their business the way Verizon slams AT&T for inferior network.

  • http://www.mltgroup.com Eric

    I have had nothing but problems trying to get a mail script working on a godaddy server. They say that you can use PHP’s mail() function with the default settings and it will work. I have that and it fails miserably.

    I have also tried using the PHP Mime Mail class and that doesn’t work either. I get this beyond useful help from the godaddy “tech” who says my code is wrong.

    “If you use the mail() function in your PHP, you do not need to specify an outgoing mail server. If you are using some other method besides mail() in your PHP code, use relay-hosting.secureserver.net for your relay server.”

    I would also need to use authentication with a username and password. Well my client doesn’t host their mail through godaddy so they wouldn’t have a username / password account to authenticate. For cheap hosting we use dreamhost.com, even though you can’t call them, their response time is great, you have a lot of flexibility on the server and no stupid gdform.php files to screw with.

  • http://ihippo.co.uk/ Charlie

    I bought hosting with GoDaddy about 9 months ago, at the time the control panel was SO slow that trying to get to the options was unbearable. I kept putting myself off until a few days ago when I set up a blog on it. I have managed to make ONE post about my guides to writing Python. Unfortunately I am unable to post the first section of my guide as clicking the site-admin link takes too long to load and eventually times out, so I can’t do anything.

    I did tests at my friends house, my 1&1 hosted blog will load for him in 0.23 seconds, not bad, my GoDaddy website will load for him in 24.03 seconds. My friend averages about 14.5MB.

    ALSO: My blog I host at 1&1 has a homepage TWICE the size of my GoDaddy one, completely unacceptable, I will NEVER buy from GoDaddy again.

  • dank

    I talked with GoDaddy support tonight. I’ve been having speed issues since I moved over here. The site is very slow at all times. After moving my forums were invaded by spambots pretty much overnight. Mysterious files would appear in directories. I took the site offline for the last 6 months. A few days ago I upgraded the CMS, patched every bug I could, and brought it back online. One hour later it was down and would not display. I had to search for the answer and edit the sql database. The server changed for some reason. Finally the site is back up and super slow. So slow it’s not even displaying. Tonight someone tries to visit and comments in such a fashion that my poorly coded site is not working. I call support and ask if there is a problem. No, of course there is not a problem they answer. It must be your site. I then ask why I can not view any images in any directory. Oh, I’ll be right back he answers I’m going to my “cloud”, wooh I think to myself maybe he’s gonna talk to Jesus. So he comes back and says it’s a load balancing issue. The server is under high load and will balance out in 24 hours. I tell him it’s been 72 hours. He tells me to upgrade to grid hosting. It solves this mysterious concurrent connection problem that I’ve never experienced, ever. Not even when I hosted it on a cable line in the past. Buyer beware, and yes the interface is a horrible joke. Cpanel please.

  • Greg

    I purchased a godaddy windows shared host about a month ago (the “unlimited” version). Slowest FTP I’ve ever seen hands down. It has taken 13 hours to remove joomla from the system, who knows how long it will take to transfer roundcube.

    Why do they even offer joomla if the execution cap is too low (even when changed in php.ini) to install a ~700kb extension? This usually only takes a couple seconds on my dev server, which is an old athlon mp based server. According to phpinfo, they’re running some decent quad core xeons, so why the hell is the execution time set so low?

    My other gripe is the host control dashboard. After being frustrated with the slow FTP, I attempted to use the dashboard’s file manager to remove what I don’t need. Too my amazement, the file manager only shows whats in the root folder (no sub-directories that are there) and none of the basic functions like DELETE work at all. On 3 different browsers? Come on…

    Their hosting services feel like it’s still in an alpha stage of development. Nothing works the way it’s supposed too; when it does, it takes hours to get anything done. Should have read this article before I ever thought about giving them any money.

  • Greg

    Oh I forgot to mention their security issues. The largest being the password restrictions. They force you to use a 7-14 character, strictly alphanumeric password. Which means if you want to use accented characters or symbols like “%” or “_” you’re crap out of luck. If you’re building an ecommerce site and need a secure database to store customer info, stay away unless you want a negligence lawsuit.

    A 7-14 char alphanumeric password can be brute forced in less than a day, there goes all your customer’s credit card info.

  • Mr X

    I was very happy with their legacy hosting, until I change to their new 4GH hosting. This hosting sucks. Always face database connection problem. The worst that could happen in their legacy hosting is it will be slower to access your site if too many hits coming to your hosting (well.. common things for any shared hosting ), but with their latest 4GH hosting, it’s really really bad, really really sucks.

    Every time I emailed or called, they always couldn’t solve my problem and ending up blaming on my script. Wheres I only use wordpress and standard plugins that were always working when it was with the legacy.

    Frankly the way their support handle my case is very bad. I’ve decided to move to another hosting provider, since I don’t think my years there is at any value to them.

    My advise to whomever plan to take godaddy, DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME & MONEY.

  • Steven

    GoDaddy does have some OK features. I like the easy application manager to install CMS like WordPress and Drupal, but the hosting is really bad. It is so bloody slow uploading things over FTP. my site, http://www.50centsheadphones.com took forever to setup because of the slow upload speeds. It took 5+ minutes to upload a file under 1mb… that is pathetic.

  • Noise

    Well, I’m not surprised to see these responses. I just had my first experience with godaddy web hosting.
    1. Customer service was ok but…
    2. Hosting interface – worst I’ve seen in 6 yrs of design work
    3. $36 extra per year just to have access to CGI – $5 or free on other hosting companies I’ve worked with
    4. Perl mail form script only works if going to email associated with the website – hotmail, gmail, yahoo all return errors – customer service joked that “we have to have some proprietary stuff, eh?” ha ha – not!
    5. Passwords – can’t include special characters
    6. Email – presented as “credits” (weird lingo) – you get one email with 1GB and 5 others at 100mb each. Oh, but you can subdivide those other 5..???
    7. Had to call customer service just to figure out how to set up the email – thanks to the convoluted interface and multiple navigation levels. normally takes a couple of minutes and 2 or 3 clicks.
    8. Did I mention the interface is the least intuitive I’ve seen?
    9. I’ll be moving my client to another hosting company as soon as his year is up.

  • Perrin Samuels

    Bret best expressed on Apr 26, 2010 how I felt about GoDaddy every day that I depended on them. Like many others, I was reluctant to switch to a new hosting service because I didn’t want to spend the time getting things set up. But that all changed when I realized I was spending way, WAY too much time instrumenting my code and inventing new ways of doing things to help diagnose and work around problems GoDaddy was offering almost daily. I swear, EVERY time I tried to develop my Web site, there was a NEW problem.

    I experienced all the problems mentioned above, plus many others. Possibly the most annoying is their “philosophy” of handling problems and treating customers. I had a Web page that would sometimes need to issue many HTTP requests behind the scenes before producing a response. If it had to issue too many, the process would appear to die. I could find no error message or indication of why the process was exiting abnormally. I wasted many precious hours reworking my code. I finally called GoDaddy and was told simply that they do not support script issues. After much persistence, I was finally able to speak with someone in the 2nd tier support group who was able to confirm for me that GoDaddy was killing my process because it was making too many HTTP requests. It was like pulling teeth just to get them to confirm what I suspected: that there was no problem with my script, but rather, that GoDaddy was killing my process. Naturally I was not happy with the resource limit, especially since my account was advertised to include unlimited bandwidth. Even worse was that they couldn’t tell me exactly how much bandwidth I COULD safely use. But what truly ticked me off about this incident is that GoDaddy is happy to simply kill my process when it is consuming too much bandwidth, instead of letting me know somehow, so I can correct the “problem,” …or at least KNOW that there is one. (Because I cached all the data that was successfully fetched before the process was killed, a reload would usually work. So in the end, all I saw appeared to be an intermittent failure sometimes when I visited that Web page.) I had NO IDEA GoDaddy was automatically killing my processes. And they had no intention of informing me. The problem was clearly NOT in my script, but rather on their end. I never pressed them on the promise of “unlimited bandwidth,” because I knew they’d have some squirrelly response, and probably try to upsell me.

    Here’s a few more issues w/ GoDaddy hosting:
    - the web server error logs are not updated immediately, and I think sometimes not at all! plus they’re spread across multiple files, annoyingly
    - email generated in response to form submits (eg: thank you for registering) may sit in the queue for an hour before they are sent
    - email cannot be sent with a popular domain the “from” address (eg: gmail.com, yahoo.com,…)

    The camel that broke the straw’s back came when FTP login started failing about 25% of the time, suddenly around Feb 5. I called and initially got the stock response. Almost every time I call about a problem, they say they need to check with operations, put me on hold, and then claim it is a known issue that they are working on. They are unwilling to open a support ticket with me, or to inform me in any way regarding the status of the problem. How annoying. I’ve never worked with a company that had so many “known problems” all the time. (How can any real work get done!?) The FTP login problem got much worse for a day, failing 100% for a while, and then returned to the 25% failure rate for 3 weeks following. Finally I called them again to get the status and they said the “known issue” they were working on when I called previously had been fixed, and that there must be a problem on my end. NOTHING had changed on my end for 6 months! I’m using the simple standard command-line FTP client that comes with Mac OS X, so when they suggested I fix the problem by using a different FTP client, from a different network, on a different computer, I finally decided it was time to cut my losses. They never did fix the FTP login problem. Clearly they are incapable.

    To anyone who has read this far, I urge you to please CUT YOUR LOSES and switch hosting providers as soon as possible. You will be happier in the end, and it won’t even take very long. As soon as you start setting up an account at another hosting service, and you see how comparably fast, reliable, and well-organized the admin interface is, and when you don’t end up with umpteen windows into the GoDaddy Spaghetti Admin interace, and you’re able to focus on the task at hand without being bombarded by ads for upgrades and additional services you don’t need, and when you can instantly chat with tech support at any hour, and the person you are chatting with actually has some understanding of computers and Web sites and hosting,… well then you will be like me, and wish you had switched sooner.

    If you are planning to switch, please be aware of GoDaddy’s “renewal” gimmick. The “renewal” status for various products is initially set to “auto,” though they don’t mention this, and I think few people notice because it’s buried in the Spaghetti interface. Even after you switch, GoDaddy will retain your credit card info, and continue to charge you for a product when it expires. This happened twice to me. I called them and they immediately reversed the charge without questions. I must imagine this is standard operating procedure. Surely they do this intentionally as a way of making more money from people, even after they leave. Please beware and change the “renewal” option for all your products, setting it to “off,” before you switch away from GoDaddy. This applies to domain names and Web hosting, and I believe other products too like SSL certificates.

    As Steve H. commented on Sept 19, 2010, “I am glad I have not upgraded to anything more expensive because it looks like there is no solution but to go with someone else.” Smart move.

    I agree that you get what you pay for. The problem here is that GoDaddy claims you get so much more than you actually do for your buck. If it were inexpensive AND GoDaddy made clear how poor the service will be (including expertise from customer support), then I wouldn’t have anything to complain about. Well, unless you consider unscrupulous business practices like charging credit cards on canceled accounts something worth complaining about.

  • Victor S

    I had to move as we’ll, from Godaddy hosting basically for
    all the same reasons mentioned above, slow page loads, an
    admin customer panel that is something born out of a man
    convention.

    I think one of the biggest reasons for me was something not
    even touched on in any post above, they query and send
    server emails around once every 10 minutes, so if someone
    signed up for a forum or a contact form, they would not get
    a confirmation until 10 minutes maybe more, even if they
    get that email at all.

    Getting out of Godaddy hosting is a no brainer, Just be
    careful where you go to, make sure your just not simply
    moving to a reseller, that’s hosting with them. there are
    most likely a ton of bad host out of just a few good ones
    on the web these days, the challenge is finding those few good ones out there and spreading the word once you do.

    Victor S

  • Victor S

    My above post should have read “Con man convention”
    this blog needs a temp edit or at least some preview mode

  • http://godaddy.com I hate Godaddy

    I tried to create sub domain last couple of week. Still i could not create sub domain. even its oftenly refreshing page automatically and redirect to another page.. like if u enter http://www.xyz.com … it will automatically create sub folder name on the address bar like http://www.xyz.com/YNshG/ .. dame it

  • http://techygta.com Avner

    Hi,

    I am with have been an inactive customer with GoDaddy for quite a while and I thought that they are a “LARGE” and “GOOD” hosting group.

    Now, I SEE after having my mySQL site loaded and working – that after ten days of good response time – it completely stopped. DB queries which took under two seconds, started timing out or taking between 40 to 45 seconds to preform.

    Does anyone know of a GOOD hosting group?

    Avner

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Hey Avner,

    It depends on what kind of hosting you are after and how much you want to spend.

    This site is hosted with iMountain.com and we use them for a variety of other online apps. They’re really good and solar powered. However, they don’t have a redundant ISP so when their ISP goes down (very unlikely), you will have some downtime.

    In essence, if you can do with 99% uptime, they’re great and I’d recommend them. If you want 100% mission critical, you’ll have to try someone like rackspace etc., but it comes at a premium price. Or you can make your own mirror arrangements in the event of any downtime.

  • aequalsb

    i noticed only one comment from someone who said anything to give me the impression they actually knew what they were talking about – but the rest of you… are know-nothings.

    shared hosting is crap ANYWHERE and EVERYWHERE! if you are trying to get by on a cheap shared hosting package you are ASKING for it. no matter which company you choose.

    if you expect dedicated hosting results from shared hosting for under $20 a month then there is no way in the world to please you. of course, i believe most of you don’t even know the difference between shared and dedicated hosting. so, my words are probably being wasted.

    maybe there are much better choices out there for shared hosting at a price competing with GD. if so, go for it – but it’s still going to be shared hosting. you’re still going to get down time, sluggish responses at times, and MySQL delays – because that is what happens with shared hosting.

    a shared hosting device means you are on a server with MANY other people. who knows what idiots may be making malformed MySQL queries that lock up processes?? and who knows what morons are server up huge video or audio files and eating up bandwidth?? GD can police some of that but not all of it.

    a dedicated server is all yours. you call the shots. you decide how many clients you host on your dedicated server and what happens on it. you get far superior performance from your server. because it is a dedicated server. you also get much better support from GD. and you can get a paid support package for the hand-holding and baby-sitting you all seem to require.

    some of you are even boo-hooing about problems with Perl – MY GOD… Perl???? modernize thyself please… and some of you didn’t even know the difference in data transfer rates in kbps (kilobits per second) vs file trasnfer rates (like some FTP apps show) in Kbps (Kilobytes per second)

    i was with RackSpace for 4 years. they were absolutely amazing – a dream come true. i had to leave them when a principle client sold their company and i lost that gig and could not afford them any longer – and i was very sad to leave them. i give Rackspace a perfect 10 for support and server performance… at $462 per month. i give GD an 8 for dedicated server support and performance… at $115. make your calculations…

    because of GD i was able to continue my hosting service for my clients as a part of my business. this allows me to utilize that server for my own sites and to get a little monthly income from it. thank you GoDaddy !!! :)

    ps: i’ve been through a total of 5 hosting companies in 8 years. ALL the shared environments i experienced were epic fail. when i moved to a dedicated solution with RackSpace, my life was changed. too bad it had to end… but GoDaddy has been a great replacement. get dedicated -or- STFU and take what you’re paying for -or- STFU and find something better and share that here when you do – which i’ve noticed very few of you have offered alternatives…

  • aequalsb

    another quick note…

    bandwidth is how much you can transfer to and from the server

    it does not mean how much processor time you can eat up with exorbitant HTTP processes. GoDaddy kills those AS IT SHOULD to prevent one person from hogging resources so it can TRY to make the shared environment better for all instead of just better for YOU.

  • aequalsb

    if i did have a shared hosting package with GoDaddy, i would PRAY they didn’t allow PHP mail() – my god, who knows how dangerous that could be in the hands of an amateur – they’d have the entire server blacklisted overnight…

    use PHPMailer with SMTP – derp

  • aequalsb

    my last comment for the moment…

    if there is one thing i’ve learned in 7 years of programming – PHP, JavaSCript, MySQL, .htaccess, etc etc… it is this: when things go wrong, LOOK TO YOUR CODE first

    don’t blame the server you’re on, don’t blame PHP or MySQL or the browser. yes, some servers have certain limitations configured for security or homogenized performance and/or a package you need is not installed by default, but 9 out of 10 times i’ve found my code at fault – but then i can correct it instead of being trapped into thinking it’s something else.

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Thanks for all the comments, aequalsb. I’ve used dedicated hosting at GoDaddy too, and I’m afraid it is just as slow as the rest.

    There is far better shared hosting available in the market too – but you get what you pay for. For $2.99 per month, GoDaddy is what you will get and for that money, it is probably worth it.

    Unfortunately, for us, GoDaddy hosting just does not cut it, at any level. I’m happy to use their domain name registration and SSL Cert services though – that is generally good value for money.

  • Perrin

    Dear aequalsb, Have you considered a JOB at GoDaddy!? With your attitude, I think you would fit in perfectly. When people call to report problems, you can simply chide them and claim you “don’t support scripts.” You don’t even need to investigate because at GoDaddy, the customer is always wrong, and needs to be “upselled.”

    Regarding automatic killing of processes consuming too many resources, I agree something like this is necessary in a shared hosting environment. The problem comes when GoDaddy refuses to acknowledge they are doing this, leading the client to BELIEVE it is a “code issue” when, in fact, it is a resource limitation issue. They SHOULD kill your rogue processes, AND they should let repeat offenders KNOW what they are doing. This way, the client can adjust resource usage to help with the overall server load, instead of wasting precious time on red herrings.

  • Augustox

    I’m agree that Godaddy hosting sucks.. let’s start point by point..

    1) If you try to find a Cpanle.. naa, they don’t have one, but you must enter in godaddy.com, login, find product, launch to check a very poor panel.
    2) the panel is a mess.. i’m webmaster for about 10 years and i feel like a noob.. trying to figure where the fuck they put what i need to do..
    3) user and password.. so i have a U/P for the godaddy site, Another for the mysql , and wait all depends on which site.. so in some point i don’t know what the fuck is happening..
    4) Preinstalled apps.. Finally after 5 hours trying to figure how to install a stupid Joomla, i found the holy button.. Install Joomla! voila!! i clicked, and seems all it’s running.. but hey! they installed joomla 1.6, actually.. there’s no plugin or mod for that Joomla.. so i need joomla 1.5..
    5) Installing joomla 1.5 manually.. Uploaded all through ftp. ok. after that i clicked on /installation/
    ok! next next next… this is the best part..
    Enter the mysql hostname, username, password and databasename..

    Don’t expect to add localhost in your hostname..
    There’s a tutorial where to find which is your hostname..

    For those searching and searching…here is the link..
    http://help.godaddy.com/article/39?locale=en

    After following this stupid “tutorial”
    you will find your hostname is sort of..

    bbr1142124648151038.db.71866683.hostedresource.com

    Nice Hostname..
    But wait! this will be better and better..

    The and the username??
    Admin? Host? Root? the Godaddy login username??
    And the password????

    ok.. if you find which one is the right one?
    You will find this!!
    Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL

    so here i am.. spending time trying to install a %!##%! joomla on this crappy hosting service..

    But HEY! you have girls with huge plastic boobs on the cover!

    Don’t waste your time.. choose another hosting services..
    You will win time, and mental health..

    Sorry if my english is not cool.. but i think you will understand my point..

  • Augustox

    HAA! and my last sentence…

    Googling “goddady hosting worst” gave me this site on the first place.. the sad thing is i did not search it first!!

    :(

  • MikeL

    FTP with Godaddy shared hosting is like being back on 28K dial-up. You cannot get or put more than one file at a time without the connection hanging. The FTP connection is forever timing out and when you are lucky enough to get a connection it is like being back on a dial-up connection. SLOW, SLOW, SLOW. Godaddy needs to invest less in sleezy Super Bowl commercials and invest more into web hosting that actually works! Right now I’m currently “Waiting for server…” yet again!!! “Operation timed out. Cancelling…”

  • Mohit Anand

    Without any iota of doubt, GOdaddy hosting is the worst. My sites on their Virtual server have been going down almost every 2 days for 2-3 hrs. The DNS service stops on its own. Everytime I talk to their support staff, they ask me to take their expert advice which costs $100 an hr I think. They are all so stupid and money suckers.

    Never go with Godaddy hosting.

  • Prashant Ugdughbur

    100% true. I have godaddy hosting and believe me it’s a piece of shit. Don’t buy that, slow and security mode==paranoid.
    And best of all – Help line. – Some proud US citizens talking to you like to some idiot just because you don’t have US pronunciation/accent.

    DON’T BUY GODADDY. They are worthless .

  • Babyfacemagee

    Godaddy is flat out the suckiest webhosting I’ve experienced. I have a few forums that only get maybe 100-200 a day and yet at least once a week a whole day goes by where I literally have to hit ‘reload’ on my browser 20 times before the site will come up because the shared hosting is so damn slow. Of course if you call them and ask them what’s going on they try and blame you…even if you haven’t even touched the site and it was working fine the day before. Godaddy servers are simply overloaded and the staff is under paid and under trained. It’s the webhosting equivalent of kmart. Low price but crap quality. In the past 6 weeks I’ve literally had to call customer support EIGHT times because my hosting account was so slow and unreachable for a day or more that you couldn’t even reach a site unless you sat there and hit reload for a half hour…and then it would only half come up. Totally amateur hour at Godaddy. Stay way…you’ll just get frustrated and waste your money. There’s a reason it’s cheap…because it’s crap.

  • http://www.ovaltech.ca Mr Hayman

    My dealings with Godaddy have been much more eloquently expressed by the 86 other comments above, not including the GoDaddy employee who obviously lives under a large stone.

    I think it goes like this:

    Godaddy Sucks.

  • http://topcrickethighlights.com jame

    one of my websites hosting on godaddy.i am losing my business day by day if main page of website opens after million years..who will fuck himself open my website hosting on godaddy.could you guys please suggest me another hosting server…i had alreadt wasted 100 dollars for hosting plan of loser godaddy

  • yandos

    well, I have to admin – i’ve never seen such a bad hosting service as godaddy…
    I have a VPS there, with one website. On my development server (not local, its remote) the website opens at about 3-5 seconds…
    On godaddy VPS, which is supposed to be more powerful, it opens in about 15-20.

    Of course when I ask them, they say its the code…
    So either:
    1) they lie.
    2) I have a magical development server which can do what no other server can…
    I’ll let you be the judge of that….

    My word of advice… don’t go there…

  • http://none giveup

    I bought shared hosting yesterday with a domain name.
    Installed wordpress. “Pending” installation, setting database, setting application etc etc. I never had to put up with such “notifications”. Finally finished. Went in to wordpress, created some posts. Requests took forever (7-10seconds) for a wordpress page. Added more posts. Compared performance with another hosting with EXACTLY the same content. One took 2-3s, no timeout. Godaddy’s took 7 to forever, with timeouts, and redirection crap e.g. mydomain.com/pub turns into mydomain.com/vf343/pub. Corresponded with support staff, given canned messages + a lot of upselling e.g. dedicated IP$$, SSL$$, virtual server$$$. Amazing! Asked for refund the next day. Thanks for the ride. A sure bumpy one.

  • J

    I am on day 8 of trying to set up a website with GoDaddy hosting, not counting a weekend. As of now I still cannot access that website. I am working past a deadline that has already been pushed forward and which we are now going to still be late on.

    To summarize, GoDaddy’s support is as quick as possible to get you off the phone, and has no idea what the next-step in any resolution is. They will get you off the phone waiting for e-mails that are never going to be sent, or tell you to go to URLs which will never work. They very simply do not know what they are talking about.

    I work for a company that designs webpages for small businesses. We were given a project to re-design someones website.

    I started out trying to move a domain name from one GoDaddy account to another. I was told this would be an easy process as it’s just from account to account. No, I would not be charged anything, and it would only take about an hour.

    We were going to do the domain transfer after, but all of GoDaddy’s hosting solutions REQUIRE you have the domain name on the account or you cannot set them up. We were trying to set up a Quick Shopping Cart and a WordPress Blog, and neither would finish the setup process because the domain name was not on the account. The entire process will not work until the domain is in the account. We are stalled.

    When I actually went to transfer this domain name, it turned out to be more complicated than originally projected. For starters, I am on a reseller account. The company I work for has set one up so they make a small amount of money for the webhosting space they sell. On GoDaddy, reseller accounts are technically under a different Domain Controller, “WildWestDomains”.

    What they do not tell you is that support for WildWestDomains is the same support as GoDaddy. It’s literally the same people. However they do not let their technicians admit this. If a call comes in from a reseller account, they have to pretend like they have no idea how GoDaddy ‘works’, can’t admit they’re GoDaddy and speak vaguely about how GoDaddy will handle things on their end. Even though they are GoDaddy and are the exact same people.

    While this is still GoDaddy, WildWestDomains is technically a separate company for liability reasons. So the domain actually had to be transferred, which then cost us money. Fine, okay, that’s complicated but it extends the domain name for another year so it’s not so bad.

    The first tech I spoke to said he was adding the domain transfer to our account and that an E-Mail was being sent, right now, to the Account Manager on the ‘losing’ side of the transfer. That’s our client. The client had to be called so we could get this authorization number from him so we could start the transfer. We were told this was all we would need.

    For starters, no e-mail was sent. We lost a day on this, while he tried to find it. I called another technician. It turns out no e-mail was sent. We have to purchase the transfer, and THEN an e-mail gets sent. I ask if we’ll need anything else, they give me a vague “it depends on the losing domain and how they handle things” and they spend 10 minutes denying they’re GoDaddy and know EXACTLY what the ‘losing’ domain will do in this specific situation.

    Okay fine, we purchase the transfer and we bug our client again to forward this e-mail. It takes them a few hours to get back to the office and forward this e-mail to us. Okay. By the time we enter in the authorization codes, it’s in the evening. The account says ‘pending transfer’ and we decide to wait for it and check back the next day.

    It is now day three, and I make my fourth phonecall. The domain has still not transferred. It still says ‘pending’ in the account. I call again. I am told that the previous tech was incorrect, and that YET ANOTHER e-mail has been sent to our client to ‘confirm’ this transfer, and this is why things are held up. I am told this e-mail will contain a link to accept the transfer and that all I have to do is click on this link. I call our client. They are setting up for a concert, in the rain, and will not be back to their office until very late. They cannot forward us anything until late into the evening.

    I get these forwarded e-mails on the morning of day 4. None of them contain any links to anything. I make a fifth phonecall. The previous tech was incorrect, and there is no link being e-mailed. Instead, we need to log into the clients account and accept the transfer from there. We could have done this yesterday and not hassle our client yet another time. Every single time I call, the technician I speak to does not know what the next step is and leaves us waiting for nothing.

    I log into this account, which we have the information for. I accept the transfer. I am told it can take a few hours but it should be ready ‘soon’. We spend day 4 trying to set up the WordPress account and the Quick Shopping cart. Both do not work, at all. They say the domain name is already in use. The domain name shows up in our account, but is inaccessible to use to set up products. We assume it is still transferring.

    The morning of day 5 we stop assuming and call a sixth time. It turns out that while the domain is in our account, and we should have full control over it, it is ‘linked’ to another GoDaddy account and thus we cannot do anything to it. This other account is the client’s previous account. Why it did not remove this ‘link’ when we did the transfer is not explained to me. We remove this ‘link’ and I am told it should be ready in ‘another couple of hours’.

    It is not done by end-of-day. We come back the following Monday finally able to access the domain name that is in our account. We set this up, but it is ‘pending DNS change’. This is day 6, not counting the weekend. We are due to show the client some progress to the design changes this afternoon. We still do not even have access to the account. Day 6, call 7. I am told that it can take up to 48 hours for a server to go live. I ask, when it is live, can I use this IP address I see here to access it? I am told yes. We can FTP into the IP address and see the files for wordpress, but when we enter the IP address into a browser we get a 404. I am told it is because the server is still setting up and that once it is set up we will be able to use that IP address to view the site.

    We spend day 7 refreshing the site, waiting for it to go up. We were told it could take up to 48 hours. I have been calling support frequently so I decide to be patient. By the end of day 7 the site is still not working by that IP address.

    At the beginning of day 8 the site is still not functioning. It is Wednesday. Our due date for showing design changes has been pushed to today, and we still do not have access to our server. I call again, now the 8th phonecall to technical support. I am told that the previous tech was incorrect, and that the IP address listed will not resolve into the website. I will need to set up a preview DNS in order to view it. This could have been done 2 days ago but the tech said the site was still being set up. The previous tech told me I could view it by the IP address that was already listed. The previous tech was wrong. The preview DNS should take ‘a couple of hours’. I have heard ‘a couple of hours’ quite a few times before. I’m still waiting for the preview DNS.

    Every single time I call, the technician is entirely incorrect about what my next step should be and what I can do right now to get this website working. I always ask ‘What is my next step, what am I waiting for, what is my expectation.’ Everytime I am told to wait for incorrect details. They are as quick as possible to get me off the phone and waiting for a solution that will not come because it is entirely incorrect.

    On two separate occasions, I asked for a manager. I have never spoken to one.

    If this was my project, I would have demanded a refund by now. I am just a designer; I do not get to make those decisions. But under my own power, I will never use GoDaddy hosting for any reason ever again. Their support is terrible and always leaves me waiting for things that will not happen.

    I can only hope that now, finally, within a few hours, I should be able to preview this server. However given that every time I called there has been some missed ‘next step’, I am fully expecting to still not see this website by friday.

    Do not use GoDaddy hosting for any reason.

  • Chris

    GoDaddy is the worst. I’ve had domains with them, no issue – So fair is fair in that respect. BUT their hosting is the worst I have ever come across in my fucking life!

    The GoDaddy employee a few posts up is talking absolute shite. I’ve used Shared Hosting with many companies for a good 12 years, all issues have been minimal; With all companies being noticeably superior to GoDaddy.

    I will be demanding a refund tomorrow, 2 days into my contract.

    Fuck you GoDaddy, and everything your shit company stands for.

  • Robin

    So then what is a GOOD website hosting company in all ways, including MySQL??? Any recommendations?

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    @Robin – try imountain.com

  • http://www.markellison.me/ Mark

    Awesome write-up — and love the Isr/Pal analogy at the end. :)
    Three years on from writing this, are you still using iMountain?
    Also, do you happen to know if GoDaddy has improved significantly in any of the weak points you’ve called out here?

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Hi Mark, yes, still using iMountain.com. In fact, they now have a few dedicated servers hosted for us + some cluster based hosting. Asifism.com is also hosted with iMountain.
    GoDaddy hasn’t really improved much in my opinion. To be fair, I haven’t tried hosting anything with them in a couple of years, but their domain management interface has become more cluttered than before and is much slower. In fact, now they charge you to make to amend DNS records of the domain after a certain point, which I think is absolutely ridiculous. But then they do offer the largest variety of TLDs, which can make it easier to manage domain names if you have plenty to deal with.

  • Blackvine

    godaddy suck big time

  • Chandan K

    Go daddy is indeed full of shit. I had taken a shared hosting. The ftp doesnt work at all. I had also installed joomla. Joomla home page works 5 out of 20 times rest it gives error 500. joomla /administrator works 5 out of 50 times and actually working on joomla never happened for me.
    When you email the support they will blame it on your service provider and they cannot answer why service provider has issues with only my website. Ths Support is TOtaly CLUELESS and they just do not want to investigate the issue. ONE SHOULD NOT GO WITH GODADDY FOR WEBHOSTING atleast. Should rather take a static ip and host website from your home that will still be better.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AP7PQJ6YIYCLOMSW7KQNYBH5PQ Ash

    Pending Setup is driving me nuts on GoDaddy!  Its like you take a step forward while walking then you have to rest for five minutes.  I actually wrote a letter to Bob Parsons,this is the first time, I have never heard from a corporate office in response to my complaint.  I guess he is busy with his GoDaddy gals.

     

  • T Rapinoe

    i may be way off base but my experience is the complete opposite.  hosting is cheap, customer service has always been great for me, my site is never down or fails to allow access.  my only gripe is the pending when updating or installing applications.  Other than that have had exactly zero issues with go daddy over 5 or 6 years of use. im using joomla on one site and have had zero errors with installations or login attempts.  i have to say this is one of the most surprising things i have ever come across while google searching

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Glad to hear someone’s had a good experience – because most of us have not!

  • A concerned one!

    I have developed my new website to launch this past Sept 1st, 2011 at Godaddy.com.  We tranfered our domain and hosting over to Godaddy.com.  Domain is fine, but hosing has been nothing but lag lag lag.  Its nice having godaddy support, but hey just turn things around and say its your issue everything looks fine on our end.  After numerous calls from this issue their advanced sysadmin finally admitted to seeing our issue and will research the problem.  Our site should only take no more than 2 seconds to load and maneuver from page to page.  Sometimes its lightening fast, other times a few minutes, and yet others internal server errors post.  Our site has been gone through with a fine tooth comb and we know the site is running optimally.  My hunch is that there is an issue between their hosting servers and the MySQL server that creates our lag time now and then.  Hopefully this ticket will resolve it, but I dont have my hopes set too high since I have made dozens of calls and nobody has a clue whats going on at GoDaddy in my opinion!!!!  I do virtualization for a living and its not that hard!!!

  • Rsr

    So who do you recommend buying a url from?

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Most domain TLDs are still OK with GoDaddy, I’d say. Hosting – not recommended.

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Most domain TLDs are still OK with GoDaddy, I’d say. Hosting – not recommended.

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Most domain TLDs are still OK with GoDaddy, I’d say. Hosting – not recommended.

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Most domain TLDs are still OK with GoDaddy, I’d say. Hosting – not recommended.

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Most domain TLDs are still OK with GoDaddy, I’d say. Hosting – not recommended.

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Most domain TLDs are still OK with GoDaddy, I’d say. Hosting – not recommended.

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Most domain TLDs are still OK with GoDaddy, I’d say. Hosting – not recommended.

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Most domain TLDs are still OK with GoDaddy, I’d say. Hosting – not recommended.

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Most domain TLDs are still OK with GoDaddy, I’d say. Hosting – not recommended.

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Most domain TLDs are still OK with GoDaddy, I’d say. Hosting – not recommended.

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Most domain TLDs are still OK with GoDaddy, I’d say. Hosting – not recommended.

  • Anonymous

    Please don’t buy godaddy hosting i am expert in web development and i have faced so many problem if you asked customer support about this problem then they will reply you with some foolish answer please don’t choose godaddy take my word seriously.

  • Anonymous

    Please don’t buy godaddy hosting i am expert in web development and i have faced so many problem if you asked customer support about this problem then they will reply you with some foolish answer please don’t choose godaddy take my word seriously.

  • Anonymous

    Pending setup will take some time… Godaddy has really improved..after 2010 .. I use Godaddy… Its pretty good. The customer services replies within the same day. or you can just call them.. directly..

  • Hercules

    Yo, peoplz! I don’t care how good your developing skills are. I just know you are a shitty developers and stupid arrogant cunts.

    I have 50 clients on GD.

    1. Never had problem, coz I learned that you have to take  Deluxe Service from GD not the cheap one economy!

    2. If you cannot setup Joomla on GD or any other host without problems you are an IDIOT! Go to school, learn! 

    3. Stop blaming someone else for your own mistakes. 

    4. Try to get deluxe hosting or upgrade to it (spent few more $ a year more) . You be happy.

  • Jonakiwi

     FTP no problem at all, only thing sucks is Godaddy has stopped their free hosting. Other issue is Godaddy buggers off with your expired domain and hang it out for silly prices, not much of an issue if it is a short term gripe site because you can buy a new domain name with a slight name difference. 

  • Whatthefrick

    You people are strange.  I agree with Hercules.  Get smart or stay out of the web biz.  I have one step above economy hosting and I have NO problems.  Why?  Cause I know what the heck I am doing!
    Technology is not going to change your underwear or wash the dishes for you…. for Pete’s sake!  You just have to get used to the system.

  • Whywouldyou

    As with most services, some folks will have good a experience while others will not.  I have utilized many hosting providers in support of my clients, so I can safely say that I had no axe to grind with GoDaddy.  That being said, if you have managed a site on BlueHost, iXwebHosting or any number of solid hosting providers using cPanel or Plesk, you will absolutely pull your fucking hair out with GoDaddy.  Not to mention they nickel and dime you to death for things that other providers include with their hosting.

    The bottom line is that if you have one provider who has good pricing, a good reputation go with them, if you are considering GoDaddy’s then considering eating from McDonalds every day of your life…they do a great job marketing, the food is acceptable in small doses, but if you try to live off of it…it will kill you.  So goes the story with GoDaddy…never seen a hosting company get so much bad press, bad reviews and outright hate…why would anyone take a chance after reading this?

  • TheOldMan

    ARVIXE (you can add the .com) is what you are all looking for. Being in the business since TLD’s were offered for free (yes, they once were!), I can tell you there is no better hosting seller on the market. Got a problem? Click to chat and REAL technician will bring up his gooey and help you find out what you have done wrong, fix it, and then thank you afterwards! I have been with more than 20 of the top names out there, and while some of them were good some of the time, Arvixe is great all of the time.
     
    I’m semi-retired now and have dwindled my customer base to around 2,000 or so small to medium size businesses and only two programmers on staff out of large home office. I have a few of their $99/year reseller packages and two VPS accounts, all on different servers and follow the customer trends, business models and past and present traffic histories to determine what server to put them on. We have done everything you can think of on these servers, and hosted thousands of customers, from one-page Mom & Pop brochure sites, to full blown financial institutions and cell phone companies without a glitch.
     
    Do we use all the features they have? Nah… but then again, a real design firm never does. But for all the newcomers, just about anything you need or can ever want is in their lightning fast cPanel, just a click away. Are you a coder? Their servers are a coders dream… you have access to everything you need, any way you want, period.
     
    GoDaddy is now and always has been a rip-off, that’s just the fact of the matter. There are NO real programmers who I know that use GoDaddy, and I have subbed out thousands of jobs to hundreds of coders over the years.

    Oh, and by the way, all you little kids out there with the foul mouths and condescending attitudes? Grow up, it just makes your credibility somewhere in the area of zero - If you don’t like something, say so, you have that right, but at least try to be considerate and offer constructive opinions to others who are really looking for help.

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Thanks, Old Man. We’ll check out ARVIXE. 

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Because it’s cheap, my friend. People will do anything (no matter how stupid it is) to save money. Of course, many are just misinformed and gullible, but isn’t that what capitalism is all about: misinformation!

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    LOL, that’s a little harsh. I used to run more than one dedicated server with GoDaddy. The dedicated servers are fine, but with others offering better service, there is no reason to go with them.

    The Deluxe service, I’m sorry, did suck. It depends on how much traffic you and your clients get. This site used to run on GoDaddy’s Deluxe and then Ultimate or equivalent at the time plan and it choked thrice a day. 35 MB downloads always got timed out. So we had to switch.

    I agree, there is definitely user error, but not everyone who’s posting here is a newbie.

  • http://besttvsforgaming.blogspot.com/ Best tv s for gaming

    couldnt agree more.  ive been using bluehost for a while now.

  • no-more-gd

    i just purchased a deluxe godaddy account and agreed its useless,its far too slow and keeps dropping out.
    ive been with them for just over a week just setting up a new site to transfer to another server and i was going to move my forum over to gd but not a chance after experiencing it.
    im currently hosting my forum on unitedhosting .co.uk and although not megga cheap they have been 100% reliable and customer service is outstanding.
    i would like a package thats a little cheaper though.

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  • Asdasda

    I agree and it looks like godaddy wrting on forums and swearing to people

  • Scottzozer

    Just had my first real issue with GoDaddy! Up until now, I have never had an issue… Most service calls have been extremely helpful and maybe I was just lucky and got the smart tech working there to put himself through a computer science degree!  I digress, this is the tale of the bad business practices.

    Everyone that does development knows to always maintain a default install file.  This contains things that are extremely basic and normally come with every fresh hosting package!  So I was doing some drupal development and did not really worry about the files that came with my hosting package.  I ended up trashing what I was doing because I was getting pissed and wanted to start fresh.  I FTP-ed with Filezilla and selected all files and deleted.  Well that was a mistake. 

    First I e-mailed support and asked about getting all the files re-loaded.  They gave me so BS about re-installing some mail scripts.  Tried their suggestions and nothing came of it.  Today I called and asked a tech to re-install the files and he said there is no way to do that.  I then asked for a list of files that comes with a fresh hosting and again “there is no such list!”

    Now as a hosting business, don’t you think you should be maintaining an accessible file structure for each of their hosting plans.  The files have to be populated from somewhere, they do not just appear out of thin air!

    His suggestion was for me to pay $10 to buy a new hosting plan and then transfer the year I had over to it, basically would yield me like 12 “free” days of hosting but forcing me to buy the full priced month!

    My solution, buy a separate month of hosting.  Let it resolve to a domain (luckily I have one sitting around that I ended up never using). Copy all the files in the root directory (now i will keep a copy forever on a flash drive or something) and Paste them into my other hosting plan.  Final step, finish this within 5 days to get a full refund of my new hosting plan and not get charged for something that should be a default ability by end users, if not at least the damn tech department. 

    I will still use GoDaddy, but will be researching new hosting possibilities.  I currently run a development server on an old crap dell latitude on a dynamic home ip address. Its funny because its kinda faster then GoDaddy, but then again I only have at max my personal traffic to and from on a plan of 30 down 5 up!!

    Any suggestions to a hosting plan, I want to sell hosting space to my clients to get them a discount and myself some money!?!?

  • Julio Saenz

    hi all i also hate phpMyAdmin’s interface so i decided i built a new MySQL manager like the MySQL query browser. please if you have a change can you give it a try 
    github ->https://github.com/sucaritas/MyXQuery
    LIVE DEMO -> http://www.farfile.com/Demos/MyXQuery/
    it works like the MySQL query Browser (ctrl+enter to execute a query)
    you can right click on the tree for other things too.

  • Kalbasa2000

    godaddy is shittttt hosting

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUPNSD4CWRZ5PUNVOGWN2ESAM4 Jav

    i hate godaddy, i switched my hosting to the windows plan from the linux plan because the windows plan supports php as well as asp.net, however, you need access to the web.config file. i go looking for it, well its not there. i create one and it causes a internal error. i email them and say its not their problem. .

  • Scoundr3l

    So, you were having this many problems and you stayed with them for 5 years? You’re either lying or an idiot. Maybe both.

  • Scoundr3l

    3 years* whatever

  • http://www.facebook.com/rprivalov Ruslan Privalov

     first i registered in godaddy after read i cancel my account fuc… daddy
    i try host  my site  http://cpaleadreward.com   its file sharing site





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