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A Fool’s Wisdom
A fool and his blog are soon parted.
I love spotting WordPress in the wild!
(This is not an endorsement of Go Daddy Hosting. Click here for recommended WordPress hosting.)
For reference, in case anybody is interested, their WordPress hosting is exactly the same as their regular hosting on Linux based systems. Same plans, price, everything. It’s just marketing, basically.
Still, I use them for hosting some sites. They’ve resolved a lot of problems over the last few years. I’d recommend them.
Just in case, I allow myself to highlight the fact that, indeed, there might be better choices than Godaddy to host your wordpress blog.
When it comes to security, Godaddy has ensured himself an atrocious reputation with “the zettapetta problem”, putting the blame on its users or on the software they’re using, refusing to endorse the possibility they might be responsible of anything. A behaviour like that could only worsen the problem for wordpress users, instead of helping them Godaddy made the problem worse.
More info here :
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/396524?replies=178
If you’re going to use Godaddy to host, don’t use their free credit hosting, the banners can cause conflicts. Deluxe as they call it, is $6 and very easy to use.
As someone who has had his personal site as well as three client sites hacked in the last month via the base64 ninoplas virus, and GoDaddy’s horrible response–i.e., “your problem, not ours”–I would most definitely not recommend them. I’ve used them for years, but performance issues–on vanilla installs of WP no less–, viruses, and their incessant marketing prompted me to move to (mt).
I had an issue with GoDaddy over the weekend — not WP specific — PHP seemed to be the issue. They were fairly prompt in correctly [their] problem.
Most of my WP is hosted at Pair.com — there are many good things about Pair, but they are not the most WP friendly ISP… and have often suggested I move to an different application (the one I ran from a few years back about the time WP 1.2 came out).
Interesting. I’m a very satisfied DreamHost customer – mostly but not only WP use – and have been comparing the mass market for hosting, including GoDaddy, for some proposed new applications beyond purely personal / hobby blogging. The community I am part of use a mix of hosts already.
No doubt GoDaddy are big. Given that the services and pricing we are talking about are “commodities”, I think the real differentiator is responsiveness to customer issues. I wouldn’t be surprised if GoDaddy’s size made that more difficult for them, particularly those customers who are already prett savvy. Be interested in other experiences.
To be fair, GoDaddy support has been great on numerous other issues over the years, it’s the issues that I mentioned in my previous comment that prompted the switch, certain things are just inexcusable.
My domain name is with Go Daddy and my host is Host Gator. Host Gator gave me a lot of support when I was having problems by submitting a ticket. Tip: from what I read it’s not good to have your domain name and host on the same server.
Hi Bruce, Thanks for joining the discussion. I’ve heard that tip before, but can’t think of strong technical or business case for it. There are very strict rules for being a registrar.
@Lloyd
I’ve seen many cases (and even been a victim) to cases where web hosting providers will “lock” you from your domains if you fail to pay a due invoice, or if you choose to terminate a hosting agreement with them before you have completed your full term.
I fell victim to a billing dispute with Fasthosts Internet Ltd in Gloucester, in which they felt I owed them £20 for a hosting account I held with them, I refused to pay, and was denied access to my domains for 6+ months.
Finally once the domains were less than 90 days from expiring, a gave Fasthosts legal a bit of “motivation” to allow me access to my domains, and won the battle.
I now recommend as Bruce mentioned that you keep “important” domains with one company, of which you deal exclusively in domains with, and use another company for hosting, vice versa.
-DAK
Sounds like a horrible experience. Thanks for the insights DAK!
I’m late to the discussion, but I agree completely. By getting the domain somewhere separate from your hosting, switching hosts is simply a matter of changing nameservers. If you’re not happy with their hosting, then there’s nothing they can do to stop you from leaving.
If you buy your domain through your host, then there’s potential for them to hold you hostage with it. Most hosts won’t, especially the reputable ones, but my domains are too important for me to trust to a third party.
I can’t say I recommend using Godaddy hosting for anything but the simplest of web sites. It seems they have layer after of providers each wanting a separate user/password pair for one thing.
For another the advanced tools needed have been crippled, like PHPMyAdmin not being able to export a backup. Instead they provided their own tool for making a back up. It took 2/1/2 hours to create this small (40k) backup. with PHPMyAdmin that would have taken a few seconds. this was not an isolated incident. I have a few clients using GoDaddy hosting (less after my recomendations).
And Donald Kelly’s advice above about separating your hosting and domain name vendors is golden advice. I can’t tell you the times I’ve had web hosts try to hold my domain hostage.
Hi Texx, thanks for the info about PHPMyAdmin not being able to export backups, and being required to use a slow custom tool. I hadn’t heard about that before.