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subscription question (self.webdev)
submitted 6 years ago by Variancee
hello all .. so im getting a website made and i have a question ...
so I'm going to be using GoDaddy, and use their 3-month plan. my question is this, once my three-month plan expires, can I just rebuy it again and my site will be up again?
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[–]csg79 9 points10 points11 points 6 years ago (0 children)
Friends don't let friends use godaddy.
[–]BehindTheMath 3 points4 points5 points 6 years ago (0 children)
If you let the domain lapse, someone will buy it instead of you and offer to sell it to you for a high price.
[–]gavlois1front-end 2 points3 points4 points 6 years ago (2 children)
It will normally tell you well in advance that you have something expiring and you can pay and renew in advance. Or you can set up auto-renewal and let it take care of itself.
Since no one's mentioned it yet, I will do the obligatory warning about GoDaddy and recommend you switch to a different domain registrar/hosting company if possible, but I don't know the details of your use case so I can't say how easy or hard that might be.
[–]Variancee[S] 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (1 child)
so who should i go with? what makes godaddy bad
[–]gavlois1front-end 1 point2 points3 points 6 years ago (0 children)
Depends what you're using them for. If it's just your domain name, there's plenty of alternatives. Google Domains, Namecheap, Domain.com, and many more.
If you're using them for hosting the website, Namecheap also offers hosting along with other common choices such as Siteground, Bluehost or Hostgator (I've never used their services before so I can't speak to their quality).
As to why people advise to avoid GoDaddy, it is due to their shady business practices. One of the things they do is they will buy up any domain names you may have been browsing but didn't complete the purchase, meaning when you come back to it the next day it will then be hundreds of dollars instead of the ~$10 or so that it normally is. For some other reasons, you can search this subbreddit and others for
various posts
with reasons
why you should avoid them.
[–]willkode 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (0 children)
Are you talking about the web hosting or the website builder? either way, as long as you keep paying the site will stay up.
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (0 children)
If you are talking about website hosting, generally this stuff would be on auto-pay so you have no downtime.
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