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Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by icedchai »

larrys wrote: post #158
icedchai wrote: post #153

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Seriously? Network Solutions was the original domain registrar.

Original and only prior to ICANN. Original price of a domain: free Next price point a bit later $100: 2 years min ($50 per year) Next a bit later $70: 2 years min ($35 per year) Then came competition and prices dropped. Little known fact: The first registrars that were accredited had to certify that they had no criminal record (any of the officers) and had to be a corporation and post $100,000 bond as well as other h…

I remember calling up Network Solutions on the phone to pay for a domain, because they had no e-commerce functionality! This was around 1997ish. I had several "free" domains from the 1993-94 era.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by ohashi »

thebiglebrewski wrote: post #151
ohashi wrote: post #118

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If you are starting to research your options you may find the data my startup publishes useful: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare It tracks what people are saying about many of the big hosting providers on Twitter and analyzes what people like/don't like about them. As far as anu_gupta's recommendations, I have data on 4/5: Digital Ocean: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/101/digitalocean/ Linode: h…

Thanks, this is really helpful!

You're welcome :)

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by resistor3672 »

habith wrote: post #152
sandstrom wrote: post #147

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A few more alternatives: - http://gandi.net - http://brightbox.com/ - AWS S3/Cloudfront (for static sites) - http://wordpress.com

I haven't looked at gandi.net before, their prices are reasonable and they have a very clean layout. Unfortunately, the second I noticed their motto (no bullshit) I realized I cannot use them for our clients. Sigh :(

Ok, full disclosure: I work for Gandi. We realize that motto is something you can't say on the radio, but it's so true, we just have to say it. We are a small, tough, smart company, the kind we want to work for. We do offer a full API for resellers, so you could white-box the solution if you wanted.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by maguay »

ohashi wrote: post #120
rwhitman wrote: post #9

I have no love for Media Temple, but have so many client sites there that this really affects me. Just when I thought MT was improving they go and do this. That line about it staying "independent" is total crap. I stupidly got locked into Outright and now a year or so after their acquisition by GoDaddy its now magically "GoDaddy Online Bookkeeping" and they want to link it with my GoDaddy account. Independent my ass.…

It's always interesting to hear people talking about trends they see in a web hosting company. The first thing I do is check and see if their experience actually matches what I see in the data. http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/23/mediatemple/ (click 'Trends') I don't see much evidence of 'improving' but it looks fairly stable. It will be very interesting to watch what happens after today though. I've been w…

That's ominous on A Small Orange — didn't realize that. Great.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by resistor3672 »

anu_gupta wrote: post #14
thebiglebrewski wrote: post #4

I totally agree with @recusancy, this is the worst news I've heard all day...I absolutely despise GoDaddy and everything they represent. Who should I switch to? Just have some WordPress site hosted on MediaTemple mostly...

Depends on how much you want to pay, and exactly how much control you want, but one of these should sort you out. * WPEngine * Linode * Bytemark (Big V) * Rackspace Cloud * DigitalOcean

Just FYI, Gandi.net is also offering a free "Simple Hosting" virtual instance for a month with code NODADDY. Size "S", valid for a week.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by larrys »

icedchai wrote: post #161
larrys wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Original and only prior to ICANN. Original price of a domain: free Next price point a bit later $100: 2 years min ($50 per year) Next a bit later $70: 2 years min ($35 per year) Then came competition and prices dropped. Little known fact: The first registrars that were accredited had to certify that they had no criminal record (any of the officers) and had to be a corporation and post $100,000 bond as well as other h…

I remember calling up Network Solutions on the phone to pay for a domain, because they had no e-commerce functionality! This was around 1997ish. I had several "free" domains from the 1993-94 era.

Yep and they sent out these paper invoices and gave people credit when they registered. So much profit they could afford to not get paid in many cases once they started to charge for the domains. I also remember (as I'm sure you) some billings going out with ads for branded tshirts with their name on it and some other swag.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by ohashi »

maguay wrote: post #164
ohashi wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's always interesting to hear people talking about trends they see in a web hosting company. The first thing I do is check and see if their experience actually matches what I see in the data. http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/23/mediatemple/ (click 'Trends') I don't see much evidence of 'improving' but it looks fairly stable. It will be very interesting to watch what happens after today though. I've been w…

That's ominous on A Small Orange — didn't realize that. Great.

I try to keep an open mind about these things and just look at the data. So far, they seem to be doing even better under EIG but run independently. I hope it continues that way but I will just keep watching and write about it if it starts to change.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by jzmtb »

rwhitman wrote: post #74
mtMattNL wrote: post #8

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Matt from (mt) here. Sorry that you feel that way, but we assure everybody that it's a good thing. We're not making any major changes at the company, and we're going to have 10 times the resources to make better products.

No. Sure you get more money, but this is going to be absolutely toxic to your company culture. Now every employee at the company has to wake up and know that they're going to work at GoDaddy, a company that supported SOPA and PIPA a company that was founded by an obnoxious redneck who has a video blog of exploited blonde bimbos doing comedy shtick, a company that took a successful female NASCAR racer and exploited he…

Outsources their customer service to India? At first I thought you were just bitter. Now I see you're an uninformed moron. Yeah the SOPA thing was a fiasco but the Legal exec running that show has long-ago "decided to pursue other opportunities." The nascar driver got as much positive exposure as GD got from her as their spokesperson.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by jzmtb »

Yhippa wrote: post #97
MartinCron wrote: post #48

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I didn't even know that GoDaddy was doing a redesign and new marketing push. I went to their site and was happy to see fewer bikini girls. However, in the about us, they still sound like they're trying to be brogrammer central: 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 masterpiece…

These guys sound like the Hooters of the technology world.

That honestly isn't that bad. Sounds like their laid back. Seems like the trend in tech...hoodies, flip flops, beer. Pocket protectors, white shirt and ties are a thing of the past.
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