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No one should ever use GoDaddy for any reason. I thought that was geek 101 by now. Also, incidentally, you never host a startup on shared hosting. If a day or two of downtime is a big deal than you gotta go VPS at a minimum.
Ever.
I've seen a lot of issues raised about godaddy recently, but any suggestions for domain registry that work better?
I've seen a lot of issues raised about godaddy recently, but any suggestions for domain registry that work better?
* Gandi.net
* Namecheap
* Name.com (Some very sleazy practices, see child)
* MonikerI've seen a lot of issues raised about godaddy recently, but any suggestions for domain registry that work better?
I use gandi.net, for both personal and business domains. They're awesome. Specifically: they have policies that strongly support the domain owner, they make a point of saying the domain owner owns the domain (not the registrar), they give back to many different Open Source projects, their management software works quite well, and they provide free email service for your domain so you don't have to run a mail server i…
Single best feature? Total access to domain zone files. I also like that as an individual you can hide your contact information from being displayed in the whois records.
No one should ever use GoDaddy for any reason. I thought that was geek 101 by now. Also, incidentally, you never host a startup on shared hosting. If a day or two of downtime is a big deal than you gotta go VPS at a minimum.
Source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150565
Note that that comment was posted over three years ago. Does anybody have any more recent experience with them?
Why is this news?! I can't count the number of times this has come up on HN, let alone reddit, let alone random prominent blogs, let alone from other big names that have had problems with GoDaddy suspending service, locking them out of their control panels and/or siding with law enforcement and acting before asking. Stop using GoDaddy. It's trivial to find other registrars, and not hard to find better ones. (Examples…
And yet GoDaddy is still in business and doing great.
No one should ever use GoDaddy for any reason. I thought that was geek 101 by now. Also, incidentally, you never host a startup on shared hosting. If a day or two of downtime is a big deal than you gotta go VPS at a minimum.
That's not true. For low traffic sites, NFSN and Webfaction are more than capable.
And, you don't have backups of all your data and domains? While running your sites on a shared host? This really sounds like something that was bound to happen to you. Be glad you got it fixed and I hope you learned your lesson.