
Founder of Awio Web Services LLC,
graduate student at Drexel U.,
community advisor at SitePoint.
I always recommend people stay away from GoDaddy when they’re looking for shared hosting. It’s not their primary business and they have way too many customers. The result is packed, locked down servers missing key features, and poor support from inexperienced technicians.
But at least they didn’t bungle up the VPS product like 1&1 did.
It began with Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company’s founders, decided to build a search engine which didn’t rank pages primarily by keyword density like their competition. Early search engines were easy to fool — fill your page with the same phrase over and over and you’d appear near the top of search [...]