GoDaddy Hosting plans are STUPID

[pertosda]

Everyone says how bad the hosting services of GoDaddy are, but I still wanted to try them, since they're quite cheap and I dont need a super-professional service for a few projects.

However, before even trying the service itself I found out their hosting plans make no sense at all.

To summarize: deluxe hosting plan must have a primary domain, whose root directory permissions cant be modified. And even being multidomain, all the email accounts must be related to the primary domain. Can you believe that??

I couldnt, so I had to ask. I attach a couple of conversations with their support staff:

Hi,

In my Hosting Manager under "Directory Management" I can edit the permissions (read, write...) of my custom directories.

However, how can I set the permissions for the content root? The thing
is I have an access database there and it wont let me write anything on it.

Thanks,
David
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Dear David,

Thank you for contacting customer support. Unfortunately, if you are on our shared hosting, it is not possible to modify the permissions for the root. We regret any inconvenience this may cause. If you need root access you may wish to consider our Dedicated or Virtual Dedicated Hosting. Please let us know if we can help you in any other way.

Sincerely,
Online Support Technician

Hi,

I have a hosting plan (Deluxe) at GoDaddy which includes 1,000 email accounts and unlimited domains.

However, after going round and round and reading all the related topics in the Help files I cant find how to create a single email account.

1. Do I have to use one of those credits for free emails with hosting?
2. The email accounts must use the main domain of the hosting account? I have added several domains and I want them to have their own email account.

It all looks quite complicated, any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,
David

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Thank you for contacting online support.

Please note, the free email accounts included with your hosting package
can only be associated to the primary hosted domain on the hosting plan. For
instructions on setting up your email accounts please view the following help article: http://help.godaddy.com/article.php?article_id=172

Please let us know if we can help you in any other way.

Sincerely,
Online Support Technician

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So, just to clarify I understood everything right:

GoDaddy Deluxe hosting plan is multidomain (for unlimited sites and
domains), includes 1,000 email accounts, but the 1,000 of those are to be
related to only 1 domain (the primary one) no matter how many other I have
in the same hosting plan.

Is that correct???

If that strange thing is correct, I will have to say bye bye GoDaddy (this
is the most unreasonable and unpractical thing I have ever heard in hosting
plans)

Im astonished.

Please confirm (I had to ask twice and probably you too, that is just
unbelievable).

David

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Dear David,

Thank you for contacting Online Support. We appreciate

Currently, this is correct the emails would only be useable for the primary domain on the hosting. We apologize for any inconveniences this might cause.

Please let us know if we can help you in any other way.

Regards,
Online Support Technician

So, after all said and done, the conclusion is: NOT GODADDY, NOT GODADDY!!

I hope this helps some to save some bucks (deluxe is $6.95 a month).

 

[weblord]

:imho: they're good in domain registration/account changes but not so with hosting. i also offer windows hosting btw, if you mean ms access.
.mdb

 

[Steven]

I would go with dreamhost.com because they have an awesome hosting plan for a monthly cost that is not too far away from godaddy. Not only that, but the features and their support is amazing imho.
You can read some review from webhostingtalk, but they generally have good reputation.

 

[Aesthetic]

Hi, pertosda, the points you mentioned are relevant, and I think it's not only Godaddy who's got such stupid features and automatic email responses like : Please let us know if we can help you in any other way. Sounds ridiculous in the given context.

 

[pertosda]

Hi, pertosda, the points you mentioned are relevant, and I think it's not only Godaddy who's got such stupid features and automatic email responses like : Please let us know if we can help you in any other way. Sounds ridiculous in the given context.

Yes, I hate those automatic responses... that is common though.

However, it is the first time I see a multidomain hosting plan whose email accounts are to be used only with the main domain... I just cant believe that (and we are talking of 1,000 accounts!!! which makes it even more ridiculous).

 

[bluearrow]

Godaddy is not good at all for multi domain hosting, They use their own hosting panel which is a mess and no Cpanel or DirectAdmin. if you have a static site then their basic plan is good. otherwise Godaddy hosting sux

 

[CreatorKit.com]

Godaddie's basic plan is best variant for static sites!

 

[monaco]

Let's be honest here...at 3.95 a month you get what you pay for. I'm with a post2host right now and I still have friends of mine switching from GoDaddy.

 

[gmtfan]

The thing I don't like the most in Godaddy is that I got many call from them to offer me lower price if I have longer plan. I have all my site there at Godaddy. I was thinking to find another host but I have not looked at yet. I also would like to have some recommended hosting service.

 

[pertosda]

Let's be honest here...at 3.95 a month you get what you pay for. I'm with a post2host right now and I still have friends of mine switching from GoDaddy.

Im talking about Deluxe plan which is $6.99 a month.

Anyway the problem is not the price but the fact that even being a multidomain plan, all the email accounts must be related to the primary domain, which doesnt make sense at all.

 

[UneekTT]

I have to agree, I have been looking for multile domain hosting for a little while now, and knowing this made me steer away from GoDaddy - except for domain names - lol

Anyway, I might be going with HostGator, but still not sure - Thanks for the post!

 

[groundctrl]

yeah, domain registration sure. nothing else. seriously.

 

[frendz]

better for domain but crap for hosting..
& howz hostgator ??
is that fine ??
any one experienced there

 

[frwebsite]

I tried once hostgator and I liked in general but my account was closed and they did not offer the backup...

 

[smartpc]

I have used godaddy hosting a few times there rubbish little hosting plans and there even worse VPS servers there dedicated server config`s are a complete joke.

My main problem with there hosting is the versions of the scripts they run, everything is so old its unbelivable....this includes php and mysql especially. The newest versions are available and godaddy still setup there hosting with not even the previous version but 2 or 3 versions previous.....amateur stuff.

I have been using hostrocket.com hosting accounts to get sites up and running till there ready to go on there own servers....

You can use 10 domains on 1 hosting account, all versions of scripts are upto date. You get a cpanel type control screen. Unlimited bandwith for $14.95/month with ded. IP price goes down if you sign up for 12/24 months.

* Unlimited email. / 1 click software install fantastico

 

[ennui]

I do recommend you www.webhostingbuzz.com services of multilple domain hosting, for $7 Platinum plan you will be able to get emails from different domains on this account.

 

[john's TLD Domain]

The word on the street is godaddy is bad with hosting but great with domain registration. best advice find good hosting and register a domain with godaddy.