20 countries will not see your site !!!

My First host provider Was Godaddy.
the reason to use it was the ability to pay them monthly.
I shocked when i knew that visitors from Syria, Iran, Sudan, north Korea, Mozambique ..etc unable to access my web site.!! i discovered it by coincidence when a friend from syria were unable to access my website. i went to Google analytic and it said that there were just 20 visitors cam from these countries. i searched for that issue and i found article confirmed that. !! and you will find that now in godaddy tos.
if you have business in middle east it will be destroyed by godaddy and you will not discover that unless you have a (terrorist) friend.!!!!!
then i went to ixwebhosting and it is very very bad and i am searching now for a new host respecting their customers.

Go Daddy sucks!

After renewing for several years with Go Daddy, I was stunned that my "new" renewal rate was about $40 for one year. No way, Jose. I went through all sorts of crap trying to move my domain name to another host. It seemed like they were trying to make it as difficult as possible. I finally was able to change to domainsite.com, where I have another web site hosted. $9.95 per year. I still keep getting all sorts of spam from Go Daddy, despite the fact that I've emailed them several times, asking them to remove me from their email list, and telling them that the only thing they're accomplishing is to annoy me to the max.

In addition, Go Daddy's web site is so cluttered with junk that it's difficult to find what you want. I'm glad to be rid of them. Never again!

Biggest Con: They don't tell you that your renewal fee will increase BIG TIME!

Good is probably the best word

I've been with GoDaddy for the past year and am overall pleased with them. Initially I had a problem with my webpage not loading but after firing a few emails at them everything was sorted and now my webpage is fast and has never been down. However, their web interface is TERRIBLE and I mean Sony sonicstage type terrible! It's slow, confusing and a plain mess, but once you found what you want it works well enough; it's just a pain finding what you want. I like GoDaddy, especially for my small private site and they're relatively cheap too.

Biggest Pro: Fast
Biggest Con: Awful user interface

A terrible experience

My first 6 sites went well even though the interface is almost unusable and filled with GoDaddy ads and promos.

This last experience has been extremely unpleasant and I plan to remove all my sites from GoDaddy as soon as they expire.

Despite promises from customer service and their website that my new site would be ready within 24 hours it is still not ready to use four days later.

They promise me and I promised my customer. Now my customer wants to know where his site is and I can't give him a good answer. It's costing him money. It's costing me my cred with a valuable customer and I am super ticked off.

Poor to say the least.

Gave the repeated proof that their infrastructure was blocking my network and multiple others from being able to view my website and they repetitively denied it with completely unintelligent responses.

For example:
They tell me I need to optimize my websites code so it will run faster when I can't connect the website via the BROWSER or FTP. How again exactly do you optimize code in order to login via FTP.

More information:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23275891-Connectivity-Comcast-Not-blocking-Godaddy-site

Honestly. Avoid like the plague.

Biggest Pro: cheap... but getting more expensive
Biggest Con: Support, speed, downtime

Stick with host that works

I had been with GoDaddy for years but left to find a host with more features. Big mistake. Spent a year going from one to the other before finding a horrible host, (hostnine - I have reviewed them on this site). I am now back with GoDaddy and probably won't move again. They are reliable and have great uptime. They do have their faults, but believe me when I tell you that they aren't nearly as bad as some of the other popular hosts. They give a lot for a little, and I've never had major problems with them.

Biggest Pro: Good price, great uptime
Biggest Con: not enough email storage space or MySql databases

Their Spam Logic Makes No Sense!

I have been using GoDaddy to host my simple email needs for 2 years.

I do not have a website - I purchased my domain names in order to have my own permanent email addresses.

Their Spam setting consist of what to do if they decide an email is spam - move it to the Bulk Folder or leave it in the Inbox with [SPAM] inserted at start of Subject Line

If you want to download your emails from the server to you local pc, I would suggest you select the second option -that way you can check the emails they treated as Spam for accuracy.

As an example of their poorly designed system and bad support that I have seen over the 2 years....

Yesterday I received 2 emails from the same sender, about 2 hours apart.

The first email was marked Nonspam - IP Whitelist but when the second email was processed, it was treated as Spam -Statistical 62%

Since a Whitelist was used for the first one , why didn't it come in to play for the second one?

When I queried where the Whitelist came from I was told by support it was not from GoDaddy but when I did a reverse look up on the IP address, it was indeed owned by GoDaddy.

Support also told me that the spam filters do not tag messages based on the email address on the message. The contents of the message (keywords, links, etc). are what decide Spam outcomes.

I am sure you would all agree that is totally wrong, unless I wasted all my effort to build up entries in the ALLOWED list and BLOCKED list.

And speaking of the ALLOWED and BLOCKED lists - an even bigger complaint is that when you look at the contents of the lists it displays in some random order - I guess they have never heard of an alphabetical list to make life simpler for users.

When you add an entry to the list, they do not even validate if it is already there, and even more disturbing is that you can add the same email address to both the ALLOWED and BLOCKED lists. That's some bit of coding they have.

I worked for a software company for 17 years and I know the pressures that support and development folk are under and so I always try to provide as much information as possible when I contact a support department and it is annoying when the reply back answers a question that was not asked and the ones that were asked are ignored

Biggest Pro: When The Contract Ends
Biggest Con: Whoever Designed Their Spam Logic Failed Badly

Email is badly broken, unusable for a business

The basic webhosting is OK. MIght not have the latest version of PHP or anything like that, but for the most part the hosting is reasonably fast and gets the job done.

The big problem is email. Email on GoDaddy is screwed, and close to unusable for a business.

For starters, although they claim to give you six gigazillion bytes of storage, that's not for email. Email is only 10 MB, unless you pay (just more) additional money, so even a couple of large attachments will result in the inbox overflowing & the emails being rejected.

But a far larger problem is their incoming email filter. GoDaddy has 2 layers of email "spam" filtering. The first layer is hidden from you; the second is controllable via some spam filter settings in your webmail controls. The first layer, the one you have no control over, has a nasty habit of rejecting perfectly good emails from valid domains. I've had this occur on multiple occasions, with emails sent to me from several different customers. I've passed these on to godaddy & told them to remove this "email pre-filter" on my account, but they've said "no".

For a business, this is a disaster. Emails from customers or potential customers are sporadically rejected, and you'll never never know. It'll cost you business. It's costing me business. And GoDaddy couldn't care less.

Biggest Con: Email is broken

Go Daddy consistently bounces blocks forwards and legit email

After about 40 hours of phone and email time, I gave up, I work on 24 different domains...I inheritied one that was hosted on Go Daddy. After I finished the .gov site that their previous vendor didn't finish, I then put forwarding from their old server and pointed towards Go Daddy. Go Daddy kept bouncing the legit emails, not matter what we did or who we spoke with they kept saying it isn't their problem. Just Google "Go Daddy bounces emails" and decide if you think it is Go Daddy or everyone else.

Because I had a police department trying to rely on this rediculous service, I just dropped Go Daddy and went to another provider. All of our issues magically disappeared, imagine that.

Biggest Pro: Nothing worth writing because the biggest con will erase it
Biggest Con: Could never get email from another server accepted by Go Daddy

Cheap hosting and good supports

About 6 months ago i purchased 2 years domain and hosting plan from Godaddy. I was so confusing while selecting hosting plan and about hosting performance, i went to many public forums and asked better hosting company which really be good for my business without any disturbance, some was unsatisfied & some satisfied. along with good hosting i was looking a cheap hosting price. then i have decided to move to Godaddy and bought. I am satisfied with all godaddy's products and their prompt customer services always presence.