Farewell GoDaddy, Hello Bluehost

GoDaddy, you have been a royal thorn in my side. I can’t count the number of wasted hours I spent configuring and hacking away to get my Rails app working on your servers. That doesn’t include the numerous blog posts I wrote to help others get up and running with your troublesome service. I’d be willing to forego all the configuration problems if my application speed was acceptable, but it’s not….it’s far from it. When I say acceptable I’m not asking for the world, just response times < 5 seconds with VERY light pages. You still rock for domain registrations....hands down.

With that being said I'm making the switch to Bluehost. A good friend pointed them out to me and it appears they’re rated #1 by the Rails developer community. I’ve only been with Bluehost for two hours now and haven’t run into any major problems. They have a good Rails howto that I’m looking forward to implementing painlessly. The fact that the Bluehost CEO has a blog helped seal the deal for me. This makes the company much more personable and approachable.