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Bummer. GoDaddy is easily the worst company I've had to deal with in over a decade of running 4chan.

Godspeed to the MediaTemple guys!

How so? I know they don't have a great reputation, but I am guessing you have had to deal with a ton of companies while running 4chan. What made GoDaddy stand out?

(Apologies if you've posted an answer to this somewhere else... please provide a link if that's the case!)

We are a competitor to gd but part of what they do is price things low and then make money with add ons and by selling you things at extra cost that you don't really need. MT pricing (who we deal with for some things) is high to begin with. They also have add ons which they make money from but less teaser things and gotchas.

http://www.4chan.org/news?all#39

They essentially suspended 4chan's original .net domain without warning, didn't notify me, then sent me in circles trying to get it back. At the time you couldn't e-mail or call the abuse department. You would leave a message, and they would [never] return your call. The domain was expired/released early, requiring I attempt to get it at auction, and instead a squatter got it.

So if you've ever wondered why 4chan is a .org, that's why. (And we were a .net originally because the site is based on 2chan.net.)

Makes a lot more sense now as to why gd could stand out so much... wow

Thanks moot!

I've had great results with various things that we have at Media Temple over the years as well as their service. (Godaddy is actually a competitor).

As far as why this happened? I think it's because at the price point that MT is at they realized that the pressure from the digital oceans and linodes and similar would end up resulting in an eroding of the demand for what they do. MT is way more expensive even more than low end VPS at Rackspace where we also have some things.

I wonder if Rackspace was in the bidding for MT or how this deal went down. This would have seemed to be an excellent acquisition for them.

Not to diss MediaTemple or anything, but both GoDaddy's and their lack of good support and high price points make this match somewhat obvious in my eyes.

That's pretty much exactly what you did.

They've earned it though. Every single time I've dealt with MT support it's been a nightmare. The response times are terrible (until you get on twitter and publicly tweet at them) and their support does not understand their own cpanel software well enough to be helpful. Nearly all my support requests (usually for fairly basic things) required "Tier 2" support, which meant at least a 24 hour wait.

This deal seems like a perfect match.

I would rather Mediatemple had sold themselves to the US Government. :(

Or Kim Dotcom. That would actually be interesting.

Off topic, but I just had to know. I read somewhere that you started 4Chan as a way for people to share images with one another.

My question: When you came up with this idea, did you have any idea what kinds of things the internet would want to share with you? Also, now that you know, any regrets?

On topic: I've only used Godaddy's competitors, but I honestly can't understand how a web host remains in business after they publicly announced that they support a non-open web.

AIUI 4chan was more-or-less an English-language clone of 2chan.

I had a similar thought and observe in the letter they reference "new CEO" for GoDaddy.

I know GoDaddy has a pretty terrible history, what have you seen specifically?

LMGTFY: https://www.google.com/search?q=godaddy+4chan

I'm curious his personal experience outside of what I could find via Google search

How would he know what you found via Google Search without disclaiming it, or even mentioning that you had searched at all? "Anything other than X, Y, and Z?" would be more polite.

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