godaddy sucks need to vent

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oROEchimaru

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Don't host with godaddy if you can, if you are new to design just dont give in.

After being a loyal customer of 3 years and receiving hundreds of spam messages and calls, I didn't realize my lost/replaced CC was for the account. They deleted my website after 10 days and will not restore it.

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. sucks needed to vent.
 
oROEchimaru said:
Don't host with godaddy if you can, if you are new to design just dont give in.

After being a loyal customer of 3 years and receiving hundreds of spam messages and calls, I didn't realize my lost/replaced CC was for the account. They deleted my website after 10 days and will not restore it.

:(

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. sucks needed to vent.
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Sounds like they have sucky policies. Did they not even give you a notice?

And that is why you should have had a full backup.

I kind of dread the near future in which I am planning on setting up a website after not having one for quite a few years.
 
Thats nothing, 10 years ago I had some web space with a small provider.

Paid up for the the year, never get to using it (busy time in life). Six months of not using it I got a complaint from them saying my script was using too much cpu and if it continued they would charge me. I tried to explain to them that I purchased the service but never used it. They just repeated not to running scripts that eat cpu and that they would charge me if it kept happening.

I canceled service on the spot.

They tried to charge an abuse fee which I disputed with my CC.

Remember a business one purpose for existing is to make money.
 
OP you have the polar opposite experience I had with them. Three or four years back I registered 3 domains with them. Not long after the CC used was compromised and replaced and eventually replaced again. Fast forward the initial 2 year registration. I receive notice it was time to renew the domains and decide to let them lapse as they were no longer being used and had no value. Move forward a few months in time and I notice a charge from Godaddy on a card they never had. Contact them and they claim they have a relationship with the CC companies that allow them to charge old/expired numbers and have them go through to the new acounts and are all about you're past the X day grace period and we are not going to refund jack. I eventually called the CC company and initiated a charge back due to unauthorized charge. GD went mad and started with threatening emails. After what seemed hundreds of phone calls, reality it was more like 10, I ended up telling them if they didn't let this go I'd involve the cops claiming credit card fraud/theft as they were never authorized to charge the card they charged. That was the end of it. I'll never have anything to do with them again. Funny enough I just checked and the domains still show up as:

Name: Repossessed by Go Daddy
Organization: Repossessed by Go Daddy
Mailing Address: 14455 N Hayden Rd, Scottsdale AZ 85260 US
Phone: 480-505-8800
Ext:
Fax: 480-505-8844
Fax Ext:
Email:[email protected]


F*ck Go Daddy
 
Namecheap is much better. Godaddy is not a company I'd want to support for multiple reasons, such as the fact that they endorse SOPA and elephant poaching.
 
Google has started offering domain registration, how about them?
 
+1 for NameCheap on the domain registration side.

Dedicated server for hosting (until hardware breaks and you gotta send them hardware to fix it sigh)
 
Skillz said:
+1 for NameCheap on the domain registration side.

Dedicated server for hosting (until hardware breaks and you gotta send them hardware to fix it sigh)
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With leased servers they are responsible for hardware, but colo, yeah you are. I'd love to colo because I can build the server as beefy as I want without having to pay extra per month like you would with a leased box, but then if something goes down.... remote hands is expensive.

I just wish ISPs would stop with the whole no servers bullshit and offer static IP blocks on top of that so I could host all that stuff at home. I'd even pay extra for that. On the other hand, since I discovered OVH, I can't really complain, I have a pretty decently beefy server for like $49/mo with unlimited bandwidth on a 100/100 line. So I host all my online facing stuff there and it acts as a place to store offsite backups of my home network.
 
I do colo. Remote hands for replacing hardware is free though. I just gotta send the harddrive to them and take the time to upload the backup to it. 2 drives in the server and it's the "slave" drive.
 
I do my domain with namecheap and had an DNS issue, did chat and it was resolved on the spot. I don't have hosting with it though.
 
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