Spent the better part of the weekend migrating WordPress sites by hand from Godaddy.

I’m not happy about the way things are going there recently. The whole experience has been pretty aweful.

To complicate matters the website kept crashing on Firefox. I had a better experience with Chrome but still, with a major browser it should have worked. Also simple backend things like LOGGING wasn’t working. Worst was their phpmyadmin couldn’t export my DB, and trying to do a mysqldump from CLI wasn’t even working 🙁 I finally had to make a PHP script to grab the Database.

I can’t imagine what other customers who have no technical skills are going through right now with them.

I was amazed when the engineer told me he had been at Go Daddy for 15 years and never heard the term “Traceroute”. Oh brother.

I had to get a new host when they flat refused to escalate my case even tho all of Japan couldn’t access Go Daddy’s WordPress Sites and a few other sections of their site. The main site seemed to be ok though.

I was going to leave them a long review but after spending 30 mins making it, and hitting submit, the thing crashed. I guess that’s par for their course. 🙁

Oh well, back to work…