Godaddy - the largest web host in the world, treats hosting like a fast food drive through…
This is installment #3 of JTPratt’s Guide to Web Hosting
I got sucked into GoDaddy the same way that people were sucked into “supersizing” at McDonalds’s when it first started. GoDaddy had slick ads during Superbowl halftime that millions of [...]

Can you get a quality web host for $3.99 per month? How can they afford to give you all that space and bandwidth so cheaply?
This is installment #2 of JTPratt’s Guide to Web Hosting
I’ve had many web hosts over the years for a paltry few dollars per month. Like most people, a great majority of [...]

If your blogs and web hosts are growing beyond your web host - you are not alone. This guide will teach you everything you need to know about choosing and moving to a good web host.
This is installment #1 of JTPratt’s Guide to Webhosting. Follow the link for all installments.
Have you ever heard the phrase [...]

I’m writing this article specifically for people hosted on godaddy that have had the following .htaccess, mod_rewrite or addhandler problems on shared or premium hosting accounts for various open source applications, such as (but not limited to) Wordpress, Drupal, BBPress, Moodle, Geeklog, PHPNuke, Postnuke, and more!
Short list of potential issues:

problems with permalinks in Wordpress
problems with [...]

Do you have a slow or sluggish web site or blog? I’m going to give you 5 things you should check that can help quite a bit. Also - I’ll have a few tips specifically for Wordpress sites.
In my previous post about importing large mySQL databases I showed you how to use the command line [...]

There are all kinds of stats plugins and services available to track your web or blog. They all do various things well, and I’ve personally used quite a few of them. After installing and uninstalling many of them in my Wordpress blogs I’ve settled on two that I used all the time, the bsuite plugin, [...]

I use Wordpress for nearly all of my web sites, but I still own two Drupal sites.  As I posted previously, I moved all my sites to GoDaddy within the last month, and these two sites were no exception.  I started up a premium account, and had a main domain, and then in their control [...]

I had a very large web site (30,000+ pages) that I wanted to move from one web host to another. Normally I would use phpMyAdmin to export tables or the entire database. This mySQL database was of course too large for that and phpMyAdmin would timeout trying to export, even if I exported only one [...]