[thelist] godaddy's business solutions

Alexander Freiria xandercoded at gmail.com
Thu May 28 13:51:57 CDT 2009


I'm using goDaddy for my personal site and noticed that they don't support
certain libraries in .NET. It did not support the newer verision of the
library System.Mail I had to degrade to the older .NET library to get email
to work...

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Jon Molesa <rjmolesa at consoltec.net> wrote:

> I too prefer to stay away from hosted solutions.  They are often very
> rigid environments.  A few people I know use GoDaddy and love them.
> Personally, I've had issues when dealing with client's GoD's accounts.
> They usually have them prior to coming to me.  Most prefer it because
> it's easy and it works.  I had 2 issues.  On the basic? plan the only
> access I had to the client's files was through ftp.  The have tight
> restrictions on these connections and I have been dropped while working
> over ftp.  Occasionally, my connection was dropped while performing the
> upload.  There were differences in the PHP environment on GoD and mine.
> All of these dropped connections made it frustrating to troubleshoot.
> It also meant that I had to maintain 2 versions of certain files.  After
> I convienced the client to upgrade to an account that had ssh access I
> ran into issues getting the php scripts to successfully send email.  I
> never did figure it out.  The same set up works fine on my local system
> and two remote servers that I manage.  I emailed their support to only
> have been replied to with what looked like a cut-n-paste standard
> response.  My first experience with shared hosting was back in 1999.  I
> decided then that I never wanted to go through that again.  I have
> managed to stay away from GoDaddy for my own needs.  All these years I
> kept hearing good things about them, which made me curious if maybe
> they're different.  After this experience, I'm reminded why I don't like
> those kinds of environments.  They're too constricting.  Too hard to
> trouble shoot.  And too basic to do anything useful.  My recommendation
> is to find another host.  If price is a concern check
> http://www.serverpronto.com/ out.  Then let me know what your experience
> is.  I've been looking at these guys for a while and want to try out a
> dedicated package, but haven't been able to find good reviews yet.
> Anyway, my two cent.
>
> *On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:14:54AM -0600 Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz>
> wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:14:54 -0600
> > From: Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz>
> > Subject: [thelist] godaddy's business solutions
> > To: "thelist at lists.evolt.org" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> >
> > I have no experience with godaddy other than as a domain registrar.
> > This morning I was approached by someone who was painted this picture
> > (recommendation) of using godaddy hosting and their deluxe package as a
> > solution for their website.  I will take a look at their packages
> > later.  In the meantime, the person who asked is interested in a forum
> > or msg board, slideshow, perhaps a blog and a mini-store (she sells her
> > book, maybe some other stuff.
> >
> > Me - I'm uncomfortable with hosted, packages solutions in general, am
> > wondering about flexibility,  SSH access (I will check), etc.  Feedback
> > anyone?  -Bob
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