If you search Google for the word “GoDaddy Sucks” you’ll get a lot of responses, but you’d get just as many results (if not more) for “Any Host You Want” and the word “Sucks”. I can tell you having used GoDaddy for more than 7 years and worked on over 50 sites hosted there, the issue is not always GoDaddy. More often then not its a configuration error, either by the user or the script they are using.

Recently, we got reminded of this fact on this WordPress powered blog. We  upgraded one of our WordPress Plugins which changed some previous functionality. Using it  in an improper way lead us to have random 404 and 500 server page errors. It stumped us for  the last 2 days. We even thought the stories of : “How GoDaddy is a horrible host” had finally caught up to us. We began to draft an email to GoDaddy support to complain. Thankfully we found the plugin issue ourselves before we hit send. How did we discover it? We disabled every plugin we had ( which is over 30 and counting) and re-enabled each one by one until we were able to detect/replicate the issue. Now that it is fixed our site is running smooth again, and there was tinge of guilt for our blame on the host–the easy scape goat.

So remember, while everyone has horror stories, this is true with any service. People are always more likely to complain then to write about a positive experience (especially without an affiliate link). I can honestly say, having used several other hosts, (all the ones you can think of), GoDaddy is great and a fine option for most needs. So before you bash a host, take it from us, it might not be the host but something as simple as an errant use of a WordPress plugin.