Big Booger
February 26th, 2006, 08:26 AM
Background:
In late November i purchased two months of hosting from GoDaddy.com . The whole reason for purchasing hosting was to host a web site to serve a podcast from. I would offer a podcast of about 70 mb every weekend. Some of you may know which site i am talking about, i choose not to spam my link and stick to the facts. I thought the 5GB of storage and 250GB of transfer plan would be great. There is no way i would go over 250gb of transfer in a month, and there is no way i would ever fill 5gb of storage. I thought wrong. This is not a publicity stunt. I just want GoDaddy to admit they cannot provide what they promise. Some of you may be saying "OF COUSE you are not going to get that much transfer for that price". I understand, that is common sense. But the fact is if they OFFER that much hosting for such a low price, they should PROVIDE that much hosting for that price.
The Problem:
At first i hosted the whole site off GoDaddy's servers. Then when the PHP became unstable i switched to only hosting the podcast off of them. Now i cannot even do that. The downloads will cut off for users after 3-6% of the download. GoDaddy would not acknowledge the problem. They blamed everything else but themselves. They said it was the users' ISPs, my fault, or just the way lift was on a shared server. They even tried to get me to upgrade my account when i hadn't even used the allotted storage and transfer i paid for! See for yourself. Sorry for the lack of formatting but i wanted to get right to the point.
READ THE EMAILS HE SENT AND GOT A REPLY FROM:
http://www.diggdown.net/godaddy.htm
Really interesting.
In late November i purchased two months of hosting from GoDaddy.com . The whole reason for purchasing hosting was to host a web site to serve a podcast from. I would offer a podcast of about 70 mb every weekend. Some of you may know which site i am talking about, i choose not to spam my link and stick to the facts. I thought the 5GB of storage and 250GB of transfer plan would be great. There is no way i would go over 250gb of transfer in a month, and there is no way i would ever fill 5gb of storage. I thought wrong. This is not a publicity stunt. I just want GoDaddy to admit they cannot provide what they promise. Some of you may be saying "OF COUSE you are not going to get that much transfer for that price". I understand, that is common sense. But the fact is if they OFFER that much hosting for such a low price, they should PROVIDE that much hosting for that price.
The Problem:
At first i hosted the whole site off GoDaddy's servers. Then when the PHP became unstable i switched to only hosting the podcast off of them. Now i cannot even do that. The downloads will cut off for users after 3-6% of the download. GoDaddy would not acknowledge the problem. They blamed everything else but themselves. They said it was the users' ISPs, my fault, or just the way lift was on a shared server. They even tried to get me to upgrade my account when i hadn't even used the allotted storage and transfer i paid for! See for yourself. Sorry for the lack of formatting but i wanted to get right to the point.
READ THE EMAILS HE SENT AND GOT A REPLY FROM:
http://www.diggdown.net/godaddy.htm
Really interesting.