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I have been with GoDaddy for at least 10 years and can give an honest assessment. At times there has been some slow downs but I think most can be attributed to bad code in the programs I was running. I use Coppermine and have several WordPress blogs running in one Deluxe Hosting account. Recently I set up a WP blog for a very good friend who’s opening a yoga studio, Just Breathe Yoga @ Rivermark in Santa Clara, CA. All was fine from the beginning and then I installed a newsletter plugin where a lot of people registered the first day. This morning i checked the site and it was very slow and even timed out nor could I log into the Admin Manager. I emailed Godaddy support then started looking into issues thinking it could be a database problem. Because I’m very anal about backups (aren’t we all!!!), I decided to create a new db and imported the tables from the backup and lo and behold, I got an error message with the newsletter table. Seems it was storing the date/time in the subscriber table in a not so friendly MySQL fashion. I deleted the subscribers and the import went fine this time. Now the website loads fast again!

So, sometimes while it may look to be a hosting service company problem, it could be your own. Also, if you are using the cheapest hosting plan you can’t really expect any company to jump on all these issues since for $4/month they would go out of business fast. They won’t go into your hosting account, check your database, or do any of these issues unless you can give them some info on what may be wrong. I believe you should spend a fair amount of time figuring it out yourself just as I have all these years. But the take home message here is “do you have a backup system for your blog???“

I’ve also decided to put my friend on a RSS newsletter instead of one that may make GoDaddy mad at using php mail. Check this out here at wpbeginner. This is a great resource for cool additions to your WP Blog.

Cheers,

Billy

I just upgraded to WP 2.9 from a MySQL 4.0X database. I use GoDaddy so here’s what I did. It took about 15 minutes.

1. Back your WordPress directory AND your MySQL database. (search for how to do this or use a plugin). Do not delete anything!
2. Login to your GoDaddy account and on the left side menu bar under My Products click on Hosting -> Manage Account (for blog host account) -> Databases -> MySQL.
3. Create a new database and make sure you select MySQL Version 5.0. Write down your password!!!
4. Once the database has been configured, click on the pencil to the right to view the details.
5. Using FTP, retrieve your wp-config.php from the root directory of your WP installation. Using the information from step 4, update this file with the new database information.
6. Upload the new wp-config.php to your WP root directory.
7. Login in to your new 5.0 database and import the file created when you backed your database in step 1.
8. Go to your blog and it should load fine. Now you can log in to your blog and run the upgrade to WP 2.9.

Hope this helps for those using GoDaddy as your hosting service provider.

@manigaultgentile, you need to increase you PHP memory limit. This can be done in you php.ini file. If you are on a GoDaddy hosting account then here are some links to help with this:

Can I add a PHP initialization file to my hosting account?
What is the PHP upload limit on Linux Shared Hosting accounts?

@tdempsey, you need need to upgrade your MySQL

not your PHP version. (close though!)

@mrssquidley – GoDaddy has MySql 5.0 support. You’ll need to backup your current WP databse then create a new 5.0 database and import the data. You’ll also need to reconfigure any settings in your wp-config.php file.

Set the permissions to the directory to writable using your FTP program. Most of them allow right clicking so try it. Right click on the directory and you’ll see there to set permissions. Set it for 777 and you should be good to do.

Check out the Firefox add-on ScribeFire Blog Editor. I’ve used it and it’s quite nice. Also check out the PostMaster plugin if you want to post images.

The instructions with the plugin said:

My attachments aren’t showing up in the post, why? =

This may be due to the fact that the directory you have chosen to save attachments to does not exist, does not have the proper permissions, or is outside of the WordPress root directory.

Did you set this in the Postmaster option under Settings?

Also don’t forget to set the account as “author”.

Changing the pending status in wp-mail.php to publish is asking for trouble if anyone gets a hold of the email address you’re using to blog from. I’ve posted another solution here. Basically you have to register an account in WordPress the email address your blogging from and set it as “author”.

There are 2 ways to get this to work on WP 2.6.2.

Option 1
Edit the code from wp-mail.php to allow all posts as published.

// Set $post_status based on $author_found and on author's publish_posts capability
	if ($author_found) {
		$user = new WP_User($post_author);
		if ($user->has_cap('publish_posts'))
			$post_status = 'publish';
		else
			$post_status = 'pending';
	} else {
		// Author not found in DB, set status to pending.  Author already set to admin.
		$post_status = 'pending';
	}

This is probably not a smart or safe thing to do.

Option 2:
Create a user account for the email account you use to blog from. The Username will be the actual email address ([email protected]). The issue here is that if you use multiple email addresses then you must register them all within WordPress but this is the same if you let multiple people post in your blog. Set the account as “author” and that should be it.

There are 2 ways to get this to work on WP 2.6.2.

Option 1
Edit the code from wp-mail.php to allow all posts as published.

// Set $post_status based on $author_found and on author's publish_posts capability
	if ($author_found) {
		$user = new WP_User($post_author);
		if ($user->has_cap('publish_posts'))
			$post_status = 'publish';
		else
			$post_status = 'pending';
	} else {
		// Author not found in DB, set status to pending.  Author already set to admin.
		$post_status = 'pending';
	}

This is probably not a smart or safe thing to do.

Option 2:
Create a user account for the email account you use to blog from. The Username will be the actual email address ([email protected]). The issue here is that if you use multiple email addresses then you must register them all within WordPress but this is the same if you let multiple people post in your blog.

You’ll probably need to use something like a javascript to get the ads to rotate without a page refresh. Google “javascript ad rotator”.

Try Coppermine Photo Gallery to create your photo gallery and then use cpmFetch to pull the images from Coppermine into your blog or other external sites.

Yea, check out cpmFetch. This is a great tool for showing your photos on external sites from the CPG gallery.