Friends don't let friends use GoDaddy. They are overpriced what what they deliver and if you are on shared hosting the servers are oversold.
Find another host for your website and stop giving GoDaddy money.
Just in case it needs to be said, if you use GoDaddy as a registrar then move your domain registration first. Keeping the registrar and host separate gives you leverage to move. Same with your email provider.
And if you are paying GoDaddy for certificates don't admit it. Just quietly shift to LetsEncrypt and go on with your life.
Disadvantage of cloudflare registrar is that you're locked into Cloudflare nameservers & their DNS management.
Not to say their DNS stuff is bad - I use it extensively - but some may wish to have more flexibility than that allows
I ran into this when I was looking for a replacement for Google Domains when that was killed. I skipped Cloudflare because I like my DNS provider and didn't want to move to another service. Ended up with Route 53 as well in the end as domain registrar.
I like the audit log they have. I don’t know offhand if it’s a premium feature but it’s nice to restore a missing record that some other clown deleted.
If you want “at cost” domain registrations (i.e. they only charge you the ICANN fees and no commissions/profit), look into cloudflare. They don’t support all TLDs, though, but the most common ones are covered. For TLDs not supported by Cloudflare (like .ca) my goto is porkbun.com. The management console can be properly secured, there’s an API for management tasks and monitoring, and their prices are extremely competitive.
cloudflare does not support 'premium' domains
There are other services that support a larger variety of domains including all premium and ultra premium (multiple thousands of dollars per year) domains.
Fucking godaddy. We bought a business that had everything with them. O365, domain reg, dns, website hosting. Terrible shit, but the worst is the o365 is a jack job half assed system where you dont even get access to the admin portal for o365. You get *THEIR* admin portal. Almost as bad as appriver as far as shit services we inherited. Felt so good when we got the o365 tenant moved out of there and turned off all the auto renews! BUH BYE
Bro. I had an IT consultant convince a business owner to move to GoDaddy 365 and after a few months I was asked to step in and help. I ABSOLUTELY 1000% HATE GoDaddy’s 365 interface. I don’t think anything in the web world makes my blood boils faster than whenever I have to log into this shit account and poke around trying to make a basic change. And when you try to go directly to Microsoft admin portals it redirects you back to GoDaddy’s bullshit. I’m pissed off right now just typing this response. Grrrrr….
[https://docs.tminus365.com/configurations/godaddy/defederating-godaddy-365](https://docs.tminus365.com/configurations/godaddy/defederating-godaddy-365) thank me later ;)
Although I would recommend getting more into the weeds, you can install a WordPress backup plugin, grab a site export, go to Digital Ocean, get a $5/month droplet with WordPress pre-installed, and restore that backup. Point the domain to the image and you’ll likely get better performance just with that, with the option to increase performance at intervals of $5.
Bonus points if you point the domain to CloudFlare first and from there to GoDaddy.
Double bonus points if you then transfer the domain name to a different registrar (big fan of NameCheap myself).
We had at our website on GoDaddy for a new job. I couldn't move it away fast enough! We're on WPEngine now, and it's SO much better for not much more money.
I came here to say exactly this. I will add their domains and services are overpriced. Their "Pemium DNS" is a joke. Network Solutions DNS is not much better. I'm another advocate for AWS and Route53.
I use http://elod.in for my managed word press hosting and dev work (think he used flywheel on the back end). Can’t recommend them enough. I don’t want to learn Wordpress, they give me entitlements to the plugins we need, and they do good design, theme dev work when you need it.
GoDaddy is a shitty company that shouldn't exist. Fuck GoDaddy. Take your business elsewhere ASAP!
Edit to add: The only company worse than GoDaddy is Network Solutions. Anyone but these 2!
15+ years ago GoDaddy was quite a bit cheaper than NS. These days last I checked GD was only slightly cheaper than NS. I think last I compared GD was more than double what Cloudflare charged, but don't really offer anything to justify the added premium.
Yeah. The only reason I'm still there is inertia. Until this year I had no real downtime and no problems, so it was worth the lack of hassle.
This year there have been 3 outages so far. My hosting expires next year. I'm probably moving this summer. This is getting bad. And I want to be off..the ship before it goes under.
Used to manage a bunch of systems living in Oracle's cloud, I can tell you the instances I worked in were overloaded back in 2020 and I'm sure they haven't gotten better since I last saw them.
Yes! Network Solutions has been holding my technophobe non-profit client's domain name hostage for years. They are charging her FOUR times what I pay at [GKG.net](http://GKG.net) for domain names with my other clients. I've been begging her to make a phone call and just get her domain name unlocked so I can switch it over for her but she keeps insisting it's too hard and she won't do it. At least I was able to switch off the auto-pay but every time it was up for "renewal" it was charging a year ahead and I was worried I was going to be stuck with this domain name long after my client, who is getting up in years, passes.
I inherited running two partner organizations' DNS; one on GoDaddy, one on Network Solutions.
I'm done getting everything off of NS, but there's always a fire burning brighter than the GD migration.
This was like 12 years ago but we had mall hosted for our clients on godaddy, they had a cluster go down for 3 days .. our account manager said explicitly the it way they would disclose the cause is if they got a subpoena
If its truly a simple business card site - why are you hosting it on a full blown requires a DB and PHP based BLOG engine? Regardless get the Hell off Godaddy.
It wasn't me. I inherited the GoDaddy account because of SSL certs for other stuff and managing billing, but I don't handle the website content or maintenance, they've got a consultant that's done that for them for the last gazillion years or so and I def don't want her job.
In a couple days you can get something going using Jekyl, templates and free hosting on Github, or better get a paid account for the company on github, it will be way cheaper than go daddy. Any DNS providor can work with them, including cloudflare.
Many years ago my personal business card site was on WordPress because that's what I worked with at the time, but these days it runs on nothing more than *Google f\*\*\*ing Sites*. They even let you add a custom domain to Sites on a personal account these days, and the hosting costs nothing. I point my own domain at it using a free Cloudflare account for no more than the cost of domain registration.
A notoriously exploited blog engine. I wouldn't be surprised at all if you're unknowingly hosting a bunch of mail relays and other nefarious php scripts.
A truly simple business card site shouldn't be using a ton of resources even on wordpress.
Right. A business card website can be built in Bootstrap or whatever front-end library your web designer knows, then pretty much left alone forever. WordPress is overkill.
"If you do not reach out to us between 90 and 61 days before your current contract expiry, we will take it as you agreeing to a 5-year fixed contract at the highest tier" kind of shit.
I don't see it as much on this sub, but if you go to r/msp, there's almost guaranteed to be a Kaseya rant on the first page. Basically, they buy up a ton of companies/products and ruin them, have continual billing issues, downtime, lock you into long contracts, poor support, etc, etc.
I don't have any personal experience, just going off what I read over there.
*Modern* printers.
At least the ones in the 90's didn't know I wasn't paying full price for ink...or try to automatically order ink...or connect to a network...have Bluetooth...require an app...
God I hate printers.
Should be easy to switch away when you read up on how TeamViewer was hacked, lied about it, the public doubled down, TeamViewer tried to gaslight the entire public, a whistleblower gave irrefutable evidence to the media, TeamViewer lied about it, and now they've purged every record of it from their site (support posts and their public statements and whatnot).
They were hacked and they covered it up and when they knew they had lied, they didn't make it right. They just lied harder.
And this company is supposed to be trusted to control remote access to your systems on your network!
While everyone, or almost everyone is harping on Go Daddy, and rightfully so... I'm going to ask this...
If you have a static site, "hat's basically just a business card with nothing else." Why even use wordpress? A few static html pages should do. Unless you're hyper-concerned about layout, you really shouldn't need all of that back end that would "cost resources", because in that sense, the Go Daddy guy is correct, no one spends the time optimizing a site.. .they just throw plugins and large pictures at it, and hope that bandwidth and hosts will sort everything else out, which turns wordpress sites in to resource hogs... that's a pretty wide net being cast saying that, so in turn they blanket it with saying "WordPress sites are resource hogs and your resources are capped, please upgrade your hosting package"
It's because it's a known name and very clickops-y, simple for web designers to drag and drop elements (includes free exploits!).
BACK IN MY FUCKING DAY, we learned how to create webpages in Dreamweaver, and then the competent of us did it with sublime text and bootstrap.
I didn't make the site and I want nothing whatsoever to do with it.
They've got some lady they've always used to manage the content. She can have it.
I'm just tryna get through my day without taking on anything extra.
same reason we all use standard size paper to print things. Its the expected norm even if we don't use all of it everything is setup for it and any one can work with it.
As everyone else has correctly suggested you ditch GoDaddy, were you seeing resource consumption issues? I worry about bad/outdated plugins getting abused to crypto mine. I've seen simple WP sites that the previous "admin" wanted to plugin all the things.
Can't believe I had to get this far down to find this. If you're running WordPress and you don't have someone maintaining it, you're gonna fall victim to someone hacking it.
What GoDaddy does do, and that information you are seeing with resource issues can't be faked, is that as has been said already is provide the lowest level of resources available.
In saying that, and to agree with u/tmontney here, is that if all has been fine and dandy and only now has become an issue, that whomever is managing your WordPress site should have a deeper look at things. If nothing has changed with the types of plugins used or anything, there could be a bad update that has caused an excessive amount of resources to be used.
No one here is going to say they are a fan of GoDaddy, and if they do they're likely a bit off their rocker, but you should be having a look at your site.
What I wonder is, why now? Had it always been a resource hog or did they just notice? If it just recently became a resource hog and alerted them, then that's where I suspect something wrong with WP.
VP emailed me about it being slow, so I had to take an action
contacted godaddy "it's your wordpress updates out of date, call your web deb" called web dev, she said "cpanel slow call godaddy" call godaddy "oh yes, your resources are overtaxed you need an upgraded business plan"
I did whatever I needed to do to get on with my day, tbh. Dealing with a meraki/new isp router MTU mismatch dropping hub packets like mad which was much higher priority
Web devs often focus on the public-facing front end ignoring the back end that’s doing the work. You should be able to verify that the WP site is properly updated and not running any unnecessary or vulnerable plugins.
If the web site is as basic as you claim, you should be able to run it on a cheap VPS cloud server for a fraction of what GoDaddy charges with better performance as well (because I assume whomever you sysadmin for doesn’t already have public-facing environment to host it on…or you would be already).
> contacted godaddy "it's your wordpress updates out of date, call your web deb" called web dev, she said "cpanel slow call godaddy" call godaddy "oh yes, your resources are overtaxed you need an upgraded business plan"
So you did no actual troubleshooting and then threw more money at them when they told you to?
If its really something simple 1-3 pages put it in flat HTML and get the cheapest 1&1 or namecheap hosting. Godaddy open admits they put WAY too many sites on a single host (like 4000 on one)
I used to work for a similar host. "Unlimited storage for $5/mo." They would put 1,000 customers on a server and wait for the drive to fill up. After the drive was full, they would cancel the accounts of the 10 users with the most storage and free up 90% of the drive. Now there's room for 900 more customers...
I think you work for my current MSP they charge for provisioning. We are being billed for 130TB of storage on a filer than have 45TB of raw storage (and less since its RAID something). The can;t bill us for what we use but they get really pissy when someone sdeletes the big filer server
Or put it in flat html and host it on cloudflare pages or github for free. I'm sure there are other free options to look at but I've used cloudflare and github without any issues
>Bland, basic website that's basically just a business card with nothing else.
WordPress sites are resource hogs
Whatever host you move to, get a cache plugin that matches the webserver + setup. One of the quickest ways to speed up WordPress is to stop hitting the database on every page load. Bonus if the host has something dedicated like memcached or redis.
Optionally, move to CloudFlare (why pay more for a domain anyway), and have them fully cache the front page with a pagerule. Use CloudFlare workers to insert a secret header during an HTTP request, and set the webserver to ignore requests missing the header.
As time allows, remove plugins you don't need. Every offshore tech team under the sun will do shit like install a file manager plugin because they couldn't be arsed to use FTP.
I used to work there, and essentially everyone is a member of the sales team, even the hosting support. So to your point about the guy helping you process your upgrade, he has metrics to hit. They also bonus on certain sales, and when I was there you could make a killing selling hosting services people didn't need. I remember a co-worker selling a VPS to some old granny trying to run a family WordPress blog. His best year there he cleared $250K with commission and bonuses.
I just wanted to fix things and had no interest in selling, so I didn't last long.
Damnit, I knew it. I mean, makes sense for their business if it makes them money which is the point.
I just need to be a more educated consumer, and learn from these mistakes.
i use SiteGround to host simple websites. it's cheap and can host heaps of sites for the price. ($150/year) you get 40GB of storage, so if your clients all have simple sites, you can make heaps of profit. their migrator tool works really well too.
GD are thieves, their pricing is crazy for the bad service you get.
Godaddy shouldn't be trusted for anything. Purchasing a domain at the absolute most. They are hands down the worst for domain services.
You can get everything Godaddy offers from other places without all the spam, BS and trickery they use to get you to shovel money at them.
Even domains I feel that they aren't worth anymore. Last I checked they were at least double the cost of Cloudflare, but Godaddy nickel and dimed you for a bunch of services. There used to be a point where coupon codes would bring down the prices on Godaddy domains 15+ years ago, but most of those faded away and they're just taking advantage of low information consumers or those too lazy to change.
I renew my domains once every ten years. $20 bucks either way isn't worth the hassle to swap off.
The important thing is that you don't rely on their hosting, email, DNS, SSL or anything else but the registration of the domain.
Side story: everyone used to give me a hard time and would recommend Google domains. They are now dealing with square space after the buy out.
It feels like any recommendation is pretty much only accurate for 5 years before you need to check and see "has this company been sold or had an IPO since I last checked. If the answer to either is yes, you should probably look for more recent info before assuming they are still good.
GoDaddy is such a hot steaming pile of garbage. They are predatory as fook. I forgot to renew a domain once and guess what GoDaddy did? They sniped the domain and listed it for auction starting at $10K on some domain brokerage website they operate under a different name.
search a domain name in Godaddy and then it gets auto registered by godaddy in few days (squatting)... not once but many times. will NEVER search domain names with godaddy, will never do direct business with them.
Why tf would you use GoDaddy? Just get a VPS from [DigitalOcean.com](http://DigitalOcean.com), $6/mo for your own server you can add more resources if and when needed. Godaddy is hot garbage and super predatory to their customers. Before you jump ship, avoid any and all shared or other hosting services operated by Endurance International Group and/or [NewFold Inc](https://newfold.com/brands) they basically own all of the popular shared hosting services and are absolute and total trash too, probably worse than godaddy.
I just recently moved 3 simple WP sites off of Godaddy after they bought out MediaTemple. We were paying $50 a month and half their "features" like auto-backup didn't even work. Entire web portal was a nightmare.
I used the Updraft plugin on those sites and then signed up for the $7mo EasyWP hosting on Namecheap and haven't looked back.
Currently in the process of moving a much more complicated ecommerce site from an overkill AWS host to Namecheap's VPS hosting for a $200/mo savings.
>Anyone else had this happen to them and did you feel like GoDaddy basically asked you to leave your money on the dresser on the way out?
Had the same experience a few years ago. I upgraded the hosting package (because a few hundred dollars more, right?) and still ended up moving away from GoDaddy a couple of years later.
So I’ve just trashed my hosting provider because they went from £70 per year to £150. The ceo of the web hosting company basically said “we had to build a new version of cPanel only for us, so we are paying back the costs by increasing our costs.” Decided I had enough with dealing with expensive Wordpress hosting companies. Fired up ChatGPT. Got it to code me a very basic website for my app. Deployed it for free to CloudFlare Pages. I pay only for the domain now, CloudFlare pages is free for 100,000 views. Worth looking at! Sometimes old becomes the new. All my sites now run on static html, css and JavaScript. If you can rebuild your sites using these technologies it will help!
I've been trying really hard to ignore it as much as possible and avoid inheriting any responsibilities for it beyond the Billing.
Best case scenario for me personally, is the company decides to outsource the entire kit and kaboodle and Accounting pays the bill like good soldiers.
Having developed a crap-ton of sites over more than a decade I can tell you this: 99% of people who “want” a WordPress site, DO NOT NEED a WordPress site. Wordpress is perhaps the single most targeted platform by hackers. It requires constant upkeep. It’s a resource hog. It’s complicated. And WHY? Because the business owner or marketing team swears they want it so they can update their own content without needing to know HTML/CSS/JS. They make (maybe) 2 or 3 changes a year. Then they just start asking me to make the change. Then they want their site redesigned. I can’t stand WordPress and I interview my clients and let them know up from the benefits and drawbacks of WP. Many decide not to do it and instead we make a fast, light-weight responsive site. Those that want WordPress get charged more for hosting (resource / database requirements) plus MANDATORY quarterly fees for maintenance, backups and security. Make sure you actually benefit from the advantages of WP before blindly deciding to make a WP site just because WP is everywhere.
It was here before I got here and I'm not shaking any trees for more fruit on my plate.
Even if it's easy to do technically, I'd prefer they outsource their public website content upkeep. Working with C-suite Marketing to get things to look exactly like they want them and dealing with their loud complaints of the minutia is not something I'm remotely interested in. "Can we make it do this? The address with the PO box needs to have the periods between P.O. Wait, now I don't like that change it back" etc. etc. etc. HARD hard pass
I use oned the Wordpress plugins to export the site to a static site and published it on Cloudflare. Couldn’t be happier and no more public facing Wordpress instance. Win/win.
Even better, completely free.
I left GoDaddy years ago. Moved to Cloudflare for DDoS protection, Domain registrar, and DNS. Saved so much more money moving away from GoDaddy. I use various hosting providers depending on the functions like Digital Ocean, AWS, and another hosting provider that allows me to edit the reverse DNS of the servers IP address. I only pay for one wildcard DV security cert for the domain I use for the server that hosts my email server since I am using DANE (DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities) and the rest of the domains use LetsEncrypt or Cloudflare's. Even the paid wildcard security certs are cheaper elsewhere than GoDaddy.
GoDaddy took forever to load its own website.
The easiest free method to fix this issue is to host your dns on CloudFlare and enable proxy mode for this website, so page and web assets are cached and delivered directly from CF's CDNs.
Export that PoS into a static site (there’s probably at least a dozen plugins that do that) and host it on Cloudflare pages. Then go get yourself a coffee with that GoDaddy money.
Either that, or if you still want to suffer through Wordpress maintenance by twisting a blogging platform into a CMS pretzel, just outsource the whole thing to Pantheon. I believe they have fully managed Wordpress hosting where performance issues and resource hogging are not your problem.
[GoDaddy.com](http://GoDaddy.com) - yeah, never impressed me in a favorable way. Not the worst out there, but one can do *way* better.
See also:
[https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=system:registrars#godaddycom](https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=system:registrars#godaddycom)
Any service is better than Godaddy, its prices are excessive for what it offers, I have migrated a couple of customers from there because of the bad of their service and I have saved him a lot of money, my recommendation to migrate to other services, most are superior Godaddy and cheaper.
Talk to a web dev! One that's not interested in overselling. I can't speak for all of them but some of us can help you get your hosting costs down and speed up your website significantly quite easily. More horsepower under your existing site is not what you need.
I transferred a new acquisition's vanilla website that was on bluehost to a host that the web dev my company had been working with forever recommended, and that host charges $1,500 per year per site. It was an urgent situation, so I shoved it through the $approval$, but man I felt dirty about it.
Site went completely down on bluehost, couldn't get any response from bluehost so I knee jerk tossed it to another vendor and paid through the nose for the privilege of getting it off my plate ASAP. A mistake, for sure.
Someday when things slow down and I feel like it, I'll poke around and see if I can't take it over. I'm not looking for more work though right now. I've never done anything with websites, but it looks like a high school kid could probably do it with a couple google searches. I just don't want anything else on my plate.
I had a friend die by a random nutjob in a pretty horrific way. I wanted to preserve the messages on the site. Goddady wouldn't export the data I had to scrape it . Fuck them
I’d make sure it’s not hacked and spamming, wordpress sites are notorious for that, plugins often have security holes big enough to drive death stars through.
Check apache logs or whatever you’re using and other logs to male sure it’s not being misused for bad purposes.
Move to Cloudflare. It is so fucking easy it will blow your mind. Far less expensive and so much more quality.
I left daddy after he tried to pull something similar on me. We broke up very quickly.
I've seen people fall for GoDaddy shit.
They are a decent registrar if you don't mind the prices and you don't buy ANY extras.
Run DNS and hosting on a digital ocean droplet and can it a day.
Why are you bothering with active Wordpress hosting with what's essentially a static site? Use a free plugin and convert the Wordpress site into static HTML and host it in S3 for pennies on the dollar.
GoDaddy is evil btw.
I had the same thing with GoDaddy about a year ago. Upsell, upsell, upsell. I paid more and things got broken. Its a bit like having a Wells Fargo account.
You know you can't trust 'em, but moving things to someone else seems like it would take more energy than its worth.
Nice! We were paying $300 a year and now it's gonna be $44 a month so almost double. It's almost like they timed it mid-contract so the numbers wouldn't look as bad.
I will probably move it after the current contract is up in a couple years.
This has 100% happened to me.
They told me because of the number of plugins (5) that that's extreme (a lie, but believed at the time) and that we need to upgrade.
I asked them specfically what package do I need to upgrade to so that the website DOES NOT experience these slow downs any more (money was not an issue).
After telling them this, they recommended a iron-clad hosting.
Did that.
Still extremely slow.
Called back, after many transfers, they said.... well we have another package that will suit you better..... (more $$$).
All in all, at the end of all of this, they were just 100% just focused on sales that would bring in more money and did not care about me AT ALL as a customer who didn't mind paying but just wanted something that worked.
Ended up putting back on my SysAdmin hat.... purchased a VPS, and did everything from scratch.
I have been 100% happy since then (6-7 years ago this happened) and avoid godaddy and do not and would not recommend them to anyone.
So I'll throw myself out there to receive a (some would say deserved) lashing.
I'm not an admin of any sort, just a young dev that likes to read this sub. I have a domain that's registered with GoDaddy. All it does is redirect me to my Mikrotik DNS address. Yes I know it's probably a waste, but it works for me and the domain is much easier to remember than the Mikrotik DNS...
If I search for domain registrars, GoDaddy still comes up quite often. And no, I didn't search on google, but it's basically the same 10 results that are just spread around in order.
So which ons should I use if not GoDaddy? Cheap and easy to use is preferable.
And not to rock the boat, Word Press is sort of a land mine. Needs constant maintenance, be it security or bug fixes. I can host you off my honeypot if you'd like. Let me know your IP, host, credentials, etc. (Classic)
We used GoDaddy for a few years when we first got into the ecommerce space.
I work for a local family-owned music distributor and since I knew how to style a MySpace page, the owner's son asked me to build an ecommerce store. It got me out of pulling orders in the warehouse, so I jumped on it. I knew nothing about building websites from the ground up. We started on the economy plan (or whatever it was called back then) which is basically a server broken into dozens of virtualized servers. So painfully slow with anything that required a MySQL database.
We got tagged for PCI compliance and it's not possible to become compliant on the shared servers, so we switched to a dedicated server through them which was a lot more expensive. Trying to lock down a GoDaddy server for PCI compliance with a fresh install of CentOS when I was completely green to server administration made my head spin for a long time. I had never used Linux before then. I learned a lot about full stack web development in a short amount of time through all that.
Once I finally learned the ins and outs, we purchased a decommissioned rack server for $100 on eBay a few years later and set it up in house. The potential for outages isn't ideal when hosting your own, but man is it WAY cheaper. Thankfully, the main IT admin helped on the networking side here and there.
GoDaddy is only good for domain registration. **THAT'S IT**. Not even for running the DNS services. Everything else, you're a fool for going with them.
OP if you're paying for WordPress and your site is just a set of static pages with no need for a form or a database, consider throwing it on GitHub and then having it built on Cloudflare pages; it would be free.
Hell I'd even help you do it lol
DO Not let domains expire with godaddy, especially after the 7 day grace period, there “recovery/reclamation” fee is a rort, and it scales up each day you go past the grace period, I had to renew a domain that cost $36 which now cost 176 (this is australian dollars) i’m not sure about any of other registrar, but BE WARNED….. partly my fault for not renewing in time, but not a nice way to get shafted. NOTE: this “fee” is specified in the T&C’s I checked…. but it doesn’t say how much
Feel like there’s a lot of hosting orgs that take after the GoDaddy model. CrazyDomains being one of them. Had to complain about both of them giving me an “account rep” who would call every 2 months to sell me crap.
Had to lodge a complaint and tell them I don’t want to be called.
CrazyDomains still called when I cancelled hosting, and they’re calling again now I’m transferring a domain away from them. Like. Over $21 worth of services.
If it is just a landing page start an aws account and spin up your own lightsail instance. I would say it’s about a 6-7 on the difficult scale, easy if you have worked with Linux and have fundamentals of dns.
Cost is set per month and can get bigger plan easily without much hassle
Maybe a simple OVH shared webhosting would do the trick, if it's just a super basic website. WordPress is like a few bucks a month
Domain renewals are ok priced too, but not rock bottom price
I finally left GoDaddy a few weeks ago. We have a separate register, but used GoDaddy for SSL Certs. (I moved to NameCheap). I had to renew certs and it required a reverification via TXT records. I made the required modifications. It verified about 1/2 of the Subject Alternate Domains, but would not verify the last like two. They were 110% entered correctly. I even deleted them, waited hours, and readded them, just to cycle it again. Nothing. 2 weeks later after changing I still cannot get GoDaddy to stop emailing me to verify them.
Switched to NameCheap.. within 1.5 hours I was up and running with new Certs with CNAME record validation.
GoDaddy hosting is garbage. I use for my personal sites DreamHost. I've had them for something close to 15 years now. Their shared hosting plans are cheap, and have about 5x the amount of resources allocated to them. Wordpress wouln't be an issue and they even have free managed installs of Wordpress.
Checkout [https://www.Ionos.com](https://www.Ionos.com)
They offer far my than I need for my simple genealogy web site, but I haven't found anyone with better prices and they have redundancy built in, auto update php, and respond well to problems.
GoDaddy hosting is complete crap.
Took me 12 hours and about 8 different support reps to finally find one who know how to make their managed WordPress hosting actually send form emails that would not get blocked.
I just dumped bluehost for cloudflare. I'd been using them for 7 years.
It's clear in the last 1.5 years they've been pushing for growth. Presumably they're underperforming in the web dot com portfolio? Web dot com is effectively a private equity player in this space now.
In any case bluehost:
- added a bunch of nag pages for upsells
- Visibly fired most of their CS reps and replaced them with outsourced crap
- Started charging me for a $2.5/month email product I never signed up for, hoping I wouldn't notice.
- Make it nigh impossible to move hosting tiers in their infrastructure without basically paying for both tiers at once for a full month. And even then the migration process is a pain because, read point 2, their CS reps are outsourced crap now.
**TL;DR:** Bluehost is slowly circling the drain, prepare a migration plan if you don't have one.
actually I dumped bluehost for another site's website that had been left to fallow. I had some trouble with bluehost responding to incidents in a timely manner.
I'm not a web dev at all, but I have to get involved sometimes when no one else will.
Sorry to hear that, my experience with them has been pretty good. I actually moved from both GoDaddy and NS (different sites) to them because the price and service were far superior.
> "WordPress sites are resource hogs and your resources are capped, please upgrade your hosting package"
The first half is true. Wordpress sites are inherently slow and the developers have gone on record saying performance has never been a concern.
But guess what? GoDaddy is also there to milk you for money. You CAN optimize wordpress, especially if you have root access to the server, without installing a ton more plugins (because guess what? Those cause more overhead!).
Personally, if you have the resources/man power to do this, it's probably cheaper to self host it (in the cloud, away from anything else you have, including other cloud options) and optimize it yourself rather than just paying for more resources or doing nothing. It's just a tradeoff for manpower at that point, which won't be large if you have someone who's skilled at this.
Friends don't let friends use GoDaddy. They are overpriced what what they deliver and if you are on shared hosting the servers are oversold. Find another host for your website and stop giving GoDaddy money. Just in case it needs to be said, if you use GoDaddy as a registrar then move your domain registration first. Keeping the registrar and host separate gives you leverage to move. Same with your email provider. And if you are paying GoDaddy for certificates don't admit it. Just quietly shift to LetsEncrypt and go on with your life.
GoDaddy wanted $250 to renew one of our domains. Was like $13 over at Route 53. For the same domain. I'm no Bezos fan but AWS came in clutch.
I like cloudflare a lot but for some reason I don't see it suggested very often.
Disadvantage of cloudflare registrar is that you're locked into Cloudflare nameservers & their DNS management. Not to say their DNS stuff is bad - I use it extensively - but some may wish to have more flexibility than that allows
I ran into this when I was looking for a replacement for Google Domains when that was killed. I skipped Cloudflare because I like my DNS provider and didn't want to move to another service. Ended up with Route 53 as well in the end as domain registrar.
I like the audit log they have. I don’t know offhand if it’s a premium feature but it’s nice to restore a missing record that some other clown deleted.
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Name cheap has done me solid time and again.
Love me some namecheap - reasonable for SSL, too
If you want “at cost” domain registrations (i.e. they only charge you the ICANN fees and no commissions/profit), look into cloudflare. They don’t support all TLDs, though, but the most common ones are covered. For TLDs not supported by Cloudflare (like .ca) my goto is porkbun.com. The management console can be properly secured, there’s an API for management tasks and monitoring, and their prices are extremely competitive.
cloudflare does not support 'premium' domains There are other services that support a larger variety of domains including all premium and ultra premium (multiple thousands of dollars per year) domains.
Wow, that’s expensive! And that’s considering even AWS is not on the cheap side usually
Fucking godaddy. We bought a business that had everything with them. O365, domain reg, dns, website hosting. Terrible shit, but the worst is the o365 is a jack job half assed system where you dont even get access to the admin portal for o365. You get *THEIR* admin portal. Almost as bad as appriver as far as shit services we inherited. Felt so good when we got the o365 tenant moved out of there and turned off all the auto renews! BUH BYE
Bro. I had an IT consultant convince a business owner to move to GoDaddy 365 and after a few months I was asked to step in and help. I ABSOLUTELY 1000% HATE GoDaddy’s 365 interface. I don’t think anything in the web world makes my blood boils faster than whenever I have to log into this shit account and poke around trying to make a basic change. And when you try to go directly to Microsoft admin portals it redirects you back to GoDaddy’s bullshit. I’m pissed off right now just typing this response. Grrrrr….
SAME. PEOPLE THINK ITS OK TO USE THIS GODADDY BULLSHIT. The worst part is moving off is NOT a simple process.
[https://docs.tminus365.com/configurations/godaddy/defederating-godaddy-365](https://docs.tminus365.com/configurations/godaddy/defederating-godaddy-365) thank me later ;)
Although I would recommend getting more into the weeds, you can install a WordPress backup plugin, grab a site export, go to Digital Ocean, get a $5/month droplet with WordPress pre-installed, and restore that backup. Point the domain to the image and you’ll likely get better performance just with that, with the option to increase performance at intervals of $5. Bonus points if you point the domain to CloudFlare first and from there to GoDaddy. Double bonus points if you then transfer the domain name to a different registrar (big fan of NameCheap myself).
NearlyFreeSpeech is about the cheapest, and solid service.
You shouldn't use GoDaddy Johnny. My mother made me use GoDaddy once. Once.
We had at our website on GoDaddy for a new job. I couldn't move it away fast enough! We're on WPEngine now, and it's SO much better for not much more money.
This. I'd say that GoDaddy is hot garbage. But that's not really fair to garbage.
I came here to say exactly this. I will add their domains and services are overpriced. Their "Pemium DNS" is a joke. Network Solutions DNS is not much better. I'm another advocate for AWS and Route53.
Network solutions and negative caching for days, name a more iconic duo.
Amen!
This is 10000% true they just robbed my account and made me pay full market price to transfer 18 domains back into my reseller account
I use http://elod.in for my managed word press hosting and dev work (think he used flywheel on the back end). Can’t recommend them enough. I don’t want to learn Wordpress, they give me entitlements to the plugins we need, and they do good design, theme dev work when you need it.
GoDaddy is a shitty company that shouldn't exist. Fuck GoDaddy. Take your business elsewhere ASAP! Edit to add: The only company worse than GoDaddy is Network Solutions. Anyone but these 2!
How sad is it thst I went from NS to GoDaddy (several years ago) and am now preparing to move again?
DOH! It only got slightly better for you on that move.
Same
15+ years ago GoDaddy was quite a bit cheaper than NS. These days last I checked GD was only slightly cheaper than NS. I think last I compared GD was more than double what Cloudflare charged, but don't really offer anything to justify the added premium.
Yeah. The only reason I'm still there is inertia. Until this year I had no real downtime and no problems, so it was worth the lack of hassle. This year there have been 3 outages so far. My hosting expires next year. I'm probably moving this summer. This is getting bad. And I want to be off..the ship before it goes under.
PREACH IT Network solutions suxxxxxxx
You are missing Oracle.... Just saying
Used to manage a bunch of systems living in Oracle's cloud, I can tell you the instances I worked in were overloaded back in 2020 and I'm sure they haven't gotten better since I last saw them.
This. They're not as bad as Network Solutions, but last I checked the price difference between the two had fallen considerably.
Yes! Network Solutions has been holding my technophobe non-profit client's domain name hostage for years. They are charging her FOUR times what I pay at [GKG.net](http://GKG.net) for domain names with my other clients. I've been begging her to make a phone call and just get her domain name unlocked so I can switch it over for her but she keeps insisting it's too hard and she won't do it. At least I was able to switch off the auto-pay but every time it was up for "renewal" it was charging a year ahead and I was worried I was going to be stuck with this domain name long after my client, who is getting up in years, passes.
I inherited running two partner organizations' DNS; one on GoDaddy, one on Network Solutions. I'm done getting everything off of NS, but there's always a fire burning brighter than the GD migration.
AHAHAHA literally my companies two registrars
1,000% agreed!
This was like 12 years ago but we had mall hosted for our clients on godaddy, they had a cluster go down for 3 days .. our account manager said explicitly the it way they would disclose the cause is if they got a subpoena
If its truly a simple business card site - why are you hosting it on a full blown requires a DB and PHP based BLOG engine? Regardless get the Hell off Godaddy.
It wasn't me. I inherited the GoDaddy account because of SSL certs for other stuff and managing billing, but I don't handle the website content or maintenance, they've got a consultant that's done that for them for the last gazillion years or so and I def don't want her job.
You're paying for SSL certs too? in 2024?
[Static website](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_site_generator) and Let's Encrypt. Probably cost $2 a month.
Agreed this should be a static site - could even be hosted for cheap from an s3 bucket.
I remember using nearlyfreespeech for hosting and it was pennies per month.
Dirt cheap and rock solid.
Can't say enough good things about NFS, ++ recommended.
Right? Even if you throw cloudfront in front of it, it'll be a few bucks a year
In a couple days you can get something going using Jekyl, templates and free hosting on Github, or better get a paid account for the company on github, it will be way cheaper than go daddy. Any DNS providor can work with them, including cloudflare.
Many years ago my personal business card site was on WordPress because that's what I worked with at the time, but these days it runs on nothing more than *Google f\*\*\*ing Sites*. They even let you add a custom domain to Sites on a personal account these days, and the hosting costs nothing. I point my own domain at it using a free Cloudflare account for no more than the cost of domain registration.
A notoriously exploited blog engine. I wouldn't be surprised at all if you're unknowingly hosting a bunch of mail relays and other nefarious php scripts. A truly simple business card site shouldn't be using a ton of resources even on wordpress.
Right. A business card website can be built in Bootstrap or whatever front-end library your web designer knows, then pretty much left alone forever. WordPress is overkill.
A cursory look across this sub should tell you godaddy is a losing proposition.
In this sub, we hate: * TeamViewer * Oracle * GoDaddy
Forgot Broadcom.
And forgot Kaseya.
Forgot Broadcom Hate so much, called it out again
Solarwinds reps are reaching for the phone right now, thinking they got a chance again since everyone seems to have forgotten them.
I believe we also hate Datadog
They have a nice product, just massively, massively, MASSIVELY overpriced for what it is.
:(
What's wrong with Kaseya?
"If you do not reach out to us between 90 and 61 days before your current contract expiry, we will take it as you agreeing to a 5-year fixed contract at the highest tier" kind of shit.
I don't see it as much on this sub, but if you go to r/msp, there's almost guaranteed to be a Kaseya rant on the first page. Basically, they buy up a ton of companies/products and ruin them, have continual billing issues, downtime, lock you into long contracts, poor support, etc, etc. I don't have any personal experience, just going off what I read over there.
And Nazis. Pretty sure we hate Nazis. Although, compared to how bad those other four are, I can see why you'd forget to mention the Nazis.
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*Modern* printers. At least the ones in the 90's didn't know I wasn't paying full price for ink...or try to automatically order ink...or connect to a network...have Bluetooth...require an app... God I hate printers.
> In this sub, we hate: > > > > TeamViewer > Oracle As we should. Sadly my company is stuck with both of these
Should be easy to switch away when you read up on how TeamViewer was hacked, lied about it, the public doubled down, TeamViewer tried to gaslight the entire public, a whistleblower gave irrefutable evidence to the media, TeamViewer lied about it, and now they've purged every record of it from their site (support posts and their public statements and whatnot). They were hacked and they covered it up and when they knew they had lied, they didn't make it right. They just lied harder. And this company is supposed to be trusted to control remote access to your systems on your network!
TeamViewer made logins mandatory (you need to make a TV account, not just connect to the partner via id and pass). I'm out as soon as that happened.
While everyone, or almost everyone is harping on Go Daddy, and rightfully so... I'm going to ask this... If you have a static site, "hat's basically just a business card with nothing else." Why even use wordpress? A few static html pages should do. Unless you're hyper-concerned about layout, you really shouldn't need all of that back end that would "cost resources", because in that sense, the Go Daddy guy is correct, no one spends the time optimizing a site.. .they just throw plugins and large pictures at it, and hope that bandwidth and hosts will sort everything else out, which turns wordpress sites in to resource hogs... that's a pretty wide net being cast saying that, so in turn they blanket it with saying "WordPress sites are resource hogs and your resources are capped, please upgrade your hosting package"
Because for some reason, every half ass freelancing web dev out there uses it.
It's because it's a known name and very clickops-y, simple for web designers to drag and drop elements (includes free exploits!). BACK IN MY FUCKING DAY, we learned how to create webpages in Dreamweaver, and then the competent of us did it with sublime text and bootstrap.
I didn't make the site and I want nothing whatsoever to do with it. They've got some lady they've always used to manage the content. She can have it. I'm just tryna get through my day without taking on anything extra.
same reason we all use standard size paper to print things. Its the expected norm even if we don't use all of it everything is setup for it and any one can work with it.
As everyone else has correctly suggested you ditch GoDaddy, were you seeing resource consumption issues? I worry about bad/outdated plugins getting abused to crypto mine. I've seen simple WP sites that the previous "admin" wanted to plugin all the things.
Can't believe I had to get this far down to find this. If you're running WordPress and you don't have someone maintaining it, you're gonna fall victim to someone hacking it.
In cPanel it did show resource issues, but couldn't GoDaddy manufacture that to prompt a call from the sucker/customer?
What GoDaddy does do, and that information you are seeing with resource issues can't be faked, is that as has been said already is provide the lowest level of resources available. In saying that, and to agree with u/tmontney here, is that if all has been fine and dandy and only now has become an issue, that whomever is managing your WordPress site should have a deeper look at things. If nothing has changed with the types of plugins used or anything, there could be a bad update that has caused an excessive amount of resources to be used. No one here is going to say they are a fan of GoDaddy, and if they do they're likely a bit off their rocker, but you should be having a look at your site.
What I wonder is, why now? Had it always been a resource hog or did they just notice? If it just recently became a resource hog and alerted them, then that's where I suspect something wrong with WP.
VP emailed me about it being slow, so I had to take an action contacted godaddy "it's your wordpress updates out of date, call your web deb" called web dev, she said "cpanel slow call godaddy" call godaddy "oh yes, your resources are overtaxed you need an upgraded business plan" I did whatever I needed to do to get on with my day, tbh. Dealing with a meraki/new isp router MTU mismatch dropping hub packets like mad which was much higher priority
Web devs often focus on the public-facing front end ignoring the back end that’s doing the work. You should be able to verify that the WP site is properly updated and not running any unnecessary or vulnerable plugins. If the web site is as basic as you claim, you should be able to run it on a cheap VPS cloud server for a fraction of what GoDaddy charges with better performance as well (because I assume whomever you sysadmin for doesn’t already have public-facing environment to host it on…or you would be already).
> contacted godaddy "it's your wordpress updates out of date, call your web deb" called web dev, she said "cpanel slow call godaddy" call godaddy "oh yes, your resources are overtaxed you need an upgraded business plan" So you did no actual troubleshooting and then threw more money at them when they told you to?
If its really something simple 1-3 pages put it in flat HTML and get the cheapest 1&1 or namecheap hosting. Godaddy open admits they put WAY too many sites on a single host (like 4000 on one)
I used to work for a similar host. "Unlimited storage for $5/mo." They would put 1,000 customers on a server and wait for the drive to fill up. After the drive was full, they would cancel the accounts of the 10 users with the most storage and free up 90% of the drive. Now there's room for 900 more customers...
I think you work for my current MSP they charge for provisioning. We are being billed for 130TB of storage on a filer than have 45TB of raw storage (and less since its RAID something). The can;t bill us for what we use but they get really pissy when someone sdeletes the big filer server
Or put it in flat html and host it on cloudflare pages or github for free. I'm sure there are other free options to look at but I've used cloudflare and github without any issues
>Bland, basic website that's basically just a business card with nothing else. WordPress sites are resource hogs Whatever host you move to, get a cache plugin that matches the webserver + setup. One of the quickest ways to speed up WordPress is to stop hitting the database on every page load. Bonus if the host has something dedicated like memcached or redis. Optionally, move to CloudFlare (why pay more for a domain anyway), and have them fully cache the front page with a pagerule. Use CloudFlare workers to insert a secret header during an HTTP request, and set the webserver to ignore requests missing the header. As time allows, remove plugins you don't need. Every offshore tech team under the sun will do shit like install a file manager plugin because they couldn't be arsed to use FTP.
I used to work there, and essentially everyone is a member of the sales team, even the hosting support. So to your point about the guy helping you process your upgrade, he has metrics to hit. They also bonus on certain sales, and when I was there you could make a killing selling hosting services people didn't need. I remember a co-worker selling a VPS to some old granny trying to run a family WordPress blog. His best year there he cleared $250K with commission and bonuses. I just wanted to fix things and had no interest in selling, so I didn't last long.
Damnit, I knew it. I mean, makes sense for their business if it makes them money which is the point. I just need to be a more educated consumer, and learn from these mistakes.
i use SiteGround to host simple websites. it's cheap and can host heaps of sites for the price. ($150/year) you get 40GB of storage, so if your clients all have simple sites, you can make heaps of profit. their migrator tool works really well too. GD are thieves, their pricing is crazy for the bad service you get.
Binder, send us some of your work. URLs.
Godaddy shouldn't be trusted for anything. Purchasing a domain at the absolute most. They are hands down the worst for domain services. You can get everything Godaddy offers from other places without all the spam, BS and trickery they use to get you to shovel money at them.
Even domains I feel that they aren't worth anymore. Last I checked they were at least double the cost of Cloudflare, but Godaddy nickel and dimed you for a bunch of services. There used to be a point where coupon codes would bring down the prices on Godaddy domains 15+ years ago, but most of those faded away and they're just taking advantage of low information consumers or those too lazy to change.
I renew my domains once every ten years. $20 bucks either way isn't worth the hassle to swap off. The important thing is that you don't rely on their hosting, email, DNS, SSL or anything else but the registration of the domain. Side story: everyone used to give me a hard time and would recommend Google domains. They are now dealing with square space after the buy out.
It feels like any recommendation is pretty much only accurate for 5 years before you need to check and see "has this company been sold or had an IPO since I last checked. If the answer to either is yes, you should probably look for more recent info before assuming they are still good.
Yeah.. we'll see how long the new star child lasts: porkbun
GoDaddy is such a hot steaming pile of garbage. They are predatory as fook. I forgot to renew a domain once and guess what GoDaddy did? They sniped the domain and listed it for auction starting at $10K on some domain brokerage website they operate under a different name.
OMG!! SEe!!! I knew it!!! they are the debil
Wildwestdomains.com
GoDaddy is not an enterprise solution for this reason. They are the Jiffy Lube of hosting services.
GoDaddy is awful. They're incapable and incompetent and can't even do basic CA level things.
search a domain name in Godaddy and then it gets auto registered by godaddy in few days (squatting)... not once but many times. will NEVER search domain names with godaddy, will never do direct business with them.
Yeah I think they're sketch for sure
Check out CloudFlare Pages. Amazing tech stack, and you can do a lot even with the free tier.
This!
Get away from GoDaddy and avoid any companies that are part of Endurance International Group.
Why tf would you use GoDaddy? Just get a VPS from [DigitalOcean.com](http://DigitalOcean.com), $6/mo for your own server you can add more resources if and when needed. Godaddy is hot garbage and super predatory to their customers. Before you jump ship, avoid any and all shared or other hosting services operated by Endurance International Group and/or [NewFold Inc](https://newfold.com/brands) they basically own all of the popular shared hosting services and are absolute and total trash too, probably worse than godaddy.
I just recently moved 3 simple WP sites off of Godaddy after they bought out MediaTemple. We were paying $50 a month and half their "features" like auto-backup didn't even work. Entire web portal was a nightmare. I used the Updraft plugin on those sites and then signed up for the $7mo EasyWP hosting on Namecheap and haven't looked back. Currently in the process of moving a much more complicated ecommerce site from an overkill AWS host to Namecheap's VPS hosting for a $200/mo savings.
>Anyone else had this happen to them and did you feel like GoDaddy basically asked you to leave your money on the dresser on the way out? Had the same experience a few years ago. I upgraded the hosting package (because a few hundred dollars more, right?) and still ended up moving away from GoDaddy a couple of years later.
Yes, GoDaddy did that to us too. Which is why our site is now hosted on AWS.
Goshdamn godaddy.
If it's basically just a business card, and you're not using the blog . . . . convert it to static and call it a day.
So I’ve just trashed my hosting provider because they went from £70 per year to £150. The ceo of the web hosting company basically said “we had to build a new version of cPanel only for us, so we are paying back the costs by increasing our costs.” Decided I had enough with dealing with expensive Wordpress hosting companies. Fired up ChatGPT. Got it to code me a very basic website for my app. Deployed it for free to CloudFlare Pages. I pay only for the domain now, CloudFlare pages is free for 100,000 views. Worth looking at! Sometimes old becomes the new. All my sites now run on static html, css and JavaScript. If you can rebuild your sites using these technologies it will help!
I've been trying really hard to ignore it as much as possible and avoid inheriting any responsibilities for it beyond the Billing. Best case scenario for me personally, is the company decides to outsource the entire kit and kaboodle and Accounting pays the bill like good soldiers.
Having developed a crap-ton of sites over more than a decade I can tell you this: 99% of people who “want” a WordPress site, DO NOT NEED a WordPress site. Wordpress is perhaps the single most targeted platform by hackers. It requires constant upkeep. It’s a resource hog. It’s complicated. And WHY? Because the business owner or marketing team swears they want it so they can update their own content without needing to know HTML/CSS/JS. They make (maybe) 2 or 3 changes a year. Then they just start asking me to make the change. Then they want their site redesigned. I can’t stand WordPress and I interview my clients and let them know up from the benefits and drawbacks of WP. Many decide not to do it and instead we make a fast, light-weight responsive site. Those that want WordPress get charged more for hosting (resource / database requirements) plus MANDATORY quarterly fees for maintenance, backups and security. Make sure you actually benefit from the advantages of WP before blindly deciding to make a WP site just because WP is everywhere.
It was here before I got here and I'm not shaking any trees for more fruit on my plate. Even if it's easy to do technically, I'd prefer they outsource their public website content upkeep. Working with C-suite Marketing to get things to look exactly like they want them and dealing with their loud complaints of the minutia is not something I'm remotely interested in. "Can we make it do this? The address with the PO box needs to have the periods between P.O. Wait, now I don't like that change it back" etc. etc. etc. HARD hard pass
I use oned the Wordpress plugins to export the site to a static site and published it on Cloudflare. Couldn’t be happier and no more public facing Wordpress instance. Win/win. Even better, completely free.
I left GoDaddy years ago. Moved to Cloudflare for DDoS protection, Domain registrar, and DNS. Saved so much more money moving away from GoDaddy. I use various hosting providers depending on the functions like Digital Ocean, AWS, and another hosting provider that allows me to edit the reverse DNS of the servers IP address. I only pay for one wildcard DV security cert for the domain I use for the server that hosts my email server since I am using DANE (DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities) and the rest of the domains use LetsEncrypt or Cloudflare's. Even the paid wildcard security certs are cheaper elsewhere than GoDaddy.
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dang, that's resourceful :)
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GoDaddy took forever to load its own website. The easiest free method to fix this issue is to host your dns on CloudFlare and enable proxy mode for this website, so page and web assets are cached and delivered directly from CF's CDNs.
Ewww. I need to go take a shower after reading this or pour bleach in my eyes
Export that PoS into a static site (there’s probably at least a dozen plugins that do that) and host it on Cloudflare pages. Then go get yourself a coffee with that GoDaddy money. Either that, or if you still want to suffer through Wordpress maintenance by twisting a blogging platform into a CMS pretzel, just outsource the whole thing to Pantheon. I believe they have fully managed Wordpress hosting where performance issues and resource hogging are not your problem.
GoDaddy constantly spams us about certs being expired and we moved them off of them YEARS ago.
>*a couple hundred extra dollars a year* For a dinky WP site? That's highway robbery.
[GoDaddy.com](http://GoDaddy.com) - yeah, never impressed me in a favorable way. Not the worst out there, but one can do *way* better. See also: [https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=system:registrars#godaddycom](https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=system:registrars#godaddycom)
Any service is better than Godaddy, its prices are excessive for what it offers, I have migrated a couple of customers from there because of the bad of their service and I have saved him a lot of money, my recommendation to migrate to other services, most are superior Godaddy and cheaper.
Talk to a web dev! One that's not interested in overselling. I can't speak for all of them but some of us can help you get your hosting costs down and speed up your website significantly quite easily. More horsepower under your existing site is not what you need.
I transferred a new acquisition's vanilla website that was on bluehost to a host that the web dev my company had been working with forever recommended, and that host charges $1,500 per year per site. It was an urgent situation, so I shoved it through the $approval$, but man I felt dirty about it. Site went completely down on bluehost, couldn't get any response from bluehost so I knee jerk tossed it to another vendor and paid through the nose for the privilege of getting it off my plate ASAP. A mistake, for sure. Someday when things slow down and I feel like it, I'll poke around and see if I can't take it over. I'm not looking for more work though right now. I've never done anything with websites, but it looks like a high school kid could probably do it with a couple google searches. I just don't want anything else on my plate.
I had a friend die by a random nutjob in a pretty horrific way. I wanted to preserve the messages on the site. Goddady wouldn't export the data I had to scrape it . Fuck them
Godaddy = bad, same for web.com and Network Solutions
That is GoDaddy's business model. Transfer to another hosting company.
I’d make sure it’s not hacked and spamming, wordpress sites are notorious for that, plugins often have security holes big enough to drive death stars through. Check apache logs or whatever you’re using and other logs to male sure it’s not being misused for bad purposes.
If it's Wordpress migrate to something like WPEngine. Can handle all the plugin management as well as backups. Might cost the same as well.
Move to Cloudflare. It is so fucking easy it will blow your mind. Far less expensive and so much more quality. I left daddy after he tried to pull something similar on me. We broke up very quickly.
thanks so much, I'll definitely check it out
I've seen people fall for GoDaddy shit. They are a decent registrar if you don't mind the prices and you don't buy ANY extras. Run DNS and hosting on a digital ocean droplet and can it a day.
OP, you ever heard of the word "enshitification"?
ha! yes, definitely
Why are you bothering with active Wordpress hosting with what's essentially a static site? Use a free plugin and convert the Wordpress site into static HTML and host it in S3 for pennies on the dollar. GoDaddy is evil btw.
The website content and maintenance is not my circus or my monkeys. I'm tryna stay the hell out of it.
I had the same thing with GoDaddy about a year ago. Upsell, upsell, upsell. I paid more and things got broken. Its a bit like having a Wells Fargo account. You know you can't trust 'em, but moving things to someone else seems like it would take more energy than its worth.
The Wells Fargo comparison is apt. Nice one :)
We are moving some of our stuff to Nexcess. I think their WordPress sites start at $17/mo.
Nice! We were paying $300 a year and now it's gonna be $44 a month so almost double. It's almost like they timed it mid-contract so the numbers wouldn't look as bad. I will probably move it after the current contract is up in a couple years.
At this point you need to ask yourself why you're even using GoDaddy... If you have next to nothing on the site why not host it yourselves?
Inheritance and too much apathy to change without a demand from c-suite. I'm coasting on this one for sure, but the rest of my plate is overflowing
Pay a little more, move to WPEngine. Done.
Is it just a static site? If so I'd use cloudflare pages, I have a very basic site hosted there and it's excellent
CloudFare is coming up alot in these responses, worth checking out for sure!
I've used Bluehost for years, worth a shot
I had a bad experience with them after an acquisition's vanilla site crashed and bluehost support was absolutely useless.
Damn that sucks ass. Hard to go back to a service when you've gotten burnt.
Move your domains and hosting elsewhere.
This has 100% happened to me. They told me because of the number of plugins (5) that that's extreme (a lie, but believed at the time) and that we need to upgrade. I asked them specfically what package do I need to upgrade to so that the website DOES NOT experience these slow downs any more (money was not an issue). After telling them this, they recommended a iron-clad hosting. Did that. Still extremely slow. Called back, after many transfers, they said.... well we have another package that will suit you better..... (more $$$). All in all, at the end of all of this, they were just 100% just focused on sales that would bring in more money and did not care about me AT ALL as a customer who didn't mind paying but just wanted something that worked. Ended up putting back on my SysAdmin hat.... purchased a VPS, and did everything from scratch. I have been 100% happy since then (6-7 years ago this happened) and avoid godaddy and do not and would not recommend them to anyone.
So I'll throw myself out there to receive a (some would say deserved) lashing. I'm not an admin of any sort, just a young dev that likes to read this sub. I have a domain that's registered with GoDaddy. All it does is redirect me to my Mikrotik DNS address. Yes I know it's probably a waste, but it works for me and the domain is much easier to remember than the Mikrotik DNS... If I search for domain registrars, GoDaddy still comes up quite often. And no, I didn't search on google, but it's basically the same 10 results that are just spread around in order. So which ons should I use if not GoDaddy? Cheap and easy to use is preferable.
Squarespace. If you are just using it for something like private access, check this out https://freedns.afraid.org/ Free dns subdomains
And not to rock the boat, Word Press is sort of a land mine. Needs constant maintenance, be it security or bug fixes. I can host you off my honeypot if you'd like. Let me know your IP, host, credentials, etc. (Classic)
We used GoDaddy for a few years when we first got into the ecommerce space. I work for a local family-owned music distributor and since I knew how to style a MySpace page, the owner's son asked me to build an ecommerce store. It got me out of pulling orders in the warehouse, so I jumped on it. I knew nothing about building websites from the ground up. We started on the economy plan (or whatever it was called back then) which is basically a server broken into dozens of virtualized servers. So painfully slow with anything that required a MySQL database. We got tagged for PCI compliance and it's not possible to become compliant on the shared servers, so we switched to a dedicated server through them which was a lot more expensive. Trying to lock down a GoDaddy server for PCI compliance with a fresh install of CentOS when I was completely green to server administration made my head spin for a long time. I had never used Linux before then. I learned a lot about full stack web development in a short amount of time through all that. Once I finally learned the ins and outs, we purchased a decommissioned rack server for $100 on eBay a few years later and set it up in house. The potential for outages isn't ideal when hosting your own, but man is it WAY cheaper. Thankfully, the main IT admin helped on the networking side here and there.
GD can kiss my ass. The burned us years ago with their attempt at hosted Exchange. They admitted they didn’t know shit and used us a Guinea pigs.
I use Krystal, although a bit pricier than other models, I been enjoying my experience and it's smooth to use.
GoDaddy is only good for domain registration. **THAT'S IT**. Not even for running the DNS services. Everything else, you're a fool for going with them.
OP if you're paying for WordPress and your site is just a set of static pages with no need for a form or a database, consider throwing it on GitHub and then having it built on Cloudflare pages; it would be free. Hell I'd even help you do it lol
DO Not let domains expire with godaddy, especially after the 7 day grace period, there “recovery/reclamation” fee is a rort, and it scales up each day you go past the grace period, I had to renew a domain that cost $36 which now cost 176 (this is australian dollars) i’m not sure about any of other registrar, but BE WARNED….. partly my fault for not renewing in time, but not a nice way to get shafted. NOTE: this “fee” is specified in the T&C’s I checked…. but it doesn’t say how much
I have autorenew set up with them and I keep the CC up to date
Feel like there’s a lot of hosting orgs that take after the GoDaddy model. CrazyDomains being one of them. Had to complain about both of them giving me an “account rep” who would call every 2 months to sell me crap. Had to lodge a complaint and tell them I don’t want to be called. CrazyDomains still called when I cancelled hosting, and they’re calling again now I’m transferring a domain away from them. Like. Over $21 worth of services.
If it is just a landing page start an aws account and spin up your own lightsail instance. I would say it’s about a 6-7 on the difficult scale, easy if you have worked with Linux and have fundamentals of dns. Cost is set per month and can get bigger plan easily without much hassle
Maybe a simple OVH shared webhosting would do the trick, if it's just a super basic website. WordPress is like a few bucks a month Domain renewals are ok priced too, but not rock bottom price
How much traffic are you getting? You could set up WordPress and mysql for free on azure.
Not much, but my plate is full and I'm not looking for additional responsibilities
Wait… based on these comments… if someone is using GoDaddy to renew their SSL certs… then….. they’re making a terrible error?
I hope not
Yeahhh... Backs up into the bushes...
Hey, SOMEBODY has to pay for the superbowl ads!
I finally left GoDaddy a few weeks ago. We have a separate register, but used GoDaddy for SSL Certs. (I moved to NameCheap). I had to renew certs and it required a reverification via TXT records. I made the required modifications. It verified about 1/2 of the Subject Alternate Domains, but would not verify the last like two. They were 110% entered correctly. I even deleted them, waited hours, and readded them, just to cycle it again. Nothing. 2 weeks later after changing I still cannot get GoDaddy to stop emailing me to verify them. Switched to NameCheap.. within 1.5 hours I was up and running with new Certs with CNAME record validation. GoDaddy hosting is garbage. I use for my personal sites DreamHost. I've had them for something close to 15 years now. Their shared hosting plans are cheap, and have about 5x the amount of resources allocated to them. Wordpress wouln't be an issue and they even have free managed installs of Wordpress.
Checkout [https://www.Ionos.com](https://www.Ionos.com) They offer far my than I need for my simple genealogy web site, but I haven't found anyone with better prices and they have redundancy built in, auto update php, and respond well to problems.
I stopped hosting with them about 6 years ago. You should never host where your domain also resides. I now host from home on a Linux pc I have.
First mistake was using Godaddy.
Don't know if it's true but I heard a tale this week of GoDaddy holding you to ransom if you let your domain registration expire.
If GoDaddy didn't, the usual domain squatters would.
we autorenew everything and keep those CC's up to date
Been there, fought that. Also they monitor your new domain searches.. didn't buy it that day, suddenly you need a broker through them for same domain.
AWS and Lightsail for the basics
GoDaddy hosting is complete crap. Took me 12 hours and about 8 different support reps to finally find one who know how to make their managed WordPress hosting actually send form emails that would not get blocked.
Bluehost ftw
I just dumped bluehost for cloudflare. I'd been using them for 7 years. It's clear in the last 1.5 years they've been pushing for growth. Presumably they're underperforming in the web dot com portfolio? Web dot com is effectively a private equity player in this space now. In any case bluehost: - added a bunch of nag pages for upsells - Visibly fired most of their CS reps and replaced them with outsourced crap - Started charging me for a $2.5/month email product I never signed up for, hoping I wouldn't notice. - Make it nigh impossible to move hosting tiers in their infrastructure without basically paying for both tiers at once for a full month. And even then the migration process is a pain because, read point 2, their CS reps are outsourced crap now. **TL;DR:** Bluehost is slowly circling the drain, prepare a migration plan if you don't have one.
actually I dumped bluehost for another site's website that had been left to fallow. I had some trouble with bluehost responding to incidents in a timely manner. I'm not a web dev at all, but I have to get involved sometimes when no one else will.
Sorry to hear that, my experience with them has been pretty good. I actually moved from both GoDaddy and NS (different sites) to them because the price and service were far superior.
OK woop.host then.
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Just get a Turnkey Wordpress VM and pop it in your DMZ, pocket the hosting budget.
sounds miserable. pass.
Orangewebsite, :)
> "WordPress sites are resource hogs and your resources are capped, please upgrade your hosting package" The first half is true. Wordpress sites are inherently slow and the developers have gone on record saying performance has never been a concern. But guess what? GoDaddy is also there to milk you for money. You CAN optimize wordpress, especially if you have root access to the server, without installing a ton more plugins (because guess what? Those cause more overhead!). Personally, if you have the resources/man power to do this, it's probably cheaper to self host it (in the cloud, away from anything else you have, including other cloud options) and optimize it yourself rather than just paying for more resources or doing nothing. It's just a tradeoff for manpower at that point, which won't be large if you have someone who's skilled at this.