In reply to BobWP.

Remember, GoDaddy bought Media Temple (I had guessed that it was because they couldn't get the issues with their own hosting infrastructure to work efficiently). I'd worked on client sites in the past that took twice as long to get done because the database server would randomly stop responding, and the management interface was the most convoluted and unintuitive thing I'd ever seen.

My guess would be that they've started putting newer accounts on servers in the new infrastructure instead of their old one. But that's just an unfounded guess... I still would never use GoDaddy for the basic hosting tiers though, based on the performance issues I've seen with WordPress, Drupal and basic HTML/CSS sites.