Using GoDaddy hosting? - DPChallenge Forums

12/10/2004 02:48:48 PM · #1

Anyone have any downsides to using GoDaddy for web hosting? Their $3.95/month hosting deal sounds great -- just want to be sure there are no "gotchas" before I sign on...

Neil

Fujifilm X-T30

12/10/2004 02:54:27 PM · #2

I use them for URL registration, and I have to say, while I like the price and the general tool, I find their adware based, sell-you, sell-you approach a downsidde. I don't know if they found a way to carry that over to their hosting.

What control panel do they use? What does it offer in terms of preinstalled scripts (I personally like CPanelX, and combined with Fantastico, it gives you a quick and easy way to get PHP software installed).

You might also consider SolidInternet. Very cheap, nice control panel, fantastico, etc. Performance is fine. Amount of space is great. Price is cheap. If you don't need and aren't expecting support, I recommend it.

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

12/10/2004 02:58:10 PM · #3

They don't put ads on their hosting clients' sites, do they? If so, that would shoot it down for me right there. I haven't seen anything that says they do this...?

All I need is a simple FTP site for a simple web site. They have PHP, which is really the only thing I'll need... and I could actually live without that.

cpurser

Canon EOS-5D

12/10/2004 02:59:55 PM · #4

I use the $3.95 plan by GoDaddy. It is great. I don't get any of the adware stuff that nshapiro talks about. I've never noticed and downtimes, the site seems quick. I give them a thumbs up.

Chad

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

12/10/2004 03:04:04 PM · #5

Cool... thanks for the review!

Originally posted by cpurser:

I use the $3.95 plan by GoDaddy. It is great. I don't get any of the adware stuff that nshapiro talks about. I've never noticed and downtimes, the site seems quick. I give them a thumbs up.

Chad

kosmikkreeper

Nikon D300s

12/10/2004 03:18:55 PM · #6

I purchase URLs there and have a few forwared to oter URls and I've NEVER had down time from them. CS is prompt and to the point. NOthing negative to say. :-)

LindaLee

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

12/10/2004 03:25:15 PM · #7

I have 9 domain names and 1 website there, and NO complaints at all. They've been great, no downtime, no ads. Great value.

Prof_Fate

12/10/2004 03:34:49 PM · #8

I recently swithced to them for URL registration and forwarding - I can say that everytihg is great, and they are CHEAP. I was with DomainDirect (part of tucows i think) and they are very good also, but lots mo money - I got 5 years of registration at GoDaddy vs 1 at Domaindirect. All I lost was the email capability (blahblah@mydomin.com) but no loss there as i didn't use it.

I get no ads. The actual site files are on my broddband provider as I get 25 Mb or some such per user, and 7 users for my $44 a month.

If you have an old PC lying about you can use it to host a site via XP, Win98, Me and linux. I have used the XP and 98 methods. Works fine. Probably have a limit on bandwidth capacity, but then bandwidth does cost money. You could have very secure data that way though - but then you might be more open to hacking. I had my web server behind my firwall, and a linksys firewall router is now under $50, so you could run your server form behind it's own firewall. A friend of mine is running multiple routers for this purpose.

12/10/2004 03:38:35 PM · #9

Well, good good good... thanks for the comments! I just hit the Big Button to make the purchase, so I'm now an official GoDaddy customer.

12/10/2004 03:40:53 PM · #10

Originally posted by bestagents:

If you have an old PC lying about you can use it to host a site via XP, Win98, Me and linux.

I've toyed with that before a bit, but Verizon DSL doesn't give me a static IP, and I found that it's still a bit slower than I'd prefer. If just a couple people were on the site at once, I'm sure it would be painfully slow (more so if I'm trying to do something). So I'll pay the $3 a month :)

Prof_Fate

12/10/2004 03:43:58 PM · #11

When i did it, and my friend, we use no-ip.com - they have a client that will poll for the IP address and update the referrer when it changes.

you can always mix and match things - many places charge a lot for secure server or other specific features - you can have them or very easily updated files on your home PC/server - easy to update or in my firnd's case, it is database driven and the pages are written on the fly as opposed to a static HTML page. My pages are static.

Neil

Fujifilm X-T30

12/10/2004 03:46:39 PM · #12

I didn't mean ads on your website, that would be really low class.

I meant ads/shovelware on any control panel forms or management forms to manage your website.

I don't know that they do that, but they DO DO it (yes, like doo doo) when you register a new URL.

Do you want to add this... or this.. or this.. or this... to your order...

Right.

Message edited by author 2004-12-10 15:47:05.

12/10/2004 03:48:09 PM · #13

Originally posted by nshapiro:

I meant ads/shovelware on any control panel forms or management forms to manage your website.

Welp, I won't be using 99% of those tools anyway, so they can fire away :)

I do appreciate the heads-up, nonetheless...

Message edited by author 2004-12-10 15:49:08.

Prof_Fate

12/10/2004 03:49:07 PM · #14

I was a bit annoyed at the ad this ad this ad this bit, but it is a way of selling add ons, and well, that is how the world goes round. If it keeps the name registration cheap for me, i'm OK with it.

Jinjit

12/10/2004 04:14:43 PM · #15

I have 4 domain names registered with GoDaddy but no hosting plan there.
I can tell you that their customer service is wonderful and I am very happy there.

My host is //www.1dollarhostingonly.com
I don't think that they are the best or the cheapest, but they do have a Unlimited web-space plan. And for that I am willing to pay!
Their current prices are around 55$/year, which is about 4.5$/mo.
When I first registered the price was 45$/year, and I think that I could get this price for any new account if you'd like me to try.
They also support any (or almost any) foreign domains in addition to the common com, net, org, biz etc.
The downsides are:
1. No PHP. For the unix their plan offers only 30MB of space.
They do however support ASP.
2. They give you a FTP account. No editors for any web content. (For me this was an up-side issue but I hear a lot of complaints about this from others...)
3. their customer service is GREAT! but quite slow in their responses.

Other then that I definately recommend them.

Edit: typos... what else...

Message edited by author 2004-12-10 16:15:29.

Neil

Fujifilm X-T30