[Hidden-tech] Rackspace vs. GoDaddy?

[Daniel Fried]

That's true.... my comments should have been more directly expressed as the
difference between commodity shared hosting providers and hosting through a
third party like the person or company that developed your web site.

If you're talking about your own dedicated or virtual private server, or
selecting a shared hosting provider, there are a lot of options either way.

-Dan

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:27 PM, <mhegarty at sdf.org> wrote:

> I might add that there are a number of local companies, (e.g.  -
> http://www.expedient.com) who also offer a range of managed dedicated and
> managed virtual hosting options....
>
> MRH
>
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> > 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
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> > On Sep 28, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Daniel Fried wrote:
> >
> >>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's
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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:
> >>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's
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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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