Is Go Daddy a bad domain?

[CapitolShine]

I heard today that Go Daddy is not the besting hosting domain for websites...it isn't crawled well by websites. Is this true? What is the best hosting domain?

[RyanKent]

As with most hosting providers, there are positive and negative points about GoDaddy.

Positives: 24/7 live customer service

Negatives:

• if you just want to buy a domain or hosting service, GoDaddy makes it hard. They offer dozens of other products and services which confuse many visitors

• they spam you with sales messages all the time

• instead of using the industry standard cPanel to manage your website, they have a custom tool which is not as good as cPanel. If you use cPanel and change hosts, your new host will likely offer cPanel so you will not have to learn a new tool. With GoDaddy, it's a pain.

• I have called their customer service, their rep confirmed the shared server being used was performing below average but they said they could not change to a faster server unless the server actually went down. I escalated the issue to a supervisor who then confirmed the issue.

Personally I like Surpass Hosting which is another brand for HostDime. Everyone seems to have their own favorite. There is no consensus.

If you are hosting a business site, I would make sure you obtain at least VPS hosting and not shared hosting.

[Joe_Nickdow]

I agree with Ryan. I have never found that the spam has been worth the few extra dollars I save. I've been getting phone calls about a domain I have expiring non stop.  I know they also had an issue with their DNS a little while back. I've always felt that the control panel they use is a little confusing even for someone with experience hosting and developing websites.

I don't think that there would be an issue with the website being crawled but with all the sites they host on a server it may be slow. I'd search and look into a host that has good reviews on here.

[Saijo.George]

Choosing a host would entirely depend on on your requirement. I seriously doubt having your site hosted with them would cause it not to be  crawled. ( unless of course the server you have with them have explicitly prevented bots crawling the pages in there , which would make no sense for them to do )