Comments on: Network Solutions vs GoDaddy or 1and1 For Small Business

By: admin

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:45:31 +0000

Eric – I’m a fan of HostGator, BlueHost, and A Small Orange, but it sounds like you need more than hosting. You might see if there’s a web development/design company willing to render services to your nonprofit at low cost and/or free.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:30:08 +0000

For someone like myself looking to mount a small NGO website rather quickly, and who needs to secure 2 domain names and have a hosting solution of low to medium bandwidth usage, what do you recommend? I prefer easy to configure, easy to setup and publish a website – no complex databse needs. The site is a frontend explaining the goal of the organization, with a few links and a page to contact us, so nothing complex, just a few banners and graphics and drop down menus.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:43:50 +0000

Roy – Well, I don’t have a good recommendation for a web host running Windows. Rackspace is awesome – top notch – but they charge a pretty penny. Verio offers windows hosting too, but I have a gripe with them and therefore refuse to endorse them (LOL).

No offense, but why Windows? In my experience, the only reason to run a Windows host is “because I have to” – I have yet to meet a developer that enjoys that platform outside of some corporate IT office.

By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:37:59 +0000

Who *DO* you recommend these days for hosting of a Microsoft based web site? Hostgator seems to just do Linux and the enterprise-looking providers for the MSFT world appear to be Network Solutions & GoDaddy, neither of which leaves me with a warm and fuzzy feeling.

In case you are wondering, I’m trying to host a small family business web site.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:32:31 +0000

Joshua – It’s funny, but most of my interactions with GoDaddy customer service have been good. Still, I agree that they often don’t respond well to technical requests. I’ve stopped recommending them for hosting – just domains.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:06:29 +0000

Godaddy is awful, esp from a customer service perspective. I need to run off php5.3 during cron jobs and their customer reps (I spoke with about 6 over a long period and traded emails with 3) have no idea how to interpret the question without extensive explanation, or make it happen. (note – you have to include an addhandler command in .htaccess in your root directory to access php5.3 for calls from a browser – this works perfectly). Therefore if you are a dev be warned. I just cancelled my hosting account after a long battle to get them to tell me the path to use in the cron call to access php5.3 instead of php circa 2006 that they default you to. They couldn’t do it

By: admin

admin — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:20:53 +0000

Jeevan – LOL, no. I like them better than Network Solutions by a large margin, but GoDaddy isn’t my favorite.

I find myself recommending HostGator to a lot of people…very happy with their service overall but performance could be better.

I’m also using a KnownHost virtual dedicated server and it’s quite good.

By: Jeevan

Jeevan — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:55:58 +0000

Hey Admin, are you a GoDaddy rep?

By: admin

admin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:49:15 +0000

John – Sending emails from a shared hosting account isn’t a best practice because many shared hosts are not white-listed. There’s a good chance that the emails you sent from GoDaddy never made it past a spam filter.

As for GoDaddy being the worst hosting company, I respectfully disagree. While I have had my share of frustrations with them, there are two points that I always fall back to:

1. They’re incredibly affordable by any standard.
2. They have very good customer service.

I’ve used quite a few hosts in the past above and beyond those listed in this article and I’ve found GoDaddy to be about as good as you could expect for the money. They’re not great, but they’re certainly not the worse IMHO.

Thanks for commenting

By: John

John — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:13:01 +0000

Be warned!!! Go Daddy is the worst hosting company ever. Read the reviews on the internet. They tried to extort me of $199 or shut down my website for sending too many emails to my customers. This is a warning.