Comments on: GoDaddy shared hosting: too slow?

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:16:33 +0000

Godaddy’s shared hositng still sucks.

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:01:37 +0000

John – sorry, I don’t. I’ve seen hostgator (affiliate link) all over the internet, mostly thanks to their aggressive marketing efforts. They are also the partners of CloudFlare, which offers a free plan – maybe even their free plan will work wonders with GoDaddy

By: John

John — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:52:54 +0000

Godaddy is notorious for over saturating their servers. Time to move sites to another hosting company. Do you know of a good hosting company to migrate to?

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By: MYWIKISTEP

MYWIKISTEP — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:18:25 +0000

Regarding my previous post:
“mywikistep Says:
April 9th, 2011 at 22:49
I â€˜ve had the same problems recently.
I have sent several mails and got kind of misleading answers until now.
Slow response and every 5-10 minutes my site,
http://www.mywikistep.com, does not load.
I hope this will be resolved or I â€˜ll ask for my money back.”

I have recently noticed ( last 2 weeks ) that the problem seems to be resolved and my site is running normally – normal page load and responds.

I hope this is it.
So it finally works with GoDaddy hosting.

By: James

James — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:23:09 +0000

Same problem here. Godaddy is trash. I spent 200 dollar with them and that’s what I got:
Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Here is my site: http://www.bigboob.com.au/
The page took 20 s to load and now the whole site is down. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Keith Brown

Keith Brown — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:34:43 +0000

I have spent hundreds of hours over the last year building up wordpress blogs to make a part time income. Lately one site has been running slower and slower and slower, so I checked a reverse IP lookup on my Godaddy wordpress hosting plan and there are over 8,000 other websites sharing my same IP. Wow!
Reverse IP Lookup Resultsâ€”8,218 domains hosted on IP address 173.201.198.128
You can’t get away with treating people like this anymore, hearding our websites in cramped stalls like cattle. I really don’t want to be frustrated with this kinds of problems with Godaddy. Just limit the shared blocks to 500-1000, and let us get on our merry way.
You really think it’s worth it to continue hosting 8,000+ websites on a single block, then hiring hundreds of people to monitor negative brand mentions? Just fix the problem, and watch your revenue increase for many years to come.
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By: John

John — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:15:51 +0000

My laptop review site with them is erratic. One minute the page is there in a flash, including inefficient PHP/MYSQL code/queries. 5 minutes later and a regular html page will time-out. But at $6 a month I kind of expect problems. What annoys me is the ar**-ho** customer service who try to make out it is somehow my fault or that of some remote router in another part of the world. Waiting until it is financially viable to upgrade.

By: mywikistep

mywikistep — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:49:53 +0000

I ‘ve had the same problems recently.
I have sent several mails and got kind of misleading answers until now.
Slow response and every 5-10 minutes my site, http://www.mywikistep.com, does not load.
I hope this will be resolved or I ‘ll ask for my money back.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:01:52 +0000

Kyle,

I checked out your site. If you find your new solution – would you mind letting us know what you discovered?

I agree – Thanks to the original poster!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:33:55 +0000

I run a stock footage website http://www.vjloops.tv that sells downloadable content using Joomla/Virtuemart with PHP/MYSQL and WordPress Blog. The site has a huge database of thumbnails and flv previews. I am on Godaddy linux shared hosting with their unlimited plan. Everything has been fine and I have been using them for approximately 5 years. Some of my file sizes for the downloadable content average between 1-2 GB. In the last month or so I have noticed very slow download times. I rarely have site loading problems. I have a 50mb download connection but recently its my download speeds from them average a few KB. My customers have also started complaining. Found this site through Google and figured out my answer.

DomainTools shows with the Reverse IP Lookup Resultsâ€”6,776 domains hosted on IP address 97.74.47.128

Yikes! Wondering if I should even bother trying to contact customer service or just switch altogether? Thanks to the original poster of this article. It was very helpful.

By: Joyful Boy

Joyful Boy — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:01:40 +0000

Please, can some experienced guy recommend me a shared server that is not as overloaded as godaddy (my clients complain about server timeouts producing blank pages on their sites). Presently they pay $56.88 VAT excluded for Hosting – Shared – Economy – Linux – 1 year. Or maybe choosing a more expensive plan will result in better performance? However, I like goddady’s account manager and all the administration stuff as they have made it, but 5-6000 hosts on a single server is quite a lot…

By: Grant B

Grant B — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:43:20 +0000

Currently, my godaddy server is down. Seems like it’s happening more and more. I’ve mostly been happy with them, but they seem expensive for what they provide. Additionally, I get constant emails about having to update applications. I go to update the applications on my site and they timeout and have caused a few data losses.
Any suggestions for other ‘reliable’ hosts? I host mp3′s and video’s, so load time (and upload time, since my ftp server seems to timeout 2 out of 5 times) are important.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:00:26 +0000

6870 domains on my server with GoDaddy. My clients site is net to useless. They are telling me it’s my site, funny thing is I use he same framework for other clients on other webhosts and those sites run fine.

You get what you pay for. Funny thing is my client refuses to move, spend the 4 to 5 dollars a month extra for a site that WORKS!

By: Unfocused

Unfocused — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:46:11 +0000

I am too hosting a few sites with GoDaddy deluxe account. They all very slow and i am very dissatisfied with this hosting package.
As for my sites, the real problem is when the page loaded using mysql queries. Many times i get timeouts. On the other hand, a friend of mine using godaddy too does not suffer from these issues and his sites runs well (we are not on the same server). I guess it’s a matter of time until his server will get over-loaded as well.

By: Bright

Bright — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:23:46 +0000

If you ‘re consider to use GoDADDY , Please reconsider..
I use Godaddy for a while and wanted really to switch but just thought it could have been a mess.
But now I’m sure I have to move to somewhere. Because Godaddy is too slow and when opening the page, I have to refresh several times.

Godaddy has been a lot of problem for many years but they NEVER CHANGE.
look at this thread, it’s been for many years people complaining.

Godaddy is not reliable. If you really do the business and your customers can’t open the page because of the hosting.. Think twice.

By: tallreed

tallreed — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:26:18 +0000

GoDaddy has something severely wrong with its MySQL databases. Check out the following WordPress thread and my experience. (WordPress uses MySQL.)

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-on-godaddy-unbearably-slow/page/3?replies=64#post-1451266

I went to Bluehost and the problems were gone. One good thing about Bluehost is you pay for a year upfront but you can cancel at any time and get money back for the unused portion. This is an incentive to provide excellent service. Whoever you go to make sure you are not locked in … like you are when you use GoDaddy.

By: Mia

Mia — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:32:16 +0000

We have used GoDaddy hosting for some time. Until recently we have had no issues with them. The last couple months we have noticed a degradation of the service. The weekly reports we get back show our performance in the red. We have been told to call support and ask GoDaddy to move us off one server to another; should not be a problem. The guy we talked to at GoDaddy could not have been more unprofessional…going as far as to even yell at us over the phone for making such a request.

I see some good places to start on past posts…we are looking for hosting referrals to get off the GoDaddy hosting…please post here or email me directly. Thanks.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:58:19 +0000

Hi all. I have been having the MYSQL/PHP issues described herein with goDaddy. And the same story from support. They even went as far as telling me that there is a problem with their server. And they were working on it, but in the meantime…

Max 10 second load times/average 3-6 seconds. I want blazing fast load times. I have no IT/Server Management experience. I’m hosted on a Windows Server, which many say might be a part of my problem. I just reverse IP’d my site. Get this: it come backs with 4,681 domains hosted on the server?

Is that possible? Moving this website will be painful, but perhaps not as painful as it was to set it up on GoDaddy Windows server in the first place.

By: Rio

Rio — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:00:32 +0000

I’ve been having just recent problems with my WordPress/PHP site hosted with them (economy shared hosting plan). Some of the Ad Banners aren’t loading – only for some end-users – but there seems to be no other explanation then slow loading time.

This may be a combination of end use and hosting/server performance – and then PHP download timing out.

According to http://www.web-inspect.com my site take over 2 – 10 seconds to load at an average of 5-15K/second. This is way slower than any other competitor/site I could think of testing.

After being on the phone with them they suggested switching to a dedicated IP (for $3/month), but I’m not very confident it will make a difference… Might be time to make a change.