jayunsplanet

Brief background:

Website was slow – to the point that it was unresponsive at times and would time out. I contacted GoDaddy support and provided them with details and screen shots. They responded with a generic copy-and-paste article about running a TraceRoute from my machine to their server – which is irrelevant to the issue at hand. It’s as if they just saw the word “slow” in the ticket request and responded to that word.

My response to a generic “How-To” on running a TraceRoute to determine why my site is so slow:

Thank you for that – but that does not address my issue. This is not an issue between the client machines and GoDaddy – it is internal at GoDaddy.

I included in my support request that I received SQL errors – such that the software lost a connection to the SQL server. I am receiving 500 internal server error’s.

Please address those concerns and do not send me generic guides on TraceRoutes. I understand what a TraceRoute is and what it will do – but you didn’t know that. What was I supposed to do with the results of that Trace?

GoDaddy is known for their horrible and generic responses to support issues that are technical. I am tired of my site routinely being slow AND inaccessible and I’m tired of GoDaddy never addressing the issue.

You are about to lose another customer who will most certainly relay his aggravating experiences with his network of connections.

Please advise.

Update: I’ve since cancelled my GoDaddy web hosting (4GH) account and WebStats – which I’ve had open for 6 years – and moved to Eleven2.

Unless you’ve been living under “that” rock, you’ve undoubtedly heard “Good Feeling” by rapper Flo Rida – probably several times a day if you tune into any pop radio station. Although generic to the genre, most of Flo Rida’s words in that song aren’t inherently “bad”. In fact, in a world where things seem to be falling down around us, a little “good feeling” helps to keep people head-bopping their way through the day. But his words surely do not hold a candle to the truth found in God’s word.

I, myself, sometimes struggle (sometimes with a little guilt) in balancing the joys of this life and my earthly desires with what God would desire for me. In one of the most lyrically simplest of songs, David Crowder says, “You are my joy, You are my joy, You are my joy, You are my joyyyyyyyyyy” I believe when Christ is our ultimate joy – and at the end of the day, we know, truly, in our hearts, that nothing on this earth will satisfy us more than Christ’s never-ending love and gift of Salvation – I think then, we can be free to enjoy life and grab as many “good feelings” as we are blessed to have available – while always remembering to praise and thank our Provider.

Ask yourself, what gives you a good feeling? And what are you doing with that? Every day, make Jesus and what He’s done for you your “good feeling”, share that with those around you in the way you live – and I believe you’ll find that the good feeling you get from His love is worth infinitely more than the Bugatti and Maybach that Flo Rida is after.