Comments on: Scoop: GoDaddy quietly kills its cloud computing business

By: I Work There

I Work There — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:38:01 +0000

I work for Go Daddy and I say STAY AWAY. Last year they told us that 2012 would be the Year Of The Cloud, we’d overtake Rackspace, we’d build it into an Amazon A9, yadda yadda yadda. HA! We put blood sweat and tears to get cloud service out the door. If you knew how we cut corners to meet the deadline you never would’ve signed up. There’s a reason our stuff is so cheap and now you know why.

By: Colin McDermott

Colin McDermott — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:39:13 +0000

I was a big fan of the product. The only cloud service I found that wasn’t a complete rip-off.

By: Christine Sheppard

Christine Sheppard — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:33:30 +0000

It is sudden, and potentially devastating for small business. I would suggest looking to a provider with sole focus on premier Cloud/dedicated hosting. You will feel secure with an expert support team helping to make a smooth transition without disruption to workflow/performance. I would strongly encourage all ex-Godaddy Cloud users to check out the great service at http://www.atum.com

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:06:14 +0000

That is because the name changed as it was integrated in to Rackspace. And yes I work at Rackspace. http://www.slicehost.com/ Anything to promote a happy Cloud.

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:37:34 +0000

If I implied Rackspace was out of the cloud, I apologize to anyone who read this post. Obviously, RAX is alive and well in the cloud as we’ve reported numerous times, but Slicehost, which Rackspace acquired a few years back, is no more.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:31:37 +0000

For all those hung out to dry by Godaddy, come on over and look at what Rackspace has to offer. No, Rackspace is not out of the Cloud as this article implies and we aren’t going anywhere. http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/

By: Just Christine

Just Christine — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:52:49 +0000

As a Small Business Owner using GoDaddy for our SaaS product, we are given basically one week to find a new Provider and swap all our customers over. This will result in some downtime, a lot of IT time, Development time and QA time to test everything. What a way to come back from vacation. This is not at all pleasing.

By: VOS

VOS — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:04:15 +0000

So many companies claim they can offer the Cloud, but it all comes down to infrastructure and support. That’s why we started with the end in mind and have been delivering for over 10-years. See http://www.getvos.com to see the difference.

By: Sam A

Sam A — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:24:53 +0000

I purchased a year of the cloud servers service up front from GoDaddy and was sorry I did so. Their features were right, the plan and pricing was right, but they did a terrible job of managing the service. My VMs suffered from performance issues of, what I can only assume, were neighboring hosts.

By: 29

29 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:12 +0000

I don’t think that individuals or small business owners can understand exactly what cloud hosting is and in addition they may could not understand how many resources they need / consume. So, what I may assumme is that there may be a lot more complains than they thought about extra charges.

Also, the only one that can “count” the resources used is godaddy. How can anyone now if the resources where actually used or if there were indeed overcharges?