Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever • Hacker News Board

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by latortuga » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 4:02 PM UTC

geekfactor wrote: post #44

It turns out GoDaddy only issues the certificate to the domain attached to the hosting (which is somewhat of a stupid association, really, because it shouldn’t matter what domain you use as long as you’re accessing your content via a correct route). If hosting with GoDaddy was the first mistake, this assumption was the second. The whole point of an SSL certificate is to say that the server you are talking to is a ser…

I don't know exactly how GoDaddy works but on my namecheap account, I can issue purchased SSL certificates to any of the domains I have registered there. I assume I may even be able to issue them to domains I do not have registered there (though I have not tried and may be wrong) because they have a verification process.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 4:06 PM UTC

jeremydavid wrote: post #54

Has anyone here used Nearly Free Speech (www.nearlyfreespeech.net)? I have finally started to make my migration away from GoDaddy (I have been planning this for years), and NFS seems pretty good. I can't seem to find any horror stories about them... but I rarely see them brought up in discussions about registrars. Am I missing something?

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Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by jinushaun » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 4:11 PM UTC

Just had GoDaddy conveniently renew three expiring domain names for me for TWO years. These were domain names I didn't want any more. Thanks.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by buddydvd » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 4:13 PM UTC

larrik wrote: post #7

I swore off GoDaddy years ago when I was setting up a website for a friend. It took an entire night to FTP up about 100k worth of files to his account. His website was extremely slow as well, so it wasn't just me. We're talking about a website that got maybe dozens of hits per day. He was a paying customer!!!! I've never had such a bad host, even from free ones. Also, I absentmindedly signed myself up for their WHOIS…

I noticed transferring a domain to different Godaddy account immediately cancels that domain's privacy-protection service. You can probably try that first before transferring your domain out of Godaddy.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by nicpottier » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 4:16 PM UTC

Does this really even need to be said here? A single visit to GoDaddy and their insane upselling strategies should be enough to disuade anyone that they are in it for anything but ripping you off.

namecheap.com has been quite pleasant so far. I used joker.com for years before that without complaint as well. Plenty of reasonable options out there.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by 27182818284 » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 4:20 PM UTC

jeremydavid wrote: post #54

Has anyone here used Nearly Free Speech (www.nearlyfreespeech.net)? I have finally started to make my migration away from GoDaddy (I have been planning this for years), and NFS seems pretty good. I can't seem to find any horror stories about them... but I rarely see them brought up in discussions about registrars. Am I missing something?

I've done small sites with them and have no complaints.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by BenSS » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 4:21 PM UTC

migrantgeek wrote: post #35

Seems like everyone agrees that GoDaddy is terrible. What's strange to me is the interface has always sucked and gets worse as they've grown. You'd think with the revenues they see, they could get some good designers to make it much more usable. I like Enom myself. The API works really well, prices are good, and the UI is clean and usable. I've been much happier since moving all of my domains over.

Nicer user interface doesn't always equate into more revenue. Sometimes it's even counterproductive (sales pages w. misspellings/mistakes can convert better!).

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by davidandgoliath » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 4:23 PM UTC

_delirium wrote: post #19

mtogo wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not true. For low traffic sites, NFSN and Webfaction are more than capable.

Yeah, I'd be surprised if a typical DIY VPS webserver can beat nearlyfreespeech.net's uptimes and resilience to burst traffic.

Doubtful. Largely in part due to the average 'vps' user not managing things properly -- or knowing how much they need to scale, etc.

Entities that have been doing it for years have things optimized quite a bit to handle the spikes. I suspect the average shared hosting kicks the ass of the average VPS -- particularly in the IO department.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by scelerat » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 4:24 PM UTC

I could have predicted this thread would turn into a PTSD support group for GoDaddy survivors.

I have my horrible stories too (all from freelancing days); suffice to say I learned a couple of things:

  * Cheap hosting almost never is. 
  * GoDaddys support is designed to minimize their costs, not yours. 
  * if their support cannot help you with a problem they will try to upsell you on a plan they claim *will* fix the problem.

Dealing with them on a handful of occasions ranks among the most painful experiences I've had in 15 years of building stuff on the web.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by moab9 » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 4:25 PM UTC

jeremydavid wrote: post #54

Has anyone here used Nearly Free Speech (www.nearlyfreespeech.net)? I have finally started to make my migration away from GoDaddy (I have been planning this for years), and NFS seems pretty good. I can't seem to find any horror stories about them... but I rarely see them brought up in discussions about registrars. Am I missing something?

I've used them for years. no problems.