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WordPress

Jason Anders
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Jason Anders
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Posted by Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

GoDaddy and WordPress?

I've heard that BlueHost is the most popular for WordPress sites. I was just wondering what you guys think of GoDaddy hosting for WordPress.

I've used GoDaddy many times in the past and have been nothing but satisfied with service and delivery, but what about for WordPress?

Welcoming all opinions...

James Biddle
James Biddle
3,853 Points

I used them in the past and had no issues at all, great control panel. Nowadays I just get a "droplet" from Digital Ocean and upload the WP files. Seems much cheaper.

Julian Gutierrez
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 Points
Julian Gutierrez
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 Points

Interesting James Biddle, is the $5 Digital Ocean plan enough to host a WordPress site from your experience?

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

@Julian Gutierrez

Digital ocean requires $10 droplets for WP quick install. However it crushes godaddy in performance so its well worth it and you don't need to share a server.

2 Answers

Julian Gutierrez
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 Points
Julian Gutierrez
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 Points

Five of my client WordPress sites are hosted at Godaddy and have had zero problems...so far.

James Biddle
James Biddle
3,853 Points
James Biddle
James Biddle
3,853 Points

For a site that isn't doing a lot of processing (large database calls) the $5 is fine. You will still need get the DB up and connected to WP but that is easy. Plus there is an awesome video in the WP Dev track that shows you how to get it up and running pretty quick doing a "self install". Another good thing is when you need to bring up the memory or cores, just move the slider left! I love it. Simple interface, easy FTP up, total control for when you just want to restart the apache service quick or something.