Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever • Hacker News Board

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by sjs382 » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:20 PM UTC

I cant stand GoDaddy's hosting product. Their interface is awful, they're constantly upselling you, and changes via their Control Panel never happen instantly.

I have a lot of clients who came to me using GoDaddy and continue to use GoDaddy. So I interact with GoDaddy in some form every day.

But GoDaddy really shines in one area: their support. They're professional, they don't treat me or my clients like idiots, they don't bullshit me, and they're always quick to resolve issues.

(Personally, I prefer name.com and prgmr.com)

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by jbhelms » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:20 PM UTC

andrewl wrote: post #17

Paul Graham says "I use EasyDNS. They're expensive, but reliable and never do anything evil." Source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150565 Note that that comment was posted over three years ago. Does anybody have any more recent experience with them?

DNS wasn't really the problem here, it was the hosting and setting up a ssl cert. I use GoDaddy for my DNS stuff and have never had any problem with them for that. Most of the horror stories come from people hosting with them.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by bennesvig » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:23 PM UTC

Does this only apply to hosting or registering domains as well?

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by robryan » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:23 PM UTC

pewpew wrote: post #28

Be incompetent, blame others, profit. Host your site on a shared hosting, with another 1000 users, blame godaddy when it goes down. Don't understand ssl, blame godaddy when you make mistakes. GoDaddy are freaking excellent! for domains that is. All other services are crap, and if you bothered to actually check your facts, read some reviews, you would know that.

One of the only reasonable posts in this thread, sounds like it was more like the users fault than godaddy. I would agree for the kind of low tech shared hosting they provide but I have set some VPS servers up on godaddy that have worked quiet well. As long as you don't need their support and build from scratch without a plex/cpanel type setup they have been fine.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by migrantgeek » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:26 PM UTC

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.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by rickdale » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:30 PM UTC

I can't believe people are still bitching about GoDaddy shared hosting. I feel like a quote from Richard Pryor is in store: "Boy, it's 1975 you betta get your shit together!"

My point is that if you were smart enough to use GoDaddy shared hosting then you probably weren't smart enough at the time to have a VPS. Take what you have learned from GoDaddy and learn some more stuff and then sign up for a VPS or build a server. GoDaddy can be a good start for those just jumping into webdev and hosting, but after you have the equivalent of a yellow belt, its time to move on.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by pavel_lishin » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:31 PM UTC

> It’s a good thing I don’t drink, because the blur of Saturday and Sunday spent on the phone could have really been dealt with better with a couple of stiff drinks to ease the pain.

What.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by trustfundbaby » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:32 PM UTC

bennesvig wrote: post #33

Does this only apply to hosting or registering domains as well?

I'm not a fan but I'll admit they're pretty good with domains.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by mbesto » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:35 PM UTC

rshigeta wrote: post #4

I've seen a lot of issues raised about godaddy recently, but any suggestions for domain registry that work better?

Just moved all of my domains from GoDaddy over to Namecheap. Interface is slick and very easy to use. First year for privatized whois info is free too!

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by libraryatnight » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:36 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…

Domains by Proxy emails you credentials when you sign up. People don't pay attention to this delete or never look at the emails, then get pissed when they can't login.

Their hosting blows, but I've never had a problem with registrations.