GoDaddy Alternatives
I've never used GoDaddy. I don't know what it is other than being a domain registrar and also offering Outlook 365 for a higher price.
How would you convince someone of an alternative to it? I'm looking to know what services they offer so I can offer alternatives for them.
Are they a website builder as well?
GoDaddy provides a poor service for an astonishingly high price. I switched one of my clients from GoDaddy to CrocWeb. The company is in Cornwall Ontario, with servers in Montreal. Their moderately complex WordPress site became about 200% faster.
Support was very fast and knowledgeable, unlike GoDaddy, whose security would sometimes like me, the developer, out in the middle of a session.
The cost also dropped by about 80%. The only thing remaining on GoDaddy is the domain registration, which unfortunately they had purchased for 10 years at about $80/year (for a standard .org domain), as opposed to the new host that could have done it for about $15/year.
GoDaddy offered unlimited disc space for our account, but threatened to shut us down because we were using too much for backups.
As far as I can see, the only thing GoDaddy offers that CrocWeb doesn't is Superbowl ads.
Only for .ca domains, not your .org domain, but https://register.ca/ offers free .ca domains.
When I search for a .ca domain, it quotes me $23.95. How do you get free domains from here?
I swear I saw that before, and used it recently. It might have been from here actually, but I'm not seeing it anymore: https://www.cira.ca/
Builder, webhost(shared, VPS, dedicated), registrar, email, SSL certs, etc. etc.
WHOIS privacy protection (you have the sometimes paid option of not revealing personal data to the whois registry)
All domain registrars and resellers offer that as part of a domain registration.
I use porkbun for my domains for the registrar part, but am considering migrating to canspace.ca when renewal comes.
We use canspace.ca for domains. Godaddy offers a lots of other random stuff too though, you need to be more specific.
I use canspace for domains and they’re very competitive when factoring in CAD vs others who charge in USD.
Look into Porkbun
I used to use Namecheap, they offer some space to host your site on as well as selling the domains, but I don't like AI and they tried to shove it in my face, so sometimes I still use them to get a domain cheap and then I point it to a different hosting service such as IONOS.
ew lots of ai slop here too
Yeah, but it wasn't shoved directly into my face, at least not a year ago, they're based in a better regulated country, and the hosting started at $1 per month.
I have one domain at easydns.ca and one at hosthero.ca. I plan on moving the one on host hero to easydns once I have figured out my self hosting things.
I use namesilo as my registrar. No drama. Just works. I moved over from godaddy, didn’t have any issues with them either but was paying more for services I don’t need.
I use NamesPro and they have been great and reasonably priced. If there's any reason I shouldn't use them someone please let me know!