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Originally Posted by maldives
I often use godaddy.com for domain registration but, choose other companies for hosting purposes.
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GoDaddy is notorious for being a little too politically correct with regard to what might be minor infractions involving a domain. They can suspend you, then demand tribute to get back online.
In addition, such essentials as privacy will cost you extra. It's not part of the standard fee. This ala carte approach makes the pricing seem real cheap, until you begin to add features you want and suddenly it's not so cheap.
My five sites and 17 domains are now under one roof: DreamHost. They give you one free domain with a hosting package, and charge $9.95 for the rest. This is a bit more than GoDaddy, but WHOIS privacy is part of the package, and that's helpful in reducing spam.
I also ran into customer service issues with GoDaddy, particularly when I encountered some database slowdowns for my sites.
With DreamHost, I had a couple of issues, which were resolved, and performance is, in general, far faster and more reliable than with GoDaddy. Anyone connecting to most of my sites will see our uptime, which is now at 99.99%.
Peace,
Gene Steinberg
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