Web Hosting That Sucks

Back in 2005, the braintrust at Godaddy decided to save on bandwidth by blocking Google’s spiders from their servers.

Of course, the result was that thousands of websites hosted with Godaddy were dropped from Google’s index, and web site owners money by the truckload. On a positive note, although the website owners did lose money, Godaddy saved money by not having to serve pages to Googlebot and thereby saving bandwidth.

Godaddy did this without telling any of their customers, but the story broke when Google announced that Godaddy was blocking Googlebot. (Damn, if only Google would have kept their big mouths shut!)

The result was an exodus of customers from Godaddy and Godaddy admitting to their unethical ways and pledging to work with Google to fix the issue.

Skip forward a couple years to the present day.

Again they appear to be unresponsive to Google’s spider.

Have you been lured to GoDaddy by their cheap domain name registration? So have I, but my excitement quickly faded while wading through the pages and pages of extra features they try and trick you into signing up for. There are many, many complaints about GoDaddy which can be found all over the net like this one and this one and this one for starters. (more…)