Gigarank hosting vs. GoDaddy hosting.

[asexual synergy]

OK I'm not trying to start a war here and I love gigarank but my site has gotten too big for the free hosting account so I need to go to a paid account. My question/debate is that gigarank charges $5.99 a month for 25GB disk space and GoDaddy charges $7.99/month for Unlimited storage. It seems like a no brainer to me but I don't have any experience with GoDaddy or their hosting. Can someone please inform me as to why I shouldn't be hosted with GoDaddy? I really love gigarank, I just need more room.

 

[un4saken]

There's no "unlimited storage". That's just marketing strategy.

 

[asexual synergy]

There's no "unlimited storage". That's just marketing strategy.

I understand that. GoDaddy has a disclaimer saying if you use too much you may be required to upgrade to a VPS or dedicated server, but unlimited is still more then the 25GB that gigarank offers. I probably won't use more then 100GB but gigarank charges $11.99 for that. That's basically what I was comparing.

 

[binil]

Unless you have your own dedicated server, you are prone to limits put up by hosting companies. This applies to every hosting company including gigarank and godaddy.

Inode is one such limit. Every shared or VPS hosting has a inode limit - for example say 50,000. Its likely that VPS has higher inode limits.

A file or folder is considered an inode. So if you are having 500 files and 50 folders, your inode is 550.

A common wordpress installation has more than 1500 inodes. Thats just the files and folders used by wordpress - if you have your own uploaded images and files, this will go higher. I am not sure what you host - but keep this in mind.

Also if you use mail, I think every mail received or sent stored in the hosting account is treated as an inode.

So if you exceed your inode limit, you will be asked to upgrade.

But you might hit other limits sooner than inode limit like CPU/RAM limits. Every site uses CPU. There are CPU limits are exerted by the hosting companies and you might soon exceed these limits..

See these -

https://in.godaddy.com/help/resource-limits-12001

https://www.ultimatewb.com/blog/746...traffic-limits-not-really-unlimited-anything/

There is no such thing as unlimited hosting - you need to find exactly the limits imposed by any hosting. I think gigarank administrators can clearly tell whats the advantage of hosting with them rather than with godaddy.

 

[GigaBot]

I think that no one should be "blinded" by Big Internet name. I mean it really doesn't have to mean that if it is a GoDaddy ...that you will get better service then at some smaller company. Especially if that Big Company offers many different kind of services and your desired one (in this case Hosting) is just one of them.
It is likely that they have good servers or tech crew, but the question is, how much you are really interesting to them, no matter if you are premium client, because they rate their clients and you will be among low rated client, because you provide them small amount of money. Conclusion you can expect that support will not be as good as you are expecting being a client of a Big name Company. Not to mention that with probably 100.000's or even 1000.000 of client they resources are likely to have more problems in functioning, because of huge use.
On the other hand a quality smaller company, might give you much better experience, especially with good support. They will rate you much higher as premium client.
Don't forget that problems will always occur, no matter the number of servers or professionals ...but the point is in good and fast support! ...these are just some of my thinking ...

 

[agentsky]

And for the record goddady hosting interface is horrible. To many clicks to go from one setting to another. Do not go for sugar coated marketing words, go to small companies that have a good customer service you will tend to encounter problems sometime. Anyway goddady customer service is sh*t.

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[rockforlife]

I have never been impressed with hosting on godaddy. I've actually convinced clients to move away from it.

 

[asexual synergy]

@"binil" Thank you for that wealth of information, half of which went over my head because I'm tired. I've been schooled on Inode though. I've never heard of it so I can say I learned something today. I will say that I'm not coming anywhere near remotely close to my Monthly Bandwidth Transfer here at Gigarank. I don't even want to think amount VPS, it makes my head hurt.

I'm using socielengine ...and I just heard moans from you, was that a facepalm I saw as well? LOL... I know, I know, I'll work on the slowing down issues after I get a domain. But yeah, it's a lot bigger then Wordpress and I've added the minimal amount of plugins. I think it's my members uploading pics that's killing me. I have the mail system set up but it hasn't been used hardly at all, that's an easy fix and I'll do it tonight. I really appreciate you taking the time to write this message out. I'm not going to bother looking at the links you sent though, I'm sorry but you've made it pretty clear in your explanation already. Thank you again for responding.

Unless you have your own dedicated server, you are prone to limits put up by hosting companies. This applies to every hosting company including gigarank and godaddy.

Inode is one such limit. Every shared or VPS hosting has a inode limit - for example say 50,000. Its likely that VPS has higher inode limits.

A file or folder is considered an inode. So if you are having 500 files and 50 folders, your inode is 550.

A common wordpress installation has more than 1500 inodes. Thats just the files and folders used by wordpress - if you have your own uploaded images and files, this will go higher. I am not sure what you host - but keep this in mind.

Also if you use mail, I think every mail received or sent stored in the hosting account is treated as an inode.

So if you exceed your inode limit, you will be asked to upgrade.

But you might hit other limits sooner than inode limit like CPU/RAM limits. Every site uses CPU. There are CPU limits are exerted by the hosting companies and you might soon exceed these limits..

See these -

https://in.godaddy.com/help/resource-limits-12001

https://www.ultimatewb.com/blog/746...traffic-limits-not-really-unlimited-anything/

There is no such thing as unlimited hosting - you need to find exactly the limits imposed by any hosting. I think gigarank administrators can clearly tell whats the advantage of hosting with them rather than with godaddy.

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@"misharnet" That's pretty much where my mind was at. My heart is with Gigarank. Has been from day one and always will be.They know me here, they care here, they go above and beyond here. My site has never been down and it was screaming fast until I loaded socielengine. I really just needed some confirmation to stay here. That's why my original message said, "Can someone please inform me as to why I shouldn't be hosted with GoDaddy?". I can't leave Gigarank. I won't. I'll figure it out. If my members like the community so much they can surely help me scrounge up $12.00 a month, or $15.00 or whatever.

I think that no one should be "blinded" by Big Internet name. I mean it really doesn't have to mean that if it is a GoDaddy ...that you will get better service then at some smaller company. Especially if that Big Company offers many different kind of services and your desired one (in this case Hosting) is just one of them.
It is likely that they have good servers or tech crew, but the question is, how much you are really interesting to them, no matter if you are premium client, because they rate their clients and you will be among low rated client, because you provide them small amount of money. Conclusion you can expect that support will not be as good as you are expecting being a client of a Big name Company. Not to mention that with probably 100.000's or even 1000.000 of client they resources are likely to have more problems in functioning, because of huge use.
On the other hand a quality smaller company, might give you much better experience, especially with good support. They will rate you much higher as premium client.
Don't forget that problems will always occur, no matter the number of servers or professionals ...but the point is in good and fast support! ...these are just some of my thinking ...

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@"rockforlife" I've seen your posts. I trust your word on that.

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So I guess my next question is "does it matter who/where I buy my domain from?".

 

[rockforlife]

now domains... that I do trust godaddy for

 

[xdude]

Well I have used Godaddy hosting while ago, more like years ago. I'm not going to bash them saying they sux. But they do have some downsides like very slow and complicated hosting control panel which they would change in every 6 months.

Like 8 years ago I made a forum for a friend of mine and this forum have started growing faster than we expected. Frist we used free shared hosting and got kicked out , then very cheap shared hosting and again got the boot and no shared hosting provider want to take us in since forum was hyper active and take too much resources than a shared account should. This is where ironically I learn hard truth about these unlimited sources. It's totally bull. Only shared hosting place which took our forum was Godaddy. I had forum there for 2 years without any big problems untill forum was even too much for Godaddys shared accounts. So I got the mail from them asking either upgrade to a Godaddy vps or move out. So I moved to a managed vps.

In those 2 years I logged in to their hosting control panel only to take weekly data bases backups. It was a good ride for comparing with prices those days. Their Hosting support staff sux most of the time you can have better luck in Google search. That's another problem with their hosting.

But now web hosting is lot more cheaper and vps are unbelievably cheap and even you can get for free. So if I have to compare Godaddy and Gigarank hosting I would go for Gigarank because of better support and cPanel. Except for things like my forum situation.

 

[GigaBot]

now domains... that I do trust godaddy for

I agree with @"rockforlife" , Domains are something else. Domains = GoDaddy ...like Search = Google!
My point was that some of the Big companies intend to offer anything that can be offered, but the question is are they able to provide equal level of quality to every kind of offer?!

After all Microsoft is still embarrass it's "Big" name by constantly trying to offer everything ...Internet Explorer + OutLook.com ...they don't need it ...there are other people or companies in this World too ... just leave things that you can not run properly to someone who can!

 

[Barnum4000]

I don't think that there is a better hosting provider I mean some do have extra features and others may be slower etc. But some provide more bandwidth but may have less memory of storage. It depends on what fits your needs at the time I guess.

 

[GigaGreg]

I think that what I can say about Gigarank from my own experience as customer is that the Staff response is very fast, even though Un4saken is not on the forum, he always got time to pop in and check threads if people need a Technical Admin.

The cheap hosting or valued hosting is very nice, it is premium and high quality. It is relatively cheap compared to GoDaddy and other web hosts and it doesn't have any hidden fees and tricks. I have been using Business Account before joining staff and 3 months payments are the best options if you want to have keep your website running without worrying.

 

[GigaBot]

And just one more thing ...if things somehow go wrong ( and things are attending to go wrong every now and then ...ha)...and you, god forbid, do something against the rules ...at least here at Gigarank you'll get a decent warning to change it or some meaningful reason...on Big players services, you usually just got your services deleted or cancelled without any explanations ...

 

[asexual synergy]

**Mass Reply to everyone who responded**
You've all given me excellent feedback and wise words of wisdom and knowledge. I'm so grateful to have found Gigarank. Let me add "the community is just as awesome as the hosting, support and staff at Gigarank." I have my answer... Gigarank hosting + GoDaddy domain = stress free, worry free, happy camper. :smile: And I already know the transfer will be smooth and quick. Thank you all for your replies and support. Good looking out people!

 

[asexual synergy]

@"un4saken" @"rockforlife" @"xdude" @"misharnet" @"GigaGreg" @"Genesis"

I bought a domain! Woohoo!!! Now what do I do with it? Gigarank can take my $$ please! Should I go to the Hosting Sign-up page and place my order there? I'm pretty sure that's how I do it, I just don't want to screw anything up and make it more complicated for the staff here.

 

[asexual synergy]

Never mind. I'm just going to sign up. They need my credit card info and my domain name anyway. I bought a domain woohoo! I'm just a little excited, it's my first one. :smile:

 

[rockforlife]

Never mind. I'm just going to sign up. They need my credit card info and my domain name anyway. I bought a domain woohoo! I'm just a little excited, it's my first one. :smile:

Congrats... did you get it figured out?

 

[asexual synergy]

Congrats... did you get it figured out?

No. And I'm not happy about it! The only way to pay is through Paypal with an attached bank account and I just figured that out after 12 stupid hours of trying and several support tickets back and forth. I'm so frustrated. I have the dang $$, I have a stupid debit/credit card, I want to give gigarank my money but it's just not happening. I hate Paypal with a passion!!! I guess my only option is to be hosted at GoDaddy.

 

[binil]

I think it's my members uploading pics that's killing me.

You may have to get a plugin which uploads the images by users to another location.