Anyone had experience with GoDaddy?

[ICV]

Don't use GoDaddy. They will lure you in with cheap deals but slap you with hefty renewal fees.

 

[Novevan]

we also use godaddy, Ithink it is OK.

 

[www.fastmagento.com]

We just recently started to use NameCheap, we found it much better than GoDaddy.
Cheaper, you can set lower TTL and they have a cool dynamic DNS solution.

 

[davidfrost]

GoDaddy is one of the pioneer at webhosting but sadly, their services and tech support aren't top notch.

 

[Steve Alphabet]

I thoroughly recommend https://www.tsohost.com/. UK-based, pick up the phone quickly, "plain English" explanations (no jargon)... been with them for 4 years and never had a problem. Great pricing options as well...

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

 

[CH Design]

I use godaddy for domains and that is all. I would not use there hosting and I certainly would not use there web builder or indeed any other like minded DIY website builder (wix, 1&1 etc...)

Depending on your budget your better off with a developer

 

[Turnkey Businesses]

never use one of these free / cheap websites. you might as well just pin a piece of paper on a tree in your street with your business name on it, more people will see it.

google hates these mass produced sites so you'll be hard pushed to get anywhere with it. it might cost more but its worth it paying a professional to make you one, or to save money use wordpress and a premium theme and make it yourself from there.

 

[Eyes and Ears]

I never had any problems with them. I bought the website and they sent me the invoice. I never troubled them with after sales questions thought.

 

[exciteseo]

You can use DomainDotCom instead of godaddy. But their business model is similar.

 

[Mark S Elliott]

totally concur with the people above - for hosting I would use Blackfoot(superb support, 24hrs a day / 7 days a week) and good site speeds.

Reference 'simple site development' 5-6 pages, depends on your budget but I can recommend superb people drop me an enquiry on my web form or direct message me.

 

[pickaweb]

I would recommend looking for a hosting company that offers fast hosting as it is a ranking factor.
Also make sure they offer good 24x7 support ideally via instant live chat.
It is so important to be able to get hold of the company you are hosted in just a few clicks rather than having to wait hours for support.

 

[Robin_Denis]

i once built a website via godaddy and it was very very easy thanks to their website builder tool. However, if you are making a professional e-commerce website, I would not suggest godaddy. There are much better solutions such as shopify. If you are not building an online store, you can go for godaddy.

 

[Mark S Elliott]

And of course consider if you are building a web site simply to have a 'presence' or as a 'commercial' site. The latter applies to e-commerce stores and the problem with Shopify for example is that your site is one of thousands on their platform, reducing ranking potential.

 

[brandy11112]

I used godaddy for a domain,it is really good

 

[Davek0974]

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

I can vote for not doing that too, tried it, it failed, then I tried moving my data to another host - 100% absolute nightmare!!

 

[Davek0974]

I thoroughly recommend https://www.tsohost.com/. UK-based, pick up the phone quickly, "plain English" explanations (no jargon)... been with them for 4 years and never had a problem. Great pricing options as well...

Thats who i'm with now, seem OK so far.

 

[Maximum Media Solutions]

Stay away from GoDaddy, They may seem great on the surface but they are far from it!

I've been with Vidahost for years now and they are excellent! Never had any issues with downtime/load speeds and their customer service is second to none!

 

[Ian J]

I've been with Vidahost for years now and they are excellent! Never had any issues with downtime/load speeds and their customer service is second to none!

I have which is why I recently moved away from them

 

[Dan_HiHosting]

The very large hosts such as GoDaddy, 123-Reg, 1&1 and so forth invariably provide terrible, non personal support, and overcrowded poor performing servers.

@pjohnstone if you're looking to add eCommerce in the future then WordPress could be a good idea. You can add WooCommerce, which many of our clients use, and will give you full eCommerce features.

If you want to make this easy it's probably best to install WooCommerce now and add a WooCommerce theme, so adding the shop pages and functionality in the future will be a smooth process.

For a UK business/UK targeted website it's definitely a good idea to choose good UK web hosting. Your visitors will get better performance which can make a real difference, especially for eCommerce, and Google also takes performance into consideration in ranking your website.

For a business, and especially if you're looking to add eCommerce in the future you may want to choose specialised eCommerce hosting. You can then benefit from increased performance, and some providers will also provide a free SSL certificate and other benefits.

Regarding who to choose, this has been asked lots of times. If you do a search on the forums you should find plenty of hosting recommendations, hopefully including us.

If you have any questions feel free to get in touch, we'd be happy to help.

Best of luck,

Dan

 

[EUWindowsHost]

I tried purchasing at GoDaddy last year, but that was just for my start-up website. I suggest if you need a more intense service, research on some more services.

Yes, there are many other great hosting provider outside there.

 

[ZaraAllen]

I have been using godaddy for a couple of years. There services are OK but you need setting up web host is not as easy as most web hosts.

 

[Barnes Thomas]

If you are concerned abotu domain purchasing then you should go for Godaddy, I had not so good experience with Godaddy hosting. You can use Namecheap for hosting, my sister is running a blog and having a good experience with this hosting provider.

 

[Barnes Thomas]

Moreover there are many other hosting providers that provide excellent customer support, you can search online

 

[xnstandy]

Go daddy hosting is terrible. But it claims the world's biggest domain provider. You can compare with namecheap and fastdomain. It depends on your needs

 

[liamx1234]

godaddy is slow as hell

 

[Small Biz Geek]

GoDaddy has frustrated me a lot. I always used them for domains, and I would then use the nameservers to hook them up to a decent shared host such as Dreamhost.

I decided to try GoDaddy as a host, and also to work with cPanel (which Dreamhost does not use) so bought some basic GoDaddy Linux hosting.

There hasn't been too much downtime but I find I'm the sort of person who tends to push my website quite hard in terms of performance...therefore I'm on the phone about twice a month to support asking questions and asking why certain things break/stop working.

Whatever host you use, you can increase the performance substantially by using a free reverse proxy and cache such as CloudFlare. CloudFlare is well known to WordPress webmasters looking for that extra layer of security. It tends to do some of the heavy lifting in terms of content delivery, especially if you have lots of images on your site (as I do).

I'm glad I've used GoDaddy for the reason that I have learnt a hell of a lot about diagnosing and fixing problems. When I've been on the phone to support tech I have often been the one who solves the problem there and then while we discuss the issues and the staff have been grateful for the tips.

If you're wanting a great host with minimum hassle, choose DreamHost. If you don't mind rolling up your sleeves now and then, GoDaddy is okay.