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| Stuart Campbell War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2011
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I plan on registering multiple domains but I don't want to be tied by a bad hosting company, so I would just like to find out which of these two companies come reccomended by fellow marketers?
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| Senior Warrior Attorney War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Jedi Temple
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Go with HostGator. This is not even close. GoDaddy is nice for domain registrations, but their web hosting leaves a lot to be desired. . |
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| Advanced Warrior Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Bangkok, Thailand
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You can try namecheap too.
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| HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: USA
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of the two i'd say go with hostgator.
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| Wordsmith (& Skepchick) War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2008
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For hosting, Hostgator is certainly very widely recommended by Warriors (and GoDaddy is fairly widely condemned by many here, though it has a few enthusiasts, too). You do know not to register the domain-names wherever you're going to host them? |
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| Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Arizona
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Hostgator. No question. GoDaddy is a disaster of a hosting company. I've had plenty of clients who use GoDaddy, so I've got first hand experience. Their interface is terrible. For domains, Namecheap. |
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| Yezzar.com War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Malaysia
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If you ask me, go for Namecheap for buying domains, and hostgator for hosting. Why suffer taking either one of the service with Godaddy?
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| Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: , , USA.
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I have used both, but rec none. There are many other services. Yeah, we do say many.
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| Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: California
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Hey what about Bluehost? I use it and really like it. Why is Hostgator better?
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| Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Toronto, Canada
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I don't currently use either, but have used both in the past and would definitely go with Host Gator. IMO, GoDaddy is confusing and convoluted and I've been charged for things that I didn't even know were active because it was buried deep somewhere in their user admin section.
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| Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: California
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Hostgator is the best , and they have the best customer service , 24/7 , so if you have any problem you can chat with them at anytime.
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| Senior Warrior Attorney Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Kharagpur
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Business users or webmaster hosting commerce websites will go for Hostgator |
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| HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: UK
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I'm with namecheap. Very reliable.
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| HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Aug 2011
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I do use godaddy for domain registration.coz it really work well for me. But i think if compare to use the web hosting service.I do think Hostgator seems better. |
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| HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: RI
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Namecheap and Hostgator are affordable and easy to navigate. Also, Host Gator has great customer support.
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Hostgator is more suited to a business website. However, whoever you choose I recommend not hosting with the same company you register your domains with.
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| Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: , , United Kingdom.
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I am actually happy with Godaddy as a host. Any time I've had a problem I've been able to phone them 24/7 on a local rate call (given that I am in London and they are in America - I'm happy with that!) and get quick competant help. Of course I make sure that my domains are actually registered elsewhere! Whichever host you pick someone will be able to tell you about a horror story and someone will be able to recommend a better one. I think a good strategy would be to make sure that your hosting and domain registration are separate and that you make regular backups - so that if you experience a problem then you can transfer quickly and easily. Ands as soon as it is viable - have two hosts and mirror sites so that you are not left in the lurch. Hope that helps |
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| Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Iowa, USA
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I'm actually in the middle of this exact same discussion on another forum. Here's what I recommend... 1) Use NameCheap for domains 2) Use HostGator for hosting 3) Don't get your domain and hosting from the same place |
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| HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Orem, UT, USA.
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HostGator without a doubt... stay away from GoDaddy... their hosting is horrendous and using WP can be a nightmare with them... HostGator all the way!
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| HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: , , .
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| I second the recommendation. We had several Hostgator accounts for years and still have one account there we use some, even though we have our own servers now. And namecheap is about the best domain company around.
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| Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2011
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I've used both! Go Daddy hosting is horrible next to Hostgator. I've been very happy with Hostgator.
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| Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Toronto, Canada
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Forgot about GoDaddy's hosting. TERRIBLE! lol. I got out of there pretty quick and have never looked back.
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I use godaddy for the domain and had used hostgator for hosting. hostgator was very good no downtime expereinced. I only had to move because they had a mailing limit(i use the hosting for sending emails to subscribers) so I had to move to a new server.
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If you want to use GoDaddy, use them for their auctions.
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GoDaddy is a nightmare, hostgator for hosting and name cheap for domains...my tuppence worth.
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| Stuart Campbell War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2011
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Im fairly certain I'll end up using Host Gator, I've seen their control panel vs that of go daddy. The only down side to Host Gator is their random security protocols that they have, insane isn't describing half of what you have to do to eventually register and activate your account. If you have never registered a hosting account this might be enough to put you off the whole idea.
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| Justin W. Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: United States
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I don't use shared hosting anymore, but if I were to use it, I'd have to go with HostGator from past experiences. I just remember HostGator shared being a little slow loading cPanel though.
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| The IM Wiki War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: UK
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Hostgator for sure for your hosting - the 24/7 live support is awesome. I used GoDaddy for 8+ years to register domains (never had any problems with them) and recently switched to Namecheap for the free privacy protection. I still like checking for free domains within GoDaddy's interface and haven't ruled them out for future domain registration if they make any changes or run special offers.
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| Active Warrior Join Date: Oct 2011
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I used GoDaddy once and I will never use them again -- that goes for both domain registration and hosting. Absolutely awful experience. I've had an excellent experience with HostGator for hosting and NameCheap for domain registration.
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| AT gmail DOT com War Room Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Kent, WA
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| Hosting your website at GoDaddy is like ordering the fried chicken at Red Lobster. It's not really what they do, so it's not going to be very good, but they don't care and neither do most of their customers.
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| HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: New Jersey/North Carolina
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I hosted my site on GoDaddy initially because I wanted to try to minimize paying through different companies.. HUGE mistake. GoDaddy hosting is horrendous, after a few months and countless server crashes, I switched to Host Gator and haven't looked back. GoDaddy used to crash at least once a week for me, Host Gator hasn't missed a beat once! |
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| 5 Star Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Notre Dame, IN
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I finally got my last of many Godaddy hosted domains moved to Hostgator earlier this summer... need I say more?
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| Peter Sundstrom War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: New Zealand
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| I've had BlueHost and Hostgator accounts for a few years now and I can say that while Bluehost has been quite good, Hostgator has better support (more proactive and better technically) and better uptime.
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| HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: east coast
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| Hostgator for hosting, they've been reliable for me and have really great customer service. Godaddy for domains, they always seem to have the best deals on them, especially if you search for their coupon codes. |
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| Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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When I first started out I used GoDaddy and it was horrible. I figured out real fast that GoDaddy was best for registering domains and Hostgator was the way to go for hosting. Seems like pretty much everyone here thinks this.
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| Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: NJ, USA
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I installed a script on GoDaddy for a client and neither I or GoDaddy could get it to work. I have the same script intalled on HostGator and it runs flawlessly. My client switched to HostGator and they migrated all of his files from GD for free and as soon as the migration was complete the script started running fine! | |
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| Active Warrior Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: NJ
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I'm so glad that I picked a highly recommended hosting service. I have never had a problem with Hostgator and I like the cpanel choices on the site. I've been using it for over a year now, no problems at all. And, I had someone else help me with my account (DNS and all).
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| Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Indiana
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Wow talk about a lot of suggestions I got a question why wouldn't you buy and host your domains using the same company?
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I moved my hosting from GoDddy to Hostgator. In fact I feel stupid that I ever signed up for Godaddy in the first place. It was so cumbersome and not easy to follow. Hostgator has brilliant customer support and also tutorials.. Those Godaddy Help pages really irk me! I can now have a new site and wordpress installed, email address configured on it in minutes without any issues through Hostgator. Btw, I still register my domains through Godaddy and just update the DNS to point to my Hostgator hosting account when I purchase a new Domain..Simple as that! |
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i am using Hostgator from last 2 years , and they are best, but if you want to go for big then rackspac ( but i don't think you need that now ) |
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| I have accounts with both Bluehost and Hostgator. HG are amazing on price and beat BH hands down for customer service every time. For domains, I usually go with 123reg or GD. |
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| HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: New England
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Only use godaddy for domain registrations not for webhosting. I prefer namecheap over godaddy for domain registrations but if godaddy has a good sale going on then I'll buy a domain and switch it the next year to namecheap... HostGator has been great for hosting. I've been using Hostgator's baby shared plan for 3 years now and host 12 websites on the one account with no problems.
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Godaddy is good for using them as a registrar and hostgator is better for hosting purposes. However, I would go with a custom made web companies for serious applications for you website.
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