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How to stop it: Use a different hosting service.
by namuol 8y ago
How to stop it: Use a different hosting service.
- calibas 8y agoTheir marketing is effective at convincing small business owners they're one of the best choices for hosting. That's pretty much the whole reason they're so successful.
- mark-r 8y agoI thought that would be good enough, I went with WebFaction. But it seems they recently merged with GoDaddy, so even though I explicitly avoided them it turned out I didn't. Who's a good alternative these days?
- ahmedalsudani 8y agoHover, Gandi, Namecheap, AWS, Google, Cloudflare. There are many decent alternatives. From the above, I have used all but Google and Cloudflare. My experience has been pleasant with all that I have used.
- mrep 8y agoLol. Every company you listed gets blasted all the time here on HN. I normally don't like qoutes but i think the Batman one fits well here with how people perceive companies: 'You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain'
- tracker1 8y agoI've been very happy with Google's registrar service... the only down side is you cannot bulk edit contacts. The couple times I've needed support they've been available within a couple minutes (once by phone, twice in browser chat). Not like any other Google support issue. Some prices are a little more than GoDaddy, others a little less, that part was pretty much a wash. The biggest advantage over Google's registrar service, is there's no upsell, at least not that I noticed. They do offer some integrated service options. The included google dns hosting and mail forwarding services are great imho. It could use some slight improvements in UI/UX, but still better than any other registrar I've tried by a large margin. Mileage may vary, of course, but I really do like the service overall. I'm not affiliated with Google, don't always like everything they do, and do have some reservations about them as a company. That said, imho the best registrar option available.
- meepthegeek 8y agohave a look at https://freedns.afraid.org/ https://freedns.afraid.org/
- negaex 8y agoNote that unless you have a premium account, others will be able to create sub-domains on your domain [1]. [1] http://freedns.afraid.org/faq/#14 http://freedns.afraid.org/faq/#14
- testrun 8y agoAh, did not know that. Thanks.
- Ayesh 8y agoYep, this is some kind of weird _feature_ in it. You can pay $5 to get "stealth" domains that others cannot register sub domains of.
- naniwaduni 8y agoIt seems that from the start the point was to share novelty domains, i.e. letting other people make subdomains off your domain is the point, and the rest of it kind of grew out from there.
- tracker1 8y agoI've put a couple domains on there expressly for that purpose... they also support dyndns options which makes it nice for home server networks. I do wish that Let's Encrypt would work with them to whitelist all the domains on freedns.
- testrun 8y agoI can highly recommend them.
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- SyneRyder 8y agoI'll mention FutureQuest. I've been with them for 20 years now. I'm certain they're not the cheapest, and I'm aware their website looks a decade or more out of date. But I've been extremely happy with them, they definitely wouldn't do something like GoDaddy did. They started as a small family business, and while they've grown a bit since then, many of the staff are still there. My occasional customer support emails still get answered by familiar names. Since they're not the cheapest, I throw my experimental projects up on DreamHost, but my mission critical stuff is on FutureQuest. https://www.futurequest.net/ https://www.futurequest.net/
- sumedh 8y agoI just cant them seriously with that website.
- Drdrdrq 8y agoHetzner (in EU).
- sumedh 8y agoI moved to Webfaction just to get away from godaddy couple of years back and recently got an email that webfaction is merging with Godaddy. Time to move away from webfaction now.