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nostatic · nostatic's Garage

godaddy is damn cheap. Currently I'm at 15Gig storage, 200Gig transfer/mo. godaddy for *less* money is 100Gig storage, 1000Gig transfer.

Anyone other than Rob using godaddy and have any issues? Looks like I can choose a linux server and should have the ability to install my own apps. Seems that email is a separate add-on though...I'm not sure what the story is with that.

id10t · 02-06-2008, 11:26 AM

nostatic - just get a linode and be done with it... only limits will be disk space and bandwidth...

gprsh924 · 02-06-2008, 11:43 AM

My friend has a fairly rudimentary website, but he has never had any problems with it.

He has used godaddy.com for the last 3 years or so

kstar · 02-06-2008, 12:00 PM

I use godaddy for registration and for some small hosting jobs. Great prices and lots of control over the domains/hosting.

Excellent customer service, and like Rob said, you can get a human on the telephone.

Check them out.

Best,

Kurt

Hugh R · 02-06-2008, 12:21 PM

Registered with godaddy, hosted for free by a Pelican buddy.

stomachmonkey · 02-06-2008, 12:32 PM

Try a 1and1 VPS.

Somewhere between a dedicated box and a shared environment.

http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/VpsRoot;jsessionid=4F2CE8D769ADEED6F26D2F6243FDA5A 8.TC60b?__frame=_top&__lf=Static

RKC · 02-06-2008, 12:38 PM

Used Network Solutions for years - no troubles.

Used a few over the years. All went belly up. Best in 1990's was a company called XOR in Boulder, I believe.

RKC · 12:48 PM

More Info on Network Solutions plans.

I've used Abobe GoLive/LiveMotion and CS forever, it seems. Run 4 smallish websites....though one is for a $2M company.

911Rob · 911Rob's Garage

Quote:

Originally Posted by nostatic

godaddy is damn cheap. Currently I'm at 15Gig storage, 200Gig transfer/mo. godaddy for *less* money is 100Gig storage, 1000Gig transfer.

Anyone other than Rob using godaddy and have any issues? Looks like I can choose a linux server and should have the ability to install my own apps. Seems that email is a separate add-on though...I'm not sure what the story is with that.

Hey Todd,
Glad you checked it out. They make it easy to transfer domain names too.
I wouldn't worry about the email accounts; they try to upsell you for extra and don't tell you that for each hosting account you buy, you get 20 or so free email accounts with that domain extension. I have hundreds of email account options.

I did upgrade my one account that I use mostly, it was only a few bucks and it brought the email account up to 200Gigs.

I got turned onto these guys from a web master in Calgary; unbelievable how much cheaper they were at that time; I haven't shopped around since, but I've been with them for years and no challenges.

Let me know if you need any help; otherwise their customer service is very good too.

Cheers buddy!

Don Plumley · Don Plumley's Garage

The only downside I see to godaddy is they don't offer IMAP email accounts. That's pretty important for me.

911Rob · 911Rob's Garage

Yes they do Don. (IMAP)
I can access my email from any PC?
Once I download them into my outlook, they are cleared off the server, but if I'm away from my PC I can access any of my email accounts. I don't often do this, because I use a handheld HTC too, but you 'can' do it.
fyi,
cheers!

kstar · 02-06-2008, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Don Plumley

The only downside I see to godaddy is they don't offer IMAP email accounts. That's pretty important for me.

I just forward all mail to an IMAP account like Goog or .mac (edit - and clean out GoDaddy mail accounts once every month or two - I'll look into GD IMAP, thanks for the tip Rob)

Best,

Kurt

SlowToady · 02-07-2008, 05:36 AM

FlyingCroc. Can't tell you how much it is though.

ErVikingo · 02-07-2008, 05:59 AM

godaddy/adphosting here. no problems and better service than my prior (ipowerweb)

dhoward · dhoward's Garage

Superb out of Canada
Infinity Plan: 200 GB disk space, unlimited bandwidth @ $11.50/month (also up to 3,500 email addresses; blogging software and an online shopping cart)
They don't care about my content....

Don Plumley · Don Plumley's Garage

Rob - I don't think godaddy has imap. I looked in support, they only support POP3.

Kurt - forwarding to a google account means you lose your domain, right? That's also a non-starter.

Too bad, seems like a good price.

id10t · 02-07-2008, 07:06 AM

Don - you can forward mail to google and in google you can define the reply-to, etc. so it appears as if it all came from your domain.

Don Plumley · Don Plumley's Garage

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Originally Posted by id10t

Don - you can forward mail to google and in google you can define the reply-to, etc. so it appears as if it all came from your domain.

Ah - I see. Doesn't that sometimes trigger spam filters when the reply domain and mail server are different?

id10t · 02-07-2008, 07:58 AM

Don - it shouldn't. Of course, if you control your DNS you can set up SPF records showing that mail from your domain can come from google or your ISP...

nostatic · nostatic's Garage

i don't use imap now with my current host so that is a non-issue. godaddy is about 10x more for less money. Not sure how they do it. linode is a bit much for me. I don't want to go back to my days of having to rtfm to recompile apache, etc. I want someone else to do it and i'll just install my cms and use phpmyadmin and other gui tools to tweak.