All I can say is: “DON’T DO IT!”\u00a0 That would be in response to someone asking me about GoDaddy’s hosting service.\u00a0 I’m sure many have had no issues with them, but I had them from the beginning.<\/p>\n
Setup wasn’t very straightforward… they don’t even send you your access\/login information via email.\u00a0 They don’t send you site FTP or even nameserver information.\u00a0 I think that should have tipped me off to potential problems.\u00a0 But I figured it was just about tighter security, and maybe that is actually the case.\u00a0 I don’t think so though.<\/p>\n
The tipping point (and it was pretty fundamental) was my inability to implement a PHP site search script on the host.\u00a0 Now this isn’t some huge script that exploits vulnerabilities (from what I can tell).\u00a0 It’s a fairly straightforward indexer that goes through your site real-time in order to pull up results.\u00a0 I have used this script successfully on my own site and several other sites.\u00a0 So I figured there would be no issue.\u00a0 I was WAYYYYYYY wrong.\u00a0 After posting the files, the search turned up no query results even though there were test pages for the purpose of giving me results.<\/p>\n
I thought that maybe I had missed a configuration or that maybe this search was not compatible on some level… so I found another simpler search.\u00a0 It also didn’t work.\u00a0 I tried another search… and it didn’t work either.\u00a0 All of them gave me no query results.\u00a0 I tested them on my localhost and all worked fine.\u00a0 I even tested on a free PHP host (lycos.co.uk) and it worked fine there too.\u00a0 I called Tech Support a couple of times to find out that they only have access to the minimal online help the same way I did.\u00a0\u00a0 I submitted a support ticket online to escalate to the next level of support, and that is what pushed me over the edge.<\/p>\n
After listing my issue and giving examples of how this might be a permissions issue on their side, I was told in successive e-mails “Sorry, it’s a third-party script and we don’t do script debugging”.\u00a0 Whatever… it didn’t need debugging, it needed to work on my webhost that was clearly not allowing any site indexing.\u00a0 I did some Googling and found that some users had also found hidden robots.txt files that blocked ALL bots including even Google.\u00a0 So the combo of bad tech support, funky permissions, and not allowing the world’s biggest search engine access to spider sites sent me running quickly to my new host, Laughing Squid<\/a>.<\/p>\n I signed up a couple of days ago and got my site info yesterday evening.\u00a0 Loaded the search up first to make sure I wasn’t being over-reactive and it worked perfectly.\u00a0 That sealed the deal.\u00a0 Finished loading up files on the new host, changed my dns, setup my email, and canceled my GoDaddy account this morning.\u00a0 The one good thing I will say about GoDaddy is that I’m getting a full refund because I’m canceling within 30 days.\u00a0 That is the ONLY good thing I will say.<\/p>\n Now let us all close that chapter, and move on to the next level of tech challenges… setting up my RSS feed. LOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All I can say is: “DON’T DO IT!”\u00a0 That would be in response to someone asking me about GoDaddy’s hosting service.\u00a0 I’m sure many have had no issues with them, but I had them from the beginning. Setup wasn’t very straightforward… they don’t even send you your access\/login information via email.\u00a0 They don’t send you … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-7","6":"format-standard","7":"category-general-stuff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}