GoDaddy Hosting Just Sucks
There is no nice way to say it. GoDaddy hosting is not worth spending 5 cents per month on. Honestly, if you are going to worry so much about getting cheap hosting, you will end up with cheap hosting.
If you are running a business and you are worried whether or not your hosting will cost an extra $100 somewhere else, then you should stop right now and not open your business because you will not ever make money on the web.
Seriously, if you think that extra money you might pay a better hosting company is going to make or break your business, get a day job and forget about it. It takes money to make money.
GoDaddy hosting can’t even get a wordpress installation right. This is something almost anyone can do in 7 minutes. I run a lot of blogs for clients and some of them have been on GoDaddy Hosting. Not one time has GoDaddy ever gotten it done correctly.
If you have cpanel at your hosting company, you can even install wordpress in about 3 minutes with fantastico. But with the GoDaddy hosting control panel you click to install wordpress and it just means they will do it for you.
I’ve had them install it into a folder after clearly telling them to install it into the root of the domain name. So now more time has to be spent to explain it to them again, have them uninstall it then reinstall it where I told them to do it in the first place.
Half the time they don’t even install the latest version of wordpress anyway. Then you have to manually update it to the newest version. An update is not as good as a clean install of the version you want.
You can’t use custom permalink structure for the blog. Godaddy hosting either does not have mod rewrite or they have screwed it up or they purposely don’t allow it. Either way a blog is much better off with good permalink structure for seo purposes. Since you can’t do that at godaddy hosting, then I would never use them.
GoDaddy is well known so people think they must be good. Anyone who has money can advertise and be well known. It does not mean they are good at anything.
Godaddy uses floating servers and floating MySQL. You do not know who else is on your IP Block. There are spammers, porn websites, warez websites, and other types of websites you do not want on your IP Block or “neighborhood”.
Would you open your clothing store in a neighborhood next to a massage parlor, a topless bar, a crack house, a bookie, etc.
If the answer is no quit signing up with cheap hosting. Spammers use cheap hosting. If you are in that same IP Block or neighborhood, your domain name can be punished along with them.
Suffice it to say, my company now turns away all seo business, blog management business, or any other business where we might have anything to do with GoDaddy Hosting.
Your mileage may vary. I’m sure some people will run in and defend GoDaddy Hosting. Go for it. My experience with GoDaddy hosting precludes me from ever doing business with them again.
Stumble it!