GoDaddy Woes

[NetEssentials]

I have been hosting with Go Daddy for years and have used Zen Cart a few times successfully on the Linux servers. On the new hosting accounts you can install Zen Cart right from the hosting control panel in the Additional Applications feature.

[kobra]

I have been hosting with Go Daddy for years and have used Zen Cart a few times successfully on the Linux servers.

In general then, you have not really experinced the speed and power of Zen Cart...as their shared server platforms are relatively slow compared to what can be realized on a correctly configured server.

[GhostRider2110]

True, they are not the swiftest configured boxes out there... but such is life in the world of cheat hosting for the masses... :) Like I said I only have one paid hosting account with them that I use for a test/droppoff area, and then the free hosting I get with the some domain names that are used for "junk" areas as well. Most of my hosting is currently with Micfo (who are going through some growing pains right now as well).. just can't win it seems...

[armie]

My Zen Cart hosting is with GoDaddy also using Linux Hosting, there is no problem at all. Though am still editing my site, but so far everything works good.

www.advaconline.biz

[craftzombie]

I recently switched from Go Daddy because my site was running so slow. They are extremely friendly when you call them, but the blame always goes to someone else. My new host (a Zen certified host) moved everything for me and had me up and running quickly. My site now runs at lightning speed. Woo hoo! I do still host with Go Daddy for some blog sites, and those seem to run just fine. It was just Zen that Go Daddy wasn't handling very well.

By the way, I can't remember, but I think it was being run on windows, so maybe if I had switched to linux then my problems would've been solved. Who knows. I'm glad I switched anyway, my new host has a way better control panel too.

[GhostRider2110]

One of the things I did notice, is Godaddy the web servers and the DB servers are on different systems. I think this is part of the problem. I was hosting a small chat room which used MySQL and it got to the point where it was unusable and was getting a lot of DB timeout problems. Don't know if there was just a network issue behind the scenes or the DB server was overloaded. I move to another hosting provider where the DB server is on the same system as the web server ( the setup I prefer) and it blazes... Different schools of thought go into play when setting up things like that... And yes I agree the control panel at godaddy is not the greatest... But they are adding more features I did notice...

--Mitch

[canemasters]

I'm using godaddy linux hosting, and everything seems to be running fine so far. My site is not 100% finished yet, but I have yet to run into any problems.

[herghost]

Im using hosting from *** edited***and I must say im jolly pleased with it! Hasnt gone down once and its fast, not bad for a cheap host.

[vandiermen]

Godaddy has a “CURL proxy”, I think this was the reason when I tried to edit my database my page would time out and what ever I was editing would be completely deleted, this also caused thing like my paypal express not to work

Heres a thread that talks specifically about GoDaddy and CURL proxy setup:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61528

If you have a Godaddy server and if your page times out it may be because CURL timeouts, this suggests DNS or firewall problems"

From what I gather GoDaddy may block access to your database... I have never had this problem with the other 7 servers I have had over the years, and I have to complain about their email accounts, they only give you 25MB accounts unless you pay them an extra $19 per year for 1GB account, they also do not have automatic creating of FTP accounts for your addon domains and you can only manually set up 5 before you have to pay for more, I thought they would be great but they have been annoying in soo soo many ways…