Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

jf wrote: post #3

charliepark wrote: post #2

It's surprising how many cells of that table say "GoDaddy."

Yes, that surprised me too, considering GoDaddy's lackluster reputation. Which reminds me, you can click on the table header to sort the columns.

I've had no problems with GoDaddy as registrar, and they're priced right (and that seems to be where they win most in that chart). I can't speak to their quality as a hosting provider though.

Have they been screwing up as registrar for others?

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by vaksel » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 9:40 PM UTC

charliepark wrote: post #2

It's surprising how many cells of that table say "GoDaddy."

Not that surprising, Godaddy is pretty much the amazon of domain registrations. I'm surprised however, that there are 2 companies that are using them for webhosting.

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by jganetsk » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 9:42 PM UTC

It's not surprising how many cells say Google.

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by eswat » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 9:45 PM UTC

kevindication wrote: post #4

jf wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, that surprised me too, considering GoDaddy's lackluster reputation. Which reminds me, you can click on the table header to sort the columns.

I've had no problems with GoDaddy as registrar, and they're priced right (and that seems to be where they win most in that chart). I can't speak to their quality as a hosting provider though. Have they been screwing up as registrar for others?

No problems with GoDaddy here. My domains were at RegisterFly before the ICANN fiasco and subsequent move. Now THAT was a screwed up registrar.

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by Locke1689 » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 9:47 PM UTC

kevindication wrote: post #4

jf wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, that surprised me too, considering GoDaddy's lackluster reputation. Which reminds me, you can click on the table header to sort the columns.

I've had no problems with GoDaddy as registrar, and they're priced right (and that seems to be where they win most in that chart). I can't speak to their quality as a hosting provider though. Have they been screwing up as registrar for others?

Well... I do have to make a slight UI criticism.

Which would you rather see when managing your domains?

http://www.godaddy.com/default.aspx

or

http://www.dyndns.com/

Also, I have had very good experiences with DynDNS. Support is helpful and their services are top-notch. I am always confident that I'll get someone knowledgeable at DynDNS, while my experience with GoDaddy was nowhere near as nice. Seems they have a good reputation as a company too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DynDNS#Awards

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by zhyder » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 9:53 PM UTC

Cool! Looks like most folks using GoDaddy as registrar switch to some other service (typically web host?) for the DNS. How come?

Are any of the companies with Softlayer using their Cloudlayer offering? If yes, how do you find it?

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by aq » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 9:55 PM UTC

Umm, what about multiple CN SSL certificates?