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ahhh, i was starting to wonder about that.. yeah i've been a customer for 10straight years thru them. with both those domains.. also in the past i had rented a VPS for ~6months as well and hosted a game server off it.. that was the only time i actually had a use for the hosting side of the domain. i had the mods for czero (cs1.6 re-textured) hosted off the website for sv_download purposes.

oh no, right away i can say you're right about a limit in bandwidth.. i only meant no ad banner, or not having sql or ftp access kind of drawbacks, it was as if it were a cheap but paid service. but even when i was hosting a ton of files that had to be downloaded by users i never even touched half that limit (i think it was 1tb per month, but this was years ago when i actually truly utilized it).. but i think its a special circumstance like Geosmin was saying, since im an older customer thru them is all. nowadays it looks like the domain is far cheaper then what i am paying, and no longer comes with free hosting, so what i said is kinda only unique to me and i didn't know it.

but no i did mean paid domain that gave free hosting along with it.. and like you said it does have bandwidth limit, but for most common uses besides porn stream/downloading it should meet most peoples needs (if they could somehow still get it, which doesn't look likely)

in my circumstance though paying $14.99 (+private domain registration +iCAN fees) per year (x2 domains)[totals something like $35.45 or so], for the unlimited email forwarders, 100 mailboxes, 10gb hosting with bw limit that does have mysql & ftp support/access, and a cple other stupid features (website builder etc). is well worth it, and a better deal then even $4 a month xD

glad all this came up though, now i know not to ever let that shit expire since i'd lose all those extra goodies i get for being an old customer ^^

I seriously doubt there are no drawbacks at all.

GoDaddy's management is associated with a pretty sizable amount of unethical and disagreeable practices, ranging from promoting bigotry, to supporting SOPA, to supporting killing endangered animals, to manipulating domain pricing to overcharge customers, to dubious advertising, to offering overpriced services and poor service quality.

I stopped using them just for their low quality well before all the other issues popped up as being topics of discussion, so yeah, they're pretty disfavorable among hosting providers.

Related: http://www.authormedia.com/6-reasons-authors-should-avoid-godaddy/