Godaddy suspended my account?
Godaddy is one the largest domain registrars and web hosting companies in the world. But gradually I will be phasing them out and NOT using them to host my websites anymore.
Why am I dropping Godaddy??
Because they suspended one of my websites that I have had hosted at Godaddy for the last 6 years because of a billing screw up on their part!! I had been getting my monthly account billed to my paypal account and have for the last several years. And this month, it didn’t bill my paypal account and Godaddy suspended my account. The account rep said I must have done something. Which is BS cause I haven’t touched my billing settings in YEARS!
What does that mean exactly?
That means they shut down my site. And so when people clicking on my links found on the FIRST PAGE of Google for my website, they got an ERROR page and were redirected to secureserver.net instead of reaching my site. This account was apparently 8 days overdue and their automatic billing process wasn’t billing my paypal account like it had been for the last several years, so they suspended my account??
This is just horrific. I lost sales. I lost customers. I lost ad revenue. And this is just plain unacceptable.
I did get an email from Godaddy stating the billing had failed, but they had already turned off my account and God only knows how long it was off. I hadn’t had sales in days (which is highly unusual).
So over the next several months I will be switching ALL of my sites from Godaddy to my new favorite hosting company, bluehost
They rock, they have great service, cost about as much as Godaddy deluxe except bluehost gives you unlimited bandwidth (unlike Godaddy which charges for over usage). Godaddy also has strange limits on the scripts you can run and other issues. Bluehost doesn’t have those limitations.
In short, it’s a shame that Godaddy can’t provide a better service. In my opinion they have gotten worse, not better, over the years and they are going to lose me as a customer. Bye Bye Godaddy!!!
Hello…bluehost, better tech support, faster download and simple scripts….Yeah!!!