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Why you should avoid GoDaddy

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Been frustrated with GoDaddy this few days, and some bad experiences on the road of ZHNG design studio. I don’t know why GoDaddy still a top choice for many people, I mean the new comer to web and hosting. Perhaps, they spent a lot on women to advertise.

Here are some list I know about GoDaddy and you should definitely avoid it at all cost!

Pricing term

Don’t get hook up with GoDaddy alone, there are a lot of research you can do to compare it with GoDaddy. Nowadays selling domain name is not profitable, a lot of domain registars are getting a hand in web hosting as well, so with others, you too can get hosting and domain in one account on one site. But the price GoDaddy offer? Always higher than any other competitors.

Pending Hosting

The reason I mention “new comer” above, is because this “Pending” thing. When you are with GoDaddy as an experiences hosting user, you’ll get frustrated with the “Pending” or rather, “Status”, there are a few step to wait just to get into your hosting account. Which means, if you are transfering your website to GoDaddy, expect a long long downtime, all because the “Status”. I don’t understand why I can’t adjust/create/edit my website in an IP address like how cPanel, Plesk and all other web hosting provider?

Catching you

I just realise that, GoDaddy doesn’t allow a folder with more than 1024 files in it. Yes, no folder with more than 1024 files are allowed. Reason? It will slow down your website. Can anyone explain this to me?

No error logging for budget host

Or rather, cheap host. The economic package comes with no error logging. Which means, if one day, GoDaddy come to you and tell you your website eat their resources, that is that. You are to abide with it or leave. Well, they probably ask you to upgrade to another plan. Even so, I will not believe the log file anyway.

So far, I have never had a good experience with GoDaddy yet. Beside of course the GoGirls :) Consider other hosting like BlueHost, ExaBytes for budget hosting, or VPS.net, WiredTree for VPS power. Just forget about GoDaddy, too many terms hidding in there.

Wrong choices

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First, I thought running a VPS is much better than Share Hosting, since I have much more resources to run on, but it ended up not-really result.

RAM monitor

I ended up monitoring almost on daily basic, especially at night, when I have more time to spend on miscellaneous things.

Search around the Google and ask around the support. Then I find out: WordPress is one RAM and CPU hogging system and Apache is not well-written and RAM and CPU hogging too.

I guess how WordPress taking the resources is an open secret, a lot of forum and support can find the support, it will ended up using this plugin and that plugin. Overall, not really coming with good result.

Consider there are a lot more system like Nginx and Lighttpd. Apache is not a good choice, but a widely used one.

Web server

I signed up for a managed VPS, maybe I should consider an unmanaged VPS for my next choice. Yes, there is always a “next” in my list. Believe me, any hosting will go down the hill from time to time, don’t be sturborn and keep on one only.

The good thing: Nowadays most hosting provider provided web transfer services free of chrage when you moved to them. Just let them finish the transfer then only change your domain nameserver will minimized the downtime, or even, no downtime at all.

How web thing works

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I’ve done a few simplest explanation about the hosting and domain. Some people still haven’t really get around with the idea of visiting a domain that point to an IP address that belongs to a computer that online 24/7/365.

So I made a simple illustration on it. Show it to them. Here are some replied I’ve got:
Web work

So that is my computer? I don’t turn on my computer for 24 hours.

Ok… Why is there an IP address?

Why don’t you just place my website at your computer?

I have to pay for those? But it looks simple, shouldn’t cost that much right?

Ok, start bang head on wall…