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I run a very minor hosting reviews site, and regularly monitor people talking about GoDaddy on Twitter. In short, customer-satisfcation-wise, they seem to have
by mootothemax 10y ago
I run a very minor hosting reviews site, and regularly monitor people talking about GoDaddy on Twitter.
In short, customer-satisfcation-wise, they seem to have vastly improved, and are leagues ahead of the likes of EIG (A Small Orange, Arvixe, BlueHost, BigRock, Host Gator and fifty thousand other brands). Their hosting packages seem usable now - a vast improvement.
The difficulty in judging hosts is that plenty of people have basic needs that are well served, and will go to the ends of the earth to defend a company. (A Small Orange comes to mind). The people who have bad experiences tend to shout very loudly, which can give a false impression.
The other issue is that people also shout loudly about things which, while not exactly a given host's fault, are connected with hosting, and so they get upset. Typically this comes about from leaving public information on a domain's WHOIS record, leading to spam calls and emails - which leads to some people accusing hosts of selling their customer lists.
Interestingly, EIG have been shutting down a number of their brands' affiliate programs (Site5, A Small Orange, Arvixe - may be others), which makes me wonder if they're going to consolidate some of their brands soon. They seem to be starting with the brands with the worst (recent) track records.
If you're after shared hosting, either go with SiteGround, or go with InMotion hosting (who have the occasional network outage like every shared host, but meh, the rest of their company is sound).
For anything else, grab a VPS from OVH, DigitalOcean, or dedicated from OVH or Hetzner. Good and bad stories abound, I've used them all and their core offering is sound.
(I don't know why you're downvoted, you asked fair question)
- 7952 10y agoCan you share your review site? Would be curious to see a legitimate one for once.
- ohashi 10y agoNot the OP, but I've been doing similar to what he describes (using twitter data for web hosting reviews). It has ~5 years of data: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare My data doesn't agree with what he's saying. GoDaddy's reputation is on par with the majority of the EIG brands. A Small Orange was a good company post acquisition by EIG for a while. I wrote about that specifically here: http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2016/01/19/the-rise-and-fall-of-a-small-orange/ http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2016/01/19/the-rise-and-fall-of... basically it went to hell once EIG management got involved and the original people team/staff left and it got merged into the conglomerate. I'd be curious to see his data as well and why it his conclusions seem so different.
- kuschku 10y agoRegarding price, a more detailed list of a few VPS and dedicated hosters you mentioned before can be found here: https://gist.github.com/justjanne/205cc548148829078d4bf2fd394f50ae https://gist.github.com/justjanne/205cc548148829078d4bf2fd39...
- mootothemax 10y ago>I'd be curious to see his data as well and why it his conclusions seem so different. OP here - me, too :) Question: are you including every tweet in your analysis, or do you ignore some as being irrelevant? I mentioned the example of people complaining about spam from public whois records; if you mark such tweets as negative, I could see that explaining a large part of it. (I ignore them as I don't see it as being directly related to a host's performance, even though I know there's an argument to be made about public and "private" whois records). FWIW I also ignore positive tweets that consist of short generic "great, thanks!" or "Yay, awesome!" - I've found that they most often tend to be talking about some sponsorship/promotion or meetup/party the host has held.
- ohashi 10y agoSo I've written what I count/don't count: http://reviewsignal.com/howitworks http://reviewsignal.com/howitworks Do you have a link to your site? Be curious to look at what you're doing.