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Ask HN: Who do you use to register domains? And for hosting?

4 points by kertof ↗ HN
GoDaddy, Namecheap, hostgator?

I always hear of "Never us X, it's the worst", but was wondering, pro's and con's for each one?

And do you host with the same company? Or is your hosting plan different? Hosting a static or dynamic site are of course very different scenarios.

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ASquare
Godaddy for Domains & web hosting. They're cheap (may not be the cheapest but at some level you get what you pay for) and painless.

They try to upsell you a lot via email and (sometimes) when you talk to them but all of that's easy to ignore.

Our main need was ease of setup & use.

Ultimately, they're just what we started with and so far they've given us no performance/support/technical reason to look elsewhere.

mindcrime
I use a combination of GoDaddy and Gandi.net for registration (and I may have one really old domain still hanging around that's with Register.com, not sure).

Hosting is Rackspace, mainly due to their acquisition of Slicehost. I thought we might move once the acquisition went through, but so far Rackspace has been fine, and I'm not in any particular hurry to leave, even though I expect we could find cheaper services if we put some effort in.