First, in now way is this a promotion for godaddy’s website tonight service as you will see by the time you finish reading today’s post. This week has been crazy and I was doing some small changes on a clients website in which I did not setup in the beginning. Needless today godaddy hooked him in and instead of my normal changes on my computer and then uploading them via ftp I was forced to login via firefox and make changes to their website.
Why was this so bad? First, unless you have all day to make simple changes than it’s not for you!! Yes, yes, I can see how great website tonights purpose must be for someone who has never touched a computer and doesn’t know anything, but hey in that case give them a mac! (haha) Next, they limit you on so many features which most people need. Guess what? You cant put javascript on your pages, nope godaddy doesn’t allow that. Nope, you can’t use any special scripts or html either. No, you cant upload something via ftp how dare you! No, you can’t access your email by imap are you nuts godaddy’s support says!
Finally, the last reason why never to use godaddy’s website tonight service and instead to hire me or someone else anyone for that matter is that your stuck with them forever. If you do get a website done or do your own and they come to realization that their service is horrible you really don’t own the website. You will not be able to transfer it to any other server nor download a backup copy of it. Now thats what I call a contract!
Website Tonight Issues
November 17th, 20075 Responses to “Website Tonight Issues”
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January 30th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Thanks for the review! Very much appreciated, I have the same problem.
April 1st, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Wait, what do you mean you can’t transfer it? I’m new to the “website creating thing” but does that mean I can’t take my address to another hosting company even if I am willing to make a new website?
January 15th, 2009 at 12:20 am
this is so true! i’m so frustrated, I cannot make little changes because of the templates that’s protected. if i make a new page, the original template shows up and there’s no way to change the whole page design! no ftp info also and does not allow uploads online! huh!
May 11th, 2009 at 1:43 am
you can get your FTP id when publishing your page with website tonight it will take a while for the site to publish and the ip address needed for FTP is listed.
July 19th, 2010 at 12:20 am
Everytime I read your articles I feel like your writting is improving, see it from the day one. Good to fallow personal development.