godaddy called me to see if i was interested in being put on a faster server with some perks to my hosting account. i would have to pay 2 years up front, but would have a huge amount prorated, so after my initgial payment i would be able to cancel back to per year holsting. anyway, i agreed and went through the account set up process. the guy who was reading me his required spiel from his checklist couldn't answer my questions several times - no he wasn't a tech support paki. he sounded american - and i had to explain what a zone file when i was asking what it would mean for the 9 domains i had pointed to my hosting from various clients, all with diff registrars. he then proceeded to tell me that all my databases are all on the same machine as my web hosting which is just straight out false and would all be taken care of in one migration. nota bene: again, i asked him about all the shit i had hosted. all the diff domains, all the assignments through the zone files i'd set up my self and he said, yeah it's all going to be migrated seamlessly. so then he goes through the process and creates a placeholder aaccount so he can put everything in queue to be processed and he suddenly says, oh wow you ahve 9 domains, i thought you onhly had 2 domains. and i coolly explained to him, i have 2 domains that i've reg'd with you guys and the reset are being pointed from diff registrars - i broguht this about about 5 mins ago and he said, godaddy is going to charge you 900 dollars -- L:laugh::laugh::laugh:L, 900 dollars to transfer that to the new account 100 bucks per domain. so i told him, fine, don't transfer it, i'll make backups of all of it and put it back on myself and he said, no you don't understand there are 9 domains and they all have to be set up and i said, guy i just explained to you all this shit about the zone files and all the stuff we'd just been talking about and i said, yeah again, the databases what about them? will all that get migrated and will i have to set up everything again because the fqdns and the ip addresses will be diff and to register the databases properly with the accounts built in, they would have to be manually transfered - now he had said previously that all of it would be done seamlessly but now he said, no if you had ONE database and ONE domain then it was all inclusive, but you ahve all of these databases and 9 domains. so then i knew this guy was a choth and i just said, fine i will deal with it and get back to you if and when i want to transfer.
so, in the end, i'm looking for new hosting and i'm going to find some place like bluehost or dreamhos or whatever that doesn't dick you around charging separately for domain privacy and then charging for this bullshit feature which is free everywhere else in dns management and whatnot
moral of the story, fuck godaddy. the people who work for them are morons, i've dealt with tech people and they are alright, but those in billing and sales actually cause more issues than they solve, trying to upsell when they don't know wtf is going on, etc.
fucking lol, this must have taken him about 30 mins to undo
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