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Hi Guys,
Who is the best hosting provider in terms of speed and price?
Who is the best hosting provider in terms of speed and price?
Godaddy is best.
I had a plan with them a while back because I was going to have to buy a domain at their $9.99 price so I just went ahead and got the $12 for a year hosting plan since the hosting wound up being $2 more for a year and the domain was included.Slow-daddy?
Their tech support people are very nice and very available ... but useless. And heaven forbid you have a security issue - all they'll do is try to upsell you to a useless, overpriced add on feature.
Then to top it off I transferred the domain I had hosted with them to another registrar, they decided to remove it from my hosting plan. I was on the phone half a dozen times over 3 days trying to get everything sorted out. When all was done, one of their techs thought he had got everything fixed but he mistakenly erased my files and installed a new install WordPress and I lost everything, even the backups I had there.
That's what I told them. It was in the back of my head that they MUST be kidding!How do you "mistakenly" erase someone's site or take 3 days to straighten out a transfer? That's not the first story like that I've heard.
LMAO, Only at GD! On of of the calls I had trying to deal with GD with the site gone issue they tried to talk to me about buying the DDC while they were waiting for someone. I told them I will talk about other purchases AFTER they find and return my site to me. I kind of got a dead silence for a minute!Recently we discovered a client site, hosted on GD had been hacked. Most shared hosts like to know about things like that to make sure other clients aren't affected, and will look into the incident or at least run a scan to make sure all the malware is off their servers.
So we contacted them. Their response? Tried to upsell the client to some lame add on security feature.
That's why EIG believes in "On The Job Training", meaning they get their training while they are working on things right after being hired (away from McD's), NOT before they start their position! Who needs training beforehand, throw the tech's into the abyss and whoever can find daylight gets to keep their job another day!Speaking of bad tech support, there's the time I had a function (which involved getting data from a 3rd party site) break right after Hostgator changed servers. I hadn't changed the site and this function had worked like clockwork for years. Logical conclusion: something was lost in their configuration during the migration.
Tech support drone I got seized on the fact that I had an .htaccess file and was SURE (because they didn't understand it) that it was causing the problem. So they renamed it to test their theory, which just 404d half my site. Not a big deal except 1) it proved their incompetence and 2) they forgot to copy it back.