GoDaddy Sucks? Go Daddy or No Daddy?
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Dec 9,2008
Heard about GoDaddy problems? Some say GoDaddy Hosting scams or GoDaddy hosting sucks? Did you read some GoDaddy.com issues, GoDaddy complaints and their bad customer experiences? Can these negative GoDaddy web hosting reviews be trusted? Heard some horror stories about their limitations? READ THIS FIRST!
If you are considering to get a hosting account from GoDaddy, you may want to (or probably have tried to) search for the keywords “GoDaddy Sucks” on Google. However, the result may confuse you. Perhaps you have read tons of good stuff and rave reviews about GoDaddy.com thus far.
Did GoDaddy experiences and stories like below or made you think twice to signup with GoDaddy?
- “…godaddy sends a TON of notices. i just had a domain expire and they send you a notice just about every 5 days for the last month…”
- “The ultimate in trying to f*ck their customers…”
- “I’ve never liked GoDaddy. They suck… hard. Anybody who uses them knows that there administration system is crappy…“
If you go through each of Googles result pages, it seems there a few unsatisfied customers and clients who have been through some sticky situation with GoDaddy.com. If you search for the keywords “GoDaddy sucks”, you see that there are hundreds of search engine result pages (SERPs) by Google. Is that a lot of bad things said about one hosting? Assuming all those result pages really talk about why this hosting provider sucked in some ways. There may be a few more result pages when you search for “GoDaddy scam”, “GoDaddy issues“, or ”GoDaddy problems“. Would these hate or complaint sites worry you after you have read so many positive reviews? Did the hate pages make you wonder if GoDaddy hosting is any good?
| Hosting | Total Pages About Web Host |
Total Hate Pages About This Host |
Hate/Pages Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoDaddy web hosting | 2,400,000 | about 375 | only 0.00015 |
Reconsider. Do not dismiss the fact that GoDaddy is not only one of the best domain registration companies, but also one of the largest web hosting companies and with one of the best ecommerce hosting plans in the market today. You have read the other GoDaddy reviews elsewhere. GoDaddy does what a hosting company should do. That is, GoDaddy actually answers their phones, replies to their emails, responds to live chat requests, doesn’t rip you off, and provides quality hosting. So among the millions of satisfied clients, surely they will be a few who disagree. Let us look at the numbers above.
How Good is GoDaddy Web Hosting
From the above number, only 15 out of every 10,000 SERP pages about GoDaddy said that this hosting sucks. This is still extremely good considering other hostings we have looked at have way worst ratio. The hate pages is actually negligible and those negative reviews is just not significant enough to be reliable.
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It’s okay for starters but not for professionals. Take it from a GoDaddy Partner.
I am a professional and I use their shared hosting service with no problem. I love their plan (Deluxe) with the unlimited Add-on domains and I have more than 10 domains with Wordpress installed. I would say they are better for professionals because their control panel takes some getting use to. They do not use cPanel, so some experience with web hosting jargons such DNS, FTP, PHPmyAdmin etc would help. I also heard their phone support is good although I never had any need to use them.
My client’s web+mail shared server went down the first business day we were using lunarpages (Oct 2008)! Then there were problems two days later, and again a month later. Today Feb 5 2009, the shared server went down again for two hours. Each time, I’ve been on hold for 20-30 minutes before getting through.
Contrast – my other clients using godaddy.com have had almost no problems, and when I have to call tech support, I’m connected within 0-3 minutes.
Conclusion – goodbye, lunar pages.
I don’t expect you to approve this one, but your statistics intrigued me, so I ran a comparison. Here are my results:
Search term Google results
1and1 1,430,000
1and1 complaint 18,600 1.301%
1and1 sucks 27,900 1.951%
1and1 fraud 35,600 2.490%
“1and1 complaint” 103 0.007%
“1and1 sucks” 1,080 0.076%
“1and1 fraud” 48 0.003%
godaddy 15,900,000
godaddy complaint 48,100 0.303%
godaddy sucks 138,000 0.868%
godaddy fraud 209,000 1.314%
“godaddy complaint” 239 0.002%
“godaddy sucks” 5,450 0.034%
“godaddy fraud” 175 0.001%
Just thought you might find the comparison interesting.
Very nice analysis about Godaddy. They have more than 15 times more pages so we can also conclude they have 15 times more customers than the other big web hosts like 1&1. Yet they have less percentage of complaints, fraud, hate and “suck” pages. 15 times more reasons to choose Godaddy then?
Why not tell us which one DOESNT suck…. so we can sign up with them?
Everyone knows a good way to search for negative feedback is to type “XYZ SUCKS”….. but I have done that for all the domain/hosting providers and all of them have something bad written about them.
So…. who DOESNT suck?
If you do not mind the price, there are a few web hosts that have none or very few complaints in my opinion. You can try ICD soft or Web Faction. The Webfaction and ICDsoft reviews said it all.
Of course the price cannot be compared to Godaddy. However, the extra dollars is worth the price you pay for if you really want hassle free hosting plan and better tech support.
OK, I love hate Godaddy, Its full service pretty cheap for the average web guy but Heres My Warning>>>> Yes I may be partly to blame but be forwarned….
I had an account with go daddy for almost 5 years, I paid usually through paypal….I hosted numerous sites and some where for business partners, One month I had one of the partners pay by check, in the next 30 days we had a falling out, I continued to host his account but he knows NOTHING about hosting, WELL when the next billing came GOdaddy used the last used payment method, his account, so he calls Godaddy and because he could provide the last four digits of the account used for billing they gave him access to the server, so rather than call we and ask about something I didnt know occured, he pushed a little button that says CANCEL…. The idiot canceled my SERVER, Wiped EVERYTHING OUT…. 2 Multiuser Wordpress sites and about 6 other websites, So moral of the story, NEVER use someone else account to pay godaddy….
Second to this my only Serious complaint is that if I can get your info I can wipe you out, No Call, No Questions All Gone… BYE BYE
Dude, you fail to realize that when someone calls for technical support the person answering has no f*cking idea who you are until you verify the account information. Even when you call your bank they will ask you to verify your account information before talking to you because there is no way to do a DNA test through the phone! So if mystery person #1 calls and has magically confirmed the payment information then one of two assumptions are to be made. A: The person who verified the account is someone authorized to make changes. B: The person who just verified the account information is either a mindreader or a liar and should be hung up on. I worked for GoDaddy for 18 months and heard sob stories everyday. People called in to complain that some service was canceled and they just got the cancelation email but somehow they never got the previous 7 emails saying that the credit card did not go through and that they were in danger of losing their hosting or email accounts. We even had a department that would call customers and tell them their credit card expiration date is incorrect and the card did not go through. One f*ggot had the nerve to get pissed at me when i confirmed that the contact email he gave was fake and the contact phone number was 111-111-1111 and he had his address listed as 123 main st. So if you don’t like the way the billing and security is set up then I say get your own f*cking server in your basement and learn how to fix your own sh!t.
I have used Godaddy for over 3 years straight. I have over 20 domains and 10 websites hosted on a shared hosting and a VPS and never once have I EVER had a major problem with their service. NOT ONCE!!! It’s incredible to me to see so many dissatisfied customers. It only makes me wonder who are these people hating on them. What are you talking about only for beginners. Retard (asifism). Probably the same guy that says Joomla sucks LOL! My servers never been down. My traffic has never complained about the sites and the customer service at Godaddy is amazing. I can call any time of the day or night and I can always get support and they speak English!
All these smaller hosting companies, always issues, and never get a hold of someone to talk to that have been trained in being polite and helpful. This is why I will always stay with GoDaddy until I find a real reason why not.
I recently applied for a web hosting service with JustHost and the company demanded that I send a copy of my passport and a copy of my credit card to validate the purchase. I thought it odd but did comply – with the exception of the copy of the credit card itself.
When I found out that they had already charged my credit card I sent an email and asked why…and they refused to explain this rather simple question, they only demanded the copy of my credit card again.
T hat made me suspicious and I cancelled my purchase. Now, 5 days later, I still have not seen the funds returned.
My first contact was with “Gabe” and there I had no complaints… then a “Nick” took over and it was his arrogant reply that made me cancel the purchase… and all I asked was why they had charged my account and then refused to deliver the “goods”.
Later I used GoDaddy and in less than an hour my website was up and running…so I do not give any high marks for JustHost customer service – it is nonexistend if you happen to get the wrong person to handle your communication. I can NOT recommend this webhost…
I’ve never had a .com but thought of a great business idea (yrs ago) and have no idea where to start. I had seen go daddy ads and I don’t know my ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to any of this. Will go daddy help me through this and how to even develope a website? Yea.. I am an idiot but I need some solid advice on how to start. Is go daddy good for a moron like me or what? my funds are limited but my idea is great… and I’m underemployed for a year now and desperate to try something new. thanks.
Yeah jenesu, you could essentially use Godaddy or any other webhosting company along with something like Google Webmaster Tools to create your own website/business. Good luck.
I have ahd more than 70 domains registered and dozens of hosting accounts with Godaddy . Never had one problem. Love them!
Godaddy sucks when they charge high redemption fee for a domain recovery! And they say “even you cancel the order in 3 days, no refund is possible”! making money this way is better than rubbing a bank!
I don’t think this is specific to Godaddy only. All other registrars will charge high fees if you missed the deadline to renew your domain. This fee is not set by the domain registrars.
To avoid this complication with any domain registration service, do one of these:
1. Renew on time.
2. Make sure you have the latest working email with your registrar so they can send you renewal reminder email.
3. Use the auto-renew feature (although I change registrar every year just to save a few dollars thus do not want this usually)
Hope this helps.
I host my sites at godaddy… and only had some minor issues in the 8 years i have been hosting by them…. and they always seem to pick up the phone when i call : )
I have a dedicated linux server on godaddy right now for almost a year…
My Current server uptime: 184 days, 17 hours and 48 minutes, I am guessing it would have been online 365 days if i wouldn’t have restarted it ONE time in a year.
I had shared hosting prior to that, and no issues with that either. Some people are not web savvy so im guessing most of the users who complain are those who don’t know what they are doing.
And im going to have to agree with Scrappy, if a client / business partner knows your last 4 of your CC… you are pretty much setting yourself up for a big FAT FAIL. You can’t blame any company for that, its your own fault.
-Jason
I have hosted a site with godaddy for about 3 years and there was never a problem to complain of….
I am bending toward godaddy again for my next site I am building. But I think using just the last 4 digits of a CC is not strong enough for security verification. They should add some security questions there too.
Why bother risking your credit card. Use Paypal to pay instead. I always do that now when I purchase anything online…
With Godaddy, this is what you do:
1. In the shopping cart under “Select Payment Method,” choose “PayPal Account”.
2. Click “Checkout.”
So simple. It is also easy to cancel your hosting payment contract via Paypal, unlike if you have a contract paid via credit card.
Just started using GoDaddy because I was frustrated with my last host… Hopefully this isn’t a preview of what is to follow, but my account was just activated 2 days ago. I’m using their Win DELUXE package. Tonite, I wanted to upload a stats plug-in to my WordPress site and I cannot get FTP access to my account. I tried using their own FTP client, and Filezilla and both cannot find the server. The website is still coming up. I’ve FTP’d over 1000 files for the wordpress installation to it yesterday and got the site up and running without a glitch. But FTP appears to be down today.
I tried their email tech support…. estimated response time 7 hours! I could call for a response time of 5 minutes, but I’m not too concerned yet.
So we shall see!
Hi guys i have been 2yrs with Go Daddy and no probs but was looking around for new one, but i think i stick with them now reading this page. thx
You should Google: “web hosting / best vs. worst” with the quotations and read that article.
Try without the quotations too. The discussions at webmastertalk says Godaddy is neither the worst nor the best. It is very hard to say which is best or which is worst. It really depends on what you need.
I think Godaddy is best for domain registration. Their hosting service is probably one of the better ones if you need unlimited domains hosting. I have more than 10 domains with them and a hosting account with Godaddy. So far the experience with Godaddy has been good.
Im interested in shifting away from Hostgator, for the simple fact Im an ASP programmer, and I have no MySql experience. Ive just browsed over the hosting plans with GoDaddy, and it appears they support ASP and MS SQL which is great…however, I need to be certain that they offer unlimited domains, just like Hostgator does. And can I setup multiple SQL databases for each site????
Sure you can have multiple SQL databases with their Unlimited plan, but each SQL database is limited to 200MB. For most web application purposes, 200MB of SQL storage is more than enough.
Their Unlimited plan allows unlimited external domains to be hosted. This means you can have your domains registered at other registrar and still use Godaddy as hosting.
Good luck.