How to choose hosting, page 5 of 5

You're at their mercy

How can you avoid potential problems? Google them before you buy. Google them and avoid them, if they've got more than five (5) complaints.

Why? Because the issue is, if you do have a problem with a hosting company — for example GoDaddy — you're at their mercy. Therefore, avoid GoDaddy like the plague!

Issue 1: For up to one year you can't transfer your domains to any other registrar, so you're in a trap.

Issue 2: Your sites will go down and stay down. And you will lose lots of money.

Issue 3: GoDaddy can and will likely blackmail you, too. Let me tell you a true story. A friend of mine was falsely accused of spamming. Then, thanks to that false report, GoDaddy used my friend's 24 domains to generate additional revenue at my friend's expense. They suspended all of his 24 domains and demanded $199.00 for each of them. That is GoDaddy blackmailed my friend for 24 times $199.00, or $4,776.00.

Naturally my friend didn't pay up right away, so GoDaddy redirected all of my friend's web site traffic to GoDaddy's "domain abuse page". Visitors received nothing but GoDaddy's "domain abuse page". All of my friend's domains were down, my friend kept losing money, but he had no recourse.

After a bit of time he did pay the ransom demanded by GoDaddy. Had he contested GoDaddy's decision, all of his domains would've been off-line for many additional weeks. Additionally, GoDaddy's abuse department worked between 9 and 5, Monday through Friday. My friend could reach them by mail only, and GoDaddy didn't give a fiddler's fig about my friend's business.

Issue 4: They can and will take from you all of your domain names. Let me tell you a true story from my own experience. Several years ago I came up with a catchy domain name that was worth millions of dollars. I bought it from GoDaddy after they said they wanted approx. $7.00 for it (for the first year). So I used my Bank of America Visa debit card, GoDaddy was able to collect $7.00 from Bank of America, and Bank of America was able to take $7.00 from my checking account, and everyone was (or appeared to be) happy.

However, GoDaddy wasn't happy. They loved my domain name too much, so using the excuse that "there are no Bank of America branches in your home state" they asserted (but couldn't prove) that my $7.00 transaction was "suspicious".

For starters they kept me in suspense and refused to talk to me. Then they blackmailed me by sending me an email to the effect that, "Unless you send us an acceptable copy of your drivers license, we will confiscate your domain."

Reluctantly and in good time I did send them a photocopy of my drivers license. However, just as expected, a GoDaddy guy who sounded like Hell's Angels refused to accept it and proceded to confiscate my property that was worth millions of dollars.

Was it really worth it? I was able to save approx. $3.00 in the first year, but GoDaddy was able to take from me a domain that was worth millions of dollars. Why? Because GoDaddy was the investigator, judge, jury, executioner and cash register, rolled into one.

Issue 5: GoDaddy can and will likely take from you all of your digital files, too — the fruits of your last 15 years of labor! Do you think it will never happen to you? Think again! That's what everyone thinks till it happens to them!

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