GoDaddy...or GoDon't
One of the Neat Ideas I had in regards to my wife's upcoming birthday on the 28th was that I will purchase a new domain name for her and Get That Woman Blogging. She's smart, interesting, funny and I'm sure that all of these talents will combine into an excellent blog.
So the question is asked: Who to register the domain name with?
Well, I've used 1and1.com (pretty crappy, just because their db access alone is such a unbelievable pain), hostingplex, and some others I can't really recall.
If you want to see something truly hilarious, you should see me when I try to update my domain(s) for whatever reason. I almost always contact old providers I don't use anymore (such as modwest) and end up grilling them for some goofy reason (such as Blogger not being able to use FTP...), and then asking me if I would like to get hosting with them because my account was cancelled six months ago. Then it turns out to be Blogger's problem.
Yea, it's non-stop laughs when it comes to domains around here. I need a simpler solution.
The spark of this idea was the bad mojo talk of GoDaddy.com and their 2.4 million dollar Super Bowl spot. GoDaddy is ran by Bob Parsons who, other than having a very interesting blog (yes, I subscribed), is confident that though they "run a tight ship" (as noted in the Why Is GoDaddy.com So Cheap page) the 2.4 million dollar spot could just as easily fall through and not a soul will react to it. And that's okay.
That ship is so...tight, you know what I'm sayin?
Anyway, GoDaddy.com has far too many haters to let me use them, and I'm now trying to find good hosting wherever its available. I think I found one. I'm paying $13/mo for the hosting I'm using now and that seems reasonable, and this place is cheaper and has no haters on board (yet?). All I want is a good control panel and the few times I will inevitably have to deal with customer support be a tolerable and somewhat unpainful experience.
But in the end I'll probably be registering Ericka's domain name at Network Solutions, even though it certainly isn't the cheapest, because its the simplest and the easiest to manage registration schema for me.
I'm not kidding about that forgetting the hoster thing. I've seriously bugged people until they finally type something like this in their "Live Chat" box: "Dude, you don't even use us any longer."
"Oh, shit, sorry." *Disconnect*
So the question is asked: Who to register the domain name with?
Well, I've used 1and1.com (pretty crappy, just because their db access alone is such a unbelievable pain), hostingplex, and some others I can't really recall.
If you want to see something truly hilarious, you should see me when I try to update my domain(s) for whatever reason. I almost always contact old providers I don't use anymore (such as modwest) and end up grilling them for some goofy reason (such as Blogger not being able to use FTP...), and then asking me if I would like to get hosting with them because my account was cancelled six months ago. Then it turns out to be Blogger's problem.
Yea, it's non-stop laughs when it comes to domains around here. I need a simpler solution.
The spark of this idea was the bad mojo talk of GoDaddy.com and their 2.4 million dollar Super Bowl spot. GoDaddy is ran by Bob Parsons who, other than having a very interesting blog (yes, I subscribed), is confident that though they "run a tight ship" (as noted in the Why Is GoDaddy.com So Cheap page) the 2.4 million dollar spot could just as easily fall through and not a soul will react to it. And that's okay.
That ship is so...tight, you know what I'm sayin?
Anyway, GoDaddy.com has far too many haters to let me use them, and I'm now trying to find good hosting wherever its available. I think I found one. I'm paying $13/mo for the hosting I'm using now and that seems reasonable, and this place is cheaper and has no haters on board (yet?). All I want is a good control panel and the few times I will inevitably have to deal with customer support be a tolerable and somewhat unpainful experience.
But in the end I'll probably be registering Ericka's domain name at Network Solutions, even though it certainly isn't the cheapest, because its the simplest and the easiest to manage registration schema for me.
I'm not kidding about that forgetting the hoster thing. I've seriously bugged people until they finally type something like this in their "Live Chat" box: "Dude, you don't even use us any longer."
"Oh, shit, sorry." *Disconnect*
1 Comments:
Try navmonkey.net. I've used them repeatedly. Great low-priced plans for bloggers (check out their "blogger dream" package), and the tech support is really phenomenal. They've handled a few Movable Type issues for me even though they plainly don't have to.
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