GoDaddy hosting for Wordpress - Not a good mix

allyourfault December 15, 2008 Tech Related

After 4 full days of researching and fighting GoDaddy hosting, the site is finally up! Only it is no longer hosted on GoDaddy. GoDaddy and Wordpress are not a good mix. I really wish I would have done my research beforehand, but I guess sometimes you only learn from your mistakes. The main issue I found with GoDaddy and Wordpress is that it is impossible to get permalinks to work. I am a very technical person and can usually figure anything out, but I tried every suggested solution and not a single one worked. All my permalinks went to a 404 page. I suppose there is some combination of hacks that will allow permalinks to function, but I finally made the decision to save myself the frustration and headaches and switched to a new hosting provider. In a matter of a few hours I had everything up and running. So if you are asking yourself “should I use GoDaddy hosting for Wordpress?” save yourself from the many wasted days and hours, do not go with GoDaddy and choose a more friendly Wordpress hosting provider. You will not regret the decision.

In case anyone was wondering. I chose to go with BlueHost to host my Wordpress blogs. So far the decision has been good. They have a 30 day money back gurantee so I figured I couldn’t go wrong.

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5 Responses to “GoDaddy hosting for Wordpress - Not a good mix”

Alicia said:
Dec 19, 08 at 10:27 am
I’m sorry to hear that you have moved hosts. In general, the permalinks option from the Settings menu within the WordPress admin area works without error.

I would like to learn more about your experience with permalinks on our hosting. Please email me with more details.

Thanks,

Alicia R.
Go Daddy Hosting
JulesMD said:
Dec 19, 08 at 12:28 pm
Were you using Windows or Linux hosting? Also was it just this one blog or did you have multiple blogs you were trying to host in one account? I only have experience with hosting one blog on Windows and it wasn’t too bad. Now the UI of the account manager in GD is another story.
Danielsmonde said:
Jan 26, 09 at 3:58 pm
Woops, I think you just pissed GoDaddy with that article hehe.
I’m on DreamHost right now. Their panel is very easy to use I like it. They have some problems sometimes(I guess no hosting service is perfect), but until now I’m pretty satisfied with them.

Cheers.
Reader said:
Jan 27, 09 at 11:42 pm
Good work! Thank you very much!
I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?
Of course, I will add backlink?

Regards, Timur I.
allyourfault said:
Feb 08, 09 at 10:16 am
RE: Timur I. - You can certainly quote this post in your blog provided that you attribute this blog as the source of the content with a backlink.

Thanks!