[SGVLUG] Is GoDaddy for real?

[Sean O'Donnell]

I've used them as a domain registrar for (16+?) years, and have never
had a complaint about that service, until now.

The hosting plans always seemed to be something I'd rather avoid, and
hearing this, confirms such suspicions. I'm using west-host (for hosting
friend's sites on a VPS), rackspace (for hosting VMs and SSH Tunnels, w/
reverse dns), and my own server (@home) via freedns. All of these work
fine for my personal needs.

However, I recently had a .org domain name that I've owned since 2004,
expire, only to find that they are now charging 2x the amount to renew.
While it's still less than $20/yr, that just seems to be ridiculous
inflation, even to someone from California. ("Come for the weather, stay
for the bankruptcy!")

Although the domain itself is only 6 chars long (which is hard to find,
often), it still doesn't justify the 50% increase over 2yrs since I last
registered it. Domain names are like real estate though, so it's not
surprising.

Needless to say, I've let the domain stay expired. I no longer have a
need for it, which is why I can't justify the purchase, other than a
(very small) tax write-off, which would be better-off going to a charity
of some respectable sort.

-Sean

On 09/05/2016 05:49 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote:
> Oh my goodness.  I can't really believe this.
>
> When I wrote y'all last time a third level manager had asked me to
> reduce the amount of 'unlimited' storage I was using by 25%.
>
> I reduced it by 50%.
>
> Two Fridays ago I got a note 'you are using storage not in accordance
> to your hosting plan'.  When I called they said that I was using too
> much storage and had to reduce the amount of space I was using.  I
> asked what the limit was for 'unlimited' (again) and they (again)
> replied 'that is at our discretion'.
>
> They gave me 4 days (2 working days) to 'reduce the amount of storage
> you are using' or they would shut down all the websites hosted on my
> account without further warning.
>
> I reduced the amount of storage again, removing another 30% of the
> material (to another hosting account).
>
> I complied by their date.
>
> I just got a follow-up letter stating that though I complied with
> their request they find that I am out of compliance with their hosting
> policies.  I called again and asked what was wrong this time.  They
> could not answer me but said that unless I complied with all requests
> to come into compliance they would shut down the sites on September
> 12th.
>
> At least this time they gave me 4 working days to complete the changes
> which require costly application and database work.
>
> Unfortunately this time they can't tell me what I need to do to 'comply'.
>
> This just really, really sucks.
>
> Is anyone else still using GoDaddy?
>
> Matt
>
>