Soldato
As per title. I bought a domain name from GoDaddy, and they want £7 per month for hosting, and £3.50 per month for email.
Are there cheaper alternatives? Any suggestions?
Are there cheaper alternatives? Any suggestions?
Best place to host website with possible email address
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Agreed.
Man of Honour
Can't go wrong with Tsohost. Got my domain through those guys.
Man of Honour
Oh really? I thought TSO were still independent. Bummer
Thanks, I'll check out TSOhost.
Why are DoDaddy bad?
Why are DoDaddy bad?
They seemingly have a reputation for buying up other companies which then go downhill somewhat. Plus a few controversies like initially supporting SOPA leading people to think they're probably not the most enlightened company.
Might appear cheap at a glance but they obviously screw you with the extras like the £3.50 per month for email you mention or £4 for whois domain privacy (even with an supposed £3 saving). Lots of other registrars will offer you these things included in the upfront price of the domain for less in total.
Might appear cheap at a glance but they obviously screw you with the extras like the £3.50 per month for email you mention or £4 for whois domain privacy (even with an supposed £3 saving). Lots of other registrars will offer you these things included in the upfront price of the domain for less in total.
I see, thanks for the info. I've already bought the domain name from GoDaddy. If I use TSOHost now for hosting and email, I assume GoDaddy has nothing to do with my site? They are just the supplier for the name? Am I understanding that correctly?
Aye, that's correct, you don't even need to use their nameservers (Cloudflare are great for free). Tsohost seem well recommended and certainly a better deal for hosting/email.
Just to add, I don't think there's anything horrifically wrong with Godaddy, any large company will inevitably have some complaints. In the very unlikely event you have any issues it'd be easy to transfer the domain elsewhere.
Just to add, I don't think there's anything horrifically wrong with Godaddy, any large company will inevitably have some complaints. In the very unlikely event you have any issues it'd be easy to transfer the domain elsewhere.
Lovely, thank you!
Soldato
have always and will always go with vidahost
Soldato
Only experience I've had with GoDaddy was trying to move a domain, I needed something special to move it from them to a UK company and they had no idea what I was on about, took about 40 mins on the phone and he had to chase it right up the line to find someone that knew. He apologised and said in 2 years he'd never seen it, it was all new to me too so I wasn't fussed and he was friendly enough.
Man of Honour
I'm still getting great live chat support from tsohost... so I'm sticking with them for another year.
