Problem with godaddy. Post your problem here!!

charlesgan · 05-05-2007, 10:59 PM

in general public opinion, godaddy is a good registra and hosting company.
I think the same 6 months back. but not anymore.

Here is list of problem that i have this host.

1. control panel faulty, and after entering login information, it bring me to error page. Support ask me to clear cache and try again. Not helping, just clear off my data.

2. control panel is always buggy. i always bump into error page, error 500 is most common. and they seem like never fix this. i faced this is both computer, from different network, same issue.

3. shared smtp relay server. not even have own mail.yourdomain for outgoing email. Setup to this securenet server is a nightmare for me. My email suddently cant send out email, and support said they can send.

4. All email to my mailbox get bounced back to sender. i spend hour to fix this and email support. Finally remove the email, and recreate it, solve the thing. felt like 'blue screen.. restart require" = waste of time.

5. outgoing email daily limit of 250 only. thats too little and too low.

6. buying domain with coupon, any coupon, dont get me any discount, same as last time. Maybe i holding too many domains now, and have to pay full price $9+. Sometime the billing keep generate error page, and i have to email to support for manual ordering of domains.

7. Lately the domain propagation took more than 12 hours. previously i just need couple of hours

I have hosting with hostgator, ixwebhosting, bluehost, lunarpages, exabytes.
and godaddy is definately the last in the list.

entrepreneurmalaya · 05-06-2007, 01:56 AM

godaddy... I never try to use it because I always get a lot of negative comments about it. However, there are still many people use it.

Thumb down for their service. They will quickly block your domain name once they get complaint from someone about spamming. They'll not ask you first... they'll block it first and then it comes your turn to explain to them... if you can give hundred of good reason to them, you'll be given a green light to get back your domain name. However, usually it takes time.

photocrats.com · 05-06-2007, 02:30 AM

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Originally Posted by entrepreneurmalaya

godaddy... I never try to use it because I always get a lot of negative comments about it. However, there are still many people use it.

Thumb down for their service. They will quickly block your domain name once they get complaint from someone about spamming. They'll not ask you first... they'll block it first and then it comes your turn to explain to them... if you can give hundred of good reason to them, you'll be given a green light to get back your domain name. However, usually it takes time.

I think you should not blame godaddy, its ICANN.

entrepreneurmalaya · 05-06-2007, 03:06 AM

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Originally Posted by photocrats.com

I think you should not blame godaddy, its ICANN.

I'm not blaming them... I'm telling you what I heard from my friends.

Just share what they say about it so that you'll know how actually it looks like... however, maybe it doesn't looks like what have I stated in my last post. Just have a try first and then give your comment.

charlesgan · 05-06-2007, 09:21 AM

the thing i angry is that their control panel is having bugs, and not performing.
i have to wait so long to get things done, and more dissapointed when it give me error. imagine have to recreate the email account, so that its working.

Karooki · 05-07-2007, 04:25 AM

But it works now well. No more issues, yeah?

alemcherry · 05-09-2007, 09:22 AM

Godaddy never had a reputation as a good host! They are cheap host, that is it.
As a registrar, they are okay. I use godaddy for years for all my domain names.

snuzulooz · 05-09-2007, 09:36 AM

GoDaddy was my former host. Their site is not user friendly and in my case a PIA to build blogs. Switched to a new host with one click installs and never looked back. Aside from that what seems like a bargain at first glance is not all. I buy domains there and host elsewhere now.