Here’s an insightful review on Godaddy from a client of mine and pretty much sums up what I hear from everyone:
After hosting my ecommerce site with godaddy for 4 years I’m dumping them. I’ve been experiencing site outages due to overloaded database servers, lost email, and overall just bad service and support.
Technical support does respond quickly; however, their fist level support technicians only have canned scripts to work from and it’s frustrating to continually hear that the problem is with my website code, which has not changed in 2 years.
Godaddy support has told me that the lost emails are my fault. After arguing with them for 2 weeks they finally figured out that all of my company email was being routed incorrectly. They fixed that problem, but now there are times when it takes 24+ hours to receive an email generated by customers from my website.
It took me over a month to get support to look into the database server timeout problems. Finally I called and got someone who was able to validate that the database connection was timing out from my website (and costing me sales).
I was told that another customer was consuming all available server cycles and that nothing could be dome about it unless I moved to dedicated hosting (for a very large fee).
I was also told that part of the my timeout problem was caused by me being a customer for so long that my website was on a very old, slow server and should move to one of the newer servers; once again, for a rather large fee. Nice to see that GoDaddy values their long term customers (that’s sarcasm by the way).
So I decided to purchase virtual dedicated hosting; but after 2 weeks decided to cancel because I could not spend 12 hours a day trying to get the server configured (they preconfigure nothing).
Sure GoDaddy is cheap, but if you plan on growing your ecommerce business, you’d be better off hosting with top level hosts like StartLogic or IX Web Hosting.
Hi, I've been a webmaster for many years and have experience with many of the top web hosting providers out there. I have thoroughly reviewed and rated the
wish i had researched godaddy first. poor web
hoster to say the least far more worried about
my credit card expiring than my site go away
godaddy.
Go Daddy is a SCAM! They automatically set you up for a recurring charge and when I had found such an unsolicited charge on my bank statement, I called their customer service dept. The agent could not tell me what it was for, so I had my bank refuse the charge. Then, without warning or explanation, Go Daddy blocked my website because they had the domain, and told me I had to pay a FIFTY DOLLAR ($50!) charge to get the site back!!!! I spoke to Dustin in “Team Magenta” who just defended their policy and offered nothing to me.
GoDaddy:
1. Very slow Hosting servers
2. Poorly trained support staff
3. Incompetent management
4. Unethical sales tactics
5. Will update your credit card expiration date in order to auto bill your account.
6. GD owns Standard Tactics, co in New Mexico, in order to grab domains of value when they expire.
7. Created their own Redemption policy in order to then sell your domain on tdnam.com. Ask them about “Status 77″…
8. Becoming a giant of their industry and will become more obtrusive and aggressive against domain owners.