We've been happy with GoDaddy for domain and hosting
I've had multiple bad experiences with GoDaddy. I hosted a photographer's business site on GoDaddy and I had to rewrite 100 or so working pages to get them to work again -- *twice* -- when they modified their server environment. In one instance they were not able to tell me what they did to their servers that made all my pages stop displaying a portion of their content. Another catastrophic problem they were *never* able to fix: Suddenly about 20% of the time that our site's larger pages were served, only 75% of the page's code was served. They never could fix this. The suggested possible workaround (which worked) was to buy, and copy the multi-gigabyte site to what they call a "Legacy Server", which did not have the clustered servers' intended reliability benefits that their normal accounts use. In most of the support calls I made to GoDaddy, their technical support people's assumption was, in cases of web page display problems, that it was always a problem in the web page creator's code. This attitude was so ingrained that it continued even when I showed them that their server's file date stamp documented that the failing pages had not been modified for six months prior to the start of a problem. On a personal note, I don't particularly care for their web site's user interface design they provide for you to administer your servers and databases. I always had trouble locating where common site management tasks were done on their site. Finding what you need on their site is also complicated by the voluminous upsell material embedded in many of their pages. Their management of our domains was more or less acceptable. - Hal Lane ######################## # hallane@earthlink.net ######################## ======= Forwarded post: ========================= Author: david Date: 2012-08-31 15:07 -400 To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion Subject: Re: [Fractint] Web hosting On 08/31/2012 07:05 AM, Mark Christenson wrote:
After six years in limbo, I am considering resurrecting my fractal website. Can anyone recommend a hosting service with good capacity and reasonable prices? Thanks, Bud ( of the late Bud's Fractal Pages)
We've been happy with GoDaddy for domain and hosting, while others don't like it. YMMV. -- David gnome@??? authenticity, honesty, community http://clanjones.org/david/ http://dancing-treefrog.deviantart.com/ ======= End of forwarded post: =========================