Is godaddy hosting good?
 

Is it good hosting? I saw a few posts about i forgot who it is not liking godaddy.

Godaddy is very slow and have many problems stay away from them

ok i will. Aren't they owned by the same company who owns internet brands?

Internet Brands (the parent company of vBulletin) and GoDaddy are both owned by KKR.

So GoDaddy is like vBulletin's Uncle...

And I have had excellent results and service with it, used it for over ten years now. I host four sites with it and pay only $150 annually for unlimited storage and bandwidth.

Only trouble I ever had was recently, on one of their windows machines I inherited after a site purchase. Migrating the vBull to Linux fixed the problems.

If you're looking for shared hosting, go for http://stablehost.com.

Of course!

When I set up my forum in Sept '14, GoDaddy didn't have the necessary PHP requirements for VB5 (On the cheap subscriptions). They may have now, but that's why I went with Siteground instead of GoDaddy and am actually glad I did..

Their economy hosting probably doesn't have. Along with a host of other things - that's why it's the economy package.

for VB5 the minimum package you can have on GoDaddy is their Deluxe Linux package.

GoDaddy is excellent if you are managing domains. I manage my domains with them, but I NEVER buy hosting with them. There are some scripts that for whatever reason have issues only on GoDaddy hosts, not vBulletin but others like MediaWiki. Or at least it used to be so with MediaWiki. GoDaddy is usually a shared host and its a lot of times very slow. If you have a forum that does not have a lot of posts, members or traffic then GoDaddy is a great option. There are actually other hosts out there that are shared hosts that are cheaper and work just fine.

I've known a few others to also have the "good" experience regarding GoDaddy that Max speaks of so its not a myth (lol) usually though its a horror story of uber slowness in epic proportions (for example the one time I had hosting with them, the forum url was not yet public and with just wittle ole' me online it crawled like a snail = oversold server as it was shared hosting for me a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away :p). If you have a dedicated server with them then usually no fuss or issues, in my personal opinion its best to only use them for domains (when they run the $1.99 specials rack up) and purchase your hosting elsewhere unless you can afford a dedicated server(and need/specifically require one as well).

I am working on a site, hosted with godaddy and the sql server keeps going away. Uber slowness sporadically, database errors from trying to optimize tables from acp, or database error's from clicking new post.
If you have to call them to tell them how to fix their issue they will want a screen shot of the error no matter how stupid you tell the support tech he is and what to do to fix your issue, they still want a SS...really?
I have seen this in the past on my own hosting but, quickly fixed the issue. With GD, not so easy. But I think I have it corrected now.
Good luck.

My issue with Godaddy was how tech support always told me it was a Vbulletin issue. It never seemed to matter what the issue was I was having - it was always a "vbulletin problem." Contact vbulletin, blah blah...

My two cents (Canadian - worth about 1/4 cent American) is to find a host who's tech support is familiar with the Vbulletin software.

Good luck!

Good luck is about right. in my years of doing this I have not found any hosts that have any clue what-so-ever about vBulletin. Its sucks really. :( I've found in the past that sometimes the hosts cause more problem than solve them when it comes to vBulletin.

They're not cheap but URLJet fancies itself a host that "specializes" in vBulletin.

I can +1 that but hey I know the owners phone number off the top of my head so I'm biased... I'm so biased I love them nuff' said :p.

What hosts do I recommend:
- URLJet
- Hostgator
- Bluehost

Where do you need to go and read up regarding hosts? Here and within this forum. <-- Grab a cup'o'joe (Coffee) and take the time to see what others think, once you see a host who has tons of good reviews jot down the name, now go to google and research the host a little more i.e. looking for tons of bad feedback etc, if not much exist then of course its the usual disgruntled customer(s) and is to be expected.. if a ton of negative feedback then steer clear of that host and select an alternative one.

i like 1 dollar webhosting.
http://1dollar-webhosting.com/

I generally do not recommend godaddy but it can be decent for smaller sites using wordpress, vbulletin, joomla, etc. For larger sites I would never use them.

I do have all of my domains registered through them though and for that I think they are the best.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to install VB5 to Godaddy ???? my VB5 times out at 76% during install ..

Well chu'betta (being silly here on 2nd cup of coffee already) open your own thread up and ask for help IF my tip here does not work!

http://adityafx.blogspot.com/2013/01...eta-10-on.html

Scroll to the part with this info and follow it:
So to sum it up, with GoDaddy you can't leave localhost in the config, you enter in the values shown to you within your control panel on Godaddy that he mentions how to check. If you're getting to 76%~ though I'd imagine you had this part sorted... most using vB5 a few years back were steering clear of Godaddy so not sure if you may want to or not as I'm not actively working on any vB5 sites, no lie none :p.

Make sure you're on at least their deluxe hosting.

If it times out you can restart the install from where it stopped by going to the ... /install/upgrade.php script in your browser. Sometimes you have to restart it this way multiple times.

With godaddy you have to usually enter a hostname for mysql. I do not believe 127.0.0.1 will work. I am assuming though that he entered it because it would not connect in the first place.

The sql is set to localhost but the solution came from Vbulletin.com and I am not to thrilled. After trying to install VB5 around 50 times and rebuilding the SQL over and over the solution was to run the upgrade and that solved it. What stinks is that I tried four other CMS and Forum software and they all installed just fine and have more add-ons

I would never suggest godaddy for hosting, I'd stay away in my experience.

Oh man.. I never thought of that.. so many jokes to make about that :p

godaddy is only good for hosting domain.not for server hosting.

The vBulletin installation or upgrade process is a pain on GoDaddy because vBulletin sends a lot of requests to the GoDaddy server within seconds or even within 100ms at times. The firewall of GoDaddy simply blocks you for a couple of minutes when that happens to prevent (D)DoS attacks.

I have a couple clients that have used it successfully but it can be a pain at times especially with a larger site.

Yes, I definitely agree with you. For domain, use godaddy, but for hosting, it will better to other hosting provider. Godaddy domain name is cheap. Just find their coupon code.

Godaddy is just for domains, not good for hosting websites. If you want to find a good web hosting, try to find a web hosting forum with offers from hosting providers may be helpful for you.

Honestly, there are cheaper and better domain registrars out there as well.

Never heard about URLJet.

I use Siteground too. I've been very happy with them.

I've been using URLJet for many years and am very happy with them.

Why does your forum have like 1 million posts but only 1000 members? Do you prune your members?

Because Joe knows how to run a forum and his members are regulars who post often.

We're a small group. I only delete users whose emails bounce back invalid and who have made zero posts.

Like many forums it was more active in years past but it remains busy enough. Most posts require registration to view.

Yep, it is good to remove old non posting members and to prune posts or keep most private.

Google is all about quality of content and not quantity.