Godaddy is a terrible web host. Move your business elsewhere.
I’m a bit curious. Does Godaddy monitor every web hosting account to see if the owner(s) say something bad about Godaddy? If my account doesn’t get suspended in a few days and this website doesn’t disappear, that would be a no.
These are my personal reasons that I do not like Godaddy:
- It’s horribly slow. This website is hosted on Godaddy’s servers. They advertise “lightning fast” servers. Look at this website (which is hosted on Godaddy) and look at the loading time. See a correlation?
- When you call to complain about how slow your website is, they try to sell you a dedicated server. That’s like more than US$30 per month. I’m only running a WordPress blog, and nothing else. Even WordPress.com, Blogger, and Blogspot have faster hosting. Yes, free blogging websites have faster servers. When I called Godaddy to tell them (I acted like a clueless idiot, of course), the customer support guy (his name was AJ) told me that he didn’t know about thoses services.
- Godaddy’s technical support is clueless. I called them about my website speed twice. Each time they told me that they would have to “check the documentation”. Then, they proceeded to “empty my applications folder”, which did absolutely nothing to the speed of my website. Then, they proceeded to sell me a dedicated server (I told them I wasn’t interested).
- Godaddy got hacked and they covered it up. Read about it here.
- Beware of the misleading advertisements! As I said before, Godaddy advertises “lightning fast” servers. I called the technical support people once and told them that it was “horribly misleading and false”. He told me to contact the marketing department. When I asked him where I could find a better web host, he told me, “I dunno, Google it”.
I originally signed up for Godaddy because it was the most popular web host at the time (so many commercials on TV). At the time, they gave me free advertisement-supported web hosting (grrrrr…they canceled this program because it was too costly, and because it was SO easy to hack their program and make the advertisements invisible). That hosting was actually pretty fast. Now, my website is on a horribly overhosted server that has over 4000 other sites hosted on it. Just horrible.
The domain name for this website was really cheap (about US$1), but the discount applies only when you buy a year’s worth of hosting. Now I have fell into their trap and I’m struggling to climb out.
My advice for those Godaddy representatives reading this is to spend less money on advertisements and more money on the quality of your services. You’ve lured your customers in, now you have to keep them.
I will be packing up and leaving this web host in February (hopefully).