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Even though godaddy is one of the most secure domain name provider, many still hates it especially when it comes to their webhosting service.

Common rants and complaints from godaddy clients:

I host my 2 websites with godaddy.com - their interface is the worst I have seen but what infuriated me was that they reject emails from senders who do not have ‘reverse DNS’ on their respective mailing servers!! This includes some of large providers. As a consequence of this if you decide to sign up with Godaddy as your email hosting, it means that you will not be able to receive emails from various senders who happen to have a non-reverse DNS mail servers! We ended up explaining ourselves before our clients why are their emails bouncing back. This is just outrageous for the hosting company to decide which emails are good for me and which are not!

GoDaddy has been my first payed web host and domian name, and I really have very few complaints. Although I would like a Plesk interface in my File Manager, the one they offer is decent looking and does the job well, although I am not a fan of CPanel, so this is scrictly personal preferance. Prices are VERY low, I ordered my hosting for 2 years at 2.79(or around there) a month, a very good deal. I ordered the Economy package and have had no problems.

They lied to me when I signed up. They said WebSite Tonight was reliable and it isn’t. It had a bunch of glitches. When I called Tech Support, they said that problems with WebSite Tonight couldn’t be addressed until my site was published. So I published my site, even though it was NOT finished. AFTER I published it, the problems remained. When I contacted Tech Support again, they said that my problems were caused by WebSite Tonight so they could not help me because it was a developer problem. Meanwhile, they said that by telling me they had notified the developers of WebSite Tonight, they were done helping me. (The reason my site URL is not available is that I cancelled WebSite Tonight, which “un-hosted” it.)

GoDaddy is the most inflexible webhost I have used to date. The price is cheap, but you get stripped down service with a customer support team that absolutely refuses to budge on anything. For example, I needed to host a site using Drupal as the Content Management System (http://www.drupal.org). GoDaddy refused to give my MySQL account “Lock” permissions over the database, which is a requirement for the Drupal system. Also, I have found GoDaddy’s performance to be exceptionally poor. If I check my site at 4:00 am, I get decent hit time (2 to 3 seconds to load my site) but if I check during prime time (and it isn’t my site getting the hits), it can take upwards of 1 minute sometimes to load my site. I would speculate that they simply overload their servers to the point where one high traffic site on a server screws over everyone on it…

I haven’t try godaddy yet, but hopefully I could try them soon…If you have something to say whether it’s good or bad about godaddy post it here.

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