Is godaddy.com good?

[jdiddy45]

Is godaddy.com good? they afforded a super bowl commercial, so they must be decent i would think. $9 to have a .com for a yr, $3.16 a month for hosting. Are they good?

[AdamGundry]

Please don't cross-post (http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=59211).

Adam

[rsd]

You get what you pay for.
Just hope you don't ever need their customer service.

[opcis]

I have over 200 domains registered with GoDaddy and I find them to be a very reliable domain registrar. They have a good management system if you have only a few domains, but it seems a little lack when you have to manage over 100 domains. They have always replied to my tech support request within 48 hours and there prices are unbeatable, so I choose them for all my domain registration needs.

[rsd]

I don't know about you but 48 hours seems pretty slow to get a response.
Since you have so many domains you should try AIT's virtual registrar program - it costs you $1.00 to become your own registrar and domain names are only 7.99 there (aitdomains.com)

[gimbras]

I have 7 domain names registered with GoDaddy, so I think they are very good. Fast, reliable, and they are always offering low cost prices and promotions.

[Snitchcat]

I have 2 domains registered with godaddy.com. So far, no complaints.

And for me, they're affordable, particularly since I'm registering for a few years in one go.

[vinoth]

ya good, you can also have an look over http://www.ev1severs.com/domains

[marklorange]

they work great for me. one month and no problems yet!

[studentu777]

I have a big problem with godaddy hosting
I put .htaccess file and it blocked access for every type of file(jpg,txt,html..etc) but it didnt block access for .php files and I dont understand why

The same htaccess I put it on different ather hosts and there it blocked
everything(php files too)

Support from godady said that they cant help me with this problem

AuthUserFile ................../htaccess

AuthName "mypage"
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST>
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
</Limit>


I also tried this

AuthUserFile ........................../htaccess

AuthName "mypage"
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST>
<Files ~ "^.*\.([Pp][Hh][Pp])">
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
</Files>
</Limit>

It blocks access for every type of file but not for .php files


Did U have this problem with godaddy.com??

[MadKid]

i don't know much about godaddy but i do know that if you want a non-HTML host that doesn't fool around, go to register.com, you can use a normal domain name and a pagebuilder that doesn't require java (as i've been told and have seen) but there prices are the same as most NORMAL websites $150 IF you use all there other features i think

on the other hand you could use something like Geocities there cheap and you get your own domain nam, and a decent pagebuilder for 8.95 a month, but i HIGHLY discourage the use of them

[Sanim]

ya good, you can also have an look over http://www.ev1severs.com/domains
https://domains.ev1servers.net/cgi-bin/reg_system.cgi is probably what you meant. :D

[SpectreReturns]

<Files ~ "^.*\.([Pp][Hh][Pp])">
It would be eaiser to do (PHP|php)

[studentu777]

I tried like this
<Limit GET POST>
<Files ~ "^.*\.(PHP|php)">
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
</Files>
</Limit>

but the same result it didnt block the access of php files

I also tried

<Limit GET POST>
<Files ~ "myfile.php">
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
</Files>
</Limit>

also didnt work

And the support says that they cant help me...that is not their fault ...very strange because on 3 ather hosts the same htaccess is working fine

[vinoth]

https://domains.ev1servers.net/cgi-bin/reg_system.cgi is probably what you meant. :D

ya,

[vinoth]

https://domains.ev1servers.net/cgi-bin/reg_system.cgi is probably what you meant. :D

ya,
alslo check directi.com

[antoniojr]

I tried registering a domain at Go Daddy in part because they are so cheap and in part because I don't have a credit/debit card and they advertise that they now accept Paypal.
During the registration I opted for "manual registration renewal" instead of the "automatic registration renewal" but once I logged in to my Paypal account I was sent to a Paypal/Merchant agreement page I had to agree to which authorized Paypal to deduct the renewal fee from my account. I reluctantly agreed then clicked the "continue" button only to be taken to a Paypal page that required info on a "credit/debit" card (since I don't have one registered at Paypal).
I tried by passing that info to no avail and finally emailed Go Daddy to find out what was going on, or going wrong, only to recieve a long pre-written html page with all the information about Go Daddy domain registrations... except the info that would clarify or help me understand why I needed a "credit/debit card to register my domain. I again made my point to them in the customer survey included in the email and haven't heard from them so I will look elsewhere for another good "registrar".
My point is that although they advertise that they accept Paypal you still must, apparently, need a "credit/debit card" to use that payment option because their automatic payment agreement is "hardwired" into their agreement with Paypal.

[tims15]

If anyones looking for an alternative, the domain peeps in my signature are a tiny bit cheaper than godaddy, and I have always found there customer support quick and helpful. They also have web hosting at 100MB hosting for $10 a month.

[Sanim]

They also have web hosting at 100MB hosting for $10 a month.
Godaddy.com has 2,000 MB for $9.95 a month.

[tims15]

O. You might be better going for godaddy if your after hosting then ;)

[Intensity]

They have their ups and downs.

In regards of customer service (most important) they are good and they offer good pricing and functionality.

FAQ could be more thorough.....

[Gitman]

You get what you pay for.
Just hope you don't ever need their customer service.

Dude, get the chip off yer XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX shoulder. I use GoDaddy...they have 24/7 phone support, even for something as simple as a domain name. Oh yea, and were talking english speaking folk, which is something you can't say about most of the larger companies out there right now.

[scragar]

I used a company once where you asked them a question and they then asked you to wait while they found a translation(usualy wrong) and then atempted to say what they thought was wrong should not be happening(in very bad english). I eventauly discovered that they divert all call's in india to "offer the cheap hosting we provide". Sorry, but the hosting was awfull, no advice what so ever. Luckily others will be saved since the company went bust about 2 months ago.

[djvibe]

I am relatively new to the World of Podcasting. I decided to go with GoDaddy because their rates are really good, they have large bandwidth and storage for people that want to work with the High demand of video..

But... I have not been able to configure my GoDaddy account to work with Apples "M4V" filetype.

I read about the .HTACCESS file on the net. GoDaddy apparently supports this way of adding MIME types. So I added these lines to my .HTACCESS file. I put one in my root/index and one in the directory that contains the M4V files.

AddType video/x-m4v m4v
AddType audio/x-m4a m4a
AddType video/mp4 mp4

I put the file and CHMOD the permissions to 644.. Still no luck. Podcatchers are treating my content as text/plain. Does it take some time for this to go through? Did I mess up somewhere? Has anyone else had problems with GoDaddy and Mime Types??

Cheers, Graham
http://www.djvibe.com/

[2fast4ya]

it doesn't hurt to be a member of each of the domain registrars. especialy since it's free. I'm personally a member of edot.com

[djvibe]

It seems that most people who use Godaddy answer there own support issues.. Good thing there is Google or GoDaddy customers would be **** out of luck..

I have 2 Hosting accounts with Godaddy, I created a HTACCESS file and added the mime types to support Apples Ipod M2V file. To do this:

(So people stop emailing me directly, heres a step by step)

I created a text file called ".htaccess"

add this text:

AddType video/x-m4v m4v
AddType audio/x-m4a m4a
AddType video/mp4 mp4

Saved it. and uploaded it to my web directory where the video files are stored.. It worked.. I was stoked!!!

But then I wanted to set one up for a client... and it didnt work the second time around. I followed every step I did before and helped like 9 people set up their accounts.. but I cant get mine to work this second time.. and godaddy's support has been irritatingly bad. Read below for example:

Here is the Goddady Support team...

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for contacting customer support.

We do not offer the requested functionality. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Thank you,

Bob B.


wowww thanks Bob.. your awsome!!

[livingegg]

I have not yet had to go to godaddy's customer service for anything that was really technical - but so far it has been great. They really are open 24/7 via the phone (i called them at 2:00am once) and so the most you should ever have to wait to talk to someone is about 8 minutes during peak hours. So call, don't email. They speak english and they are relatively more helpful (and available) than any other hosting company i've been signed on with. Prices are competitive and they offer privacy protection on their domains (very important in my opinion). I've set up several clients with economy hosting accounts from godaddy, which are adequate even for some audio/video applications, and i've installed several php cms scripts and various other scripts onto the accounts myself with no problems at all. Their knowledge base is not as extensive as i'd like but at least they have one! I was having problems changing directory permissions once (chmod) in cuteftp, but their support had me do it through IE and for some reason that worked.

I've been jumping hosts for years and SO FAR godaddy is the BEST IVE FOUND, in nearly every respect.

I'd suggest that if you want total control over your sever (as opposed to shared hosting) then you either build your own, or sign up for a dedicated server!

[sta12s]

goDaddy has horrible email servers - that's my only complaint. You have to pay additional monthly fees just to get a email account behind some security features - that's smart for their business but it's still sleazy

[JPnyc]

I don't have any complaints with them.

[Azhong]

You can Become a Discount Customer and Get Discounted Purchasing Rates from the Godaddy Super Reseller:www.yourwwwname.com
just $7 for a .com 1yr

[sexidomi]

GoDaddy has good Customer Service...
and it's got a reputation... so why not?

[coding2006]

i have had terrible experiences with godaddy. i am actually a register.com client now and i have nothing but good things to say about their services.

[ncriptide]

I have a VPS server with Interland (now Web.com) that I use for hosting, but I use GoDaddy to register all of my domain names.

Interland is HORRIBLE for registering domain names. Every time one comes due, they send you an email reminder, but you have to call in to renew. If you have a long list of domain names, this can get quite frustrating. Plus, the tech support there never seems to know what to do when you call. Took me three calls once to renew one domain name.

GoDaddy is easy, you can choose to manually or automatically renew and you can lock the domains (which is the default setting).

[WickedShark]

I have some of my domains registered there and they are fine for that but you can get cheaper and better hosting else where and just point your domain name to the nameservers of your host. This is easy to do.

Godaddy is really big and you may get better hosting results from a smaller company.

[geraelindsey]

I use Go Daddy - have been using them for a few years now. I do not use their web hosting (and I have not heard very good things about their hosting) but for domain registrations, I highly recommend them. I have always received great support.

[sexidomi]

In that case all is good so long as you reg with one and host with another...

[gsw79]

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Besides my email being pretty funny you really under stand when you see what their response is. So read this and laugh, and don't use godday.
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Dear Godaddy,

Thuroughly read this before taking any actions, please, my server doesn't need any more problems than what it already has. In fact ask my permission to make changes, or tell me what you plan to do before acting.

This server is serving information which makes me (edited for this post) dollars a month, I don't want to refurbish it, as I will have down time, and the server is busy 24 hours a day. I hope this lasts for the rest of my life, although I'm not holding my breath. Your company then could potentially have me as a custormer for the rest of my life, but that depends on your response this time, we'll see, I am also not holding my breath for that either, I am only 27 so the rest of my life could be quite some time. However I really question your competancy as a company when reading your responses to me, and the responses to the ocurring problems, since I reported the first problem with plesk, and you respond that it works. I have to tell you to look again, it's a white screen, did you even look? Then the problem got passed on to your "experts"? Somebody actually looked this time? And the "experts" make changes to a live server, and don't put it back, changes which are obviously not how an "expert" would leave a live server.

As I said before I don't use plesk, except to restart apache, now that I know where the command is I don't even need plesk at all, it shows in my bill as a $20.00 a month, and yet it is an item that I can't remove from my reoccuring bill, I'm doing alright financially, like I said, the money isn't an issue, and plesk doesn't matter what so ever to me, just seems like a rather stange situation all in all. Don't worry about plesk, leave it be, please don't screw with it, I don't want worse problems.

I know how to administer linux, it is just that this machine is set up so much different then anything I've run a cross before, I'm having trouble finding what I know how to find. I've searched around and found several different php.ini files, the one you said does the trick, didn't do anything, I didn't create this problem, you did while trying to solve a different problem, that you didn't solve, and what kind of a company makes changes on a live server, or worse make changes, and does not put it back the way it was, knowing that every little thing php has a problem with but doesn't matter, could be being spued onto the screen of a live server, and there's also the potential of overloading the error log with junk, and worse than that you give me the incorrect answers to my problems and don't take responsibility for problems you created yourself.

Could you make sure the very best expert you have puts his/her mind on this problem, I would drop this server in a heart beat, it's just complicated to switch servers, because the server is so busy and needs to be up and running 24 hours a day (not that I can't switch, it might be a pain but with the correct process I know how to do it seemlessly, and not skip a beat), so let's get this fixed but don't touch it without permission, I don't mind doing it myself, but I don't think that I should fix problems that you created while trying to fix other problems that you couldn't fix, but I will if you really know the correct answer, and I don't find you competant to do it or you don't want to take responsibility. I actually do want to know which php.ini file to edit, the correct apache config, and other apache files, but once I have the first apache file, I'll find the rest, and really are you that bad of a company to not take responsibility for your own actions, and please don't change anything, unless I give you permission.

The way I want php.ini configured, is the way it was before you worked on the plesk problem, the way a referbished machine is, but so help me, don't referbish this machine, it should display the normal errors for debugging scripts, problems that make the script not work, the way any programmer wants a live server to be set up so that nothing that is live chages to look screwed up, even thou it works fine, I am lucky that no errors occur in the files which make me money or what is "live". I am trying to develope new files thou and that's how I realized you made changes and didn't have the common sense to put it back, or the competance to do the job right, or the wisdom to know what "doing the job right" means, which ever the case may be.

So please help me get this fixed, I would really apretiate if you don't ssh to my machine, when you do I loose all the commands in my bash history file, which I scroll through, so I don't have to re type everything, don't even look at it, just get somebody who really know's what there doing to just repspond to this email, and tell me that they really know what their doing and this is exactly what to do, and some other things stated twords the end of this email, and if you understand that it really is your responsibility to fix it, and I think you are competant, and I know you have the wisdom to know what to do, I will give them permission to do so.

To make sure I'm thurougly clear the response I'm looking for is just an email, no actions, explaining that I'm talking to a competant person, proving that this is a competant company, I want to know the location of the files I've mentioned, relative to the directory stucture of my machine without looking for them on my machine (don't touch), how my bash history file was different (super user to root to be very clear), not just different with the a couple commands added to it but everything I had ever typed for commands were gone all together, after they last worked on my machine. I would like to know what they would do to ssh to my machine and be able to restore my bash history file to the state it is before they ssh to it, if it's not just because they deleted the history (an explaination of how that happened would show competancy, cause I'm really not sure, how or why). I want to know that they can restore the php.ini without refurbishing the machine, down time is not a possibility. I will repeat don't even bother with plesk what so ever. What is wrong with the last response I was given on how to restart apache? Specifically what is wrong with the command "/usr/sbin/apachectl restart", think about it is that how to restart apache on a "live" server, that one is important, if you don't know the answer to that question, just ignore everything else and I'll go through the process of setting up another server with a different company. If the twenty dollars to hire your dedicated support, for one month, just to fix this one error, would get me the respect I'm looking for, I would do it, so it's fixed, but I would also be switching companies down the road sooner rather than later, but again if you don't understand the point of this email, it took me so long to write, I could have hunted for all the php.ini files that are on that computer and fixed it one way or another, as well searched for all the other files too. However from my explicit directions in this email, we both are aware this is your chance, rise to the occation or not, your choice.

The apology for being very redundant, just we all know redundancy is how things have the best chance of not failing.

Awaiting your kind reply.


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Now if your not already convinced this was their response, lmfao
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Discussion Notes
Support Staff Response
Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for contacting Online Support. Please note that your request falls outside our realm of support, as the virtual dedicated/dedicated server in your account is currently on our unmanaged support policy. These servers are sold with the understanding that the client will be able to administer their own server, which includes configuration of security and applications of the server. If you do not have server administration experience, it is strongly recommended that you hire a server administrator or purchase an assisted service plan.

There are several things you can try when encountering errors:

1) Reboot your server. This can often clear up stalled services that may be causing problems.
2) Log into the server as an administrator and consult the logs.
- For Windows servers, you will want to look at the Event Viewer (Start - Administrative Tools - Event Viewer)
- For Linux servers, you will want to consult the server logs. To list a few:
* Server Log: /var/log/messages
* Apache Log: /var/log/httpd/error_log
3) Consult one of the many support forums online. Typing the issue or exact error into your favorite search engine will often yield many results that will lead to resolution.

Even with these instructions, you should fully understand that any administrative changes you execute on your server are your responsibility. As such, you should double check the referenced material for accuracy and to ensure that no adverse changes will occur with any non-standard installations or configurations that you may have made within your server.

Sincerely,

(Name Removed For This Post)
Online Support
Technician
Customer Inquiry

[askfritz]

godaddy.com is great. every time i need customer support, i call the number and get a rep asking for my user ID # and PIN almost immedietly.

i like 'em. 5 domains, 2 years. A+.

[pjam]

I have about 100 domains with goDaddy and I haven't had any problems. Customer Service is fine and at least i can understand them.

I've used different hosts since 1996 and goDaddy seems to have things together.

Yes, they do charge for everything extra, including email. The FTP server on their site is kind of weak. But i can use jsp, java, ruby, asp, php and so on if I need to. On certain hosts, you are stuck with ASP only. JSP only. Ruby only and so on. I like to keep my options open with one host and while they might charge extra for everything, it keeps things organized.

I've had hosts in the past that would take a week to get back to me and even then, wouldn't answer my questions. goDaddy has answered most of my questions in a timely manner.

I still have a couple of domains with imhosted cause I can't move servers until next year for those web apps, and I honestly can not recommend imhosted. Horrible customer service. and the autopay feature never works on their site and again, it takes them a month to get back to me...

So as far as Godaddy goes, I'll keep buying from them until somebody else proves they meet my needs.

[JPnyc]

I've been using them for yrs now. No problems with them or their support. Only thing that bugs me a little is that lately they're always trying to sell me something. That annoys me. Other than that, they've been great.

[cherrylee]

it is the largest regiatrar in the world ,it is very reliable but not cheapest one

[SeanIM]

I've personally heard one too many horror stories of them shutting down domains for bogus spam complaints or other reasons. I prefer a jury and judge to be in a courtroom not Bob's backyard. I guess I'd use them for domains I wouldn't mind throwing away...but for anything I wanted to develop for the long haul I'd consider keeping them elsewhere.

[ClassicChelle]

I have godaddy. I like em. They're always willing to help me when I phone in. The site is easy to login to for account viewing and managing.

[ruuz]

Godaddy is a good domain registrar and I have been using them from last 3 years. Never had any complains with them and the support is really fast.

[dberg]

I use Namecheap for domains and Synhosting for my host. Synhosting may be a little more expensive but whenever I email with a problem it is almost allways answered and fixed within 15 to 30 minutes.