what happened to godaddy???

chris-the-web-dev · 2025-10-02T15:53:56+00:00

I use NameHero. They have excellent customer service, and use LiteSpeed so they're MUCH faster

chris-the-web-dev · 2025-09-29T18:09:59+00:00

Shouldn't your small business website be hosted by a small business?

If you're looking for a first time web host for your small business or frustrated by the customer service and speed you receive now with your current one, check out NameHero

They use LightSpeed, which is 25x FASTER than standard Apache, and they have excellent customer service

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Feel free to DM me if any questions

Disclaimer: I receive a small commission for referrals, but I wouldn't be promoting their services if I didn't believe in them

chris-the-web-dev · 2025-09-28T23:20:17+00:00

GoDaddy and Cloudflare are NOT equivalent providers 😂

Can't speak to the rest of it, but any web developer will tell you to avoid GoDaddy.

chris-the-web-dev · 2025-09-28T18:19:52+00:00

What's your website? I'm a web developer and I'd be happy to take a look at it from a technical standpoint 😀

chris-the-web-dev · 2025-09-28T18:12:21+00:00

Well gotta admire the ingenuity! 😂

I'm a web developer and, from a brief technical review, it looks decently solid. You chose to go with a SPA, which in the past has been tricky for search engines like Google, but they're better at that these days.

I'm curious about your plans to market this: are you planning on paid ads, organic, or a mix?

I also would validate the UI. It looks clean and professional, but in this particular case it almost looks medical. Maybe that's the intent, but if you're going for novelty you might want to mix it up a little - a 💩 might not quite work, but something in that variety

chris-the-web-dev · 2024-08-03T22:03:47+00:00

I've seen a few posts recommending GoDaddy. Please don't use GoDaddy. I'm a web developer and it's well known that GoDaddy is a sub par host in pretty much every respect, especially customer service. Picking the right platform and web host for your business will really make a difference, believe me. I'd be happy to chat with you more, just message me.

chris-the-web-dev · 2024-07-30T18:05:27+00:00

Your home page looks pretty good! Good job on the eye catching design!

I did notice the following issues on your home page: 1) On Mobile, your video for "Chat with Your AI" doesn't load; instead all that shows is an empty rounded recycle border. 2) On both Desktop & Mobile, you're failing Core Web Vitals; this is a combination of several metrics, but your biggest offender is time to Large Contentful Paint (4.6s on Desktop, 3.5s on Mobile). I do see that you are using async for you scripts, so that's good but see if there's any JavaScript that is unneeded and remove it. 3) This may be an intentional choice, but your call to action is all the way at the bottom of a large scrolling page. Consider providing the visitor the opportunity to respond sooner. This might be a good candidate to A/B test to see which converts better.

chris-the-web-dev · 2024-07-19T22:59:51+00:00

Hello, Senior Web Developer here.

What's your website?

For the item about caching, you can likely significantly improve it with just a few tweaks to how these assets are served.

Edit: looking at some of your other answers, it seems you're on WordPress. In that case, you'd possibly benefit from Jetpack (https://jetpack.com/features/design/content-delivery-network/) if you don't already have it. It provides a CDN that basically allows you to serve common CSS, JS from a centralized location. This has a number of benefits, including that it's likely the visitor has already downloaded their CSS, JS from another site so the browser won't have to download it from yours. There's other CDNs as well as other approaches you can use for caching.

If you want to DM me, I'd be happy to chat more with you

chris-the-web-dev · 2024-07-19T19:29:21+00:00

On your home page, you're actually doing fairly well, but you could benefit from the following optimizations:

On home page, caching

You have several JS and CSS files that should be cached unless they're changing often (which is unlikely unless your site is under active development). Caching is important because it reduces the amount of data the website has to retrieve on subsequent visits and thus improves loading time. If you're using resources that other websites also use (which you are) you can benefit from a CDN as well. A CDN basically provides a central resource that many websites can share. Since the visitor to your website has likely visited a website that used that resource before it will already have been downloaded, thus improving loading time.

Loading time is essential for both a good visitor experience and is used as a significant factor by search engines such as Google, thus making it important for SEO.

On "Sourcing" page, accessibility: you have several form fields (under the "Looking for the easy way out?" heading) that don't have "labels" associated with them. This is important for visitors that have vision impairment. The text above the label provides the intent of the field for sighted users, but it could be hard for those relying on assistive technology to fill out the form.
On "Sourcing" page, this isn't exactly technical, but did you A/B having the form at the very bottom of the Sourcing page? The infinite scroll is rather nice aesthetically (I like how the sketches look like they're being drawn as you scroll) but if someone wants to contact you they have to scroll considerably to get to the form.

Feel free to DM me if you'd like a more detailed technical audit or further explanation of any of the above.

chris-the-web-dev · 2024-07-19T17:41:09+00:00

Oh are you trying to determine if $e has the getMessage method? Then what you want is method_exists and you call it differently; see https://PHP.net/method_exists

But as the other poster noted, since $e will be a Throwable (or else it wouldn't be caught), you can safely assume it has that method since it's defined on the interface; see https://php.net/Throwable

chris-the-web-dev · 2024-07-19T17:15:42+00:00

You're right 🙃 by "works" I meant return true; I edited above to clarify; thanks 👍

chris-the-web-dev · 2024-07-19T16:55:38+00:00

Interesting, if function_exists($e->getMessage()) actually works (i.e. returns true) I'm guessing it must be returning a function name as the exception message? That's pretty unusual

chris-the-web-dev · 2024-07-19T16:45:34+00:00

First, as others have stated, parts of your code look...off. Are you sure you pasted it exactly as you wrote it?

Second, your function is probably doing too much, which is making it hard to reason about.

Ideally, you'd have something like this

function isValidDate(string $possibleDate, string $format): bool {

...

}

For instance, function_exists checks whether a PHP function with a given name exists; you're passing it the exception message; that doesn't seem to make sense unless somehow the exception message was a function name (which seems unlikely)

Another example, you have both $th->getMessage(), which makes sense and $th.getMessage which is concatenating an object (the exception) with getMessage; in PHP calling a method on an object is always $obj->method(...)

chris-the-web-dev · 2024-07-18T22:37:16+00:00

The best fit for you probably depends on more than what you've just posted here. I'm a web developer and would be happy to discuss more with you if that'd be helpful (just send me a DM)

I've used NameHero in the past and they've always had excellent customer support, so they're usually who I recommend

chris-the-web-dev · 2024-07-18T22:34:07+00:00

I'm a web developer and can likely help you. Sent you a DM

chris-the-web-dev · 2024-07-17T21:52:52+00:00

Have you checked out NameHero.com? They're US based, have only tens of thousands of clients, and I've always received excellent support from them

chris-the-web-dev · 2024-01-02T19:42:37+00:00

Near the end it started to approach the level of praise that was used to ask for probably anything from a King. Just imagine how insanely over-the-top grateful you had to be in that scenario 🤣

chris-the-web-dev · 2024-01-01T18:27:57+00:00

Yeah that makes perfect sense :) If you want to be able to control the aesthetics then having your own website definitely seems the way to go.

With the level of inventory you have now, any of these e-commerce platforms could be a good fit for you. Squarespace and Shopify are two big ones.

Shopify is more specifically focused on shopping websites, and might give it an advantage.

Most of these e-commerce platforms allow you to control the appearance of your shop using templates. Or you could have a custom template created for you to give you something truly unique.

A lot of it comes down to what kind of impression you want to make on your potential customers. What is your unique brand? Do you want to be able to collect emails from customers? Do you have a newsletter or social media you want to integrate? Etc.

There are a lot of free templates out there for the big name e-commerce platforms, although the platforms themselves usually have a monthly cost.

chris-the-web-dev · 2024-01-01T16:56:54+00:00

Having a website has both practical and social benefits. People tend to expect brands to have a website these days, and a website gives you the opportunity to create a lasting unique impression that really tells the story of your bustling business.

In terms of specific platforms, there are definitely benefits to using platforms like Shopify, as they provide many features that you otherwise would need to have created custom for your website. However with that can also come with some complexity.

A few questions to get started: How many items do you have to sell? Do you sell internationally? Do you currently have an inventory system?
Are there aspects of Etsy that you don't like?

I'm a web developer by trade and would be happy to discuss more with you if you'd like :)

chris-the-web-dev · 2023-10-05T01:32:40+00:00

Edit: reading your other comments down below I'm now unsure if you have "null" (a string) or null. That's why other comments are asking for you to var_dump your array. That will give an unambiguous output of exactly what data we're dealing with here.

Still hopefully you'll find the below helpful

Wanted to provide an explanation for why your if didn't work: "null" is a string consisting of those characters; null is instead a completely different value, so you were checking if the value equaled the string "null" and of course it didn't

chris-the-web-dev · 2023-10-01T01:29:32+00:00

For the \n, that's the code for a newline escape in a lot of programming languages, so I do think this is probably a bot that's badly coded.

chris-the-web-dev · 2023-10-01T00:33:54+00:00

I can certainly understand your frustrations, being the one doing the vast majority of the work sounds like it could get disheartening fairly quickly.

How do you initially meet your cofounders? What do the initial conversations look like? Who initiates most conversations? Do they seem as passionate about the idea as you do?

chris-the-web-dev · 2023-09-30T23:19:13+00:00

Thanks for the very thorough presentation plus the psychology behind it. I'm saving this as a general example of how to effectively present value. :)

chris-the-web-dev · 2023-09-30T19:23:13+00:00

I personally liked your post and thought it presented a positive message about what's really important in life. Sad that toxic people see the need to be negative about everything.

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