Comments on: GoDaddy sucks

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:36:04 +0000

GoDaddy’s SPAM problem is caused by their dependency on RBLs. Spamhaus.org is not very reliable. My ISP (Cox) uses filtering software that is not based on RBLs and it is very accurate (IMHO). Their IPO failed failed because Bob Parsons refused to make corrections that the venture capital company required (mainly the SPAM, unreliable hosting, and domain forwarding problems). I’ll give Bob credit, his spin on the failed IPO was cleaver. B.S., but cleaver.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:23:19 +0000

I would like to add some information based upon my own experience with GoDaddy.com and the email portion of their hosting. Their hosting service is a whole issue unto itself. Since moving my web site to them earlier this year, legitimate received emails have dropped by well over 50 percent. I have had a webmaster that tried to email me but was blocked. When he tried to learn why, GoDaddy told them that there were foreign characters being used. There were none. Many other emails from people were blocked for no reason. The scary thing is not knowing or hearing from people who tried to contact me but assumed that I was not answering them. I’ve tried many times to find out why from GoDaddy but have often been given the bull line that it is my ISP’s doing. A few tech people have at least honestly admitted that GoDaddy blocks email from any domain or IP address that a SPAM email has come from. That is, from the less known domains or IPs. The larger ones such as Yahoo or hotmail are allowed. The problem is, for business people such as myself, most of my customers use domains hosted with smaller regional hosts. GoDaddy’s setup ends up blocking a large portion of legitimate emails from my client base yet allow the real SPAM to get through. If they really gave a damn, they would revise their policy.

By: Nina

Nina — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:25:56 +0000

I actually host all my sites at godaddy.com and have never had any problem with any of them. No problems with FTP, no problems with their control panels, no problems with forwarding, nothing. I’ve never had to use customer service. I like the range of scripts/addons they supply even with their cheapest hosting plan. I like how easy it is to install them, and work with them. Their free hosting does suck (tried it for about 10 minutes) but their paid hosting is just fine for me.

Now, I’m sure I’m not the most sophisticated user out there. But I’ve been designing sites since 1995, and I’ve had quite a few truly crappy experiences, so I can say with great sincerity that I am completely happy with godaddy. BTW, I live in Canada, and am NOT in any way affiliated with the company …

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:01:58 +0000

Kelly, did you look in the sidebar here?

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:45:46 +0000

I have a Virtual Private Server through GoDaddy (not for long), and I have had serious performance issues for awhile now. At first, their useless tech-support told me I had too many TCP sockets open and that was causing the perf. problem (I checked, there were 16 open connections to the server). Then they told me that I was using too much memory, so I shut down EVERY service on the VPS except sshd including MySQL, Apache, etc. It STILL took between 10 and 30 seconds to ‘ls’ a directory with 10 or 15 files in it. Today, the server got SLOW (again). I requested a reboot via the web-interface, and the server never came back. I’m looking for a new VPS elsewhere. GoDaddy has gotten enough of my $35/month.

By: Steampouringoutofears

Steampouringoutofears — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:49:57 +0000

I have many websites on several different hosts. I just started my first godaddy site for someone.

FTP in a word “blows”! I have never in all my years had such horrible problems, blocking calls, timeouts, connection refused, too many users… I have used different computers, ISP’s, ftp tools…same crap. I would say 7 of 10 ftp’s bail out for one reason or another.

Did same file uploads to one of my other accounts, smooth and reliable as usual.

I’m ditching godaddy hosting asap.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:53:23 +0000

Wow this post is hilarious. Can anyone explain what they mean when they say Godadday can’t do mod_rewrites? I’m fairly new to php and rewriting, but I’ve been rewriting php files to static urls for a while with Godaddy hosting. What specifically doesn’t work? I had some major frustrations as usual and would like to know if there’s is something I can avoid in the future to have less of a hastle.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:07:22 +0000

I use 1&1 and I have had no problem and there tech support guys are vary helpful. They are also the #1 web host in the world for 2006 and have about I would say at least 10 awards and they use Geotrust for there SSL like 128 bit encrip. so I think you should use 1&1 becaues there tech guys aren’t ass holes. I mean yea 1&1 has some problems and I was thinking of going to go daddy becaues they are cheap but I am going to stick with 1&1.
I DON’T WORK FOR THEM so check them out oh and you don’t have as many ads. They are a great company and they have a script checker in there Control pannel and There tech guys will normally fix it by that day or as soon as they can depends on the problem so I have to thank the godaddy guy from stopping me from going to them
Thanks all of you for giving me some warning I am just mad I actually thought godaddy was better.

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Bad Behavior OK for GoDaddy? « Lunacy Unleashed — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:16:13 +0000

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WordPress Visual QuickStart Guide » Bad Behavior WordPress plugin updated — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:14:03 +0000

[...] Caveat: Maria won’t like this, as she’s just moved all her sites to GoDaddy, but from the install notes: Bad Behavior does not work with GoDaddy hosting services. This is due to a misconfigured reverse proxy which GoDaddy uses. GoDaddy has been notified of the problem but refuses to fix it. Your best bet is to not use GoDaddy web hosting services for any reason. For more information on this issue see http://error.wordpress.com/2006/01/01/godaddy-sucks/. [...]

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By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:42:52 +0000

Stephane, are you sure you wanted to leave your company’s web site address along with that story? It’s not going to look good to your customers and prospective customers that you admit you aren’t competent to offer your services.

You are already supposed to know how to manage the server if you purchase an unmanaged VDS or dedicated server from anyone, not just GoDaddy. It’s not their responsibility to help you administer the server.

Otherwise, you are supposed to do this yourself, or hire someone to do it for you. Try starting by reading the manual for the operating system you’re using.

By: Stephane

Stephane — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:15:35 +0000

Hi – About GoDaddy ….
I agree with every word about their expertise and service -or lack thereoff – :

We are a “small” hosting business in South Africa, and have been using a godaddy VDS for 12 months now…

You are right – they wont update or install anything for us. They will not [ or cannot ] even tell us how to update mysql, php, phpmyadmin, etc..

BUT – In 12 months we have never had a second of down time. A little feather in the godaddy cap..

We are not experts – we dont know how to install software onto the server.. We dont know how to update old stuff ..
I dont think most of the “900″ godaddy employees know either.

Any suggestions on better stable and eliable servers ?
Any suggestions on where to go to learn how to install and update software on the godaddy servers – VDS and Dedicated?

Assistance or advise will be greatly appreciated …

Stephane.

By: Evan

Evan — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:20:57 +0000

I find it funny that a Godaddy employee searched for “Godaddy sucks”. It sort of makes me think that all GoDaddy employees naturally feel that their company sucks and they need verification. I’d like to share a tip with everyone, if you do a search for (whatever) sucks then maybe you are not happy with (whatever’s) service. I also find it interesting that happy GoDaddy customers would do a google search for GoDaddy sucks.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:18:41 +0000

Hi,

I work for Godaddy.com as well. Any opinions expressed here are my own and not theirs, and is actually pretty much just idle speculation as to business strategy:

2 Scenarios:

A.) There’s a perflecty running server that throws an error when running an erroneous script a customer wrote. They check everything over throughoughly, looks like a server problem. They flip out, try to tell us they’ve checked everything and REALLY FOR SURE its not a scripting error but we say sorry, it’s the code, no can help – and they take their business elsewhere. We’re ok with this.

B.) There is something set wrong internally on a server that makes a script the customer is running fail. They check everything over throughoughly, looks like a server problem. They flip out, try to tell us they’ve checked everything and REALLY FOR SURE its not a scripting error but we say sorry, no can help, it’s the code, – and they take their business elsewhere. We’re ok with this.

A. occours about 99.5 % of the time, and the amount of $$ required to separate out all the Bs from that sea of As would put us out of business. So, shit happens. We deal in volume. If you feel like one of those 99.5 come host with us.