Great, Now GoDaddy Is Screwing Me!

Readers of the InsideMicrosoft blog will notice that it is no longer responding, delivering up a database error. The reason: GoDaddy is trying to extort more money out of me. Well I say, no thanks!
Last night, I called GoDaddy support about the database going down, figuring it was a simple and fixable error. They told me it was, and that it would be fixed within half an hour. This morning I called three times (getting disconnected twice, before being told, eleven hours after I was told it would be fixed, that I had been notified of an over-usage on my account and told to move up to dedicated hosting. This was a lie.
According to GoDaddy, the InsideMicrosoft blog, my less popular blog by a factor of 3 to 5, is so overusing the MySQL database on the server that it is causing other […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg