Goddady Alternatives?

[JMB1911]

It seems Godaddy has increased the cost of email hosting and private domain registration by more than 200% since I renewed my service last year. Going for $40 to more than $80 in a year is kind of insane if you ask me.

Is there anyone else that offers comparable services to Godaddy's "Unlimited Business" Email, that is as reliable?

 

[ThinClient]

http://www.webhostingtalk.com

 

[rach3l]

It seems Godaddy has increased the cost of email hosting and private domain registration by more than 200% since I renewed my service last year. Going for $40 to more than $80 in a year is kind of insane if you ask me.

Is there anyone else that offers comparable services to Godaddy's "Unlimited Business" Email, that is as reliable?

Gmail's reliable.

 

[ThinClient]

Gmail's reliable.

I lol'd.

 

[TechBoyJK]

www.bestnet.net

www.vServerCenter.com

 

[flexy]

"Godaddy's "Unlimited Business" Email"

I am entirely stumped now. In fact I don't even know what "email hosting" is supposed to be, and I am working with hosting companies for YEARS already.

Any halfway serious hosting will automatically include "email", it's standard. You set up your domain and will automatically get IMAP, POP, SMTP and "real" email.

Say you get yourself a domain www.mysite.com you will have a mailserver to send and receive and can also make UNLIMITED accounts (via Cpanel) somename@mysite.com othername@mysite.com and so forth. And in thunderbird or any other email program you can configure your new email account(s) to pull your new accounts via POP or Imap, whatever. In other words: I can get a $5/month linux hosting and literally get unlimited emails with it. (You can make emails with all the domains you have set-up on the hosting)

This is why the terms "business email hosting" just sounds "weird to me".

As for domain hosting, I hear good things about namecheap but I personally use dynadot for domains.

You buy your domains (they accept paypal too)...then you set your nameservers on the dynadot control panel for the domain to your site hosting s nameserver.....give it 20 mins to propagate...done.

 

[ThinClient]

The term is meant to sucker in those who have money to spend but have no idea how it works. The reason they charge so much is because people who are uninformed do not know that they can get the same deal elsewhere for a tiny fraction of the price. They don't understand how simple it is so they're paying a stupidity tax

 

[clamum]

I use ReliableSite.net for my domain and hosting (Windows Server/ASP.NET); never had a problem with them but I don't know if they'll fit your needs.

 

[Carson Dyle]

For domain name registration, I use Namecheap, which is an eNom reseller. One advantage of registering with eNom is that they have their own name servers (DNS), which are geographically dispersed. It's very easy to manage DNS host records through Namecheap's web interface, and they're updated within minutes (not days or hours) due to a low 5 minute TTL on all records. Namecheap also offers web and email hosting, but I've never used it.

As a registrar, GoDaddy has a pretty abysmal track record of shutting down domains at _anyone's_ request, without investigating the situation. Avoid them at all costs. Seriously.

For shared web hosting, HostGator has been great. Not the very cheapest, but they've been extremely reliable and always have tech support available. Fairly typical cPanel control over web, ftp and email hosting, but it's kept up to date and it just works.

One thing I recently found when moving a large number of email accounts to HostGator is that you can set them up all at once in cPanel by creating a CSV or XLS file containing the email addresses, passwords and quotas. And you can do the same thing with email forwarders (aliases). Takes just minutes to set up as many accounts as you like.

 

[blackdogdeek]

Dreamhost is offering a special deal for Gizmodo readers: $19 for 1 year of domain AND hosting.

http://gizmodo.com/need-a-website-get-a-domain-and-hosting-for-only-19-1465097997

 

[mmntech]

I thought the internet collectively decided that GoDaddy was the devil incarnate after the SOPA scandal. They're also still squatting on my old .com domain, which is why I had to switch my site to .ca. Shouldn't have let it expire but I have no way to get it back.

 

[edro]

namecheap

 

[Ken g6]

Gmail's reliable.

I lol'd.

Actually, my boss has our business emails set up through Gmail. (Different domain name, same login page.) Seems reliable enough to me.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Some possible reasons for using a "business email" service:

- You don't want to learn to use Plesk, CPanel, etc. to set up a hosted server
- Your WWW server is running as an AWS cloud instance (mail servers are not allowed)
- You want to use an Exchange server
- You want advanced spam filtering from someone like SpamStopsHere where mail hosting is a cheap add-on

Also, GoDaddy's rate is still less than $7/month so if you have no need for a WWW server it's not an awful choice.

 

[JMB1911]

Email hosting is just that...email, no website. Why pay for something I'm don't need or want?

I see namecheap offers a "Premium" email plan $30/year which is what I WAS paying Godaddy for a very similar service.