In a word — wow.
After messing about with GoDaddy.com’s hosting, this is like heaven. I was up and running in exceptionally short order — even the domain was propagated in no time flat. I did run into a bit of a problem with adding on the ciulla.org domain, but this stems more from my impatience than anything else as I tend to forget that propogation takes time.
While it’s tempting to completely dog GoDaddy’s service offering, they do a great job for their target audience — folks new to web hosting.
Once I get all of the old content off of ciulla.org, I’m definitely cancelling GoDaddy’s hosting service.
KnowProSE.com is presently offline because MySQL errors cropped up and slammed the CPU on GoDaddy’s server, or so they claim. They demanded that I remove ‘offending code’ (Drupal), and gave me a dump of some insertion of data into the EVENTs table.
I have a strong feeling that the database blew up because of the lack of LOCK and UNLOCK. The Events table isn’t an addon, it’s STABLE and works quite well with LOCK and UNLOCK.
Meanwhile, my site has been down for going on 3 days, and they won’t allow me to login to my database. About 10,000 nodes. Geez. People have been telling me about Bluehost – you’ve been using it for a while. Do you still like it?
BlueHost is great!
The very few times I’ve had call customer suport have been painless, and the toll-free number is easy on the wallet.
Like I said in the original post, GoDaddy is ok for casual users, but I wouldn’t use them for anything but domain registrations in the future.