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Alternatives to Google Domains

GoDaddy, Namecheap, Squarespace, Gandi, and CloudFlare are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Google Domains.
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What is Google Domains and what are its top alternatives?

It is a domain registration service which includes top website builders. The privacy is included at no additional cost. It also includes simple domain management tools.
Google Domains is a tool in the Domain Registration category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Google Domains

  • GoDaddy
    GoDaddy

    Go Daddy makes registering Domain Names fast, simple, and affordable. It is a trusted domain registrar that empowers people with creative ideas to succeed online. ...

  • Namecheap
    Namecheap

    We provide a set of DNS servers spread across the US and Europe to deliver highly reliable DNS services to everyone. By choosing Namecheap.com as your domain registrar, you are choosing a highly reputable and reliable partner. Namecheap.com is rated 4.6 out of 5 - Based on 1,395 reviews via Google Checkout ...

  • Squarespace
    Squarespace

    Whether you need simple pages, sophisticated galleries, a professional blog, or want to sell online, it all comes standard with your Squarespace website. Squarespace starts you with beautiful designs right out of the box — each handcrafted by our award-winning design team to make your content stand out. ...

  • Gandi
    Gandi

    Gandi VPS Cloud Hosting offers you a flexible server with dedicated resources. The VPS virtualization is made possible by Xen technology. ...

  • CloudFlare
    CloudFlare

    Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet. ...

  • G Suite
    G Suite

    An integrated suite of secure, cloud-native collaboration and productivity apps. It includes Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Meet and more. ...

  • Wix
    Wix

    Creating your stunning website for free is easier than ever. No tech skills needed. Just pick a template, change anything you want, add your images, videos, text and more to get online instantly. ...

  • NameSilo
    NameSilo

    It offers domain name management services. Its features include domain transfer, privacy protection, integrations, and more ...

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GoDaddy

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PROS OF GODADDY
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    Flexible payment methods for domains
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CONS OF GODADDY
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    Constantly trying to upsell you
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    Not a great UI

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I'm planning to make a web app with browser games that would be a Progressive Web App. I decided to use Vue.js as the front framework and Firebase to store basic information about users. Then I found out about Nuxt.js and I figured it could be really handy for making the project as PWA.

The thing is, that I don't know if I will need Server Side Rendering for this, I couldn't find a lot of information but from what I know, the web app doesn't need SSR to be PWA. I am not sure how this would work with JavaScript browser games made with frameworks like Phaser or melon.js. Also, I host my website on GoDaddy and I've heard that it's quite hard to set up SSR with cPanel.

So my questions are:

Should I use SSR for Progressive Web Application built with Nuxt, filled with javascript browser games that are lazily loaded, or does that not make sense? If it makes sense, would SSR work with godaddy hosting and cPanel?

Any help would be appreciated!

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Deep Shah
Software Engineer at Amazon · | 6 upvotes · 951.6K views

I only know Java and so thinking of building a web application in the following order. I need some help on what alternatives I can choose. Open to replace components, services, or infrastructure.

  • Frontend: AngularJS, Bootstrap
  • Web Framework: Spring Boot
  • Database: Amazon DynamoDB
  • Authentication: Auth0
  • Deployment: Amazon EC2 Container Service
  • Local Testing: Docker
  • Marketing: Mailchimp (Separately Export from Auth0)
  • Website Domain: GoDaddy
  • Routing: Amazon Route 53

PS: Open to exploring options of going completely native ( AWS Lambda, AWS Security but have to learn all)

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Namecheap

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    24/7 Customer Support
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    Benjamin Bernard-Bouissières

    I really love Django because it is really fast to create a web application from scratch and it has a lot a facilities like the ORM or the Admin module ! The Python language is really easy to read and powerful, that's why I prefer Django over Symfony.

    I use Django at work to make tools for the technicians but I also use it for me to build my personal website which I host on PythonAnywhere, and with a domain name bought on Namecheap.

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    Squarespace logo

    Squarespace

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      Easy ongoing maintenance
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      Live chat & 24/7 support team
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      No coding necessary
    CONS OF SQUARESPACE
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      Hard to use custom code

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    I am looking to make a website builder web app, where users can publish built websites with a custom or subdomain (much like Wix, Weebly, Squarespace, etc.), and I was wondering about any advice on which web framework to build it on? I currently know Node.js, but I would be excited to learn Laravel or Django if those would be better options. Any advice would be much appreciated!

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    Niall Geoghegan
    at experiential psychotherapy institute · | 8 upvotes · 85.5K views

    I created a Squarespace website with multiple blog pages. I discovered that the native Squarespace commenting tool is not currently capable of letting people subscribe to my blog pages if they are using Google Chrome or Safari! I then discovered that Disqus email verification doesn't work with Yahoo Mail. I also hate that there's no way to turn off that email verification (which I don't need since I moderate all comments anyway). So I want to use a different commenting system. I've read some good things about Commento. Three questions: (1) will it work on a Squarespace site? (I'll pay a developer to integrate it for me) (2) Does it have its own issues/elements that don't work smoothly, similar to the other two? (3) Is there another plugin I should be considering for my Squarespace site?

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    Gandi

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    Simple cloud hosting and VPS
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    PROS OF GANDI
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      Powerful, flexible
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      No bullshit
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      SSH root access
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      Own network
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      Flexible pricing
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      Easy to scale
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      Activity monitoring
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      Free inbound traffic
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      Free support
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      Fast creation
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      Reliable
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      Scalable
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      CloudFlare

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        Easy setup
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        Security
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        Ssl
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        Great cdn
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        Optimizer
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        Simple
      • 44
        Great UI
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        Great js cdn
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        Apps
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        HTTP/2 Support
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        DNS Analytics
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        AutoMinify
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        Rocket Loader
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        Ipv6
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        Easy
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        IPv6 "One Click"
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        Fantastic CDN service
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        DNSSEC
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        Nice DNS
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        SSHFP
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        Free GeoIP
      • 7
        Amazing performance
      • 7
        API
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        Cheapest SSL
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        SPDY
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        Free and reliable, Faster then anyone else
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        Ubuntu
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        Asynchronous resource loading
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        Global Load Balancing
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        Performance
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        Easy Use
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        CDN
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        Registrar
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        Support for SSHFP records
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        Expensive when you exceed their fair usage limits

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      Eugene Cheah

      For inboxkitten.com, an opensource disposable email service;

      We migrated our serverless workload from Cloud Functions for Firebase to CloudFlare workers, taking advantage of the lower cost and faster-performing edge computing of Cloudflare network. Made possible due to our extremely low CPU and RAM overhead of our serverless functions.

      If I were to summarize the limitation of Cloudflare (as oppose to firebase/gcp functions), it would be ...

      1. <5ms CPU time limit
      2. Incompatible with express.js
      3. one script limitation per domain

      Limitations our workload is able to conform with (YMMV)

      For hosting of static files, we migrated from Firebase to CommonsHost

      More details on the trade-off in between both serverless providers is in the article

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      CDG

      I use Laravel because it's the most advances PHP framework out there, easy to maintain, easy to upgrade and most of all : easy to get a handle on, and to follow every new technology ! PhpStorm is our main software to code, as of simplicity and full range of tools for a modern application.

      Google Analytics Analytics of course for a tailored analytics, Bulma as an innovative CSS framework, coupled with our Sass (Scss) pre-processor.

      As of more basic stuff, we use HTML5, JavaScript (but with Vue.js too) and Webpack to handle the generation of all this.

      To deploy, we set up Buddy to easily send the updates on our nginx / Ubuntu server, where it will connect to our GitHub Git private repository, pull and do all the operations needed with Deployer .

      CloudFlare ensure the rapidity of distribution of our content, and Let's Encrypt the https certificate that is more than necessary when we'll want to sell some products with our Stripe api calls.

      Asana is here to let us list all the functionalities, possibilities and ideas we want to implement.

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      G Suite logo

      G Suite

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        Calendar
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        Great for startups
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        Easy to work
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        Document management & workflow
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        Very easy to share
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        No brainer
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        Google groups
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        Google scripts & api
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        Google drive
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        Popular
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        No spam, phishing protection
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        Google Spreadsheets
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        Easy
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        Cloud based and collaboration
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        Simple and fast document creation collaboration
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        Best Cloud environment ever
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        Google maps api
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        Awesome Collaboration Tools
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        Google-powered Search in Gmail
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        Geolocation
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        music
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        Single sign-on
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        Simple
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        Starting to get pricey
      • 4
        Good luck changing domains
      • 1
        Lesser fonts and styling available in mail compose
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        Long emails get truncated

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      Yonas Beshawred

      Using Screenhero via Slack was getting to be pretty horrible. Video and sound quality was often times pretty bad and worst of all the service just wasn't reliable. We all had high hopes when the acquisition went through but ultimately, the product just didn't live up to expectations. We ended up trying Zoom after I had heard about it from some friends at other companies. We noticed the video/sound quality was better, and more importantly it was super reliable. The Slack integration was awesome (just type /zoom and it starts a call)

      You can schedule recurring calls which is helpful. There's a G Suite (Google Calendar) integration which lets you add a Zoom call (w/dial in info + link to web/mobile) with the click of a button.

      Meeting recordings (video and audio) are really nice, you get recordings stored in the cloud on the higher tier plans. One of our engineers, Jerome, actually built a cool little Slack integration using the Slack API and Zoom API so that every time a recording is processed, a link gets posted to the "event-recordings" channel. The iOS app is great too!

      #WebAndVideoConferencing #videochat

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      Nasser Khan
      Product Manager at StackShare · | 13 upvotes · 371.1K views
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      We are highly dependent on G Suite for all our collaboration and productivity needs, from Gmail and Calendar to Sheets and Docs. While it may not be as robust as Microsoft's offerings in those areas, it's totally cloud-based, we've never had any downtime issues and it integrates well with our other tools like Slack. We write and collaborate on all our specs/PRDs in Docs, share analyses via Sheets and handle our meetings via Calendar. #StackDecisionsLaunch #ProductivitySuite #Collaboration #DocumentCollaboration

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      Wix

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        I am looking to make a website builder web app, where users can publish built websites with a custom or subdomain (much like Wix, Weebly, Squarespace, etc.), and I was wondering about any advice on which web framework to build it on? I currently know Node.js, but I would be excited to learn Laravel or Django if those would be better options. Any advice would be much appreciated!

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        Hi,

        I'm a graphic designer and an acting teacher, and I want to build websites for each of my activities. A few months ago, I created, a Wix website, but it's not responsive. So, I plan to build one from scratch, as I want to host the content and not leave it to Wix or such companies. I was pretty decided to use WordPress to build my website (with "Local" macOS app), but I came across Bootstrap (via "blocs" macOS app).

        I'm now wondering which of these two options I should consider building my website? I want something clean, easy to customize, aesthetic, and easy to update. I read about the lack of SEO with Bootstrap, but I guess there's a way to compensate and promote the website anyway.

        Any piece of advice welcome! Thanks.

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        NameSilo

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