Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Godaddy sucks like snail snot

Agile Markup Corporation is in the process of migrating its Web site to a new host. We were initially at oneononeinternet.com but feel they no longer provide a good value. We have long offered Godaddy hosting to our clients but we have seen the response times dragging and the amount of effort required to wade through the administrative menus is absolutely maddening.

Lately, we set up this Joomla system on a Linux Shared Hosting under Godaddy. We have found the response time to be extremely poor -- typically on the order of ten to fifteen seconds per request. If this were dog food we wouldn't feed it to our own dog. So we are looking for another solution, and will probably be using a cloud based service. So if you see this site, and wonder why it is so slow, don't blame PHP, MySQL, or Joomla. The brand recognition of Godaddy.com does not translate into a performance hosting solution.