Ask HN: Who do you use to register domains? And for hosting? GoDaddy, Namecheap, hostgator? I always hear of "Never us X, it's the worst", but was wondering, pro's and con's for each one? And do you host with the same company? Or is your hosting plan different? Hosting a static or dynamic site are of course very different scenarios. |
They try to upsell you a lot via email and (sometimes) when you talk to them but all of that's easy to ignore.
Our main need was ease of setup & use.
Ultimately, they're just what we started with and so far they've given us no performance/support/technical reason to look elsewhere.
Hosting is Rackspace, mainly due to their acquisition of Slicehost. I thought we might move once the acquisition went through, but so far Rackspace has been fine, and I'm not in any particular hurry to leave, even though I expect we could find cheaper services if we put some effort in.