Cold feet
—Thanks everyone so much for your input on a permanent name for the club. I have came to a determination as to what to name it and who to get the domain through. However I am now at a en pass because I am confused about godaddy’s plans. Since I do not want to make a mistake, I may be cautious about committing to this over the short term. There are a few questions I have to know the answers too first before I dive in. I know the way that things go for me that I will end up making a mistake and wasting money.
—For instance on the front page of their hosting page, it shows an economy plan that has 100 mailboxes. However when you actually add the economy plan to your cart, there are no mailboxes included. It appears if you want mailboxes, it’s ala carte and costs extra… this confuses me. Am I reading it wrong? Or is it false advertising? Or am I a hillbilly?
—Next thing is why do they have ‘Web hosting’ and ‘WordPress hosting’. So why is WordPress seperate? Shouldn’t you be able to host WordPress from the same space as any other app? And when I am ready to move on from WordPress will I have to change my hosting plan? I plan on moving away from WordPress when I start getting enough members that I need a forum. So why the degradation between the two plans? Makes no sense to me. At work if I were confronted by this, I would tell someone to fix their code =]
—This is the last day of my weekend and I hope to get these questions answered today. At the very least I think I should get my domain today, but it I buy it separately, it costs more… sigh. Not liking all this paperwork stuff that is dragging me away from building my observatory and that does not make me a very happy camper. Stars first, paperwork second…

GoDaddy is sort of confusing on that sort of stuff – truth is, if you want to move on from WordPress later, then the WEB hosting is your best bet – you can host/install WordPress on any of the hosting services that have the correct requirements.
HOWEVER, If you want a forum, BBPress can integrate with WordPress and share usernames and profile data – so you may not have to switch at all.
Just my .02
~Mitch (A fanatic about WordPress)
Mitch Canter - September 10, 2010 at 09:11 |