Posted by I am currently thinking about buy a domain and web hosting off GoDaddy. I don’t need it for a site as such. I need it more of a testing server. I know i can use free services but they force ads and are slow and i don’t want to show that to a customer. I have a localhost setup up on my mac which works fine but i need a remote server as well.
Is GoDaddy a good service to use? There prices seem pretty good. I also know some coupon codes to get money off with, so that helps. Would it be worth using as a testing server. I may possibly make my own blog/portfolio site with it in the future but thats not certain as i don’t have the time at the moment
GoDaddy is okay as a registrar, but as a host, they can be slow too, if you’re testing a database-driven application… because the database server is not on the same machine as the web server, and so you have to make network connections for each page view. Also, you don’t get CRON (scheduled tasks).
Here’s a free web host with no ads that you might want to check out. Five email accounts, Five FTP accounts, five MySQL databases complete with phpMyAdmin. I’ll admit I haven’t tested them thoroughly enough to see if they’re fast 24/7, but my test sites there have been responsive thus far, and I’m running CMS software with a lot of database activity (Drupal, Mambo, WordPress).
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There are better ones but GoDaddy.com is a pretty good choice!