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[instantinlaw Friend instantinlawJoin date: February 2007Posts: 1646Downloads:6Uploads:28 Thanks: 68 Thanked: 210 times in 62 posts]

#381154

godaddy is among the worst, but I’ve been able to work with 1and1, although Joomla won’t fly on a 1and1 server, at least it works. I use 1and1 for my domain registrations, and I have a VPS for my sites. I was with Rochen, but they are so full of themselfs that when my questions turned from I love you, to what’s wrong here, they pretty much started acting like they didn’t care if I stayed or left, so I left. Do yourself a favor if you have the time to learn a little about Virtual Private Servere, or Dedicated Servers, and go with that option. You’ll be much happier. I’ll post the company I’m using if anyone is interested. They answer every stupid question with an “it’s been done” in most cases, and if they haven’t already done it, they walk me through doing it. I’m so glad I got rid of shared hosting and got my own VPS.

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#399257

wow all this time and this thread is still on top

and its still the same, not fun to work with, anyone have any godaddy horror stories of late?

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#399278

Plenty and I have persuaded most of the people I come accross to move. As instantinlaw stated, a VPS is the way to go.

[instantinlaw Friend instantinlawJoin date: February 2007Posts: 1646Downloads:6Uploads:28 Thanks: 68 Thanked: 210 times in 62 posts]

#399435

<em>@phill luckhurst 250703 wrote:</em><blockquote>Plenty and I have persuaded most of the people I come accross to move. As instantinlaw stated, a VPS is the way to go.</blockquote>
You got that right Phill! For those of you who are interested, here is a link to Servint:

http://www.servint.net/index.php?refid=ADC734010356

I did a lot of research before going with them. They have the most fair rates going and plenty of space to use for whatever you nneed it for. You can run a reseller program or just focus all your space and bandwidth one one mega portal. I’ve never had any problems with them and even when I screwed up some settings, they had the problem fixed within a few minuets.

I’ve tried others, including Rochen, but I’ve never been happier with Servint. Keep in mind though that running a VPS is a bit more brain intensive than simply going with a “everything gets done for you” shared hosting solution, but you won’t be crammed in with up to 1500 other sites all sharing bandwith either, not to mention that on shared hosting you don’t know who your neighbors are either. You could end up sharing your hosting with an email spammer who could potentially get your own site blacklisted of Google etc.

If you are planning on being serious with your hosting, the ultimate way to go would be to run an inhouse webserver and pay a support staff to keep it up and running, or you can go with a dedicated private server which is still being run and supported by someone else, even still… With all the costs involved, it is an attractive solution.

However, if you can’t afford, or don’t have the staff to run your own server, and even though having a dedicated private server is the next step towards being pretty much independant, because they usually ccme with semi dedicated staff, there is still the cost factor which can run in the thousands.

Fortunatly there is a very happy middle ground which runs from about $50 per month and up, where you get most of the benefits of having a dedicated private server, including some support staff which usually already have it done before you can even ask the question, and offer great tips for configuring your virtual private server to run not only as fast as a Rochen server, but just as secure too.

As you can probably tell by the tone of this message, I was very supprised at the level of support I got with Servint and all for the cost of paying for a middle sized shared hosting account on Rochen.

I know you can get “unlimited” everything with other companies link 1&1 and godady, but read the fine print. There is no such thing as unlmited anything, and godaddy will nickle and dime you to death too.

They are able to offer such outrageous clames because they know the average website will end up using way less than 30-40- mb, and the only bandwidth those sites use are friends and family who are forced to look at what junior has done online.

If you are going to be serious about building and hosting websites, and especially Joomla websites, don’t do all that work only to undermine your great job by subjecting your visitors to shoddy hosting that may or may not even be capabile of serving the site at anything close to a reasonable load time.

Seriously folks, do yourself a favor and do some shopping around for a virtual private server. I promise you that you will end up wondering why you never just started out this way in the first place, and you’ll never look back except to curse all the money and time you wasted on all the shared servers you tried before you came to your senses and decided to join the smart VPS crew.

Yes, this is an affiliate link, just as the link at the begining of this post. Those of you who know me also know I don’t just throw around affiliate links or spam either. Whwn I believe in something, I let it b e known. I don’t beat around the bush and I seriously doubt that I will end up making a ton of money on this link, so if it makes you feel better, I’ll include a non affiliate link as well. However, if you are looking for an experienced opinion, and you want to save yourself the time I took researching to find the best deal around, then please feel free to give me the credt I deserve for doing all your hard work for you and click the affiliate link. After all, it’s not going to cost you any more to sign up than it would have anyway.

P.S. If you are thinking about trying out Servint, PM me as I may even be able to help get you a discount on your first month’s hosting. It’s not something they do on a frequest basis, but I was able to get them to give me a sign up discount and I’d be more than happy to tell you how I got them to give it to me.

Ok, here are the links:
Affiliate LInk: http://www.servint.net/index.php?refid=ADC734010356
Non ffiliate Link: http://www.servint.net

No matter which link you choose, please remember one thing; STAY AWAY FROM GODADDY!

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#399438

we should start a club, i have wasted more time one trying to find ways around non-compliant hosting architectures becuase the customer wanted to save a buck.

what is hosting about guys

1) what you get for the price
2) compliant server architectures, no proprietary setups
3) the neighborhood
4) whats is being shared

anyone want to expand on this

godaddy and 1and1 are marketing companies, not hosting companies

[instantinlaw Friend instantinlawJoin date: February 2007Posts: 1646Downloads:6Uploads:28 Thanks: 68 Thanked: 210 times in 62 posts]

#399465

No hoops to jump through with Servint. It’s LAMP (LAMP is an acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software, originally coined from the first letters of Linux (operating system), Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software) and Perl/PHP/Python, principal components to build a viable general purpose web server) with either Cpanel & WHM or Plesk. It doesn’t get much easier than that. A little over simplified, but all the server functions can be done through WHM.

Of cource you can add on other thngs if you want them, but what I just listed is all I need. There is a learning curve running your own server, but all I’ve ever had to do was explain what I want to acomplish and they had it set up before I was done talking with them.

With 1and1 you have to learn their own control panel. Granted it’s fairly easy to learn, but way too simple. It is hard to get things done like running a cron.

godaddy is just one big confusing mess! If you are lucky enough to stumble upon the thing you are looking to do, you will more likely than not be presented with a credit card payment screen. Joomla barely runs on their servers either.

Of all the ones I’ve listed here, Rochen would have to be my second choice. They were good, but cPanel & WHM had few options, and they were very secretive about the security set up. In fact, they wouldn’t tell me anything. My sites did fly, but I didn’t like being treated like they were doing me a favor by hosting my sites.

Servint treats me like a human being. They don’t talk down to me when I don’t understand something, they were very helpful when I asked them what effect doing one thing in the server set up to any other settings, and even offered suggestions tohelp harden my security.

I’ve dealt with other hosting companies too and I’ve never had another experience quite like the one I get with Servint.

Believe me when I tell you, I don’t hold punches when I feel like I’ve been treated like a dummy, or find the hosting service lacking in some area, and I’d let you Guys & Girls know if I’ve had any problems with them. You will have to learn at least the basics of running a server though, so it’s not really for the faint of heart, or a new to hosting person.

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#405214

been going thru the godaddy issues a lot lately, amazingly, when i get someone to move their site to a responsible host, everything seems to work hmmmm:laugh:

[rkprasad Friend rkprasadJoin date: August 2011Posts: 7Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#406192

I have hosted two Joomla(1.6.3, 1.7) sites in Godaddy. I found that for some reason (security, load balancing) their servers are redirecting most requests with 302 responses.

For example,
The browser requests for mysite.com
The server responses with 302 Found with random generated 5 letter locations like FytQN, QueIO, MnHTY etc
The browser requests for mysite.com/FytQN
The server responses with 302 Found with the location (Sometimes the location is correct sometimes it is incorrect)
The browser requests for the given location resulting in 200 (correct location) or 404 (incorrect location)

So instead of a direct 200 OK response it goes through 302 302 200.

This happens in a sporadic way. They first denied it is on their side. Finally after pressure they accepted it and said it is temporary though they have been doing it for more than two years.

The problems I face because of this:

1) Search engines are not properly crawling the site
2) They reject sitemaps
3) When I tried CloudFlare CDN they couldn’t properly cache the site and the site broke down.
4) Increased response times

I get frequent 500 and database connectivity errors also. But I think that’s what you get in a cheap shared hosting with more than 7000 sites sharing one server. I purchased hosting account for one year and I have to face this for another 10 months.

Godaddy Shared Hosting for CMS sites … forget it.

[rkprasad Friend rkprasadJoin date: August 2011Posts: 7Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#406391

I got confused when I did not receive test mails I submitted from my site. I started searching and posting about this. After one hour I checked my inbox, the mail had arrived after 30 min delay . I asked godaddy about this delay they said the delay of 15 to 30 min is acceptable for a shared hosting account. Think of a situation, user trying to reset his password and waiting for mail.

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