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Ok… heres the update:

I changed yesterday one of my sites from Shared hosting to GD new Grid hosting…

So far today performance has been increideble faster… i mean.. it is even weird for me , cause i am used to it being SOOO slow ..

So.. i dont want to jinxs this.. i will keep monitoring and informing you guys about this Godaddy Grid Hosting + WordPress match.. if all keep working the way it is i will definetly migrate the rest of my SHARED hosting to it. and recommend to change the title of this node to

GODADDY SHARED HOSTING FOR WORDPRESS A BIG NO.. GODADDY GRID HOSTING YES!

regards,

Update:

I talked again with a customer service rep at GD… they finally accepted my server is presenting sever lag times as a result of overload… they recommended that i migrate my hosting plan to their new GRID hosting…

still thinking about doing this..

meanwhile, anyone has experience using wordpress with GD grid hosting ?

Well Otto, you are free to think i am mistaken, the fact is that connection times between wordpress and the Database ar Crap in Godaddy.. and yes, having a site in a server hosting 3k more sites wont help. What really bothers me is that they want to convince you (tech support) it is a problem of WORDPRESS optimization.. which honestly is plain BS.. i have already tested a backup of one of my sites in 3 different providers, and it wont have this kind of issues. And dont be mistaken.. it is a site WITH NO PLUGINGS…

Then Only thing i am looking for is good feedback on other hostingalternatives.. because it can be scary to deal with a new provider.. .

It is a fact, google it, godaddy shared plans are SLOW .. extremely slow For wordpress… and beleive me .. all wordpress newbies have the right to be able to do an educated choice before buying anything…

Hi Ipstenu,

i bought a DELUXE shared hosting which allows unlimited domains.. if i buy a single account for each website i will STILL be sharing my sites ip with more than 2000 other sites , so i bought only one plan that allows multiple domains .. which at the end will STILL be in the same situation…

Hi Flamenco,

I follow you, the problem is this happens with all sites.. some sites have around 10 uniques a day . .others 100 .. others 1000… some has multiple plugins.. some none… they are all hosted in the same plan . .same ip… and they all present the same issue at the same time (during day time.. ) the later it is at night the faster they become, thats why i assume the issue is related directly to the traffic on the server (remember i am sharing with around 3000 domains) … but it is not a server itself issue.. i have plain html sites that still loads slow .. but not as slow as sites using wordpress.. i am 99% sure it has to deal with this “external secuereserver.net databases” connections..

have you had any other experience with other providers ? can you recommendo any other hosting that works good with WordPress ?

Hi Noah .. thanks for your reply.

In the Spirit of Fairness, I will say this again, as I did Before:

I like a lot of things about Godaddy. I have been their customer for 5 years. They have great prices, and once you know your way around their web site is very, but very easy to buy a domain, setup a hosting account with it and even installing wordpress with their one click installation.

I appreaciate you gave me their cusstomer service phone number, i have already used it many times, but beleive me.. this is exactly the kind of issue that wont be solved calling there.

This is NOT a wordpress optimization problem, nor a plugin conflict, or a an issue about a very heavy website, beleive me .. i have taken the time to replicate all possible scenarios.. I have even bought a hosting account with IWeb (canada) and tested the same sites with wonderfull results … This is an issue of sites being slow because connection to the MYSQL db servers provided by godaddy.com (which are related to “secureserver.net doman” are NOT GOOD, and their performance is HORRIBLE during high traffic periods.

I will contact you and give you some of my sites url so you can do your own testing. Just keep in mind you should test the sites during Eastern time day time (GT -5) , at night things move pretty much “ok” (not fast but acceptable) …

By the way, somehow all my php forms stopped working, and customer service answer was : “theres some php functionality issues in your grid” .. expect them to be solved in 48 to 72 hours .. if you keep having this issues call again ” …

as i said , I Will rather solve this issue than migrate to migrate all my customers to a new hosting (which i still havent found) .. but i am definelty in the market looking for an alternative… this is so frustrating…

“otto” .. my sites witho NO plugins are slow.. so are my sites with SUPER CACHE.. the just take 20secs to open sometimes… it is NOT a plugin issue .. beleive me ..

best regards,

hi flamenco thanks for the tips.

i use godaddys mysql…they have are hosted in external servers…that is external to the server where you host your site. different ip and different domain… it sucks