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Instead of creating a bunch of short articles, I am going to consolidate my experiences here.
Please note that this experiment is being conducted on GoDaddy’s economy plan which came free with a domain purchase. I assume its functional, just with the annoyance of ads. Thinking about this now this experiment may not have much weight, since I don’t know if these ‘free’ trials are throttled, etc.
- Making a connection to FTP took some time to complete
File upload speeds where decent, but switching from file to file was very slow. Updating a dozen files all of 80KB in size takes no less than 30 seconds, I would hate to see how long Mediawiki would take to upload. I am using FileZilla as an FTP client.
Sorry to keep adding to this bullet, but the more I use the FTP, the more the delays annoy me. Just grabbing a file to edit it, is so much slower than my current host. - Wow, this is annoying: There are ads on Yellow Error screens!
Those sly bastards, the free one month hosting which comes with a domain uses ads. That is just lame. I understand it, but it’s lame. - The file manager is nice. It allows you to upload files and zip and unzip files on the server, and edit files. Of course other basic file manager stuff too.
Screen loads of the file manager have a tendency to be slow. - Woot, PHP now on a Windows host. It’s about time!
- While in their web manager, clicked on the help/blog link and the generic GoDaddy welcome page showed. Nice.
- Having issues with file-level security. A new app I am writing works with .NET’s System.IO classes, and most of the calls fail under this hosting plan. If the app is running at a virtual web of http://mydomain.com/myapp, I cannot change directories in the app to the root, it’s not allowed. I am unable to any System.IO.FileInfo methods on the files at all. The ones I have tried are throwing a SecurityException. 😦
In a nutshell things aren’t going great. It’ s just cumbersome to use their hosting. Perhaps I prefer more control over my settings, I don’t know. The slow FTP is a huge factor. 30 seconds to upload 12 files with a total size of 80k, is just silly. Sure it’s only 30 seconds, but there is no room for scaling.
Final word: I’ll stick with iHostasp.net. They may not offer as many items, but their service is much more solid. Overall they ihostasp.net wins. Just started hosting for my programming stuff with Dreamhost.com, for linux hosting, I haven’t found anything better.
For those of you pointing to CrystalTech, yes, I think they are a really good host, a bit expensive for me, for my use. I have used them in business and they have rock solid hosting and excellent support. Only one database and having to use code to map to other domains, isn’t great for multiple projects.
In all fairness to GoDaddy’s upload issue, I didn’t realize the website I was using to check out their capabilities was a free website with my domain, not a one month subscription for a website. So it makes sence that they would throttle the hell out of it. It would be useful if the would indicate something along those lines.
Google has put up a new favicon, looks good. Ah the little things…
Forgot about this annoyance with GoDaddy; any time you change anything on your virtual host you have to wait for it to be processed.
I just added a sub-domain and fifteen minutes later it’s still in a ‘pending’ status. I wonder how long the new virtual web directory will take to complete?
It’s been a bunch of months since I have look at other hosting. For a few years now I have been using iHostasp.net, and they are not a poor host, but I have had my issues with them.
What I like most about iHostasp.net is that their middle plan support 3 separate web spaces, this is a huge plus, something you don’t find too often in shared hosting. They also allow 3 MS SQL databases and 5 MySql database. All accessible from outside their network. This was the main reason I went with them originally. I can setup all typs of domains and sub-domains and virtual folders, that has never been an issue.
iHostasp.net has been slow to update their service and NEVER contact their clients when they make changes. They changed the way you connect to databases from the outside, never said anything. They updated to support .NET 3.5, and never said anything. Plus, when I asked how to utilize it, I was told they would have to move me to a new server, which they did, but I lost all of my site stats. They use SmarterStats, which has import capabilities, but it wasn’t configured in a way that I could import my saved log files, and they didn’t help me out in getting the files imported.
So sure they have been an OK host, and I have recommended them to others, but if I find a like deal with more stuff, well I have too investigate it. I often wondered if they would care whatsoever if I left?
I was checking out my domain renewal dates on GoDaddy and noticed that I had to free credits for shared host accounts. Oh yeah, I said, forgot I have those. I have used GoDaddy often in the past, have had hosted and virtual dedicated services there. I respect them and they have usually provided adequate support. The two biggest items that kept me from using GoDaddy.com is they don’t (or didn’t) support external access to databases and are in a timezone which does use daylight savings time. Now the second part isn’t that big of a deal, it only broke the training calculators on my eve-igbtools.com site, and only during daylight savings.
At the time, not being able to update my database from Enterprise Manager what just not an option. Many of the planned application for that site where very database intensive. Only ever got around to writing one of them, and it’s only accessible by me.
GoDaddy’s hosting plans have really been enhanced since the last time I looked. For the same $14.99 I pay at iHostasp, I can get unlimited domains, unlimited sql databases(!), unlimited MySql databases, IIS 7 (iHost doesn’t have this), SSL cert(!), PHP support under windows and others. Oh and most importantly, remote access to databases!
Performance has been OK in the past, I wonder how that is now? It says nothing a GoDaddy about multiple primary domains, which means everything will run in the same memory space. I am not too crazy about that. Probably the one thing which may keep from using them. For most of my piddly apps it really isn’t an issue, but it has been a useful configuration option.
Update (1/9/2008) The shared host I am using is the basic, which only allows one domain. Once this month is up (probably sooner knowing me) I will get a better plan to try out.
Not sure where I am headed right now, but I will check out the GoDaddy service again on my free token, and go from there. I am paid up through March at iHostasp, I am sure I will know by then, and I will writeup my decision.
I guess the toolbar wasn’t successful enough in gathering data, so they built a whole browser.
I have never been a big fan of Coinstar; I have always felt they were a ripoff. To get paper for your change your are going to pay 8 9/10 (what is this gasoline?) cents per dollar for those machine to count it. Fuck that! No way I am paying anyone to give me my money.
My view has changed; they now have gift cards/eCerts which they don’t charge you any fees to cash your change into. This I can deal with, especially because it’s companies I would exchange my coin in for (amazon.com, JC Penny’s, etc.)
I am a big change saver, always have been. My goal growing up is that I would save my change to purchase ski equipment with. I bought the boots, but never got around to the actual ski’s and now I really don’t ski enough to purchase my own stuff. I have all these jugs of change around and I am not sure what to spend it on–until now.
As anyone who knows me knows, I am an avid motorcyclist. Sure I don’t put in the miles I used to, but having a family will do that to you. I don’t mind, I love my family, and if my cards are right, I will be touring on two wheels again. I need a new helmet, and have been looking at Shoei Mulitec’s. A neat full-face helmet which has a lift-up chin guard, pretty cool. As like most Shoei gear, they aren’t cheap, 500 bucks. Now that I can change my coin into an Amazon.com eCert and they will allow me to purchase items in Amazon’s Marketplace, I will cash in my coin for a new helmet.
Basically all I can say is, “Good job Coinstar; you have taken a person who couldn’t stand your service and turned them into a customer.”
No if you can just hook up with some companies so I can buy gas, or rent cars or buy plane tickets.
So I logged in the other day and noticed that WordPress changed things around a bit. Nothing horrible but surely different. Anyway I don’t get the changes as they don’t seem to solve any issue, they are just a different way to do the same thing. And now I am just trying to figure out how to do /x/ now. Perhaps I am just missing it all together…
As I log into My Yahoo! account I am greeted with a message that a new updated version of My Yahoo! site is available as a beta site. Since Yahoo! usually lets you go back to the old version again, I thought I would check it out. Basically it has become the typical AJAX’d to hell big font “Web2.0” site. Fooy. I don’t get the new interfaces with all this Javascript, big-ass fonts, and bubbly edges, they are just such bloated pigs. The new font resolutions make it really difficult to use anything but a full-screened browser, which I hate to do. The UI is windowed for a reason. The My Yahoo! beta reminds me a lot of the new mail interface Yahoo! designed a few years ago. No I don’t use it either, it was just to slow and clunky of an interface back then, though I haven’t tried it again. Another part that irked me is that many of the modules I had on My Yahoo! page no longer worked on the new site. Why would you offer a new layout if many of the items which are used, aren’t available any longer? I don’t get that.
FogCreek Software’s FogBugz has done the same thing with their latest release, 6.0. Changed to this really fat font and some other layout changes. I understand UI changes always take some time to get used to, but even after three weeks using the product, it still doesn’t feel natural. Funny, reading Joel Spolsky’s blog, when he returned to New York after his first demo tour for FogBugz 6.0 he himself the UI has been stripped down way to much and it’s just horrible. It happens, anyone in development knows it. At least he is being smart about it and re-doing it from step one.
I have to say that I am happy that so far Yahoo! hasn’t forced me into using their new interfaces for their products. I don’t think that I am that stubborn when it comes to changes, I just expect at least to have the same functionality that I did in a previous version. Don’t make me take two steps backwards in functionality when you introduce a new product.
I would really like to know why web designers are thinking this new larger font is the way to go on web pages? I am seeing it more and more, and I still find it less appealing and usable.
I know you are probably saying, “Big deal.” For the most part your right. I think, just because I am bored, I purchased the domain eve-igbtools.com. A much more fitting name for my EVE Tools page. The IGB (In Game Tools) part is probably most important, as the goal of the site is to build all tools available to the IGB. Which besides not being able to use javascript, makes it easier for me. Basically this is because I really suck at web development. I am more of a command line/winforms kind of person.
All the old tools are there and some new ones are to follow soon. It’s summer time, who wants to program? I have even let my EVE-Online subscription laps, because I don’t play as often this time of year. The cool thing, is my toon is still training. A great game for the casual player (or a player with kids like me).
Links to the to tools on the new site:
Character: Skill End Date Calc | Skill Calculator
Mining: Mining Rate | Miner Yield
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