GoDaddy is too slow
I am thinking of switching hosting providers for this site. Those with a technical bent may wish to read on.
You may have noticed that page loading times on this site have been quite poor lately. Sometimes, they become extremely poor (taking more than 20 seconds to load the main page). I posted a question about it on Ask MetaFilter and it was suggested that I call the company. When I spoke with the tech support people at GoDaddy and they say that page load times of 14-15 seconds are “not bad” for shared hosting. I disagree. This is especially true since I am only using 0.10% of the bandwidth allocated to me.
GoDaddy also said that the only way to get faster load times would be to upgrade to a dedicated server, which would cost more than $1500 a year.
Does anyone have experience with other hosting companies that have been more helpful? With GoDaddy, I am paying about US$45 per year for 5 gigabytes of storage and 250 gigabytes a month of bandwidth. That also includes the cost of the domain. I would be willing to pay a bit more for faster page loads and a more reliable MySQL server. The GoDaddy versions seem to have trouble frequently.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Some numerical data for those thus inclined.
May 10th, 2007 at 2:09 am
a fellow blogger has just migrated to GoDaddy.
June 2nd, 2007 at 10:18 am
I have a hosting acount with godaddy 49.00$ and it is slow… on the other han I tried awardspace.com and I pay 0.00$ a year and it is better than godaddy, FTP is faster to, their routing system must be better. is goadddy tring to put tomany people on one routing server and get their cash for it?
October 24th, 2007 at 2:23 am
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April 7th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
From GoDaddy:
Please note that you may only have up to 50 consecutive requests to your hosting account content within a given period or your site will go down temporarily.
July 1st, 2008 at 10:18 pm
I was all excited about using godaddy to purchase my domains and use their Website tonight to build a simple website.
Problem is that the product is virtually unuseable most of the time. To work on your website it can take 5 or ten minutes for a single box to open. There is nothing wrong with my computer and I have a fast connection. Seeing how many others are complaining about the same slowness, it appears I got badly ripped off. This unreasonable slowness was not clearly disclosed.
Very unhappy with godaddy now and they will end up losing many customers.