Godaddy Spokes Person Danica Patrick

Godaddy you are killing me. First you put more than 5 thousand websites on every one of your servers and then my sites are as slow as molasses on a cold day.

THEN… you up-sell me on your new Grid hosting. Its not supposed to be slow. Well it is. I have taken countless hours to migrate my sites from one hosting account to the other and its painfully slow. The admin interface is complicated and slow. I waste hours per week waiting on your interface.

I guess you not really interested in your customers! Godaddy is going to go the way of AOL and Myspace. You are going to get too big and top heavy. You are getting too separated from the people who made you, and then everyone is going to jump ship and leave you for dead.

Wake up and start offering premium services for those of us who need it. I don’t mind paying more just give me an easy to manage service that you don’t stuff umpteen thousand websites on a single server. Stop being so cheap!

Plus your whole admin user experience is getting too cluttered. I just want to manage my domains and my hosting accounts. You make me click like 3 links to even get to them once I log in. If I wanted complicated and worthless messages and screens in my way I would have stayed with NetSol.

I also am not interested in your dedicated accounts; the reason I use you is so that I don’t have to babysit my own servers anymore.

And please don’t come back with some rhetoric about how its just me. Its not. Many of my clients and my sites users are complaining and they are from all over the world.

I know you don’t care about me and my 3 hosting accounts and 100 plus domain names. I am just a small fish. But if anyone is listening; the writing is on the wall. And I am going to be the first to start taking my hosting business elsewhere.

Because you don’t care about the basic reasons you are in business.

All my sites are slow. Static or dynamic it does not make a difference. Loading a reasonably large graphic or a flv file or heaven forbid a Joomla site. You might as well just go get some coffee.

When you do a lookup on how many sites are on one IP address on a godaddy server it returns thousands. This is the same on all my accounts.

Also logging into your web admin is slow. Slow redraw, slow loading. I have the fastest computers with broadband connections. I am on Mac so no spyware or viruses slowing me down.

Again I pull my experience from 3 different locations. And from people who use my sites and complain how slow they are.

I am not comparing godaddy with anyone else. I hate to even touch my regular shared account. It takes forever to get anything done. My grid account is just barely functional.

FTP via a third party program is slow. And the other night it took close to a minute to even get a directory listing.

Tech support is always friendly and helpful. The issue is godaddy puts too many sites on too few resources the demand can not be met.

I am just upset because your sales team told me the solution to this problem was your grid hosting. Well its becoming just as slow as your regular shared hosting.

Then next stage is to charge me double and put a half or a 1/3 the amount of sites on one server. Maybe this is the solution. I am not going to wait long before I start migrating my websites to another provider. I have to get some work done.

Yes grid is better than regular shared. And I was one of the first Grid customer a few months back. And in the beginning it was great. But every week its getting slower and slower.

Yes I have tried hostgator regular shared account and its much better. faster and much better functionality with .htaccess and phpini But their admin interface is not as friendly. However I not regarding this as a permanent solution. because what is to stop them from overloading the server I am on in the future.

I have recently found a hosting provider named arvixe with what they call a business class hosting. Its exactly what I think I need. You pay twice as much for a shared account and they put far less accounts on a shared resource. They also have limiters in place so that if someone’s script starts to eat all the memory etc. Then it shuts that script down.

Now to the task of actually moving them.