Moved hosting away from #godaddy #sucks


This blog has moved away from GoDaddy hosting to bluehost. I don’t know how good bluehost is (so far it’s been OK) but I know for sure that GoDaddy is pretty darn awful.

Awful as in
  • So slow that it’s a nightmare to be editing posts online. I had to do them offline and then copy-paste (and reformat), what a waste of time.
  • So fragile that my pingdom monitor reports it unavailable for more than 5 minutes at least twice a day.
  • So unresponsive that I’m sometimes ashamed to share permalinks to my blog in fear it would be offline. Why did I even pay them?

I didn’t wait for the one year I paid up front to end, just packed my stuff and moved over to bluehost. I don’t know how good bluehost is, but at least it’s fun again to be editing online and my pingdom monitor hasn’t told me anything bad yet, so knock on wood, looking good so far.

Published in Uncategorized, January 11th, 2010

8 Responses to “Moved hosting away from #godaddy #sucks”

  1. Congrats

    By Eran on Jan 12, 2010

  2. yeah I want to leave them too but have trouble finding another Microsoft supporting host which looks ok.

    By ws on Jan 12, 2010

  3. I dealt with both companies. From my experience, I went from bad to worse when I switched from Godaddy to Bluehost. Hope it goes better for you.

    By Buck on Jan 16, 2010

  4. Their control panel is crap besides all the things said here. I don’t have a Godaddy account but was ask to help a friend set up a website with a CMS. I through up my hands and said sorry man you are on your own.

    Leave Godaddy Drop Godaddy, Curse Godaddy

    By mark on Mar 3, 2010

  5. I’m curious on how things are going now. I have the EXACT same issues with GoDaddy and am trying to figure out what host to switch to. If you don’t mind, vould you shoot me an email to joe(at)irrationaldad(dot)com ? Thanks!

    By Joe on Apr 29, 2010

  6. so far bluehost have been ok. not super brilliant but much much better than godaddy

    By Ran Tavory on Apr 29, 2010

  7. I have 100 domains on Godaddy and i can say that this company is very reputable.*~”

    By Reuben Powell on May 5, 2010

  8. Man.. I liked Godaddy at first. Then this week, my outlook on them has changed a lot! First of all the costumer service “rude and bitchy”

    My websites have been on & off all week! they said it would clear up in a day! NOPE still have server problems..

    I will be switching over to hostgator.. eff godaddy they can shove it!

    By tom on May 23, 2010

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