Anyone had experience with GoDaddy?

[pjohnstone]

We're looking at using GoDaddy for building and hosting our website. Has anyone had experience with them, good or bad? Thanks, Paul

 

[PipeTen-Carl]

I'd recommend doing a search, there are many experiences on here with GoDaddy. What are your needs?

 

[Paul Norman]

It will depend on your requirements. If your website is high volume and business critical, then this would be a poor choice.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Go daddy hosting is terrible, it is slow unresponsive and a waste of money. their site builders are no better, made worse by the fact they are on their servers.

 

[fisicx]

Don't use anyone who offers low costs hosting and a site builder if you want your business website to be a success.

Which means avoid GoDaddy

 

[pjohnstone]

Thanks for the replies. Our requirements are quite modest actually; 5-10 pages, relatively light traffic, and we may host some audio and video but not huge amounts. No ecpmmerce although we may need it in the future.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Don't host video files, serve them off Youtube. Running hosted video files from a cheap server is a recipe for disaster and the poor quality of delivery will result in the viewer having a poor view of your business

 

[fisicx]

No ecpmmerce although we may need it in the future.

Another good reason not to use GoDaddy.

Think of the website as an investment in your business, spending a little more on decent hosting and proper website means you have got a strong base on which to build.

 

[Ian J]

Thanks for the replies. Our requirements are quite modest actually; 5-10 pages, relatively light traffic,

I currently host websites with several different hosts and my Wordpress site hosted with GoDaddy which is smaller than yours is by far the slowest to load by a huge margin

 

[webhostuk]

Make sure you test their support before buying any service from them.

 

[Faevilangel]

If you want to know the support guys by name at Godaddy, know the tech support team by name, know when they finish work and call them 10 times a day go ahead.

Using Godaddy is like using a plaster to heal a broken leg...

Use a UK based web host so you get reliable hosting and UK based support, also use a developer or even just WordPress to build the site, using a web builder will be damaging to your business from the go.

 

[pjohnstone]

Hmmm, a common theme seems to be evident here... thank you all, I'll look elsewhere. Thanks also for the youtube tip. Paul

 

[Lenka Pollak]

Hello Paul,

We have been using GoDaddy for a number of years and never had any problem. Customer service is also very good.

 

[Bradley Holmes]

I migrated a wordpress based site off their server´s last week. everything seemed slower over there, even just navigating around their hosting control panel was alot slower than you´d expect.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Hello Paul,

We have been using GoDaddy for a number of years and never had any problem. Customer service is also very good.

may I ask what you are using them for? I use GD for domain purchases, but not hosting.

 

[Scott@KarmaContent]

Just don't go to 1 and 1 instead. Frying pan, fire etc.

 

[Lenka Pollak]

We use GD for domain purchasing and webmail services. Regarding hosting, a disadvantage may be that their servers are mainly based in the US.

 

[fisicx]

So that didn't really answer the OPs question as he was specifically asking about hosting.

And why are you using GD for webmail when your UK host provides this as part of the package?

 

[HazelC]

I used them 2yrs ago for about a year and they were great, really good customer service and always prompt at helping me.

 

[pjohnstone]

Thanks everyone. So my next question is, who WOULD you recommend?

 

[fisicx]

I've got a server with OpenMind - rock solid hosting but probably a bit too hich spec for what you want.

Vidahost get good reviews and I've got a number of happy clients using their cloud hosting. I'm sure others will be along soon with their recommendations.

 

[aditems]

Hostgator works very well as host provider for me.

 

[ryedale]

Don't necessarily go for the biggest names. Smaller well established companies can provide a much better service with individual support.

 

[ukbf0001]

Dont use GoDaddy, 1and1 or 123-Reg - Ive used them all - and they are all really bad, Ive also used HostWay - they were marginally better - but still terrible. I offer hosting through a 3rd party - PM me if you are interested - great support, 24/7 monitoring etc and the usual 99.99% uptime

 

[dealmegood.co.uk]

I would recommend godaddy only for the fact that there customer service is good but the best hosting website iv ever used and still using now for so many reasons mainly being customer service there help is amazing go on google and type in krystal

 

[FuturePro]

For your modest requirements I would recommend GD. I have found their customer service help desk to be most helpful.

 

[AmitKaria]

I use GD for Domain Purchases and was hosting with Hostgator for a long time - no issues there but recently migrated to a company in USA called inmotionhosting only because their magento software is upto date as against Hostgator. Excellent service so far. They even migrated 25 sites hosted by me as a reseller without charge.

 

[claus1860]

We also had a very experience with Godaddy in combination with Joomla. There super bowl ads are great but I think that's it.

 

[FuturePro]

Sounds like there is some support for GD.

 

[willv]

I have a VPS with GoDaddy and never had a problem really. Couple of small issues which there UK support team fixed quickly for me. My uptime has always been over 99%.

I hosted a Wordpress site on their Wordpress Hosting and wasn't as impressed. Seemed slower, and they had restrictions on what plugins could be used.

 

[Ben W]

From my past experiences I'd be happy recommend eUKhost. I've also heard very good things abour Heart Internet. Very helpful and 24/7 Live Chat help so you can solve problems at any time! What type of website are you looking at building?

 

[Dolphin-Design]

Host a number of small to medium sites on one hosting plan with GoDaddy and never had an issue with speed. Their customer service is in my experience also very good.

 

[moo-tique]

We're looking at using GoDaddy for building and hosting our website. Has anyone had experience with them, good or bad? Thanks, Paul

Customer Service, let alone trying to get hold of them is terrible!

 

[Rosie Rogers]

I have used godaddy for two sites, www. rogersvirtualoffice .co.uk and www. upperhorfieldnursery .co.uk, I have developed both with not much experience and think they are great!

 

[Granulr]

It all depends what you are after and what you want the website to do. Personally I just use GoDaddy to buy domain names and thats it, as I have my own dedicated servers, but as for shared hosting, I have heard mixed reviews over the years.

If you are only going to have a couple of static pages and email, then I suppose there would be no issue here. GoDaddy are much like Heart Internet, although Heart Internet's support seems to be better than GoDaddys.

 

[PIers Ede]

For building a website, find someone you like and trust, who can demonstrate they've achieved good things for others in your field. If you're budget is limited, keep it simple. But a simple website with gravitas, designed by someone who knows what they're doing, is infinitely preferable to a sprawling attempt at complexity on a self build platform like Wix.

For hosting, I recommend http://wpengine.com/ for WP sites. Not the cheapest but they're exceptionally good. Heart is decent but they're let down by the lack of phone support.

 

[delxyyy]

For shared hosting, I would recommend Siteground, for cheap cloud hosting DigitalOcean.

 

[fisicx]

No, go daddy is the worst. Followed closely by 1and1.

 

[beasty]

Is there any sort of comparison site for such services?

If not please build one

It is needed, I have 20 sites with one.com and have had 1 hour on their stupid chat function trying to find out what i paid for *I know i paid 60quid last week for domains but not what they were (The receipt i got did not show any domain info!) just paid.. wtf how stupid is that 1 fkn hour speaking to these dumbasses, i am leaving them.

How about people rank the hosts the have had in order?

I have pretty much always used one.com or not been involved so cannot offer a comparison but interested to see an order of merit from those who have.

 

[www.fastmagento.com]

If you want to buy domains, GoDaddy is a good provider. But their VPS and web hosting services are not really good.