[Hidden-tech] Domain registrars?

[J. Cohen]

Charlie Heath wrote:
> As a general rule I agree about GoDaddy and steer business elsewhere. 
> Anecdotally, I'm told their hosting is a bit overloaded and slow by a
> couple of clients who have asked to have their hosting transferred
> elsewhere.

I don't know about GoDaddy domain registration, but their hosting is
among the worst.  If you have a web designer/developer GoDaddy will make
their life very difficult.

Example reasons:
* no SSH (insecure)

* GoDaddy will ban your IP if you try to edit more than one file over
FTP at the same time, and sometimes banning IPs just for downloading a
lot of files with Filezilla (e.g., backing up a site)

* Too many ads in the control panel

* No free server-side stats, you have to pay extra for a feature that
most hosts offer for free

* Servers can't handle Drupal well (if you use Drupal or PHP/MySQL it's
not going to handle large traffic spikes)