Comments on: Moving a WordPress Blog to GoDaddy Hosting Account, Part 1

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:08:49 +0000

I no longer recommend GoDaddy as a hosting company. Their service is terrible, their advertising is sexist and tasteless. I now use Bluehost, which I highly recommend. Unfortunately, I can’t help you with any blog move (other than what you’ve already found on this site) and don’t know anyone who can. Good luck!

By: G. Holland

G. Holland — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:18:05 +0000

I have recently acquired a wordpress blog. I was hoping to move it over to godday in order to monetize it. I am new to the game and not exactly the most tech savvy dude. DO you know any service or individual that would handle the conversion.

By: Freddie Mudie

Freddie Mudie — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:56:11 +0000

Thanks for posting this useful information. This was just what I was looking for.

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:35:33 +0000

Stanley: THANKS SO MUCH for this clarification. I had a feeling I had part of that wrong, but knew I needed the Linux setup. I appreciate your correction here.

By: Stanley

Stanley — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:38:05 +0000

Hi Maria,

Interesting article indeed, but I need to make this correction: you mentioned that Linux hosting is required because Windows hosting does not have PHP. This is not true, they both have PHP enabled, so WordPress will work on both servers. The reason why you should choose the Linux hosting is because only on this server you have .htaccess capability that will rewrite this url: http://www.exampleblog.com/?p=12 to this url: http://www.exampleblog.com/first-post-title/.

Best regards,

Stanley

By: david

david — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:15:21 +0000

This information has help me out so much. I love GoDaddy. I will look in this now that im better educated. I have 27 domains and never had a problem with them. At time to renew it does give you plenty of notice to renew. If it helps anyone I use CHH7 to renew my .com domain and it takes off 30% it saves me alot of money at the end. CHH5 saves 10% on everything else web hosting, transfers and much more. Thankyou Maria now I could start blogging……

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:17:59 +0000

Tad: here: http://www.mariasguides.com/2006/09/25/moving-a-wordpress-blog-to-godaddy-hosting-account-part-2/

By: Tad

Tad — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:04:31 +0000

Where is your part 2 on moveing the DB?

By: Jim Stephens

Jim Stephens — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:03:15 +0000

I started blogging using blogspot but I felt limited by their themes so I moved to WordPress and opened an account with 1&1 for my host. The set up for 1&1 is the same as you stated for GoDaddy as my package is Linux based. I am using a .net domain and haven’t noticed any loss of flexibility or any problems.

WordPress has allowed me to personalize my blog with the look and feel that I originally envisioned. My only major faux pas was not properly backing up my database when I upgraded to WP 2.7.1 which caused a loss of many postings. I’ve basically had to start over with very few older posts. All I can say is be sure you have copies of all important posts and more importantly properly backup your database.

To sum up find a host you’re comfy using, get a linux package and remember to keep a solid backup strategy in place. Then enjoy the fruits of your linguistic labor.

By: Janet Ching

Janet Ching — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:26:52 +0000

Hi Maria, Many thanks for such a great post. I am using Wordpress.com and want to move to .org for more flexibility with the plugins, etc. I have retrain myself for some time but not I want to try again. I have registered a domain with godaddy today but made a mistake that I have chosen Windows hosting instead of Linux, hope they are able to switch for me, otherwise i will waste the money. It involves a lot of self learning. I hope I can manage. Thanks again. Janet Ching´s last blog post: what’s for lunch today at borough market, london?

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:51:42 +0000

I wouldn’t recommend Typepad at all. I’d recommend WordPress.com. If you want your own server installation of WordPress, you might try one of the hosts that’s recommended on WordPress.org.

Good luck!

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:54:45 +0000

I’m looking for a good blog host and possibly web site. Would you suggest using GoDaddy over something like Typepad for blogging?

By: Bruce Jones

Bruce Jones — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:42:44 +0000

You just have to make sure you leave the check mark on auto-renew when you buy a new domain name on GoDaddy, that is what I call an input theory solution rather than coming back after the fact to renew before it expires. If you don’t want to keep that domain any more just take the check mark off and no more worries

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:48:39 +0000

You know, I have more than 40 domain names at GoDaddy.com and have never unintentionally lost a single one. They give me so much advance notice for renewals that it’s impossible to forget to renew a domain.

Frankly, I think the word “steal” is a bit strong — if you don’t renew a domain name in time, shouldn’t it expire and be difficult to get back? Otherwise, wouldn’t everyone pay late and take advantage of their registrar?

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:08:58 +0000

GoDaddy will STEAL your domain after 18 days if you do not renew in time. Brace yourself. $80+ dollars to get back.