Tagged: GoDaddy

September 5, 2011

GoDaddy doesn’t want to let go

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I was a customer of GoDaddy for two years. They were my first DNS registrar and host provider. I was sucked in by my ignorance with the name registration low-cost, but came to my senses after discovering they are a terrible WordPress host.

However today I’d like to talk to you about letting go, and when business should let customers go. My web hosting was done August 25, but I canceled my account the first week of August. Since then, every week, GoDaddy has sent me emails offering me renewal at a discounted rate. To make matters even better (for them), they don’t offer a unsubscribe when you are not their customer, and continue to spam you.

GoDaddy should be an example of the things that you can do that anger your customers. What do you think the chances are that I will suggest someone use a GoDaddy or any other service from their corporate management? It is surprising isn’t it? That people forget the Internet has a memory and eventually bad companies go out of business.

August 9, 2011

GoDaddy vs BlueHost vs FatCow – Battle of WordPress hosts

I should start by explaining that I had been a Godaddy customer for 2 years. Finally after trying too many plugins that weren’t GoDaddy compatible, and questionable business practices I moved to the highly rated BlueHost. That was even worse than GoDaddy.

I learned that BlueHost and HostGator( both owned by the same company) do something called CPU throttling. This means that if your plugins or site causes too much CPU time they will limit the time you get to spend using their CPU. Well, in the first day I had BlueHost they limited me for 5 hours out of a 24 hour day. That meant that someone going to my site got no response, or a very slow one. That was unacceptable to me.

So after more research and calls to companies suspected of CPU throttling I made a decision. This practice seems to be almost 100% of companies who charge less than $10 a month for hosting. As far as performance goes, GoDaddy was better than BlueHost. However GoDaddy was a pain to use, and they charge for things that competitors like NameCheap DNS registration gives away for free.

So I was thrilled to find FatCow and when talking with them they said they don’t do CPU throttling. So this site should be much faster than you have experienced in the past. If it is not, please let me know and be specific please so I can let them know.

P.S. It may be too soon to conclude anything. Since moving to FatCow I am having a problem with slow response times. I may have to cut down the number of plugins on the site. I really enjoy plugins and what they offer. I will update this based on what happens in the next 24 hours.

More importantly is that VaultPress has proven itself to be very useful and totally worth the $40 a month. I can’t wait to move up their next service tier once I get more advertisers.

July 31, 2011

WordPress Plugin Broken Link Checker works great-not so much Godaddy

I installed a new plugin today called Broken Link Checker. It is going through all my past posts and pointing out any that have broken links. Then I will update a few a day until I get them all fixed.

However the downside is that this has slowed down the site to a crawl. If you have Godaddy and want to use this plugin run it during your least traffic period. Today isn’t so bad that this is occurring.

May 25, 2011

Hosting With GoDaddy? Might Want To Rethink That Decision. | Smackdown!

Hosting With GoDaddy? Might Want To Rethink That Decision. | Smackdown!. I did some research because I have been having problems finding a good backup tool to use on my GoDaddy hosted site. Almost every one that I try seems to error out before it finishes a backup. Like others I was sucked in with the promise of low domain registration. I have learned from that lesson. Once my time is up I will transfer to another host. Anyone have one they love?