[ale] My experiences switching GoDaddy to GreenGeeks

[neal at mnopltd.com]

Well, I cannot claim great planning, but my domain is registered with 
A2, and I previously used GoDaddy for the mail and servers.

This meant that I could do all the setup on GreenGeeks, then when they 
were ready, and had already grabbed our mailboxes, I switched the A2 
domain to point to GreenGeeks on a Saturday night, and voila.

If things continue to work ok, I can turn off the Godaddy.  Or I could 
even limp back to them.

Had the domain been registered with GoDaddy, I don't think this would 
have been so clean.

regards,

Neal

On 2019-02-26 13:57, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> I've been happy with namecheap. I made a fast exit from godaddy years
> ago. Don't miss them.
> 
> On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 19:52 +0000, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
> 
>> Whenever possible I strongly suggest to people that they use anyone
>> except GoDaddy.
>> 
>> I’ve had a negative impression of GoDaddy for years.  It started
>> long ago when they seemed to go out of their way to lock domains we
>> were acquiring for 60 days on the flimsiest of excuses to prevent
>> transfers to our primary Registrar.   It has been exacerbated by my
>> various interactions with them over the years.   Most recently
>> GoDaddy has taken to requiring one to go to their whois web server
>> to lookup whois for domains rather than allowing command line to
>> work as it does for most everyone else.  Moreover,  once there they
>> require one to do a captcha to prove it isn’t a robot.   If one is
>> working on multiple domains like we usually are just doing the web
>> lookup is a PITA and having to stop for captcha for every domain
>> makes the effort to gather information excruciating.
>> 
>> Our corporate office suggested some months ago moving the hundreds
>> of domains we own to GoDaddy to save money and I fought it off
>> because of GoDaddy’s antics.   I suggested several other
>> Registrars as I didn’t really care if we left our current
>> Registrar.   Ultimately, telling our current Registrar about the
>> request got them to reduce the per domain price significantly to
>> avoid losing them so in the end corporate got the savings they were
>> after.
>> 
>> FROM: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> ON BEHALF OF Jim Kinney via Ale
>> SENT: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 10:47 AM
>> TO: neal at mnopltd.com; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>> SUBJECT: Re: [ale] My experiences switching GoDaddy to GreenGeeks
>> 
>> Nice! always good to hear about a positive experience in tech
>> support.
>> 
>> On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 09:36 -0600, Neal Rhodes via Ale wrote:
>> 
>>> A few weeks back I noted that Godaddy contacted me to tell me that
>>> they
>>> 
>>> were over quadrupling their hosting/email prices, and by the way,
>>> 
>>> switching email to Outlook.
>>> 
>>> We switched to GreenGeeks this weekend.  ($2.99/month for 3 years.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> After 3 years, we'll really be retired.)  Although my GoDaddy
>>> linux
>>> 
>>> server lacked cPanel, GreenGeeks got my IMAP credentials, and
>>> sucked the
>>> 
>>> mailboxes over intact.  All I had to do was shove the HTML to the
>>> 
>>> website.    So an overall painless switch.
>>> 
>>> regards,
>>> 
>>> Neal
>>> 
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