godaddy.com donate to joomla
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- damo
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thought this quite interesting;
hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_5731.asp
basically godaddy.com have donated $10,000 to the joomla project - www.c3p0.se - sweden
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- James Spencer
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- That seems like a large donation ;D Go...Go Daddy ;D
- James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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- Dave Goodwin
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What do I get?
dave ??? - "I'm an individual, just like everyone else."
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- Peter Osipof
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Dave Gee! wrote:
What do I get?
dave ???
Joomla and SMF - VirtueShop
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- James Spencer
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Peter Osipof wrote:
Dave Gee! wrote:What do I get?
dave ???
Joomla and SMF
But wheres my double chocolate chip muffin. Im sure i saw that somewhere in the size 1pt print ;D - James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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- Stephen O Connor
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Fair enough!
Web hosts benefit greatly through quality open source solutions. When I started to get into this. I noticed that most hosts were offering FREE & INSTALL WITH CLICK-OF-THE-BUTTON Shopping Carts, Blogs, CMSs, Forums, etc. It certainly got me going! Now I understand how it works.
Joomla, SMF, and many other fine Open Source software are powerful marketing tools for hosts and I think that they should make contributions.
Good going GoDaddy! More should follow the lead!
Steve
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I've used godaddy for about 4 years. I eventually purchased a dedicated server and to my horror found out the only support they gave was paid support. the reason I bought the dedicated plan was because their shared hosting suddenly took a MAJOR hit in performance. It was almost as if they decided to double the number of hosted domains per shared server.
I cancelled the dedicated host and still suffered poor performance on the one domain I kept on shared hosting. To this day I will giv ethem no more business. Their customer support has degraded. Their performance has degraded. and their accountability has gone to 5h!7.
that they've donated to Joomla! is swell but here's a heads up... they offer Joomla! in their value-added apps section of their hosting control panel. you can do a Joomla! installation in about 30 seconds. only problem is... you have NO access to the databse used to install Joomla!. zero, zip, none.
IMHO they're a company that grew too quickly to keep up with quality service based on demand...
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- Dave Goodwin
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stonelotus wrote:
IMHO they're a company that grew too quickly to keep up with quality service based on demand...
I just registered several domains with them, but have heard horror stories about their hosting. Very skeptical there. In the past I have ended up transfering my domain registration elsewhere. I have to agree with the stonelotus assessment.
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- Robert D. Wagers
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I agree 100%percent with Stone... i use goDaddy and the level of support is bad. They host all their MySQL DB's on a separate server managed by metropolis. If you call them for information needed to optimize your software for caching-etc. they clam up and offer no information. They seem to think that server specs and caching options are "proprietary information."
Being that SQL DB's are hosted on separate server, during periods of high-web traffic, it can take forever for DB queries to return and the subsequent page to load.
I started with go daddy using Frontpage and Dreamweaver and produced nothing but static html, but reading certain article I was turned onto CMS. I tried DotNetNuke and wasn't too thrilled with it and then stumbled along Joomla. Switched and never looked back. When doing my old static html, no SQL queries meant that my site was lightning fast and I guess I didn't understand GoDaddy's setup with outsourced SQL hosting. Now, at times, the site or sites can be slugish.
To sum up, I agree that GoDaddy is over-selling their capabilities and they really don't have a clue of what's really going on at their customer service... Half the time, the person on the phone has to look something up or ask a manager and then they return with a bogus answer designed just to get you off the phone.
If I could figure out a way to transfer my SQL's, I would switch to another host in a heart-beat... but I don't know if it's possible.
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- Dave Goodwin
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Robert, as I understand you, are you saying that you can't make a copy or a backup of the DB with GoDaddy?
dave - "I'm an individual, just like everyone else."
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