Godaddy over-limit fees?

[x9248]

I went over my 150GB hard drive limit (173GB) and am wondering how much they charge for overage fee. I'm read some real horror stories about bandwidth overage but not HDD space. I'm going to email then here soon (5 hour wait according to site :rolleyes: ) but I'm curious if anyone here had experience in this and would know. Thanks.

[White Cuban]

Alot, godaddy are bastards, i woulden't host there.

i'd say cancel your creditcard open a new one kind of bad.

if i remember, they have crazy fines like a 1/2 dollar for a megabyte or something.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

try my host. They don't charge for over-usage.

www.hostexcellence.com

[Edit]

They just updated their two plans. Unlimited bandwidth, & storage! Can't go wrong!!

[x9248]

Thank you for contacting Online Support.

The Disc Space shown in the Account Details will always show the highest amount for that billing cycle. By going over this amount, you will be assessed a charge for this billing cycle, which is unavoidable at this point. This figure will be reset once the next billing cycle starts (which is November 1st, 2008 according to your Account Details box information).

Please let us know if we can help any other way.

Here's the email I got, they won't even tell me how much it is. I was reading this blog and my heart just sunk. This blog was only made a month ago so I think I'm SOL. I just... don't feel well at all right now.

[Konstanov]

Expect a 500 dollar bill.....

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Wow... that is unbelievable how godaddy can screw people over like this. I remember they were the best place to get cheap domains, but these excessive fees are not worth the dollar you save for a domain. I would refuse to pay them, and cancel your service.

[Raa]

That's why you don't use a cheap domain service for hosting. How do you think they make their money back ;)

Sorry to hear about it though mate, I feel ya, had a similar thing happen to me - got out of it luckily! :(

[Mathachew Veteran]

Here's the email I got, they won't even tell me how much it is. I was reading this blog and my heart just sunk. This blog was only made a month ago so I think I'm SOL. I just... don't feel well at all right now.

Wow, that's one heck of a story. I will certainly stay as far away from GoDaddy for as long as I draw breath, even for domain services.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

That's why you don't use a cheap domain service for hosting. How do you think they make their money back ;)

Sorry to hear about it though mate, I feel ya, had a similar thing happen to me - got out of it luckily! :(

A few years ago, someone got 25MB of space, and 2GB of bandwidth, for $9.99 a month, and I told him he got taken for a ride, when most companies offered 2-4GB of space, and 25GB of bandwidth.

I will never use godaddy for anything again.

[Japlabot]

You are about to be charged $1599.18

[Kami-]

lol, this sounds like someone is about to get a huge bill.

[TurboTuna]

Keep us updated!

[x9248]

Well I'll get my bill here on the 1st of the month and find out how much it is. I've already closed my hosting account with them (regardless that this happened I still wanted a better host) and removed my credit card from my auto-pay account. I'm sure they still have it on some kind of record and can still charge me tho...

According to that blog post above Godaddy said they would not pursue the matter if he left, he would just lose the money for hosting he prepaid for. If it's too much and they can't grab it from my credit card I might just dip out on them :p

[DDStriker]

i know it may be a month old but i was kind of curious how steep was the bill? :D

[x9248]

$0 :p

I did what the guy in the blog above mentioned, I canceled my hosting before the monthly bill and so they've taken nothing. I did find out how much it would've cost tho, they changed their rates drastically (the blog might have had something to do with it as the author mentioned)... it came around to like $5 total. I basically canceled my account out of fear of nothing, but in the end I'm still glad I left them.

[DDStriker]

Good to hear

Yeah they seem to have changed their services after reading that blog but who knows you'll probably find a much better host and before that blog post your bill could of been much higher :D

congrats on dodging what could of been a disaster :D

also thanks for the update ^_^