Did I Just Make a Mistake?

GoDaddy are very reasonable for hosting. I'm
with them, and everything runs error free. I
don't do WP myself, but the other day I saw a
WP Install button on my account management
screen; so GD are obviously well set up for
hosting WP sites for the newcomer.

:-)

Good luck,

Hi Wurmwood,


Recommended hosting services by Wordpress.org:

- Bluehost

- Dreamhost (I use them)

You can find a forum about Dreamhost here: wordpress dot org/tags/dreamhost

You can get there tremendous useful info.

Many successes,

Sandor

Hmm if I may ask...Why so ? Just curious..

^^^^^ This.

I'm not a Wordpress user, myself, but even I know that this is the thread's key information, and it's correct, and it's important (all three points).

These threads can easily confuse people who are newbies and see some conflicting information and can't too easily tell whom to believe. Believe Istvan above, otherwise you'll almost certainly regret it. Good luck!

Beat me to it,
another vote for this advise.

It's been a long time since I messed with GD, but they didn't have cpanel when I had an account there.

I would recommend learning and hosting with someone that has cpanel. It has almost become a standard. It is easy once you get the hang of it and offers many choices, that you will want later on.


Jim

What's the logic behind point 1?

A few of my sites have the registrar of the domains and the hosting with the same company.

I get the other two points (GD are a rubbish host!)

I would avoid using fantastico simply because it can create problems, in your installation for future plugins that may require the ability to write and open files to the directory, if you use fantastico, you will notice that in the top most level of your hosting account that you will see .fantasticodata folders and related files, this exists above the public_html level of your wordpress installation, this is because fantastico actually is running at a level above your script, this can cause problems in some instances, it is better to use a manual installation, for two reasons,

1. you need to learn how to do it
2. it avoids issues relating to where and how fantistico installs and writes to your Linux disk.

I just bought a domain name from Go Daddy. I wanted to set up a Wordpress affiliate site. I thought that once I bought the domain from Go Daddy, I would then host it on Wordpress.

First, I can see you are confused between hosting and domain name; something which is quite common. A real world metaphor would be to think about your site like it's your home (in this case your website is your home on the web). Your domain would be your street address - where people find you - and your hosting is your is the house (structure) where your website files are kept - where your site lives. So just as people find your house by going to your address, they find your site by typing your domain into their browser.It sounds like you may also be confused between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org.

Wordpress.com is Wordpress' hosted blog solution- if you go there and set up a blog, it would be yourusername.wordpress.com. You can register a domain and point it at your Wordpress blog, but my understanding is that Wordpress.com does not allow affiliate sites. I have blogs there but they are not affiliate sites. In any event, Wordpress.com blogs are severely limited as far as what link code etc. can be used on their servers so you would have issues with a blog there.

Wordpress.ORG is where you go to download the Wordpress script if you are going to manually install a blog on your own hosting. These days that's largely unnecessary because many hosts have Fantastico or some other push-button script installer. Hostgator - one of the hosts I use - and I believe Dreamhost and Bluehost, have Fantastico. Godaddy has their own pushbutton install solution for Wordpress and other scripts.

Is that how it works or is it the other way around? Was I supposed to download wordpress and host my site on Go Daddy? If so, where do I get my domain?

From the first sentence of your question it sounds like you've already got your domain from Godaddy. You can now choose to also get hosting from Godaddy, or go to another host.

Is Wordpress my domain?

No. The domain name you just registered with Godaddy is your domain.

What exactly is the relationship between Go Daddy and Wordpress?

There is none. If you also buy hosting from Godaddy there just happens to be a pushbutton solution to host and install Wordpress blogs on their hosting accounts, but that's simply a feature.

How do they work together? IF I made a mistake, do you think Go Daddy would let me cancel my purchase and change it since I WAS planning on using their services anyway?

I don't think Godaddy is able to let you out of the domain purchase.

If I'm stuck with this Go Daddy domain, can anyone recommend a good host? I think I should've asked about this before making the purchase. What do I do? Help!

If you've already got a domain with Godaddy, the easiest thing is to just buy hosting with Godaddy, then contact support and have them help you get started. I understand from clients of mine that if you ask Godaddy support they will do perform a Wordpress blog installation on your hosting account. Again, I host some of my own sites with Godaddy; they aren't my first choice, but they're not that bad and they are reasonably priced.


I've been using Wordpress on Godaddy for years - manually installed it back in 04, installed it from their control panel once that became available, have installed it for clients, have worked on clients' installations. Never had a problem with it.

The most important thing is to not get hung up on the technical stuff and get working on and promoting your site.


K