GoDaddy vs BlueHost vs Fatcow vs Doteasy vs GoDaddy vs GoDaddy

It has hit the fan!!! – - – - – - GoDadddy did it!

They did awesome marketing, and created an expense ladder in place of a user interface.

They trick so many, every day… So many of my innocent, well intended customers and friends buy their domain on GoDaddy. Then they sign into more expenses on long term commitments, creating a feeling of commitment and attachment.

It’s all based on a few simple strategies:

1. Hook with the the cheapest initial sale possible.
2. Make further purchases necessary but promising.
3. Rely on thrift and cognitive dissonance to create a dependency.

GoDaddy’s psychological war-fare comes at a nifty price for the Webmaster/Developer. They replaced the cPanel with a sales portal… OUCH

Nothing works on the first try, and finding the settings and applications requires clicking through all sorts of internal advertisement tunnels.

Bigger titties  – - – - – - – FatCow. Meuh

FatCow is certainly one BIG spiritual step up from GoDaddy’s sexual advertisement schemes. Their ‘Plesk‘ (slightly mispronounced Desk) is not the most popular but does the job. I enjoyed it very much before discovering the pleasures of the cPanel.

Their marketing remains somewhat aggressive. Clearly, they hire MANY professional bloggers to blog away about the awesomeness and convenience of FatCow, effectively drowning a lot of the complaints. Real posts concerning FatCow are actually quite hard to find. The truth is… FatCow kinda sucks too.

It’s GREAT if you do static HTML… ahem. It gets kinda slow with WordPress and I can only assume that other awesome applications would suffer a lot. So for those statics still out there… I know you are… Go FatCow and make sure to get your first year coupons! That’s right, FatCow is darn cheap for what it offers: unlimited everything (pretty much) and decent support. It is cheap. Just remember that.

$0 hosting! $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ dotEA$Y

Ok, yeah I’m exaggerating. They’re not all about the buckos. Or maybe they are. I don’t know.

I left DotEasy a long time ago, only using it for my very first websites because they would basically give you a domain and host your website starting at $15/yr approx.

It’s dirt cheap. It’s the dot made easy.

Can’t afford – to be cheap —————-> BlueHost

But it’s not EXPENSIVE.

Thanks to BlueHost I imported a domain from GoDaddy and imported two WordPress custom blogs in no time. What took long was getting on the phone with GoDaddy to inquire about installing WordPress on their server.

You might think that GoDaddy is easier for you because you’re not very technical. You might think it will end up cheaper, and that the money you save will somehow help you.

BlueHost only costs $7/month. That’s really not not that bad.

What do you get in exchange?

The entire world of FREE, AWESOME OPEN SOURCE APPLICATIONS installable with Simple Scripts!

BlueHost is a company with a high level of consciousness.

The only purchase-able items make sense:

• getting the one-for all plan (well managed, shared server)
• ADDING domains ($10/yr per extra domain)
• serious upgrades (dedicated IP, dedicated server)
• third party offers (often upgrades for services already provided for free)

These items are not shoved around at you… you have to WANT to find them.

The User Interface chosen by BlueHost is cPanel, a seriously built piece of software made to optimize the experience of ANY LEVEL person wanting to host a website.

The world would somehow feel more green if everyone went Blue.