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Can someone suggest cheap webhosting plans for 10 mb webspace on a windows server ?
ashishmehta said:godaddy hosting sucks and it starts with $4 a month!! :tongue: Thats $48 a year, more than Rs. 2000 at current exchange rate. There are far better and cheaper options!
GoDaddy is the most inflexible webhost I have used to date. The price is cheap, but you get stripped down service with a customer support team that absolutely refuses to budge on anything. For example, I needed to host a site using Drupal as the Content Management System (http://www.drupal.org). GoDaddy refused to give my MySQL account "Lock" permissions over the database, which is a requirement for the Drupal system. Also, I have found GoDaddy's performance to be exceptionally poor. If I check my site at 4:00 am, I get decent hit time (2 to 3 seconds to load my site) but if I check during prime time (and it isn't my site getting the hits), it can take upwards of 1 minute sometimes to load my site. I would speculate that they simply overload their servers to the point where one high traffic site on a server screws over everyone on it...
For a shared server i would not recommend it unless you just want a simple website - no registration - no forms or other things that take php, asp, backend support coding.
Webhosting has CPU limitations. Their email service (securenetserver) has a dubious "anti-spam" database, rejects emails with windows-1251 and other charsets. Support did not help.
great price, but no CPanel, no fantastico scripts to help install phpBB or other useful scripts.
every other host I have been with that had CPANEL, I was up and running in minutes.
Godaddy.com hosting forces you to install everything yourself on the site.
Not recommended. Good domain registering prices, worst webhosts ever.
GoDaddy security is reliable but they are unable to provide technical support to webmasters with dynamic web sites and furthermore their poorly defined description of web hosting plans are misleading. GoDaddy may be considered good as domain registra with excellent security but they are 100% incompetent and misleading in hosting.
So here I am, 4 days on without a website, losing money. I am still waiting on a useful response from godaddy.com
Avoid godaddy.com at all costs.
By the way, my website is The Everyday Investor: For the Ordinary Investor who seeks Extraordinary Profits . I had to open up another hosting account with a new domain name so I could still be online during this problem. So using godaddy has already cost me over $100 in losses.
The bad things about GoDaddy hosting was the access to the domain features. The email creation was confusing and the site was way to busy with advertising. Worst of all, you had no access to install your own CGI scripts or any other type of script (which they said you could, but I don't see how because of lack of access to installing and scripts and using CHMOD).
RiO said:Nice quotes - now let's talk numbers... compare these handful of unhappy users with the number of registered users *still with* Godaddy. Every business will have unhappy customers and for various reasons... but as long as the % of unhappy users is insignificant when compared to your entire userbase (and godaddy must be having 0.001% unhappy customers), you will stay in business. I say this after running *real* ecommerce businesses on the web for the last 7 - 8 years, not based on others' random thoughts like you seem to frame your opinions around.
Btw, a lot of those comments above have to do with lack of user understanding and education... and why I seem irritated (agitated is a word out of place), I hate to see people make false claims just to promote their services. It's known as piggyback marketing on the WWW, and it's considered unethical.