Comments on: Hosting on GoDaddy

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!

By: sandy

sandy — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:23:34 +0000

Never used Contribute.

You can move files with the (fairly) new file manager utility, but it’s not very good.

By: pei

pei — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:23:58 +0000

I find that Contribute will often hang up or upload the files to my Godaddy account very slowly. But usually I can try again and it works the next time.

The most frustrating thing is not being able to move files around… it drives me crazy!

By: sandy

sandy — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:41:39 +0000

I had a few sporadic problems with MySQL timing out when viewing WordPress entries, but that seems to have gone away. I don’t do large downloads from my site, it’s mostly to host WordPress, so haven’t noticed any other issues.