I came across a new company today named Godado. At first I had to do a double take because I thought it said “Go Daddy” but that may have been based on the fact that they were fresh in my mind thanks to the commercials they’re now running for their services. Godado looks to be a new affordable web hosting and domain service. They’re plans start in the $5.95 a month range, giving you 5GB of disk space and 200GB of bandwidth. It seems pretty reasonable for the price when it comes to the disk space alone but they don’t offer you very much in regards to resources on top of that. There’s a single database with the Starter package, one would assume it’s a “blog” kind of a package but I don’t know anyone using 5GB of disk space to run their blog, and I run four of them on just 2GB of space, not even close to using the 2GB at that. I like the ability to have more than one database though, I know that when it comes to WordPress you can run them all on the same one, but when you’re looking to use multiple secure database based programs, having more than one comes in handy. But even if you’re paying close to $17 a month with this company you’re only given five. I’ve seen better resources, I’m not saying that this company is bad by any means – I haven’t read any reviews on them – I’d just like to see a bit less overselling on the space and more resources for the price. MySQL/PHP is free to any server master, why not give some more resources up?
I think you may be referring to Gossimer.com web hosting, I think the owner of this web host is Godado, LLC. I have hosted with them for quite some time and have been very happy with their service. The best thing about them is they do not oversell their servers. The current plans they have are not the same as I have, they made me a custom plan with unlimited MySQL databases. I did not need all of the disk space and bandwidth so I traded it for the MySQL databases. I think the reason they keep the amount of databases per account low is that the MySQL takes a lot more system resources when there is a lot of web traffic. This is my third web hosting company and by far the best, I also love the $4.99 .info domains and the other TLDs at around $8.88 and they don’t require me to buy anything else just to get the good deal.
great post, thank you for sharing 🙂