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Is Godaddy 4GH hosting any good or crap?

by roblawrence
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Godaddy's new 4gh hosting looks interesting:

Web Hosting | Secure Hosting Plans with Unlimited Bandwidth

I remember their old hosting had such a bad reputation but this new "4gh" hosting has cloud power and looks tempting. Maybe they've improved their hosting product? Would you use it?
#4gh #crap #godaddy #good #hosting
  • Profile picture of the author msmir75
    Honestly I am so turned off because their old hosting was so bad, and I switched and have been getting better results. But this is one of those times where you have to go with your intuition. However, I will give you my thoughts anyway. Maybe they have improved but to be honest, I think it is one of those wait and see situations. If in time people say that they are happy with it, then if your intuition points to "yes", go with it
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    • Profile picture of the author roblawrence
      Well I'm on hostgator now and have been happy with it but saw godaddy's new offering and it looked tempting but probably not enough to switch. Though the cloud offering is a great feature!
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  • Profile picture of the author msmir75
    It is, but I personally think you are still better off with hostgator I am glad something made godaddy change though, because if they start getting a better rep due to their changes, it will only benefit them later on. They were bad though, very bad lol!
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  • Profile picture of the author SocialMediaOwls
    Their new servers come sheaved in elephant skin, making them tougher and more durable...that's what I herd.....I could be wrong though.
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    • Profile picture of the author zannix
      All I can tell you, I've had an experience with godaddy on shared hosting. It was terrible. It took 7 seconds literally to load a wordpress site that was almost new.

      I then switched to hostgator.

      Now it takes 1 second.


      Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Watch out for a TRICK! UNLIMITED is NOT unlimited! And WHY do they limit MYSQL databases to 1GB? I mean EVEN if you have 250GB, and "UNLIMITED" mysql databases, they are STILL limited to 1GB! What happens if you go over?

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author Darrell Hagan
    Personally, I don't like anything to do with Godaddy because I find them to be too aggressive on upsells and too high priced on many services. I switched to Hostgator long ago and have been happy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rich Struck
    GoDaddy is one of the worst places in the world to have your hosting.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jake Gray
    I'd never use GoDaddy for hosting.

    Slow, constantly down and other things.

    Don't move to them.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    I would never touch Godaddy hosting. There are so many plans, like hostgator and hostmonster that have much better service and pricing
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    • Profile picture of the author realtimeprospecting
      If the whole world has only Godaddy left as premium hosting, i'll choose free hosting. Lol!
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      • Profile picture of the author AgentHomes
        I would imagine that they are just rebranding their current service since it has such a bad rep. And clearly it is working.
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        • Profile picture of the author NoGddy14
          As what I've experienced lately, I can't say that GoDaddy does any good to me. Please read this article <a href="http://best-inexpensive-web-hosting.com/godaddy-complaints">GoDaddy Complaints</a>. In this article you can get more idea on how to get your good hosting site. Hope this will help you.
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        • Profile picture of the author Audi
          Originally Posted by AgentHomes View Post

          I would imagine that they are just rebranding their current service since it has such a bad rep. And clearly it is working.
          Is that sarcasm? Hard to detect over the internet.
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  • Profile picture of the author Union
    Originally Posted by roblawrence View Post

    Godaddy's new 4gh hosting looks interesting:

    Web Hosting | Secure Hosting Plans with Unlimited Bandwidth

    I remember their old hosting had such a bad reputation but this new "4gh" hosting has cloud power and looks tempting. Maybe they've improved their hosting product? Would you use it?

    This is a HOSTING SCAM COMPANY, never give them a chance, if u dont want to be a looser...
    What i do is:

    DOMAIN Names: from GoDaddy Here they are the Best
    Hosting with HOSTGATROR: Here this guys are the Best
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    • Profile picture of the author sumith
      Originally Posted by Union View Post

      This is a HOSTING SCAM COMPANY, never give them a chance, if u dont want to be a looser...
      What i do is:

      DOMAIN Names: from GoDaddy Here they are the Best
      Hosting with HOSTGATROR: Here this guys are the Best
      Very very very very true!!!!

      I had such a horrible experience that too when I was a newbie... The above advice is the best one!
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  • Profile picture of the author RobCopywriter
    Hm, I may try GoDaddy but Hostgator looks like a better alternative.. so im left in the middle, im not sure about prices and how competitive they are yet so I am going to have to look that up.
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  • Profile picture of the author storge
    I heard mixed reviews but I must admit mostly unfavorable ratings on GoDaddy
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    • Profile picture of the author goldenfish
      By looking at the comparison between Godaddy 4GH Vs the Rest, Godaddy is the best one.
      And I decided to buy the hosting package from Godaddy
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      • Profile picture of the author ipv6wiz
        Here are my experiences so far.
        The 4GH servers appear to be responsive, as a developer I have experienced timed out FTP uploads on regular hosting that do not happen of 4GH (for now).
        The delays in setting up things like ftp users, databases, additional domains pointing to sub-folders etc; is annoying however it is currently still faster than the old GD hosting.
        I have one client with a Microsoft plan on GD 4GH, we have been experiencing some significant problems with email and this may well be true for a Linux based hosting plan as well. It appears that the GD Email Servers are regularly blacklisted, which is not good if you are relying on a rapid response for new member authentication.
        With regards to CURL there appears to be a major problem with secure CURL. I have wasted many hours recently endeavouring to find a set of CURL options that would allow a GD 4GH hosted site to talk securely to the Bank of America (First Data) payment processing gateway. It works perfectly on HostGator.

        Why do I say "for now" ? Well I think that the server configurations are lightly loaded at this time, we will have to wait and see what will happen to response times and the ability to handle surges in traffic when the servers are more heavily loaded.

        For the price if you have several sites that you are developing that do not need secure CURL and email outages are not going to cause you much grief then it is worth giving GD 4GH a go. Otherwise look for a managed dedicated server or some other hosting company offering a comparable feature set to GD's 4GH.

        Hope this helps.

        After several hours of trying different options with CURL it turns out that GD does not allow CURL to ports other than 80 and 443 which pretty much rules out using CURL for any sort of payment gateway or for connecting to GMAIL as your email server.

        So it looks like I am going to have to move my clients to another hosting company.
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