Comments on: GoDaddy Hosting (Mini-)Review http://www.independentcreator.com/2007-12-18/godaddy-hosting-mini-review/ Diary of an Indie Game Developer Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:09:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matt http://www.independentcreator.com/2007-12-18/godaddy-hosting-mini-review/comment-page-1/#comment-2208 Matt Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:53:30 +0000 http://www.independentcreator.com/2007-12-18/godaddy-hosting-mini-review/#comment-2208 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. 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.

]]> By: Geoff http://www.independentcreator.com/2007-12-18/godaddy-hosting-mini-review/comment-page-1/#comment-2206 Geoff Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:48:52 +0000 http://www.independentcreator.com/2007-12-18/godaddy-hosting-mini-review/#comment-2206 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... 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…

]]> By: TheOtherErik http://www.independentcreator.com/2007-12-18/godaddy-hosting-mini-review/comment-page-1/#comment-1979 TheOtherErik Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:21:41 +0000 http://www.independentcreator.com/2007-12-18/godaddy-hosting-mini-review/#comment-1979 I used Pair.com as a host for many years, and was very happy with them. They even have an organized reseller program. 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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