Last Saturday our Manga Forums Web Hosting provider send us a mail asking us to move the forum to another web hosting place because it takes more server resources than his reseller account can offer. He gave us 48 hours and recommend use to go for a VPS ( Virtual Dedicated Server ). But since this site is not giving income or has no revenue spending 30 USD per month is a NO. Also almost all shared web hosting providers don’t like this kind of sites which has lot of data base activities and take lot of server resources. So we hadn’t had many options. Also it was weekend so it made things harder.

So the best choice we could found at that time was Godaddy shared Web hosting. Good things about Godaddy shared Hosting are cheap prices(4.29/mo) , 10 GB web Space, 300 GB Transfer, 10 MySQL Databases etc. Bad things are no cpanel ( it take little time to understand their own contorl panel ), Their web statistics program is not good at all ( miss aw stats ), Their FAQs and help files are useless ( Better search in Google or post in webmaster forums for help ), Everything is different than in normal web hosting control panels like Cpanel or Direct Admin.

It took nearly whole day for me to figure out everything. But at end I realised its not that bad when you know how to do it and what to do. I really miss Cpanel when it comes to backups and Awstats. For Awstat Google Anlytic is the alternative.

Something I realised when I d searched Google for Godaddy Hosting problems I encountered is that Many face same  set of common problems like How to Setup sub domains, How to find the MySql Host ect. So I guess I ll Try to make set of posts about  these common Godaddy Web Hosting problems.

Well Godaddy Web hosting is not that bad as peope say. But there are things you miss like cpanel. Its Just you have to take time and understand their system. Their uptime is really great and Godaddy shared Hosting package is worth its price. They are one of the best cheap hosting providers you can find today. Specailly if you have a big site with lot of traffic but less or no income to go for a VPS or Dedicated server Then Godaddy hosting is one good option.