It’s been just over two months since I switched to GoDaddy hosting for my blog, and I want to give you an update on how things have been going so far.
When I first announced the switch, a few people weren’t keen on the idea in public and private. Luckily for me, I don’t recall any downtime or outages whatsoever in these two months. The site has been humming along quite well, and I am very happy that I stopped paying $60/month and am now paying under $10/month.
Things have been going so well that I just moved DogWalker.com, another WordPress-based website, to GoDaddy hosting. I wrote about the hosting change on the DogWalker.com blog, and the reception on Facebook, Twitter, and via email has been positive.
The unique situation with DogWalker.com is that there are between 400-500 paying advertisers, and I couldn’t afford to have any downtime and risk getting angry emails. Luckily for me, the switch went off with out much of a hitch. I appreciate the support from GoDaddy’s tech team, as well as Todd Cluff’s management of the transition.
I am considering dropping the VPS all together and moving all of my sites to GoDaddy.
Just as a FYI, I have not been compensated in any way for this nor are there any affiliate links. It is likely that I received good treatment because I have very active websites with tens of thousands of visitors, and I have been a customer for 10 years.
I’m looking for a nice reseller hosting company and will look into godaddy.
Advertising on your blog works.
I just saw the ad at the top “Patents Trademarks Copyrights for less” and went to the site.
(They should probably add their website address in the ad to help with branding..)
I have switched to godaddy from 1and1 .
Godaddy had far far far superior customer service
I have a few domains with godaddy, most people are not into them as such but I found them to be ok
Why did you not switch to managed WordPress like Zippykid or WP Engine?
I like GoDaddy for domains and yes, their service has been excellent. In fact just fixing to call them now but unrelated to hosting.
I’ve had good service with them and the price is right.
I am a Godaddy Reseller and would not still be if I did not have the same experience.
Hi, Elliot! What do you use web hosting Godaddy Deluxe Plan or VPS hosting from Godaddy? Operating System web hosting Linox or Windows? Thanks!
4H
Hi Elliot-
I realize this post is almost 4yrs old but I was wondering if you are still using Godaddy hosting? I tried finding the “4H hosting” plan you mentioned but I don’t see it.
Is it one of the “WordPress hosting plans” or their “Shared hosting” plans?
Thanks!