Godaddy or some one else..?

[itschemistry]

hi everyone

im new in this forum site stuff and im planning to build a forum site from last 4 5 months but things keep confusing me such as which forum software to use ( now sure thing i will be using vbulletin )

Now the next problem is choosing a host iv checked godaddy which is cheap and well in my budget

i need your suggetions on why WOULD or WOULD NOT go with godaddy:)

and if u have any more suggetions about hosting companies :confused:

thanx in Advance

[Steve Machol]

For hosting I would stick with a company that does hosting as it's primary business.

I suggest you view the vBulletin Hosting Options forum for adv
ice from our customers:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=11

Also checkout this site:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/

Note that vBulletin requires a web server that includes relatively recent versions of PHP (minimum 4.3.3) and MySQL (minimum 4.0.16) installed. Make sure that any host you are considering offers this support. I also strongly recommend you choose a host that provides telnet or ssh access since this will make it much easier to backup and restore your database if you ever need to.

[Floris]

namecheap.com - never godaddy

[itschemistry]

Thanx alot for your replies ,

@ Floris .. i have looked at namecheap.com their prices are good, but i dont know anything about hosting so i would like if someone can tell me acording to their own sxperience which cheap host will be a good starter.

@Steve .. hi Steve , yep i just checked the site you told (Webhostingtalk).and can you please tell me (imagining:D) will a shared host do for 10-15 users online at a time ?

thanx for yout time guys ;)

can someone move this thread to the hosting section thanx :D
(http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/member.php?u=656)

[jeffinj]

namecheap.com - never godaddy

Why is that, Floris?

[itschemistry]

Why is that, Floris?

thanx Jeffinj , thats what i wanted to ask .. Why wont you go for godaddy ? and why would you go for other hosts?

[jeffinj]

I like Godaddy because of how they keep coming up with new and good services. Their customer service used to be very fast but now it takes a long time. It might be because of their huge customer base.

Namecheap is something I tried out recently and I must say that their customer service is now one of the fastest and friendliest I have seen. They beat Godaddy at that and plus they have very low and reasonable prices.

My decision to stick with Godaddy is because I want my domains to be handled by a well established company. NameCheap as far as I know, is fairly newer in this business.

[Floris]

Thanx alot for your replies ,

@ Floris .. i have looked at namecheap.com their prices are good, but i dont know anything about hosting so i would like if someone can tell me acording to their own sxperience which cheap host will be a good starter.

@Steve .. hi Steve , yep i just checked the site you told (Webhostingtalk).and can you please tell me (imagining:D) will a shared host do for 10-15 users online at a time ?

thanx for yout time guys ;)

can someone move this thread to the hosting section thanx :D
(http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/member.php?u=656)
I would not use any domain provider for hosting.. You get your domains at a qualified domain registrar and your hosting at a qualified hosting provider.

[Floris]

Why is that, Floris?
Because of bad experiences in legal matters, support, sales, hosting, customer service and because even when you're not a customer and you keep clicking spam, they freakin' keep spamming you anyway. Transferring domain names and all that stuff that a business is running into once in a while is a horrible thing to experience with namecheap. I am utterly happy to have moved away from them 100%- also every email I receive gets flagged as spam, and then deleted from the system and added to the spam filter. The experience with multiple accounts, many, many domain names and customer service from namecheap.com is 400% topping godaddy.

[itschemistry]

For hosting I would stick with a company that does hosting as it's primary business.

I suggest you view the vBulletin Hosting Options forum for adv
ice from our customers:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=11

Also checkout this site:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/

Note that vBulletin requires a web server that includes relatively recent versions of PHP (minimum 4.3.3) and MySQL (minimum 4.0.16) installed. Make sure that any host you are considering offers this support. I also strongly recommend you choose a host that provides telnet or ssh access since this will make it much easier to backup and restore your database if you ever need to.


took your Advice about checking on webhostingtalk but to a surprise the people there are advising me not to use vbulletin because it is heavy on shared hosting accounts.. but i really want to use vbulletin can someone please clear what people are saying there :( :confused:

[Steve Machol]

I have no idea why anyone wouldlay that, unless they are trolls for the competition. The vast majority of our customers are on shared servers. In fact very few (possibly less than 1%) are on VPS or dedicated servers.

[Floris]

I've run my own site vBFans.com on shared hosting for almost 3 years in a row, with 250mb .sql database and about 250 users online and around 100,000 posts.

Only in 2007 we've moved to a VPS and now Dedicated hosting because I wanted to have more control and needed more hard drive space and traffic.