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GoDaddy ends support for Ruby as of 23/01/2014

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Re: GoDaddy ends support for Ruby as of 23/01/2014

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Post by seancoleman »

callmeed wrote: post #36
seancoleman wrote: post #25

Hi everyone, Product Manager from GoDaddy here. A lot of you have made the correct assumption. We simply host very few Ruby sites. We are radically improving our hosting, and with all the great offerings like Heroku (kicks ass) it doesn't make much sense to continue to invest in what will be a less than great user experience for Ruby developers. I'm happy to answer any more questions here!

I assume this doesn't affect MediaTemple accounts at all?

That is correct. This only impacts GoDaddy hosting accounts.

Re: GoDaddy ends support for Ruby as of 23/01/2014

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Post by seeingfurther »

seancoleman wrote: post #25

Hi everyone, Product Manager from GoDaddy here. A lot of you have made the correct assumption. We simply host very few Ruby sites. We are radically improving our hosting, and with all the great offerings like Heroku (kicks ass) it doesn't make much sense to continue to invest in what will be a less than great user experience for Ruby developers. I'm happy to answer any more questions here!

Any chance you can clean up the UI on the domain management and purchase order flow? It's a mess.

Re: GoDaddy ends support for Ruby as of 23/01/2014

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Post by Kequc »

callmeed wrote: post #37
Ricapar wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My thoughts exactly. Most people cringe at using GoDaddy as a registrar. Using them for hosting your site? Double-cringe.

I'm a Rails dev and use GD for all my domains and most of my SSL certs. The service and UI has actually improved drastically in the past months. But, yeah, I wouldn't use them for hosting anything.

Holy god don't recommend people to use GD until you've at least tried a competitor yourself.

Re: GoDaddy ends support for Ruby as of 23/01/2014

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Post by MartinCron »

seancoleman wrote: post #33
MartinCron wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I'm not a GoDaddy fan by any stretch, I think it's pretty cool that you're stepping up here to answer questions.

Thanks! I joined GoDaddy 6 months ago, and although 7 months ago I would have laughed if you told me I would be working at GoDaddy, the company is undergoing a remarkable transition with new leadership. We are becoming hyper customer focused and making our products world class.

I know the organization is changing, may I respectfully suggest that you suggest someone take a look at this language on the web site?

Like a Stanford dorm room on steroids, our Sunnyvale office is 40,000 square-feet of Bay Area badassery, brimming with some of the biggest brains on the planet, dreaming up digital masterpieces and keeping time in agile sprints

Because... yuck. I get what you're going for, but I'm sure you can do better.

http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/about-godaddy.aspx?ci=9079

Re: GoDaddy ends support for Ruby as of 23/01/2014

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Post by dragonwriter »

DorianMarie wrote: post #21

This is hilarious: "If you have Java enabled for your hosting account, it will conflict with Rails." "Currently, Rails version 1.1.6 is supported in the default directory, while Rails 2.2.2 is considered an alternate "development" environment" etc...

Yeah, I mean, that's not really "supporting" Rails in any meaningful sense to start with, so its hardly significant that they are ending "support".

Re: GoDaddy ends support for Ruby as of 23/01/2014

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Post by Kequc »

tim333 wrote: post #31
collyw wrote: post #17

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Ok, naive question, what would make one registrar better or worse than another. They all do the same thing, no?

I transferred a domain from Godaddy to Namecheap last week. 33% cheaper and don't charge extra to keep my home address private.

My experience may have differed from yours.

In my experience a few years ago the process of transferring away from GoDaddy took as long and was as complicated as it possibly could be by law. Like absolute limit. If they were able to send me harassing emails before the transfer was completed, they did. Link bating with anti-agreements. I stuck it out for months jumping through every hoop they raised because I wanted to transfer away that badly. Maybe things have improved.

I hate GoDaddy.

Re: GoDaddy ends support for Ruby as of 23/01/2014

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Post by dragonwriter »

johnward wrote: post #38

It seems like a lot of the ruby community would use PAaS solutions. Even if they wanted to run their own server It's highly unlikely that they would be using a shared godaddy server. Not really that big of a deal.

Even if they wanted a shared server, I suspect that the number of people who'd want a shared server with primary support for Rails 1 and alternate, "development" support for Rails 2 is vanishingly small.

Re: GoDaddy ends support for Ruby as of 23/01/2014

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Post by vinhboy »

seancoleman wrote: post #40
vinhboy wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you make the login popup on your website compatible with chrome password autofill? It used to be, but the new popup login thing broke it.

That's too bad, sorry that broke. I'll get it over to the right team. We're launching a dramatically improved front of site experience soon so it might be fixed in that release.

Ok. Either you fixed it, or I am stupid. But it seems to work now. Either way thanks!

Re: GoDaddy ends support for Ruby as of 23/01/2014

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Post by vinhboy »

seeingfurther wrote: post #42
seancoleman wrote: post #25

Hi everyone, Product Manager from GoDaddy here. A lot of you have made the correct assumption. We simply host very few Ruby sites. We are radically improving our hosting, and with all the great offerings like Heroku (kicks ass) it doesn't make much sense to continue to invest in what will be a less than great user experience for Ruby developers. I'm happy to answer any more questions here!

Any chance you can clean up the UI on the domain management and purchase order flow? It's a mess.

Yes.. I hate how clicking on "edit" in the zone file brings up a new window.

Re: GoDaddy ends support for Ruby as of 23/01/2014

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Post by seancoleman »

MartinCron wrote: post #44
seancoleman wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! I joined GoDaddy 6 months ago, and although 7 months ago I would have laughed if you told me I would be working at GoDaddy, the company is undergoing a remarkable transition with new leadership. We are becoming hyper customer focused and making our products world class.

I know the organization is changing, may I respectfully suggest that you suggest someone take a look at this language on the web site? Like a Stanford dorm room on steroids, our Sunnyvale office is 40,000 square-feet of Bay Area badassery, brimming with some of the biggest brains on the planet, dreaming up digital masterpieces and keeping time in agile sprints Because... yuck. I get what you're going for, but I'm sur…

Thanks for the feedback. We can always do better :) I'll make sure it get to the right people.
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