Comments on: GoDaddy can be a Nightmare

By: A disappointed user

A disappointed user — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:17:48 +0000

If anybody could suggest me about some good hosting provider, i’ll appreciate it.

I just want to get rid of go daddy.

By: A disappointed user

A disappointed user — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:14:57 +0000

I have registered three domain with godaddy and two of them has been using free linux hosting with ad coming over site.

Just now I have added Linux deluxe hosting plan and now my journey to disappointment started. I cant understand on each step why they want to sell all of their product. If we will need something we will contact them. I tried to call for customer support , but cant belive this i waited for 8 minutes and that was an ISD call and all the time i have been listening “Your call is important Please wait, all operators are busy” after 8 mnite of call I just hanged up in frustation.

I think godaddy is good for buying domain , thats it. U cant imagine hosting your website here specially if you are a developer, for non technical person its a sin to use godaddy , i bet it.

My problem: I wanted to remove my free hosted domain and wanted to host it with my deluxe plan , but after a long mail trail , i have not been able to remove my free hosted sites , i did all possible things. When i select the domain to remove the remove icon is not highlighted and it doesnt allow me to remove it. The server response is so slow and just add some more degree of frustation. I have worked with other hosting server they were really fast.

My suggestion: If you want to buy domain , use godaddy. But if you want to host your website , NEVER EVER think of godaddy. They are there just to sell their product just worth of trouble. They have pathetic support and worst telephone support. I dont know how they are surviving in this business.

By: David

David — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 04:16:34 +0000

The worst part about GoDaddy is when you call their support for help, you get sales people trying to sell you other products! I’ve had most of the problems mentioned above, and I can honestly say GoDaddy is not worth the trouble.

By: BK

BK — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:08:41 +0000

Go Daddy’s site is a mess – cluttered, confusing, searches through Google turn up things that GD’s search will not show, customer support argued with me when I had a problem – “use the form” but there is no form, yes there is. . .etc. Looks like a site designed by techs with no designers and no one who cares about consistency in language and instruction. Thye are hosting three of my sites but if I still had just one, I would not sign up for any additional hosting. Reminds me of my few years of hell trying to get my Windows 98 machine to work properly – solved all my problems by switching to Macs.

By: GoMommy

GoMommy — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:51:28 +0000

Well just as other users have found out, I too have been stung by the “Setup can not continue because this domain is being used by the following application: Hosting” issue. I registered my domain last year, had set up basic hosting included with the domain purchase and decided later to move to my own hosting and just pointing all url requests to the “new” site being hosted remotely. All was working fine until after a hardware failure I decided to try GoDaddy’s own WebHosting and use their WebSite Tonite. After trying to remove the domain from “Hosting” it’s stuck at “removal pending”. As someone else mentioned the (IMO) best use of GoDaddy is as simply a domain registar and host your site elsewhere… or pay up (throuhg all the nickel and diming they do) and get an all inclusive premium hosting along with the associated monthly charge, each varying by different levels/plans. All in all not a very user friendly experience, and this is ONLY having to deal with hosting and use of thier website builder and doesn’t even begin to touch upon the issues with IIS, SQL etc.

By: Spat

Spat — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:02:57 +0000

Just to let you know. Go Daddy does not support SQL 2008 database in any way….. sigh….

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:26:07 +0000

I TOTALLY AGREE with you. Just got finished going through the entire NIGHTMARE with GoDaddy.

My Account was initially setup as IIS6. Everything was fine until I wanted to install one of the Blog softwares from GoDaddy’s ‘My Applications’ page. The software I wanted required IIS7, so I upgraded my account, it’s free after all, right? NOT!

The application installed successfully or so I was told. However, it DID NOT WORK at all. Even the web pages I had previously running were now showing \Resource not Found\ errors all over the place!! Nothing worked properly anymore. I dinked and dinked and dinked for a week on settings, web.config files, config this, config that, etc…. still nothing worked and GoDaddy’s Help/Support was useless. You wait several hours for an email response that just says to check your web.config file. WHAT!?!? To me that was the most obvious thing to check. I waited hours for that help and support???!!!?????

If you have a faint heart and would like to keep your hair, I HIGHLY recommend just buying and maintaining the Web Server hardware/software yourself.

By: angry customer

angry customer — Wed, 05 May 2010 01:20:20 +0000

I have a similar problem. I did try the free hosting but i didn’t know that there’s no way to remove the domain from the free hosting and switch it to the paid hosting. Now I can’t setup the paid hosting which i paid for as the free hosting is still “pending removal” with domain locked to it. Somehow i’m already very angry at Godaddy and i never really got to use the paid hosting. What a shame! The domain would be available if their application just allowed it. This is just artificial limination and nothing else. They also make you buy a lot of domains as they won’t allow you use the same domain name on multiple hosting accounts although it’s technically possible.

Arrgh. How do they manage to do this? What a nightmare.

By: david

david — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:01:25 +0000

True. GoDaddy is really a nightmare. It sends you creeps. And it robs you. That's the reason why I changed to arvixe. After reading review for arvixe and asking for suggestions from my friends,I am now happy I made a change. Almost the same price but comes with satisfaction.

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