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?

  • gramie@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    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.