New Host Good. Old Host Bad.

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Ok, so I’ve been having issues with my web host, Bluehost, so I’ve been thinking about moving again. I talked to my friend Chris who has been with GoDaddy for a couple years and he’s really happy with their service.

I had avoided GoDaddy mainly because their website is very confusing. There is way too much going on, on the main page. I had also heard that they weren’t that great so I just never bothered.

My first webhost was Netfirms, and they were really good. Their servers had pretty much 0 downtime, but my problem with them was that if I wanted to get more stuff on my account I had to pay too much for it. But if you don’t need very much they are a really good company to go with and I definitely recommend them.

The reason I moved to BlueHost was because when I was in Multimedia at Lethbridge College, we had to have our own websites and our instructor wanted us to use them. So I transfered everything over to them. I’ve now been with them for almost a year. Here are the problems I’ve had with Bluehost:

1. When using an FTP client on Mac OS X it will work for about two months and then I get errors all the time. So I switch to a different FTP client and it works for a couple months then the same thing happens. Now that I’ve run out of Mac compatible FTP clients I’m at a loss. Cyberduck will work off and on with Bluehost.
2. I’ve had a lot of trouble with email as well. I know they’re just trying to make it more secure but setting up an email address to receive in an email POP client you have to change too many settings to make it actually work. And even then, you can’t be sure that it will actually work every time.
3. It has fantastico deluxe for installing web applications but half of them don’t work. They later added Simple Scripts which has been much better, but still. I mean I can install those things myself because I did all the time on Netfirms. It’s no big deal, but having that kind of thing makes it much easier. Less hassle.

I know the last one isn’t really a big deal, its mainly the first two. So I’m testing out GoDaddy right with one of my domains. So far so good. Getting it transfered was a pain in the butt, but that was Bluehost’s fault, not GoDaddy’s. So if all goes well, which I’m thinking it will, I will be transfering the rest of my domains over in the next month.

Edit: Ok, so I just realized that I the transfer of the domain has not finished. I forgot that once you finish everything it has to be approved for it to officially move to the new host. It has to be done from the old host though and it still says that no transfer is pending. Fricken Bluehost!! ARG!!!! When I transfered from Netfirms to Bluehost it took all of like two minutes to do and get everything finished for all of my domains. I’ve been trying to do this one transfer from Bluehost to GoDaddy all fricken day.

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