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I feel like I must be the only person on Earth who has successfully used Godaddy for anything and not had a problem...
Did you try getting an SSL certificate on your website by chance? Without paying $400/yr...
Yes.
I just had to log in and check. We pay $49.99 per year for our SSL cert. (Edit: Certs. We actually have two domains.) Do they do surge pricing or something...?
I mean, SSL certs are free now:
https://letsencrypt.org/
https://certbot.eff.org/
Maybe not worth $50 a year to change your setup but there’s no reason to pay for them anymore.
Some verified certificates are not free. As far as I know, Let's Encrypt does not offer any ev/ov certs. I've worked for e-commerce sites that could not use standard dv certs like you would get from Let's Encrypt.
Granted this is still not a good reason to give money to GoDaddy.
The company pays for it. Not my dime. The expense doesn't seem onerous and is just to name one example probably a small fraction of what we spend on pens in a year.
And we get everything of that ilk from one vendor with one bill. It's all managed in one place. The renewals all happen at the same time. They like that.
Edit: It's hilarious y'all are acting like you're salty with me like this is my decision. I do what my boss tells me to do. Certainly there are better options for a lot of our business practices but at the end of the day if my recommendations are shot down it's not my call. I hold the passwords and the keys, I do not hold the purse strings.
Edit response:
Yes, I am salty with you like it is your decision... to provide shitty information about GoDaddy that is irrelevant to the conversation. Your company's choice to make stupid decisions has nothing to do with how scummy GoDaddy is. But it was your decision to come here to talk about the subject and spout garbage.
That's not a good argument for GoDaddy. It just means that you and your company don't care and are not qualified to make any claims about GoDaddy's actual service.