I Thought I Did a Decent Amount of Business with GoDaddy
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I got an interesting e-mail that was almost a bubble burster for me from GoDaddy today:
Dear Chris Short,
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN(R)) recently agreed to reduce their Registrar Transaction Fee from $.25 to $.22. What does this mean for you?
Good news. You have been credited $.03/yr for each domain name you registered or renewed dating back to July 1, 2006* — $.24 has been placed into your Go Daddy(R) account with this customer number: *****.
Your in-store credit will be applied to your purchases at GoDaddy.com(R) until it’s gone or for up to 12 months, whichever comes sooner.
Now, you might be asking why this is a bubble burster. Well, it was until I realized that quite a few of my domains were multi-year renewals long ago. So I guess you could say I haven’t done a lot of new business with GoDaddy. Still cool regardless.
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Gordon E. Peterson II
May 2nd, 2007
at 12:26am
I’ve just been trying to move a fairly large and active customer Website to GoDaddy’s “premium” shared hosting service, only to find that there are land mines in them there hills… GoDaddy artificially cripples the performance of (for example) FTP uploads of new material to their sites.
If I knew what the rules are, I could (try to?) engineer the application to live within those rules. But GoDaddy’s pathetic tech support refuses to tell me what I can really expect to do successfully within their shared hosting service. :-(( (Suffice it to say that we are nowhere REMOTELY close to hitting the file space or bandwidth limits we are supposed to get with the shared hosting plan we selected).
Just for one example, in my client’s prototype Web site (which admittedly has a lot of subdirectories, although there aren’t all that many files there yet), and usnig the (appears to be excellent) WebDrive to access the Web site filespace, just doing a “dir *.* /s >webtree.dir” took something like TWO HOURS to complete. And again, this is because the FTP process was artificially crippled by the GoDaddy people… and this is something they won’t tell people until you back them into a corner. :-(
I am very frustrated and annoyed with the way that company does things. :-(((
Chris Short
May 2nd, 2007
at 4:12am
It’s always better to lease or own your server. Sure, if something goes wrong you have to fix it but, it’s yours so you won’t have many restrictions.
Remember, you get what you pay for.