Interesting, but in the first two there are slices labeled both "other/self hosted" and "self hosted."
Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions
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#12I'm surprised that Linode isn't on there at all, although it's good to see BitPusher get mentioned for their work on Wufoo (good bunch of guys over there).
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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 goo…
To be honest I barely ever see the front page, so I don't think it's a useful comparison. The so-called "Total DNS Control" page that GoDaddy offers works well enough for me. Is DynDNS' control panel nicer?
As far as support I'll have to defer as I haven't had any problems worth bringing up yet. I moved from Register.com some time ago and that was a breath of fresh air in so many respects.
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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?
If you are running a user-generated content site and you get to a large enough size, it's near certain that GoDaddy will shut off your domain. We had a very, very close call with Weebly where someone from GoDaddy called at 10am on a Saturday, didn't get through, and started shutting off the domain. If I hadn't called right back it would have been disastrous.
For some reason, GoDaddy sees it as their job to police the Internet, which is completely not acceptable for a domain registrar.
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#15Umm, what about multiple CN SSL certificates?
I didn't think to check for those. Great idea, thanks!
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#16Earlier 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?
I've had great service from GoDaddy as well, and it's a lot cheaper to buy a wildcard SSL cert from them ($199/year) than pretty much everywhere else I've looked.
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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?
http://www.google.com/search?q=godaddy+sucks
Of course you'll personally have a great experience until you get screwed. Learn from others.
I use namecheap.
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#18Umm, what about multiple CN SSL certificates?
I didn't think to check for those. Great idea, thanks!
I think multi-CN is pretty rare. It's Subject Alt Names to look out for!
https://owa.central1.com/ for example.
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#19Interesting, but in the first two there are slices labeled both "other/self hosted" and "self hosted."
"self hosted" means that the IP or Whois lookup matched the second level domain - a high degree of confidence that the service is self hosted.
"other/self hosted" is basically a catch all. Originally just labeled "other", I added "self hosted" later since that is often (but not always) the case.
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#20It's surprising how many cells of that table say "GoDaddy."
Their UI is horrendously busy for YC founders, but as everybody else is saying, "the price is right."