[Hidden-tech] Rackspace vs. GoDaddy?

[Tess Gadwa]

What Dan said. Have used both companies, and we now host through  
Slicehost/Rackspace.

Short of colocation, it's probably the best choice if direct server  
access is important to your business model.

Tess Gadwa

Owner, Yes Exactly Web Design

http://www.yesexactly.com
http://www.dcs-creative.com

413.325.8251



On Sep 28, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Daniel Fried wrote:

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> Dan,
>
> I don't have any direct experience with GoDaddy for hosting, but I  
> can tell you this; Rackspace and GoDaddy are fundamentally different  
> models.  GoDaddy is a commodity web hosting service... the "much  
> better" pricing is for a part of a shared server, and you will have  
> no control over, or even knowledge of, what anyone else is doing on  
> that server.  If they run a script that brings down the server, you  
> go down with them, if they have crummy security and get compromised,  
> you can get caught in the backlash.
>
> Rackspace is a much different beast.  Everything depends on who the  
> "reseller" in your case is.  When I did small business web  
> development I had a server with Rackspace (after a number of other  
> providers who were cheaper but had more issues) and I was able to  
> justify the higher prices I charged my clients for hosting by the  
> fact that I knew everything that was on the server and controlled  
> all the code on it.  I couldn't promise that it would never go down,  
> but I took responibility for the uptime of the entire server and my  
> clients would never get an answer of "well, someone else on your  
> server must be doing something... but we don't know what and there's  
> little we can do about it until we can stop the server from going  
> down 10 seconds after it comes up each time" (and yes, I have gotten  
> that answer from shared hosting before).
>
> I did always let my clients know that the more expensive hosting we  
> offered was only an option and we didn't require it, but just about  
> all of our clients went with it anyway because they knew we would  
> take the responsibility.
>
> -Dan
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Dan Gronwald  
> <dan at danielmgronwald.com> wrote:
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> Hi HT'ers,
>
> I have a client that is hosting 2 websites via a reseller using  
> Rackspace.  One site is HTML with Wordpress blog, the other is  
> purely HTML. I suggested GoDaddy which offers much better pricing  
> but I'm not an expert on Hosting services and servers. For the most  
> part they just want to host their websites but ensure that it's  
> reliable and won't be "down" all the time. Their current tech-person  
> says to stay with them, using Rackspace, because of the reliability  
> it affords them, which they believe GoDaddy will not. Opinions?
>
> Any advice, input would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
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