Making a website

[Darin Brunin]

I understand what you are saying, but there is a difference in best pricing and lowest pricing. At least as far as I am concerned.
There are many things you may get at a lower price, but may not be worth it. Sort of like cell phone coverage. Some companies have lower pricing, but the quality, uptime, coverage, and strength of the service may not be up to par as something you may want.
So to me, while I may get a few dollars lower cost somewhere, I would rather pay to have the quality uptime and others plus services than just save a few bucks and have problems. In the end, you pay for what you get and I am happy to spend a couple dollars more for something superior.

GoDaddy isn't some clueless company that provides shady, dirt cheap hosting or they wouldn't have grown into the monster that they are now. There are a couple little things that bug me as I said in my last post but they are very very solid and a provide their service for a very cheap price. Our website has never had any noticeable extended downtime or any that I can recall for that matter and I can call them at 5:35 in the morning if I ever have any questions. On top of that...their customer service reps are very well trained as well and usually solve any problems within a minute or two.

You aren't giving up any service or quality of it for a lower price with them at all. No hosting company is perfect but I think that both GoDaddy and Dryline are very good at what they do. Other companies may be crap and your point would be valid but not with GoDaddy.

 

[David Drummond]

You know the only really HUGE complaint I ever heard about GoDaddy was people having their domain names basically stolen from the by GoDaddy. For some reason they ran afoul of their TOS and GD shut their website down and took control of their domain name and demanded a huge sum of money to get it back again.

When we first started out, we used the for domain name registrations. As soon as we had enough profit to get an eNom reseller account (which ain't cheap) to handle domain names, we moved them all away from GD. The sole reason was I was sick of it taking 15 minutes to wade through all the upsells in the checkout process just to register a domain name. The couple of times I had an issue on one I needed to speak with someone I was able to get help though.

I am all for offering someone an additional service that might compliment what they have or something they might have forgotten or didn't realize they needed, but they go WAAAYYYY overboard on it and personally it just puts me off. Not my style.

There certainly are good, cheap hosts out there. I use one for our emergency backup site that the owner lives in Australia. He was a big influence on me when we started DH.

 

[John Wetter]

For CMS's, Joomla, Drupal or Wordpress are the main ones out there. At work we just launched a whole new site using Drupal.

 

[Randall Cooper]

Once I get Joomla all set up, how do I go from the localhost website to putting that on my website? I hope you know what Im talking about.

 

[Scott Bennett]

I have to agree with David that you get what you pay for when it comes to hosting.

A $2.99/mo webhost with 1TB of transfer is just completely oversubscribed and worthless. They bet nobody will use what they sell them so they offer the moon.

In David's case his clients WILL use what he sells them, and so his limits are according to real world costs and uses. ALL of Davids sites are going to be graphic and video intense (Because of who he markets to), and why you can't offer the moon for $2.99.

Personally I use my own servers, but if I was not technically inclined and wanted a good host, I would look at Dryline.

 

[Ben Holcomb]

I gave in and setup my personal site in Drupal. Being able to just post in a text box to get 'new' content on my site is a major plus.

As far as hosting - David's server is seriously rock solid. He's got the best admins in the industry taking care of his equipment. The uptime and responsiveness of the server has been awesome. I am pretty sure nobody here can truthfully say any of the sites he hosts have been slow for them any time in the past year, and I'm not sure that anyone can even claim any downtime.

As someone who's worked in the web hosting industry for over 3 years, and watched it closely for about a decade, I can tell you there are typically those hosts that oversell everything and give you the world for cheap. They sell in volume to make their money. There are also those that charge more, give you less but reward you with reliability, support and speed. It's a big "you get what you pay for" game out there.