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Host Europe was bought by GoDaddy (US). Since then everything has changed for the worse (europe.pub)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/25123

Use Hetzner or OVH or any of these: https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/aws-amazon-web-services

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I've always found it weird that its called "GoDaddy" and I've never heard anyone question it. Like why on earth is that the name of the company?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Because the domain for "Big daddy" was already taken.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

GoDaddy was teaching master classes on enshittification before that was even an idea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Oooh, that explains so much. I had to switch the provider after many happy years with them and found a new home at Hetzner.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

GoDaddy has been horrible forever.

[–] hddsx 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Okay, I have no opinion on the whole but European thing… but OVH is garbage.

I’ve never used hetzner but I’ve heard nothing but good things. If I were to go European, that would be my choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Why? I don't know much about these services but I bought a domain on OVH. No issues so far but would like to know if I might get some in the future...

[–] hddsx 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

OVH is notorious for bad support. I believe they might also have uptime issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

I've spent way too much time and effort on OVH first line support. But then again, I've seen worse supports as well.

I've also had quite a lot uptime issues on all of their zones, but this was several years ago. Mainly their networking randomly going out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

I left GoDaddy back in the Charles Dickens days of the interwebs. Absolutely, GTFO of there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am super happy with Uberspace if you need a simple host.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

siteground has been a blessing after starting out in godaddy and getting out. Some of the best support I have had as well for wordpress hosting. I spit in the general direction of Godaddy any chance i can get