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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Godaddy Web Hosting Issues

This web site is hosted by Godaddy. I would like to point out to other potential web host clients some of the limitations and positives I have found with Godaddy.

There are three main problems’ I have with their windows hosting. The first is that they do not allow remote connections to the MS-SQL server. I need to log into their SQL control panel to configure and administer the SQL database. This is just annoying and limiting. Second problem is also with SQL, they use an older MS-SQL 2000 and not 2005. The big difference is that 2005 allows unlimited entry

lengths whereas 2000 is limited to 8K characters per record. This is a real limitation. Look at my ‘Sesame Street Review’ as an example of where I reached the maximum blog length. The last big problem I found is that Godaddy does not provide asp.net web services. I have an idea to implement some unique web services and this Windows host does not allow them.

I would like to say that Godaddy provides excellent uptime and bandwidth. I have had poor results with Globat hosting (a competitor of Godaddy) in those areas, and they don’t provide any Windows hosting facilities at all. Godaddy also provides better front end Spam filtering then Globat, although I think there is room for improvement in this area as well.

If Godaddy were smart they would look at the free MS Web Developers kit and an introduction to their web hosting and make it work with their hosting accounts as seamlessly as possible.

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