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GoDaddy Hosting (Mini-)Review

A client of ours had their site hosted with GoDaddy, so I took the time to dig through it a bit.  First, the good: it seems reasonably peppy, and you can easily switch between Windows and Linux hosting.

Unfortunately, you only get one database user per database– the admin user.  You cannot create additional users.  GoDaddy’s help documentation is pretty sparse, so it took me an email to support to figure this out, but they confirmed it.  (Actually, they told me that it’s not possible to create multiple users in a “shared hosting environment”, by which I suppose they mean theirs, as every other host I’ve dealt with hasn’t had a problem doing so.)

That’s pretty much the start and end of my experience with GoDaddy web hosting.  I suspect their other advanced features are similarly limited, but until they fix the database user issue there’s no sense in finding out.  GoDaddy web hosting seems perfectly fine if you just want to post a few files, but HostGator is dirt cheap and far more functional.

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  • We use Hostgator for a lot of client sites, actually, and even though it's massive shared hosting, it's been pretty good. They've had 100% uptime AFAICT (I haven't shelled out for paid HostTracker, but their every hour tests give me 100%). They also don't make things up like "you can't have multiple MySQL users in a shared hosting environment".

    I think this WAS on GoDaddy's highest tier.... I think they're using their cheap domain names to sell sub-par hosting, which makes sense, since they have to make it up somewhere. It does mean they don't feel they have to compete on hosting features, though.
  • Geoff
    1 month later...

    "Shared" hosting usually means you live in the big farm where all the low-tier accounts go, in that you are sharing resources with all the other people there. Hosting companies often have upgrade tiers where you move progressively closer to having your own set of boxes that run just your website/db/etc. Not sure if GoDaddy offers service tiers, but if they do that is probably one of the upsells for them - if you pay us more, you can actually make use of the db authentication...
  • I used Pair.com as a host for many years, and was very happy with them. They even have an organized reseller program.
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