[SGVLUG] Is GoDaddy for real?

Munjal Thakkar m00njal at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 18:18:28 PDT 2016


Sounds like typical terrible GoDaddy service.

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issues and great performance.

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On Sep 5, 2016 17:52, "Matthew Campbell" <dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh my goodness.  I can't really believe this.
>
> When I wrote y'all last time a third level manager had asked me to
> reduce the amount of 'unlimited' storage I was using by 25%.
>
> I reduced it by 50%.
>
> Two Fridays ago I got a note 'you are using storage not in accordance
> to your hosting plan'.  When I called they said that I was using too
> much storage and had to reduce the amount of space I was using.  I
> asked what the limit was for 'unlimited' (again) and they (again)
> replied 'that is at our discretion'.
>
> They gave me 4 days (2 working days) to 'reduce the amount of storage
> you are using' or they would shut down all the websites hosted on my
> account without further warning.
>
> I reduced the amount of storage again, removing another 30% of the
> material (to another hosting account).
>
> I complied by their date.
>
> I just got a follow-up letter stating that though I complied with
> their request they find that I am out of compliance with their hosting
> policies.  I called again and asked what was wrong this time.  They
> could not answer me but said that unless I complied with all requests
> to come into compliance they would shut down the sites on September
> 12th.
>
> At least this time they gave me 4 working days to complete the changes
> which require costly application and database work.
>
> Unfortunately this time they can't tell me what I need to do to 'comply'.
>
> This just really, really sucks.
>
> Is anyone else still using GoDaddy?
>
> Matt
>
>
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