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GoDaddy enters the LEB market

NodePingNodePing Member
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I just saw an announcement on the new GoDaddy cloud servers with one in the LEB range. 30 day free trial. I'll be grabbing one to try out.

Looks like KVM though I don't see anything on the location.

  • 512MB Memory
  • 1 CORE Processor
  • 20GB SSD Disk
  • 1TB Transfer
  • $5.00 /month
  • ($0.0074 /hour)
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  • tehdantehdan Member

    Stay tuned for the ultimate summer host adventure!

    Why do GoDaddy even still exist?

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  • ricardoricardo Member
    edited March 2016

    Fairly expensive. I doubt the LEB market has much to worry about. GoDaddy targets a certain demographic, I doubt they'd go much cheaper as they have a big marketing budget to fund.

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  • NodePingNodePing Member

    Looks like locations are Ashburn, VA and Phoenix AZ - US-only.

  • spammyspammy Member

    NodePing said: Ashburn, VA and Phoenix AZ - US-only.

    Wondering who is the provider, if it is Singlehop or Softlayer it could be good.

  • AbdussamadAbdussamad Member

    Woah this is huge. Godaddy is the largest domain registrar and one of the largest hosts in the world. This is very bad for the competition - vultr, digitalocean etc.

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  • AbdussamadAbdussamad Member

    ricardo said:

    Fairly expensive. I doubt the LEB market has much to worry about. GoDaddy targets a certain demographic, I doubt they'd go much cheaper as they have a big marketing budget to fund.

    This is cheap for godaddy. This is matching vultr, digitalocean on prices.

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  • tommytommy Member

    Who believe Godaddy as hosting provider?

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  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member

    Ashburn:

    System Info
-----------
Processor       : Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge)
CPU Cores       : 1
Frequency       : 2399.996 MHz
Memory          : 494 MB
Swap            : 0 MB
Uptime          : 7 min,

OS              : Debian GNU/Linux 8
Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel          : 3.16.0-4-amd64
Hostname        : ashburn


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is 

Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        137MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         Coloat          79.8MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       14.9MB/s
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       13.0MB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       15.2MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Softlayer       9.53MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          9.93MB/s
Singapore               Softlayer       4.80MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         8.58MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        2.46MB/s


Disk Speed
----------
I/O (1st run)   : 835 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 787 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 864 MB/s
Average I/O     : 828.667 MB/s

    Phoenix:

    System Info
-----------
Processor       : Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge)
CPU Cores       : 1
Frequency       : 2399.998 MHz
Memory          : 494 MB
Swap            : 0 MB
Uptime          : 3 min,

OS              : Debian GNU/Linux 8
Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel          : 3.16.0-4-amd64
Hostname        : phoenix


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is

Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        10.7MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         Coloat          10.4MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       11.1MB/s
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       10.8MB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       6.45MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Softlayer       10.7MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          10.5MB/s
Singapore               Softlayer       6.90MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         6.67MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        1.25MB/s


Disk Speed
----------
I/O (1st run)   : 716 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 764 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 806 MB/s
Average I/O     : 762 MB/s
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  • NekkiNekki Veteran

    @Abdussamad said:
    Woah this is huge. Godaddy is the largest domain registrar and one of the largest hosts in the world. This is very bad for the competition - vultr, digitalocean etc.

    I'm not certain they're sharing a customer base, tbh.

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    ricardo said: Fairly expensive. I doubt the LEB market has much to worry about.

    True, but this really smells like "let's be another Digital Ocean" to me. Identical specs.

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  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran

    For extra fun, look at the FAQ and compare here:

    https://www.digitalocean.com/help/technical/general/

    I'm not even upset. Obviously, they felt like we're doing something right. That's a compliment.

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  • HBAndreiHBAndrei Member, Top Host, Host Rep

    Abdussamad said: Woah this is huge. Godaddy is the largest domain registrar and one of the largest hosts in the world. This is very bad for the competition - vultr, digitalocean etc.

    They're super late to the party, and at first glance I can't see any edge, why would I (as a client) leave DO or Vultr or Linode and go to GoDaddy? Just for the sake of moving my applications?

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran
    edited March 2016

    @HBAndrei said:
    They're super late to the party, and at first glance I can't see any edge, why would I (as a client) leave DO or Vultr or Linode and go to GoDaddy? Just for the sake of moving my applications?

    I think it's more likely that they're trying to keep existing customers in-house by giving them options. Outgrowing their shared hosting is not difficult, unfortunately. This gives people something that they can graduate to in house (something more reasonable than their other options), which means GoDaddy can probably charge for a migration to it as well.

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  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    jarland said: I think it's more likely that they're trying to keep existing customers in-house by giving them options. Outgrowing their shared hosting is not difficult, unfortunately. This gives people something that they can graduate to in house (something more reasonable than their other options), which means GoDaddy can probably charge for a migration to it as well.

    Yep.

    GD's marketing edge is their vast customer base of people who've registered domains with them. If someone was just starting DO 2.0 (er, 3.0, I guess Vultr was 2.0) then they wouldn't have much of a chance but GD has a semi-captive, mostly unsophisticated audience.

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  • TheKillerTheKiller Member

    @tommy said:
    Who believe Godaddy as hosting provider?

    I have seen tons of website hosted in GoDaddy shared hosting. They're biggest domain registrar and have reach to most number of customers.

  • HBAndreiHBAndrei Member, Top Host, Host Rep
    edited March 2016

    jarland said: I think it's more likely that they're trying to keep existing customers in-house by giving them options. Outgrowing their shared hosting is not difficult, unfortunately. This gives people something that they can graduate to in house, which means GoDaddy can probably charge for a migration to it as well.

    That makes sense, considering GoDaddy is the most obnoxious upseller I've ever encountered...
    Back in the day when I was still purchasing domains from them, if you weren't careful enough during checkout, you'd end up also buying a fridge and a washing machine along with your domain name.

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  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    TheKiller said: I have seen tons of website hosted in GoDaddy shared hosting.

    Friend of mine started a non-tech-related business. He's not a tech guy. He bought his domain and shared hosting from GoDaddy because (a) he remembered the name, and (b) everything was very easy to setup - just step through their forms. He was probably lead by the nose and could do better elsewhere, but essentially that's the GoDaddy market - people who just want to setup a simple site and aren't techies.

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  • WebProjectWebProject Host Rep, Veteran

    wow, the highest plan with 4 cores only.

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  • NyrNyr Community Contributor, Veteran
    edited March 2016

    Pricing looks good and they don't have much competition in Ashburn which is a very important location.

    I'm not going to trust GoDady, but the product could be good.

    What networks are they using for those servers?

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    jarland said: I'm not even upset. Obviously, they felt like we're doing something right. That's a compliment.

    The "54 second provisioning" is pretty cheeky...one second faster.

    However will you respond to this competitive threat?

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  • sinsin Member
    edited March 2016

    Awesome, building one right now

    -edit- So far so good! Love that they have a FreeBSD 10.2 image, I started off with a $5/month server (30 days free I think?) in Ashburn, VA and I like it so far.

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  • chrispchrisp Member

    Nyr said: Ashburn which is a very important location.

    Why? I mean what is the advantage compared to NYC, NJ or similar?

  • sinsin Member 
    Benchmark started on Mon Mar 21 14:42:38 EDT 2016
Full benchmark log: /root/bench.log

System Info
-----------
Processor   : Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge)
CPU Cores   : 1
Frequency   : 2399.998 MHz
Memory      : 494 MB
Swap        : 0 MB
Uptime      : 5 min,

OS      : Debian GNU/Linux 8
Arch        : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel      : 3.16.0-4-amd64
Hostname    : gdcloud


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is ashburn

Location        Provider    Speed
CDN         Cachefly    136MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US     Coloat      79.1MB/s 
Dallas, TX, US      Softlayer   39.3MB/s 
Seattle, WA, US     Softlayer   20.9MB/s 
San Jose, CA, US    Softlayer   17.4MB/s 
Washington, DC, US  Softlayer   22.5MB/s 

Tokyo, Japan        Linode      9.97MB/s 
Singapore       Softlayer   5.04MB/s 

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net     10.1MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb    10.3MB/s 


Disk Speed
----------
I/O (1st run)   : 884 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 966 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 919 MB/s
Average I/O : 923 MB/s
  • RolterRolter Member

    @HBAndrei said:
    Back in the day when I was still purchasing domains from them, if you weren't careful enough during checkout, you'd end up also buying a fridge and a washing machine along with your domain name.

    And their GUI is a mess ,which goes very well with their upselling tactics .

  • AmitzAmitz Member

    Don't buy from GoDaddy. They are bad folks.

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  • sinsin Member

    Here's a Geekbench of the $5/month Godaddy server:
    http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/5745743

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member

    Some serverbear benchmarks: ashburn and phoenix.

  • StevieStevie Member

    @jarland

    Holy crap godaddy did just rip digital oceans faq's page - LMAO thats horrible.

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  • NyrNyr Community Contributor, Veteran

    chrisp said: Why? I mean what is the advantage compared to NYC, NJ or similar?

    It's a mayor hub.

    The name is not as flashy as New York City and I think that's a factor which has influenced other "marketing-heavy" cloud providers like DigitalOcean to delay/avoid developments there.

    Amazon has several datacenters in Ashburn for example, and most of the big global networks and CDNs have presence there.

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  • FredQcFredQc Member

    Psych Network build a new datacenter in Ashburn, also. I'm getting good speeds from here to Canada!

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