I've never used GoDaddy. I don't know what it is other than being a domain registrar and also offering Outlook 365 for a higher price.
How would you convince someone of an alternative to it? I'm looking to know what services they offer so I can offer alternatives for them.
Are they a website builder as well?
17 Comments
gramie@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 87d
GoDaddy provides a poor service for an astonishingly high price. I switched one of my clients from GoDaddy to CrocWeb. The company is in Cornwall Ontario, with servers in Montreal. Their moderately complex WordPress site became about 200% faster.
Support was very fast and knowledgeable, unlike GoDaddy, whose security would sometimes like me, the developer, out in the middle of a session.
The cost also dropped by about 80%. The only thing remaining on GoDaddy is the domain registration, which unfortunately they had purchased for 10 years at about $80/year (for a standard .org domain), as opposed to the new host that could have done it for about $15/year.
GoDaddy offered unlimited disc space for our account, but threatened to shut us down because we were using too much for backups.
As far as I can see, the only thing GoDaddy offers that CrocWeb doesn't is Superbowl ads.
dudesss@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 87d
Only for .ca domains, not your .org domain, but https://register.ca/ offers free .ca domains.
gramie@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 86d
When I search for a .ca domain, it quotes me $23.95. How do you get free domains from here?
dudesss@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 86d
I swear I saw that before, and used it recently. It might have been from here actually, but I'm not seeing it anymore: https://www.cira.ca/
villasv@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 87d
I use porkbun for my domains for the registrar part, but am considering migrating to canspace.ca when renewal comes.
Shadow@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 87d
We use canspace.ca for domains. Godaddy offers a lots of other random stuff too though, you need to be more specific.
puppinstuff@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 87d
I use canspace for domains and they’re very competitive when factoring in CAD vs others who charge in USD.
schwim@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 88d
Builder, webhost(shared, VPS, dedicated), registrar, email, SSL certs, etc. etc.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 3 pts · 88d
WHOIS privacy protection (you have the sometimes paid option of not revealing personal data to the whois registry)
schwim@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 88d
All domain registrars and resellers offer that as part of a domain registration.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 3 pts · 88d
I used to use Namecheap, they offer some space to host your site on as well as selling the domains, but I don't like AI and they tried to shove it in my face, so sometimes I still use them to get a domain cheap and then I point it to a different hosting service such as IONOS.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 87d
ew lots of ai slop here too
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 2 pts · 87d
Yeah, but it wasn't shoved directly into my face, at least not a year ago, they're based in a better regulated country, and the hosting started at $1 per month.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 87d
Look into Porkbun
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 87d
I have one domain at easydns.ca and one at hosthero.ca. I plan on moving the one on host hero to easydns once I have figured out my self hosting things.
fourish@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 87d
I use namesilo as my registrar. No drama. Just works. I moved over from godaddy, didn’t have any issues with them either but was paying more for services I don’t need.
NoAlias@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 86d
I use NamesPro and they have been great and reasonably priced. If there's any reason I shouldn't use them someone please let me know!