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10 reasons why NOT to choose Godaddy as hosting provider

by Constantin Ferseta | Sep 29, 2010 | Internet

Looking at godaddy as a hosting provider? Here are 10 reasons why NOT to. As part of my work I had a lot of experience with tons of hosting providers. From shared hosting to virtual servers and physical hosting. From small sites to huge sites (like Coca-Cola sites, with mobile databases included). From high traffic sites to high process intensive sites. Reason #1. Your sites will be in a bad neighborhood, especially in shared hosting. After testing with http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server/ i found on different IP poluttion with explicit content site Reason #2. Go daddy does not have a live chat support. You can either call them or by email, where the response can be from 30 minutes to 24h. Other competitors they do Reason #3. Every modification you do: create a DB, creat a subdomain, create a domain, create an email account, whatever is not instant. Godaddy has to approve it, and it takes ages. There is no such thing on the most of other providers Reason #4. Godaddy has a lot of errors on wordpress sites. Search on google error 500 godaddy to see what people are saying about that Reason #5. Godaddy abusevly closed a full account with dozens of sites (!) because it received a complain that a picture could infrindge the trademark of a third party. Also, it took a lot of time to reinstate the full account. Reason #6. On shared hosting, we bought for some of our sites the ultimate hosting plan, the unlimited one. Because the traffic on one of the sites spiked to 500 visits per day (!) they saw a lot...