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Posted by NewCreationUnlimited, 12-28-2011, 02:45 PM
I wanted to know everyone experience with godady's reseller account
Posted by Innerwish, 12-28-2011, 03:00 PM
Godaddy is for domain registrant.I would suggest to go to another company who focus on hosting things. Make a search on your own here in WHT. I am sure you will not find any positive reviews about them.
Posted by IsolatedHosting, 12-28-2011, 04:12 PM
Just search reseller offers you will find tons of providers. Best of luck searching.
Posted by Jim K, 12-28-2011, 04:32 PM
I have not used them before so i can not give an accurate opinion about their services . But as others mentioned it is better to go with a company that focus on the hosting area. Godaddy is a great domain registrant but i think that their main focus is on that area only. They just offer other services like hosting / servers etc too. Just my opinion
Posted by sameev29, 12-28-2011, 05:20 PM
Take your time and do some more searching with other providers.
Posted by Time2303, 12-28-2011, 06:14 PM
NoDaddy isn't great for hosting / VPS, they are an excellent registrar however.
Posted by Forward Web, 12-28-2011, 10:20 PM
Have you ever used godaddy's web hosting services? If you plan on re-selling their services, I strongly recommend you uses their services first. Also, what is your target audience? Generally speaking, people who a tech savvy, will not go anywhere near godaddy web hosting.
Posted by StableHub, 12-30-2011, 07:08 AM
Having lot of problems with GoDaddy these days on SOPA.. go wid someone else
Posted by FRH Dave, 12-31-2011, 02:37 AM
Agreed - be sure you use GoDaddy's service before you trust your business to their reseller program. I hosted some sites with them in the past and was not satisfied with their support, though I have never used their reseller program. As for them being an "excellent" registrar, well ... to each their own, I guess. I personally no longer do business with them for reasons beyond their SOPA support (though that helped). What irritates me about GoDaddy is this: Me: "I'd like to register ***.com, please" Them: "Would you like email forwarding for just $3 more?" Me: "No." Them: "Would you like domain forwarding for just $2 more?" Me: "No." Them: "Would you like domain protection for just $20 more?" Me: "No." Them: "Would you like email hosting for just $10 more?" Me: "No." Them: "Would you like a shopping card for just $50 more?" Me: "No." Them: "Would you like web hosting for just $1 more?" Me: "No." Them: "Would you like premium web hosting for just $2 more?" Me: "No." Them: "Would you like super-premium web hosting for just $5 more?" Me: "No." Them: "Would you like a VPS for just $10 more?" Me: "No." Them: "Would you like a merchant account for just $5 more?" Me: "No." Them: "Would you like SEO tools for just $18 more?" Me: "No." Them: "Would you like a free software trial for just $20 more?" Me: "No." Them: "Would you like a matching .TEL for just $50 more?" Me: "No." Them: "Would you like a t-shirt for just $20 more?" Me: "No." Them: "Would you like to chat with a live sales specialist?" Me: "No." Them: "Would you like to add a dedicated server for just $30 more?" Me: (closes window, goes to Namecheap) Last edited by FRH Dave; 12-31-2011 at 02:40 AM.
Posted by Collabora, 01-01-2012, 12:57 PM
I've been a GoDaddy Reseller for almost 3 years and have been satisfied. Its very convenient to have all hosting services, from SSL certs to Hosted Exchange come from a single provider. Its also been somewhat satisfying to see the hosts recommended by some of the Go-daddy haters go out business There is a lot of business flexibility with the choice of letting gd do your billing and support or you handling it. Personally I do most of the invoicing myself and turn on their support number/email when I am not available to respond quickly. One person above was generally correct when he said that tech-savvy end-users don't use godaddy. Who cares: your market will be the non-tech savvy user. That's where the money is. I am a Windows systems administrator reselling godaddy (among other things). I make most of my money adding value to the gd products and invoicing my customers for my services. The downside is that this forum does not consider you a valid reseller if you happen to resell godaddy products. But of course, that is poor criterion for selecting a reseller. BTW, GD opposes SOPA.
Posted by TheJoker, 01-01-2012, 01:18 PM
GoDaddy and 1and1 are not that bad. PLENTY of people use them for hosting and actually are HAPPY with them, regardless of what the little nobody resellers on WHT have to say about the matter. You don't get to be the largest host AND STAY THERE by totally sucking. And not everybody who uses Godaddy and 1and1 are ignorant people who don't know better, regardless of what the little nobody resellers on WHT have to say about the matter.
Posted by SSD-Greg, 01-01-2012, 01:37 PM
The best and safe thing you can do is not go with them and buy a reseller account from a provider that specializes in hosting. If you wanted to purchase a domain then you go with godaddy but other than that then don't go with then for hosting.
Posted by energizedit, 01-01-2012, 02:17 PM
I would not recommend them as a domain reseller, mainly because they have a closed API that no hosting software is able to integrate with. It is much easier to use billing software that can handle everything automatically.
Posted by Collabora, 01-01-2012, 02:41 PM
And don't forget to ask the "specialist" if he still has pimples and uses mommy's computer to log into your cpanel subaccount
Posted by FRH Dave, 01-01-2012, 04:09 PM
Ah, yes. Anger and name-calling. The hallmark of any reputable, reliable company. I think you'll be happy with GoDaddy.
Posted by TheJoker, 01-02-2012, 12:19 AM
LOL. Definitely not angry, just stating a fact concerning 1and1 and GoDaddy and what is a hallmark of this forum concerning small time hosting trashing the big boys. Maybe it is they who are angry that they find it hard to compete? Not hating, just keeping it real.
Posted by NightCrawler Media, 01-02-2012, 12:32 AM
The big boys do provide a level of service and some interesting products. Some people like them, some haven't. I used to be a godaddy reseller. I thought it was ok. I used it when I was a teenager but now that I have matured I decided to switch over to the cPanel side of things. Most people care that their website is UP. As long as it is UP, people don't care who their provider is. I know alot of people ask me, "Well why not use GoDaddy"? I do tell them they focus more on domains, but I had a great run with GoDaddy's hosting and reseller plan for nearly two years. I don't bash the big boys, because in a novice's eyes their services work just fine for them.
Posted by TheJoker, 01-02-2012, 12:42 AM
That's just it. Most small business owners want a simple website that works. They don't care about control panel or cron jobs. They want a website that serves static pages. I have never been told by any web design client that their sites are down. I have never experienced them being down, or failed to connect to their FTP server. Even if their site has occasional downtime, for most it isn't a deal breaker. And most want to do business with a name they know and trust.
Posted by whmcsguru, 01-02-2012, 04:20 AM
If you're looking for domain reseller, go to resell.biz. You'll see why when you take a look at their pricing. Free privacy protection, 2 tiered system, and pricing you just can't find most other places.
Posted by ChaseNet, 01-04-2012, 06:21 PM
I started reading through the posts here, and got to thinking, don't respond, don't respond, simply because of a few heated comments. However, solely in my opinion, I felt the need to respond none the less, because in the past, I have used GoDaddy web hosting services. Many of my clients have used GoDaddy services, as well as many of my friends. The one thing myself, my clients and my friends have in common is that we all agree on the following "Godaddy is an excellent domain registrar with decent costs, however, their hosting servers are slow, and their back end user interface for said hosting is slow as well." No one wants their website on a slow server. Again, simply my opinion and the opinion of people I know with experience.
Posted by kpmedia, 01-04-2012, 06:49 PM
The disagreement comes in how you define "works". For me, having a site that is slow (due to bloated servers) is not "working". Godaddy has done nothing to "earn trust". They've simply paid for lots of ads.
Posted by jshipps, 01-04-2012, 07:49 PM
Why not go with another company that isn't on the SOPA bandwagon? There are plenty of great companies out there, big companies, that actually know how to handle servers and have great customer support etc.
Posted by ldcdc, 01-04-2012, 08:35 PM
I don't doubt that some people have been happy with both companies. I've used them both, for shared hosting. Godaddy sucked, 1and1 was from many points of view a breath of fresh air - great, fast, stable hosting, but they're quite obtuse in many respects. I'm sure we see lots of unwarranted bashing of big hosting brands here, but what I personally experienced confirms that most of them are unable to keep their servers working fine for extended periods of time. The bashing is unfair for the few that deserve praise, but that doesn't mean we should defend them all uniformly either, or think that just because they've survived for a decade they must be doing something right. They're some of the most visible hosting brands, and many people will think that the poor quality hosting they provide is still the best money can buy.
Posted by locke815, 01-04-2012, 09:27 PM
After their SOPA issue, I'd recommend you to go for other company.
Posted by Collabora, 01-04-2012, 10:09 PM
Sticking with the OP, you will probably make more money with the reseller account from the provider he mentioned than with the swiftest host here. And isn't that the wole point? All the highly recommended hosts seem to succumb to a long period of downtime on occasions. Recently innohost was down all day. I'd rather deal with a few more milliseconds of site render time than something like that
Posted by rv_irl, 01-05-2012, 12:03 AM
To be a bit more accurate, it was down for a few hours while we restored the data on an entire server, not all day. Any host, large or small will experience downtime. Take Amazon's cloud service that was down for days. Nobody is immune. Highly recommend hosts are highly recommended for a reason. Last edited by rv_irl; 01-05-2012 at 12:17 AM.
Posted by Collabora, 01-05-2012, 12:11 AM
Not to mention Office365 and Blackberry. But you were just selected here on the basis of proximity.
Posted by rv_irl, 01-05-2012, 02:08 AM
Right, but that still doesn't explain you telling the OP that highly recommended providers seem to experience long downtimes in contrast to large mass scale providers when I've provided an example and you provided several examples that regardless of the size of the host, it will happen to anyone?
Posted by DNS4WWW, 01-09-2012, 09:37 PM
I'm used Godaddy like 8 years. All can say, their hosting is the best on Security for all of my projects. However, its hard to config, but they can do whatever you want, ionCube, Zend ... But they limited some PHP function like IMAP , u can't use it on PHP. If you want a easy-to-use web hosting like cPanel, go some where else.
Posted by scriptexplosion, 01-17-2012, 06:56 PM
I would suggest to search a reseller hosting company, Godaddy are good in the registar of domain name.