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GoDaddy Shutting Off MailMan, so I’m Shutting Off GoDaddy

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This afternoon, I received this email from GoDaddy.com, my web hosting service: Important information about your hosting account Due to spammers abusing MailMan – a cPanel feature that lets you send bulk emails – we’re removing the feature on January 23, 2016 If you want to send bulk emails to your customers or clients we recommend checking out GoDaddy Email Marketing. Not only does this program let you email customers, it also includes more powerful features than MailMan, like opt-out management. If you have questions or need assistance, contact our Support Team at (480) 505-8877. Mailman is one of the services that I rely on for personal use, as well as for the web site and mailing list that I operate on behalf of MacinTech, a non-profit Macintosh User’s Group here in the Denver area. I’ve just spent a half-hour on the phone with goDaddy, and there is no exception to their decision to remove Mailman from the service that I’ve already paid for in advance. Their proposed solution is to pay them twice as much as I do now to add their email marketing program! There are other hosting providers, like MacHighway, that offer hosting packages for LESS than GoDaddy, which include a mailing list manager, Dada Mail, which is similar to Mailman. So, after many years at GoDaddy, I’ll be canceling my service and domain registrations with them in January, and moving to MacHighway.

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I hate SPAM, and GoDaddy is Useless!

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After the debacle with my CenturyLink DSL last summer, I had to make a quick decision on alternatives to hosting my own domain, email and web. I ended up being off the network for two weeks when CenturyLink couldn’t figure out how to restore my DSL server when they did an upgrade that I had already cancelled. Many years ago, I used a domain-hosting service called DomainDiscover that registered my domains and DNS, redirected web requests inside of a frame, and relayed email from a virtual domain to my ISP account. After I started running Apple’s OS X Server, though, I realized that I could provide most of those services myself, on my own home server. My ISP, NeTrack, who was later acquired by Indra’s Net, provided a static IP address, so hosting my own domain was fairly straight-forward. Once I started running my own services locally, I decided that it wasn’t necessary to be paying DomainDiscover for the other services that I wasn’t using any longer. All I really needed was a domain registrar. Checking on pricing, it seemed that GoDaddy was about the least expensive, and while nobody had a great customer service record, GoDaddy was large and established, so I transferred my domain registrations to them. So, when my DSL was down for an extended period of time, I did some quick checking, and discovered that GoDaddy had recently started using CPanel virtual Linux hosting, and had hosting plans on sale for half-price, so it was only about $5/month, as I

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