GoDaddy is the master of marketing. I host my main site with GoDaddy. I am very satisfied. The difference with GoDaddy and Hostgator from my point of view comes down to email disk space quotas. I had to add on a package that gives me more email space. I store 1/2 a Gig in emails on the GoDaddy servers. And I use their web mail. When I started hosting with GoDaddy 5 years ago, their email accounts were limited to 10MB. Now they are 100MB. They want you to buy the cheap hosting and add on other products until you are paying much more than the base price.
The other area they used to get you to pay more was in the area of stats. I did not pay extra. I rely on Google Analytic. Hosting log stats can tell you a lot. I've chosen not to pay extra.
When the day is done I am very happy that I get so much for so little.
I like GoDadd's web mail the best of any hosting company's web mail.
I also have a reseller account at HostGator. HostGator is cheap, simple and straightforward. As far as I know you can set your mail box quotas to any size you need. And I believe the stats provided by HostGator are better than the free stats that GoDaddy provides, however they may not be as good as the add on stats that Godaddy provides.
Realistically, these hosting plans are for small hobbyist websites or for those stating out. The people on this list can get away with these cheep hosting plans because we know what to do in case of trouble. Most do not have our skills.
I'd recommend going with either and then when you are more successful with your project move to a full blown server.
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Keith Smith
--- On Sun, 1/22/12, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: website hosting
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Sunday, January 22, 2012, 9:19 PM
hostgator? why do you prefer them?
what about registering a domain name?
if I do hosting with godaddy the domain registration is only 1.99. but they fail to sat what hosting costs after the year is up.
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 8:22 PM, JD Austin <jd@twie ngeckos.com> wrote:
I second Hostgator
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 20:18, keith smith <
klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:
Go to HostGator. Better deal. GoDaddy is solid, however I like HostGator better. I host both places.
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Keith Smith
--- On Sun, 1/22/12, Bryan O'Neal <
Bryan.ONeal@TheONealAndAssociates.com> wrote:
From: Bryan O'Neal <
Bryan.ONeal@TheONealAndAssociates.com>
Subject: Re: website hosting
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Sunday, January 22, 2012, 8:06 PM
I by domains mostly for the portable personal email address. As far as
hosting I would go with the $6/mo plan and do the on click wordpress
install.
On 1/22/12, R P Herrold <
herrold@owlriver.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> Well, I'm going to to register my first domain and get
>> hosting with godaddy (unless you know of
something better).
>> Anyways, I don't know which hosting plan to go with, web
>> hosting economy or 5-page website builder.
>
> It rather depends on WHY you feel the need for a domain, and
> one assumes (b/c of the mention of hosting, and the subject
> line) website
>
> blog sites are free with a google account at blogspot.com.
> email handling in a custom domain is free for up to ten users
> with google apps (down a rather had to find link). mimimal
> websites are free thru google sites, as well. domain
> registrations are $10 a year at google apps [they hand off the
> registration to emon or go-daddy, which is a hard price to
> get under for a low volume domain registrant
>
> But all this is self support and has no learning opportunity;
> if you want to have a live person at the other end of the
> phone to ask questions of,
you may want more
>
> Not enough info to really frame a good answer
>
> -- Russ herrold
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