Beware of Godaddy

I signed up for GoDaddy domains and premium hosting about 3 days ago. Since then, I have been plagued with problems. Firstly, they took many hours to activate a few subdomains. When asked further, they told me it 'could take up to 24 hours'. There are free web hosts that let you add subdomains instantly or less than five minutes! Secondly, I had to spend many hours trying to install applications using their 'Hosting Connection' service. Installation failed repeatedly. When I emailed their customer support, they only got back to me after 7 hours. Other webhosts are cheaper, and have live chat support. Browsing both Godaddy and my sites hosted on Godaddy is very slow as well. Besides that, when I tried to register new domains, I repeatedly got an error message saying that the session has expired. Still the same after clearing all browsing history, cookies, etc and even restarting windows and reinstalling browsers. Server errors. I regularly get Internal Error 400, 403, 404, 500 on my sites hosted on GoDaddy. 'nuff said.

Deceptive advertising. It claims to support some functions but later tells you that you need to pay for it. It claims some bandwidth and space to be unlimited, but then secretly charge your credit card with the stealth of a ninja when you exceed their 'limits'. They should spend more money on support staff rather than on Superbowl commercials. Otherwise, all the commercials in the world won't do them any good as customers like me flock to Bluehost, Hostgator, Namecheap and many better hosts. Support is terrible, everything is always your fault. They also have no money back guarantee or protection for customers. Customers are treated like dirt. Phone support? Rude and dumb customer service and expensive to call them from outside the US. What's worse is when you try to move on to another host and get extorted.

Domain Registration Protection? They will reveal all your personal information to anyone asking for it for any reason at all. They charge for everything, yet know little about managing hosting servers. Their administrative control panel sucks. Its slow, inconsistent and a pain to use. I have a diploma in computer science and I get confused using it. I have been developing websites for the last decade and thought I would give GoDaddy a shot. Big mistake. Lack of cPanel, compatibility problems, etc. They don't have many apps as a install option. I should never have bought into the GoDaddy hype.

They store your all credit card information, billing you anytime they like. Fines are deducted without any warning. Even police give you a warning before fines. Godaddy is the biggest crook and scammer on the internet. Everyone should know about this. I wished I had. Godaddy doesn't give a damn about its customers. People who support GoDaddy have not seen their dark side yet. Godaddy thinks it can screw with its customers because they will have hundreds more signing up every minute. To all new customers considering GoDaddy: Don't. You will be making the biggest mistake of your life. Take my word for it. Don't say nobody told you.