By fjuqp on

Hello guys!

Is Godaddy hosting (the economy plan) any good to host my Drupal website?

I'm mostly concerned about page load times, which I've heard are usually caused by slow database access.

I will be using the normal caching mode and CSS compression. Should I be really concerned about this?

Has anyone experienced any problems with Godaddy hosting?

Thanks in advance,

Cristian

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zahor’s picture

zahor commented

No.

Don't use any Godaddy hosting.

You can have sites that work ok, but theres a chance they won't (certain things don't worry on Godaddy).

seanray’s picture

seanray commented

GoDaddy is a cheap web hosting solution company. If you look at the features of their package, you probably think it's ok, but once you host your Durpal site there, you may find the speed is not fast enough for Drupal, and this is the thing will feel only after signing the service with them.

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miahawk’s picture

miahawk commented

eCommerce does not work on godaddy because they require https requests go through a proxy server. I've wasted hours trying to make it work and I'm giving up and moving my site somewhere that supports fsockopen.

jonabyte’s picture

jonabyte commented

I wouldn't use a domain registrar as a hosting company...find one that just does hosting and has proper support on-site.

annez’s picture

annez commented

I've used GoDaddy hosting for a couple years now, and am looking for another web host. I find that their MySQL databases are often slow. At times, my WordPress and Drupal sites take a few seconds or more to load -- and these are not big sites with lots of data. When I've asked them about it, they say it's my problem not theirs. I'm going to try Hot Drupal since that has gotten some good reviews here.

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OwlsNest commented

Currently using FREE GoDaddy service bundled with domain registration. SLOW. No server/error logs available unless upgrade to paid service. Phone support feels creepy. Salesman-ish. GoDaddy webpage looks really bad. I don't know why I let myself do it. Now I'm looking to migrate a Drupal site to another host. Any suggestions? I'm leaning toward site5.

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arcaneadam commented

Yeah thats right they Rock....

For domain registration, since they are cheap. They suck for hosting. They have so many things disabled and certain PHP extension not installed. Don't use them for any serious scripting sites. I used them for a year or two for some small sites but once I started doing some serious development I found their servers to be lacking.

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jcbrew’s picture

jcbrew commented

so what do you suggest for an inexpensive hosting solution?

csabahalasz’s picture

csabahalasz commented

I am new to Drupal. I use 6.4.
I have a hosting account at GoDaddy.com. I hate them. I cannot connect to my database through Drupal installer.
Error message:

Failed to connect to your MySQL database server. MySQL reports the
following message: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2).

* Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
* Are you sure that you have typed the correct database hostname?
* Are you sure that the database server is running?

I checked everything. I could connect to the database through the web-access of MySQL database of godaddy. But it doesn't work on Drupal.

I need help.

Thanx.

seanray’s picture

seanray commented

I think you have inputted the wrong Mysql information during installatin.

Here is a post about how to install drupal, fyi.

http://www.agilelight.com/drupal/how-to-install-drupal

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gdiska’s picture

gdiska commented

Despite other opinions I would recommend Godaddy. I have 8 domains with them and 2 Drupal sites. I have had no problem at all.

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silverwing’s picture

silverwing commented

Please don't bump old threads unless you have something meaningful to add. New Godaddy posts are bound to come up that you can add your comments too.

~silverwing - hosting forum maintainer

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webjourneyman’s picture

webjourneyman commented

It's a bad idea to host and register domain with the same company, if you get into a dispute with them or have some techinical billing issue or whatever they have 100% control over your site.

mm167’s picture

mm167 commented

unless for school / class projects, DONT relay on GoDaddy ..

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