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?

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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Only for .ca domains, not your .org domain, but https://register.ca/ offers free .ca domains.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Builder, webhost(shared, VPS, dedicated), registrar, email, SSL certs, etc. etc.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I use porkbun for my domains for the registrar part, but am considering migrating to canspace.ca when renewal comes.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Look into Porkbun

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    We use canspace.ca for domains. Godaddy offers a lots of other random stuff too though, you need to be more specific.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    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!

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