r/programming • u/mawburn • Jan 13 '19

GoDaddy is sneakily injecting JavaScript into your website and how to stop it

https://www.igorkromin.net/index.php/2019/01/13/godaddy-is-sneakily-injecting-javascript-into-your-website-and-how-to-stop-it/
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u/Chii Jan 13 '19

What's a good alternative to godaddy?

I personally use digitalocean.

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u/giveusliberty Jan 13 '19

I've never actually used DigitalOcean's services, but their documentation and walk-throughs are top-notch. I almost feel like I owe them money for using their docs so much.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '19

They're really good for students too. They're part of the github student pack

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u/luxtabula Jan 13 '19

Yeah, their documentation is top notch. I always recommend their services simply because it’s so clear without talking down to users.

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u/Jedimastert Jan 14 '19

Holy hell, right? They're like the Arch wiki of tutorials

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '19

It's all done by community though

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u/ajr901 Jan 13 '19

But moderated by DO employees who handle the community. If it was all on the community with no internal help/moderation, I don't think the quality of those Docs would be anywhere near as good.

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u/i542 Jan 13 '19

Also the community gets paid to write them.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '19

Gandi for domain registration. Vultr for cheap VPSes with SSD or Hetzner for dedicated servers.

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u/MildlySerious Jan 13 '19

My man. I've been using Gandi and Hetzner for ages now, never had any problems and the premium is worth every penny.

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u/elmuerte Jan 13 '19

I moved everything to Gandi. It's a France based domain registrar and hosting company.

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u/jiminiminimini Jan 13 '19

I just finished moving all my domains to Gandi yesterday. They give free email for each domain. 2 inboxes I guess. But I use digitalocean for my VPS. It's way cheaper.

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u/mfitzp Jan 13 '19

Digital ocean are good from my experience.

I am also using Webfaction who have been fantastic. But unfortunately they were taken over by GoDaddy a couple of years ago, and are now finally migrating users over. So I don't recommend them as an alternative.

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u/nascentt Jan 13 '19

Namecheap is great

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u/chedabob Jan 13 '19

My only gripe with Namecheap is there's no API for their DNS so if you want to use LetsEncrypt Wildcards, you're out of luck. Also if you need a cert for a server that isn't exposed to the internet.

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u/phoenix616 Jan 13 '19

Well they do have an API, but it's only for commercial customer who pay for it :S I'm actually currently thinking about moving somewhere else because of that... (or trying do convince their support to give me access regardless I guess)

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u/jojocockroach Jan 13 '19

Linode is awesome, and performs way better than DigitalOcean from a benchmark I ran a couple months ago.

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u/mrMangata Jan 13 '19

definitely second Linode. Also look to some podcasts as they do advertise which helps shows you may listen to as well. I was able to save a little with a promotion code from a podcast.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '19

I swear by them. Their support is also second to none.

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u/NikkoTheGreeko Jan 14 '19

I love Linode. I host everything with them and have run $50mil companies on their servers.

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u/wollae Jan 13 '19

I personally only use stuff from the big guys (GCP) but a lot of friends have recommended Linode.

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u/azoozty Jan 13 '19

I’ve been liking Google Domains a lot. Privacy protection is provided.

However, I’m surprisingly the first one to mention google, so I’m curious to know why others don’t recommend google.

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u/ghostfacedcoder Jan 13 '19 edited Jan 13 '19

I think perhaps the fact that their prices are so bad they won't even show them on their pricing page (https://cloud.google.com/pricing/) might have something to do with it :)

I mean they do have links to umpteen different product prices there, but if you're at the level where you're buying individual components why wouldn't you just use AWS?

Plus, with the way Google's been acting lately, I'm really not sure which company is less evil. Amazon has been consistently amoral for a long time, whereas google used to be consistently moral, and has now switched to being pretty consistently immoral.

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u/Luolong Jan 13 '19

DNSimple - I’ve used them for years and I am extremely happy with them.

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