Comments on: Hosting on GoDaddy

By: sphinx

sphinx — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:45:58 +0000

Godaddy support is a nightmare, my site has been down for 27 hours now and it is still down, I am unable to connect to my database. i am being told that it may take between 24 and 72 hours for the tech support to look at your ticket, and if there is nothing they can do to resolve it it would take 7 to 10 business days to restore my hosting account. right now i am just waiting for the issue to get fixed so i can move my site to a different hosting company, I am losing client every minute that goes by, and they havent shown any concern about the issue. I would not suggest godaddy to anybody, stay away people

By: sandy

sandy — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:18:16 +0000

Luke, I’ve been hosting with them for a couple of years now, and have had very few problems. My websites are fairly low traffic, however; I think that there would be problems if it were higher. I know that there’s problems with using WordPress Super Cache on GoDaddy (although there is also a workaround) so if my traffic spiked I’d have no way to avoid the outages. Fortunately, my business blog traffic is primarily via RSS feed, which is not impacted by GoDaddy’s server performance.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:28:00 +0000

GoDaddy is a nightmare. Aviod! They oversell their servers to the max and really don’t care. I’ve seen this happen to my company and to several others that I know. Go ahead and sign up for their service; you’ll come to know what I’m talking about very soon.

By: sandy

sandy — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:09:07 +0000

Lorence, can you specifically suggest some alternatives, and why they’re better? I’m finding GoDaddy okay for my needs right now, which is hosting multiple domains under a single account, most of which are running WordPress.

By: Lorence

Lorence — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:42:30 +0000

GoDaddy is one of the worst hosts you can use, Any experienced webmaster can tell you that. You can get 10 times better hosting for the price, just do some research. Best!

By: James

James — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:23:13 +0000

Thanks for explaining the set up for the domain hosting, as I have been going around in circles trying to figure out how to set this up. As I want to host several other domains from within the deluxe hosting platform. So from what you say that I need to set up dummy account (one that I don’t use as the primary), got a little confused on the faking out stuff.

By: sandy

sandy — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:38:32 +0000

I don’t use them for email, only for site hosting. There’s been a few glitches with the WordPress installation, but overall not bad. I’m sure that there are many better hosting companies, but for the relatively small amount of traffic that I get on my site, they’re okay. Also very economical since I can host multiple domains under a single account.

By: Francisco L

Francisco L — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:11:06 +0000

Best Hosting? No… The worst website hosting is Godaddy. Their hosting services are the complete opposite of their registrar services. They have very unusual restrictions in plans (like a limit of 1000 e-mails sent per day in a DEDICATED SERVER, lol). These restrictions are hidden in it’s “sales technics”. The support is very slow, take more than 24 hours to answer questions. No guarantee, no refundable, no respect, no shame to provice a deficient service. They win money with it’s hosting services lying to customers. It’s probabbly an outsourced service. Terrible. Flee from its host services!!

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By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:49:17 +0000

I have been using Godaddy for two years now. I had to call tech support for the first time the other day for an issue with FTP and it turned out that it was my router that was the problem. The tech support guy asked me if there was any particular reason I was wasting money on two deluxe hosting plans when I was never anywhere near the disk space or bandwidth limits. I told him I was hosting two domains and he told me how to set it up on one account. He then issued a refund for 22 months of hosting. I have never seen a company do this. I was very impressed!