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Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting by coderdude on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @06:33PM (#6556816)
I've been a Media Temple customer since 2007 and a GoDaddy customer since 2004 [edit: I say 2004 but I don't think that's possible. I must have switched to them sometime after 2006 but I can't recall who my previous registrar was.]. I like both companies just fine though apparently not everyone has been as lucky. I don't know if GD is going to be a good home for mt since GD specializes in cheaper hosting. But...

GoDaddy does a lot to support their customers. Friendly people over the phone. They've walked my dad through some hosting issues he had when he was trying to set a site up. They call me every couple of months to make sure I'm satisfied with everything (and probably try to sell me on that bundled registration). Making them out to be The Devil is too dramatic. And transparent too when he could have linked to the #Philanthropy[1] heading on their Wikipedia page but chose to focus on #Controversies to support a position.

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Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting by moocowduckquack on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @07:37PM (#6557073)
The owner, Bob Parsons, pays to go and shoot elephants. - http://www.brettmorrison.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/6057... - look at him with his big happy face, he could choose to spend his time and money in so many ways and he chooses to go and shoot elephants.

Godaddy could shit rainbows all day long and I still wouldn't want to give them any money.

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Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting by leephillips on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @10:48PM (#6557742)
This is depraved. Elephants are one of only several species on Earth that pass the mark test[0], which is thought to indicate that they are self aware and conscious, sharing with us a quality of mind that used to be thought unique to humans.

[0]http://www.pnas.org/content/103/45/17053.abstract

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Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting by dgesang on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @09:08PM (#6557401)
They also supported SOPA: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supp...
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Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting by Nux on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @03:47AM (#6558502)
That should be called murder and he should be in jail.

Fsck him and his company.

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Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting by fmdragon on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @12:14PM (#6560470)
Look into it a bit deeper. That was an elephant that terrorized a village in Africa. It was sanctioned to be put down, no different than a rabid dog.
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Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting by moocowduckquack on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @12:35PM (#6560591)
He is very very rich, if he had particularly cared about protecting the fields rather than shooting elephants perhaps he would have paid for the installation and upkeep of a fence.

His own comment on the affair was "These people have literally nothing and when an elephant is killed it's a big event for them, they are going to be able to eat some protein." Now personally I supect that there are better ways for Bob to go and increase the protein in these people's diets, other than shooting elephants.

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Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting by wtbob on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @02:18PM (#6561222)
There's absolutely nothing wrong with assisting a village of poor Africans by killing an elephant.
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Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting by nknighthb on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @07:42PM (#6557098)
When I had a domain registered with GoDaddy, they called and woke my sick mother up just to try and sell me shit I didn't need. When told I wasn't available (not that it wasn't my number, but that I just wasn't available), they threatened to cancel my registration for providing "false" contact information.

I started the transfer to another company an hour later. They have never and will never get another dime from me.

No, this isn't a joke or parody or satire. It's what actually happened. It's a horrible, customer-hostile company.

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Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting by Steveism on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @07:13PM (#6556976)
As a supplement to your comment, the Philanthropy section of their Wikipedia page is around 285 words. The Controversies section of their Wikipedia page is around 1542 words. Of course links to edit the page and footnote links make these numbers slightly off. Linking to the Controversies section seems rather appropriate considering the disproportionate nature of the two sections.
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Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting by oinksoft on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @07:32PM (#6557051)
While we're on the topic, this page is heavily astroturfed like those of many large companies. A number of sockpuppets are implicated in the page's history. I enjoyed contributions by "ParsonsRep" [1] which aren't sneaky at all, most edits signed "(I AM AFFILIATED WITH GODADDY.COM)".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/ParsonsR...

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Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting by eeeeeeeeeeeee on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @11:15PM (#6557814)
GoDaddy lost me as a customer due to their slimy control panel. You practically need a special AdBlock configuration.
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Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting by benihana on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @07:57PM (#6557175)
I hated their customer support. I had to call it more than I usually do for a company, and every time, after they fixed the issue, they tried to sell me something. Not a simple little 'no thanks' they tried hard to sell me something. I had to tell them 'no' multiple times on multiple occasions. Take that anecdote for what it's worth.
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