On 09/03/2012 10:42 AM, Hal Lane wrote:I've had none. But I've never needed to anything like what you outline below. I don't think they've changed our server environment in years (including updating any of the installed software - at least on our server, they're not keeping up with PHP security patches since they're at least a full version behind current PHP).
We've been happy with GoDaddy for domain and hosting
I've had multiple bad experiences with GoDaddy.
I agree with that. Their site management front end is badly designed.
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.
Yup. Their site isn't an example of how to design a website!
Finding what you need on their site is also complicated by the voluminous
upsell material embedded in many of their pages.
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Their management of our domains was more or less acceptable.
- Hal Lane
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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.
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