GoDaddy.com has really gotten their act together lately. To be fair GoDaddy.com has had their act together for awhile, but only now have I chosen to write about it. Almost all of my domainnames are registered through GoDaddy.com and I have moved over most of my hosting plans to them as well from Fortune City, which had terrible customer service.
At the lean price of $3.99 per month for the economy hosting plan, you can host a full featured site with plenty of bandwidth and storage space. The bandwidth is so high for a general purpose site, compared to other rival services, that you would have to be an extremely successful website to need to move up to the next level of hosting. You also get full PHP functionality and 10 MySQL databases. Other options available at the next level of hosting ($6.99 month) include support for PERL, Ruby, Java, Python, and Cold Fusion. If you choose a Windows-based hosting plan, you can also use ASP.net and MSSQL. For most websites, this will be more than enough.
One of the more useful features of all GoDaddy.com hosting accounts are free add-on apps that GoDaddy supplies. You can choose from a list of well known, free frameworks and applications like Drupal, Wordpress, Serendipity, Joomla, Mambo, PostNuke and others. Using the supplied GoDaddy application GUI, you can install any or all of the apps to your site in the folders you designate, and the database setup is moderated as well. Testing different content management systems has never been so easy.
Hi, I am a new to website development and I find a lot of your articles very useful. I just wanted you to know that I appreciate the time and effort you put into explaining things.
I am about to embark on a huge project and I would love to speak to you on a few things if you don’t mind. I don’t want to head down the wrong path and so I seek the wisdom of the more experienced developers.
One such question is knowing what you want to accomplish but not knowing how long it should take. Presently, I am working on a project that puts my employer’s appraisal system online. I’ve powered the PHP driven website with a mysql database simply because they are both open source and very capable of handling the job. However how does one(especially new developers) know if he has chosen the best tools for the job? Also, how do you judge yourself in terms of time management. It is the first time I’ve ever used PHP and so I feel like I am taking too long to complete my project. I know my questions may seem silly but as a professional we strive on self development.
If you do have the time; please email me at millan.harris@gmail.com
Thank you, and have a nice day?