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!!!

I just recently started a new web site with a company called 1and1.com Web Hosting. And I gotta say, I like them. I have sites hosted with Yahoo!, Optimal Web Hosting, GoDaddy, and the latest is now 1and1. All are good. And they all have their own key features.

WIth 1and1.com, they had several features at the $9.99 per month level which I found to be nice to have. For example, they offer plenty of room for bandwidth (1000 GB) which is good, cause this new site will have some videos on there. You can store 100 GB of data on your site at the business level (the $9.99 per month offer). That’s alot of video space.

Some other nice features I like about 1and1.com was they had the ability to set up blogs, send out monthly newsletters (up to 1000 people per month), their control panel is very user friendly and easy to understand. They also have some other cool stuff like a live chat script you can add to your site to chat with your visitors, a form building tool to help you easily create forms to gather data, CRON jobs and more.

So in addition to the list of web hosting companies I would suggest, I also recommend this company – 1and1.com.

We created a simple site a few months ago using 1and1. A friend of mine is a psychologist (who actually has a rather legendary reputation of being one of the best in his field) and just for fun we created a site that allows people to send out free ecards. The site is called thehappyanyday.com and allows people to send funny simple e-cards for no particular reason. And using 1and1.com to host this site, we’ve had no problems installing any of the scripts or managing the site. It’s been very straight forward, fast and reliable.

So overall, I gotta say it’s a good deal. They have millions of satisfied customers and considering their current offer (some great software), it’s highly worth checking out… 1and1.com – keep it in mind the next time you start up a new site.