Godaddy Plans - Options

Hi there,

Im considering one of godaddys plans for website hosting the economy plan, just wondering, whats the difference between me taking a windows server other than a linux server?

I mean, i know about computing, but i cant really see an advantage to an end user like me between one ad another. anyone shed any light?

Also any comments on godaddys hosting would be nice. Thanks.

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I have heard mostly negative comments about GoDaddy webhosting. Go to http://www.webhostingtalk.com for good reviews.

From an end users perspective - there really isnt much difference unless you specifically code or work with Microsoft proprietary languages (ASP, .NET) or need to specifically work with Access or MS SQL..

If you are working with php/mysql, html, etc - you are perfectly fine on either.

Personally, I prefer working on linux - but, thats just me - end of the day - its really your choice...



REALLY reconsider this decision. Their hosting is subpar at best !!

I know their packages look appealing - but, may I recommend taking the funds you have budgetted for hosting and purchasing a package froma proven, reliable provider - that has the specs you actually require - vs some huge plan that 1) you will never use to capacity and 2) you will more then likely never be permitted to use before having your account suspended stating some fine print in the TOS as justification....

Hope this helps...

Ohj right,

Thanks for all the comments, i wotn be using them then, who do you recommend?

Thanks.

i would recommend
webhostingace.com
nevacious.com
easyhostsolutions.net

dot5hosting.com is ok but one day they just closed all Linux accounts and forced to move either to windows hosting or to other hoster and that's what we did. they were reliable though.

the cheapest I've heard of is hostgool but downtime happens.

never deal with
existhosting.com as we never got money back from them after 2 downtimes more than 5 hours each.
weserve.ca has very bad slow technicians but good marketing support which tells you everything will be fixed within 5 minutes but it takes techs 2 weeks.

I just read Nevacious has been sold so I don't know how reliable the hosting is gonna be now.

From the perspective of one actually using their services, they have been great.
Their prices are low, and there has never been an unscheduled down time.
When I have questions, they are answered quickly and in a professional manner....what more can you ask for???

I opted for the basic plan:
$3.16 per month (prepaid for the year)
5 GB disk space
250 GB bandwidth
500 e-mail accounts
10 MySQL databases

I wonder why

Geat to hear they have worked for you - others seem to have had different experiences - but, always good to hear both sides of the story

[quote]I opted for the basic plan:
$3.16 per month (prepaid for the year)
5 GB disk space
250 GB bandwidth
500 e-mail accounts
10 MySQL databases [/quotes]

Try using even close to 10 gigs of traffic on any mysql site out of the 250 GB allocated and let me know the results....

Please don't take offense, but ANY negative comments coming from another hosting rep have to be considered suspect, or at least questionable.
Regardless of comments found on another site, your attempts to highlite the negatives of another host must be taken in the proper perspective.

No offence taken what-so-ever



Certainly, and that perspective is from a person that has several years experience running and managing a hosting company.

The prices you listed above are a marketing tactic at best and hold absolutely no merit or feasibility.

If you choose to think my motives for posting such comments are based purely with the interest of driving business towards our service, then that is of course your perogative...

However, my purpose here is to educate members of this community and others who are browsing these threads.

Anytime you see packages like the ones you have outlined, do yourself a favour and stear clear. This tactic isnt new to the web hosting industry - and godaddy certainly arent the first to try and capitalize on unknowledgable consumers through cheap marketing gimicks...

There are 100's of excellent providers out there - may I recommend anyone reading this thread specifically not choose our service - however, do yourselves a favour and dont try and buy a NEAR dedicated server package for the price of a Big Mac - I assure you it will not end well....

completely agree with that. there is always the limit when "cheap" becomes "not worth".

I suppose a lot depends on the customer's expectations.

When I first signed with GoDaddy.com, the economy plan offered 1 GB space, and 25 GB bandwidth...and THAT was far more than adequate for my needs.

It seemed that wherever I went looking for a host, there were hundreds of outwardly genuine, reliable hosts with "basic" plans that offered far more features than I was ever going to need, but was also more costly than I could afford at the time.
A host that offers a wealth of options but is weak in price is likely to price them selves out of many people's markets.

I would have been happy to have had 1 GB space, 5 GB bandwidth and say 5-10 email addresses and perhaps support for a phpBB.
I didn't need all of the other, more advanced features that seem to proliferate the market these days.

I'd like to see web hosts offer up a real BASIC or starter plan of just the options I mentioned, and save the advanced stuff for companies or developers that need them....BUT price it accordingly.

Regards,

C.C.

I think that you will find that this does exist - and from alot of providers. Problem is, your definition of "priced accordingly" - Im afraid most consumers definition of priced accordingly is scewed by all of these absolutely ridiculous offers out there...

Ive said this several times in the past - but, anything less then $0.50-$1.00 GB of bandwith/month is not a sustainable business model...

Companies get around this by tricky wording in their TOS around CPU and Memory usage. Fact of the matter is, forums are full of users who were asked to leave or upgrade to a MUCH more expensive plan as a result of these clauses - and the reality is, they havent used even a small percentage of the resources they thought they purchased...

Whats really driving this is the proliferation of application hosting. Put bluntly - 100 GB of transfer on a static html site isnt a big deal, and probably wont tax the systems too much - but, 100 GB of traffic to a mysql driven site (ie phpbb or mambo, or VB, etc) - is pretty much a dedicated server requirement..

What actually kills me is these companies (like godaddy) - sell 250 GB of monthly transfer for $3 (or whatever) - then also offer databases - knowing darn well - and based on their overselling equation - if anyone uses 3-5 GB of monthly transfer on a mysql site - they will be asked to upgrade to a much more expensive plan - or even a dedicated server - LONG before they need one...

So - the lesson of the day is - even though you save money initially with this sort of deal - the strategy is to get you in and upgrade you to a dedicated server - which will cost you ALOT more in the long run, then if you just went with an appropriately priced host from the start....

Eitherway, I dont mind - we have built a successful and growing business based on our pricing model and catering to application hosting - our customers get to use what they pay for (ie you buy a plan with 10 GB bandwith - you will get to use all of it without worrying about CPU resources - unless of course you have a serious problem with your script)

BUT - I feel really bad for the customers that get drawn in with the pricing models you are talking about, then raked over the coals - not too mention that the sort of overselling you are talking about always leaves a server on the brink of blowing up - and uptime, performance and reliability simply cannot be as high as an undersold, well maintained environment..

my $0.02 and hopefully someone finds value in these comments and observations....

I have seen countless posts on numerours forums from actual customers complaining of Godaddy's Webhosting service. People have complained about extremely long support hold times, inability to run/integrate common scripting and/or useless techsupport. In short I have concluded that their webhosting service is most suitable for the unsophisticated website that does not sustain one's livelihood. The most memorable feedback I have seen regarding their webhosting service is found here.

Hey all,

well... it took me the reading off all this thread to find out whats so bad with godaddy. I got it t the second last message. But i must say that all you guys that are complaining about GD have a link to your own hostingcompany in your sig. So i am sorry but i cant consider that an 100% non-partial answer. On the other hand there is canuk, witch i belive is a costumer of GD sayin hes very satisfied with GD.

Well... what you guys that own a web hosting company didnt get from canuk is that he doesnt own a multination inc. If 1GB wit 50GB of bandwidth would be enough, its kind kind of obvious that he is not running a huge site. So gd basic plan suits the needs, and why paying like 3 times more for a smaller pack?

Ok, of course you owners of small hosting companies have to center your business in top quallity. Thats absolutly honest and the bigger cost its no doubdt justified with advanced features on security etc etc...
We all know that 10 Mysql in a basic hosting plan its kind of non-sense. And nobody expects nobody to run forums with 1000 siultanious users on a basic plan. But... scroll down and check out how many users are online at this moment in ozzu? not 1000... not even close i imagin. And ozzu its a big webforum.

So, i would say.. . a huge company should look for a good reliable personalised service, but a beginer or a owner of a sall/medium company doesnt need to woory about so many advanced features.

There is ppl survinving on a business with 10 visits a day.... i think that a single godaddy basic plan can host dozens if not hundreds of these...

well.. don't know.... i am not so experienced in this stuff... only my opinion.

greetz

PS: dont mix things up... i am no absolutly saying that u guys are not being honest or somethin.