I assume you’re all probably wondering why I have yet to move to GoDaddy, after I said I was going to after the 3rd. And the main reason is simply… laziness. I’ve been playing a lot of Warframe and been avoiding it like the plaque.
How much will it cost? Will I be able to have free domain parking? ..I wish I wasn’t the one that had to deal with these questions. These are all going through my mind. Before I had angry that was doing all of the dirty work, now it’s just myself.
Then the “what if”‘s start filling my mind. What if it’s more expensive than Arvixe? What if they don’t offer the same stuff that Arvixe does? What if I don’t get the same reliability that I’m currently getting from Arvixe? Will I actually have to pay upfront?
I do not want to move, period. My only.. ONLY complaint with Arvixe, was how they took the money out when I told them not to (and how I cannot contact them).
If I’m going to move, I want guarantees I’ll get the same exact functionality, reliability, and price as I’m currently getting. And I don’t think GoDaddy can provide them. This is why I have been delaying it, because I have been scared of what I was going to be told.
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But I finally spoke to them, now that I’ve reached a point in Warframe where for some reason, I don’t have the mental energy to play it. What they had to offer was pretty good, but it felt lacking. Their ‘Economy’ plan is $95.88/year, which is 12 cents cheaper than what I’m paying with Arvixe. Yet it has a 100GB disk storage cap (where Arvixe has no cap on storage). In addition, I would need to pay an additional one-time fee of $8.16 to move the site over. And I would have no protection against DDoS/Malware attacks (without having to pay $131.88/year for their ‘Deluxe’ plan).
Did a search to see if the cheaper plan was even worth it’s weight in gold, and saw this blog about GoDaddy and a hosting company named ‘Bluehost‘. Decided to check out this company and asked them the same questions. Turned out, they’re like Arvixe.. but much, much more expensive.
Though they provide pretty good shared server pricing (even the top tier one is $7.99/month), surprise surprise ..this is their promo price! I would had paid over $200/year. Uhh.. nah. The chat agent I was speaking to, is all “I’m sorry I’m sorry!!”, and I literally said to him “well, tell them (Bluehost’s management) they just lost a potential customer.”
Something just didn’t rub me the right way when I saw the prices were slashed. Felt really suspicious, and then I finally got the greedy truth out of the chat agent.
Lmao, $200/year, for a tiny website (with two bloated WordPress SQL databases). I’ll pass.
One thing that caught my eye though, is the chat software they’re using, looks a lot like the one Arvixe uses.
HMMMmmmm…
What if, Arvixe wasn’t ignoring their customers, but upgrading to a new chat system? So I decided to try and see if I could contact them again, and holy fuck it WORKED!
Turns out the reason why they auto-charged me, was I had my debit card info on file with them. Honestly, I never thought of this. The chat agent cleared the info, essentially removing any future attempts they’ll ‘fuck me over’ (and allowing me to have full control over what month the payment is made).
Also, what I thought was stopping their auto-renewal…? Was actually the $10 domain fee that comes out a few months before the main one. This is fine, it can process.
So.. YAY! I don’t have to switch to another hoster afterall!!!
I don’t know who to thank. God? Possibly.. even though God had nothing to do with it. But it just goes to show, I pulled a me again: jumping to conclusions. But what the fuck was I supposed to think?! There was absolutely NO way to contact them! How in the fuck would I have known they were upgrading their live chat system!?
Angry (if he was still managing the site) would had probably figured it out way, way before they told me, though. Seeing “your credit card on file” should had told me something, but it never did. It never clicked in my mind, this could had been the reason.
I’m just glad this major weight is off my chest, and best of all.. I can keep my money and continue saving for a system upgrade!