GoDaddy as a host? [Archive] - vBulletin Community Forum

zeroality

Mon 24th Jul '06, 6:09am

My forums will go over my mySQL database size limit pretty soon so I need to get another host, gonna get it probably August 1st - if that matters.

I looked at GoDaddy's hosting packages and their Economy Plan looks good to me. 250 GB transfer will be enough since I plan on leaving the vBulletin files where they are (on my current host) and just moving the mySQL database alone so that won't use too much bandwidth.

They said the limit on their mySQL is the limit of the total file size limit so that's supposedly 5GBs that I can get to in my mySQL since there will be nothing else on there. It's sounding good to me, what do you guys think? Will they restrict me from using the mySQL if I'm not using it on their files or whatever?

Any personal experience with GoDaddy.com hosting? The package I mentioned is here: https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosting/shared.asp?se=%2B&ci=260 - first one.

Edit: Actually, after reading the posts around here, I'm thinking about switching to site5 completely. Hearing some bad stuff about 1and1 here.

unitedpunjab

Mon 24th Jul '06, 7:53am

godaddy is a good host IMO but i dont think they allow remote mySql connections,actually most hosts dont allow that, so if you just want to move your database.check that

peterska2

Mon 24th Jul '06, 8:07am

I wouldn't use GoDaddy as a host. A lot of people warned me off them earlier in the year when I was looking for a new host.

A Small Orange (http://www.asmallorange.com/) are usually well recommended, along with others. The best bet is to have a good read around this forum for recommendations.

zeroality

Mon 24th Jul '06, 11:42pm

Yeah, I'm gonna go with site5 - I suppose I won't be hitting 500 gb bandwidth anytime soon.

YodaGmaN

Tue 25th Jul '06, 1:46am

Floris

Tue 25th Jul '06, 2:23am

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DamianDunlap

Mon 7th Aug '06, 12:30pm

When I fist did research on hosting and ask about godaddy.com people said stay away. I have ran godaddy on a nice size forum about year and half with only one problem and that was due to someone reporting a email I sent out as spam.

I believe I was down 29 hours. And got the problem straigting out. I give them a b- over all.

Many people that do work on my forum, says godaddy is not user friendly, that is the only reason, if i was to start over I would not use them

alemcherry

Wed 9th Aug '06, 6:31am

I too wont recommend Godaddy for shared hosting. but site5 ? hmmm..
ASO is good, so is HostGator. There are few other pretty good hosts, but they dont oversell so probably wont meet your space requirements :)

HackSawed

Wed 9th Aug '06, 6:51am

We had to move from goddady as they wouldnt support vbulletin for us or something? We were originally using phpbb - we had to switch servers for vbulletin.

We didnt really have too many problems with them to tell the truth. We found them good for the price we paid.

You may want to double check this.

PKartar

Thu 10th Aug '06, 5:29pm

I just switched from Godaddys economy plan to ASO a few weeks ago. Vbulletin worked with godaddys economy plan however godaddy has a horrible control panel (if you can even call it one) poor speeds, restoring your mysql database is a pain since they only allow 2 megs. Switched to ASO and finally saw what I was missing out on, should have done it ages ago.

Tree

Thu 10th Aug '06, 5:34pm

Site5 is a good choice if you're just getting a simple plan. However, it's a sort of roulette as to how fast the server you get put on goes. Their servers have 80+ clients each on them. That was my main problem with them. Also why I went into the hosting business.

Steel Horse

Mon 4th Sep '06, 6:50pm

I have been using Godaddy for a month now and well now I am looking to purchase vbulletin to run my forum.

Is this a bad idea after reading all the messages on problems. I bought a lot of bandwidth. does that help me out at all with using vbulletin.

I really like this program (vbulletin) because I am use to it from other sites and it is very user friendly. I just hate to have spent a lot of money on a 2 year contract with godaddy for nothing.

can someone give me any good information or just wait 2 years and go with another server.

One more thing....how easy is putting vbulletin on my web site??? I am not the sharpest webmaster. heck I would refer to myself as a webstudent.

JollyJack

Tue 5th Sep '06, 11:28am

iam with godaddy for hosting and just installed my vbulletin there as iam closing down my old host, it works great there not a problem

keith455

Wed 6th Sep '06, 11:55am

I'm using godaddy (virtual dedicated server) and i'm getting lots of timeout errors and loading will hang for a few seconds at first. It's weird cause after it loads then the site flys.. I emailed them and they told me it looks like a scripting error. I don't agree with them, well the fight goes on.

Titania

Thu 7th Sep '06, 1:02pm

I've been using Godaddy since December 2005 for my vBulletin forum and I have had no troubles at all with them. I have thousands of images and lots of fairly large video clips and music files on my forum with quite a lot of traffic and it has been great.
My previous host was slow and unreliable which was why I switched to Godaddy and it was the best thing I have done.
The only issues I have had are questions relating to setup and one issue I had a week ago with an email account not sending mail. Any tech support questions I have had have been answered and resolved very quickly.

thunder_sti

Thu 7th Sep '06, 2:18pm

So far so good, I went with register.com, awesome service, and especially the customer serv. 24 / 7 and good package deals... just my .02 cents..

Mentch

Mon 11th Sep '06, 5:27pm

Im not sure for those who are running vBulletin on Godaddy. But a year ago I tried setting up vBulletin on their site and I couldnt even install vB on it. I cant remember what the issue was but they had certain parts of PHP disabled, and one of them was something vB needed to run.

Beller

Mon 11th Sep '06, 7:01pm

I used godaddy for hosting for a while. Never again...
They are very generous with thier offer of 250-500gb transfers.
But they limit SQL connections to 50. So there is no fear of you going anywhere near that transfer limit....
Also try asking them to installan SQL file to your database to restore it & see what they tell you.

patentsearch

Mon 11th Sep '06, 8:55pm

How about Yahoo web host and blue dream web host? Are they ok?

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Cagonni

Mon 9th Oct '06, 6:33am

im using godaddy for my site.So good..and very cheap.

Beller

Mon 9th Oct '06, 3:41pm

You obviousally arnt getting too much traffic..
Wait till you try asking them to restore your DB!

justjulie7878

Mon 5th Nov '07, 5:39pm

Are you downloading vbulletin test onto godaddy? I tried and it keeps coming up with errors that I do not understand. Is this a common problem?

ChrisLM2001

Mon 5th Nov '07, 9:10pm

Are you downloading vbulletin test onto godaddy? I tried and it keeps coming up with errors that I do not understand. Is this a common problem?

Don't use MySQL 5.0.x version, errors galore. Use the older MySQL (4.3.x). Got it installed on a GoDaddy account and it runs as intended -- tad slow with the default setup (almost 0.5000 for page generation); and server load averages around 3.0 range.

Also make sure to enable UTF-8 in config.php, as the MySQL database uses that language.

It isn't the worst and isn't the best (it has improved from 2006). But one key benefit I see with GoDaddy hosting: because they're the leading domain seller, propagation of domains for sites is almost instantly. Longest I've had for the domain name to show up was 2hrs. Other hosts I've used, literally took 48hrs for propagation. Keep that in mind if you're hosting a current events/political/news site where time is critical to get your "licks" in. I highly recommend it for political blogs!!

My main complaint with GoDaddy is almost everything has to be approved first. It can delay things by hours (especially DNS changes), where on another host with cPanel it's finished as fast as you can edit.

BroKeN

Wed 7th Nov '07, 1:52am

I am quite cofused :confused:around here , i just regestered today so i will keep going on reading the posts around here :( but i think it is good to start with specialy the first year and plus all the other trusted hosters that i know are asking alot of money for 100 mb bandwith :mad: but i think the price is god and i hope that they preformance will be grate too .:rolleyes:

i will be around this subject if any oneQ has somthing to say

john2k

Fri 9th Nov '07, 6:27am

The MySQL 5 issues must be on GoDaddy's side. I've been running vB on MySQL 5 for quite some time and never have issues with it.

ChrisLM2001

Mon 12th Nov '07, 9:12pm

but i think it is good to start with specialy the first year and plus all the other trusted hosters that i know are asking alot of money for 100 mb bandwith :mad: but i think the price is god and i hope that they preformance will be grate too .:rolleyes:

Never get a host based on price. The old saying, "you get what you paid for" is true. Many are resellers, or like the "top" hosts bandied about here, are volume sellers. Think Wal-Mart for service for them.

Current M.O. now is offer mega bandwidth and disk space (knowing most won't even get close to those limits, so they can oversale each [too common in hosting]). But limit other services, even paying for each support ticket (or for one host I've seen, $5 for each DNS change. Punish all customers for one bad customer deal). For forum owners high diskspace and bandwidth looks like a sweet deal, until they sign up and see limitations as...

Diskspace+database space = total diskspace.
In+Out bandwidth = total bandwidth.
Limiting database size to 100MB or less.
Uploads are limited, making it impossible to import a transfered database without cutting and feeding it manually; or even a large avatar/smilie/gallery library.
Database connections are limited (making it impossible to have many forum members online at a time).
Resource limitations that are strict (can't take more than 10% of the server resources at anytime, or face account closure without warning to upgrade before turning off the switch -- BAD for forums that get a "Slashdot effect").Customers have to ask their hosts specific questions and get the numbers in writing. If you don't you will find out the hard way, just as you upload and try to install the forum.

As for GoDaddy, if your forum is small (i.e., for a workgroup; webdesign testing; or just starting and you need to learn the admin ropes) it's okay. Because actions are approved before applied, first timers won't make a site destroying mistake (short of deleting a database and such). But if you want to grow fast and furious, pay the money upfront and get a host that doesn't pigeonhole you into a corner (and make sure they don't shut down a site if it gets that "Slashdot effect" - get one that allows an upgrade or issues a warning to reduce the number of connections via the ACP).

I'm using GoDaddy, despite all of it's limitations, because of domain propagation (and free sub-accounts for testing). But if you want to build a forum for high traffic, get another host, and one that offers more than 10000MB of diskspace/traffic, but a 100MB database and 30 database connections all for $4.99/mon!

lunraura

Tue 13th Nov '07, 5:06pm

I wouldn't recommend GoDaddy for shared hosting for vBulletin. They don't allow SSH access which makes your job of installing and updating a tedious task.

BroKeN

Wed 21st Nov '07, 11:29pm

Never get a host based on price. The old saying, "you get what you paid for" is true. Many are resellers, or like the "top" hosts bandied about here, are volume sellers. Think Wal-Mart for service for them.

Current M.O. now is offer mega bandwidth and disk space (knowing most won't even get close to those limits, so they can oversale each [too common in hosting]). But limit other services, even paying for each support ticket (or for one host I've seen, $5 for each DNS change. Punish all customers for one bad customer deal). For forum owners high diskspace and bandwidth looks like a sweet deal, until they sign up and see limitations as...
Diskspace+database space = total diskspace.
In+Out bandwidth = total bandwidth.
Limiting database size to 100MB or less.
Uploads are limited, making it impossible to import a transfered database without cutting and feeding it manually; or even a large avatar/smilie/gallery library.
Database connections are limited (making it impossible to have many forum members online at a time).
Resource limitations that are strict (can't take more than 10% of the server resources at anytime, or face account closure without warning to upgrade before turning off the switch -- BAD for forums that get a "Slashdot effect").Customers have to ask their hosts specific questions and get the numbers in writing. If you don't you will find out the hard way, just as you upload and try to install the forum.

As for GoDaddy, if your forum is small (i.e., for a workgroup; webdesign testing; or just starting and you need to learn the admin ropes) it's okay. Because actions are approved before applied, first timers won't make a site destroying mistake (short of deleting a database and such). But if you want to grow fast and furious, pay the money upfront and get a host that doesn't pigeonhole you into a corner (and make sure they don't shut down a site if it gets that "Slashdot effect" - get one that allows an upgrade or issues a warning to reduce the number of connections via the ACP).

I'm using GoDaddy, despite all of it's limitations, because of domain propagation (and free sub-accounts for testing). But if you want to build a forum for high traffic, get another host, and one that offers more than 10000MB of diskspace/traffic, but a 100MB database and 30 database connections all for $4.99/mon!

thanx for the advices sir but i already been using for 2wks from that time and what can i say : i run my web site as arabic forum and you don't know how much other froums there is and no matter what u do in your forums deffrently you can't get rested and have alot of members cuz there is coping with no right mentioning to your efforts and tht sucks as if you posted a new album for example you gonna find the downloads in hundreds and no one posts a thread even thanking you and if :mad: ..
as you said if am realy running a small forums on high diskspace as i see my situation as new in this field i can tell it is gonna take at least 6 months to have a 1000 member cuz till now 2wks running on 150 member and maximam daily online gets to 6 or 7 members :(:(:(

but i have one issue with godaddy so far i can get a firewall around couple of my folders that i want to protect and last night i was hacked :mad:but i fixed it :D at the same moment ;) .
and i told them how an i have firewall they said sorry we don't provide that service :( >>> any one can help with the fire wall thing????:confused:

Ba$im

Thu 22nd Nov '07, 11:46am

not good and not bad if we look at it from price

Jaxel

Fri 23rd Nov '07, 1:45am

GoDaddy is a horrible host for vBulletin if you are using shared hosting. I used shared hosting with them for a while and was nothing but unhappy...

But once I upgraded to a Virtual Dedicated Server, its been smooth sailing. I've used dozens of hosts in the past, but for me, GoDaddy's Virtual Dedicated service is one of the best I've seen. Not to mention their customer support is very helpful and speak english.

Blizzard_Storm

Fri 23rd Nov '07, 8:36pm

Mansour_Q

Sat 24th Nov '07, 11:08pm

I Try Yahoo! Hosting Almost Nothing To Be Provided When I Call Them They Always Says " We Can't Hear You " But I Call Them From Yahoo! Messenger :) ..

Soon I'm Looking For goDaddy But SomeOne Said His Site Hacked ? http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1450290&postcount=28

Floris

Sat 24th Nov '07, 11:52pm

dkon26

Mon 26th Nov '07, 11:41pm

I had a virtual dedicated server with godaddy and it was horrid. Everything was slow and I always got the same response... Everything is working perfectly! If you want a site that takes forever to load and goes down for no reason, go with godaddy!

EDIT: This is my favorite host. http://www.theplanet.com/