Hosting - There *Is* a Difference!
Several weeks ago I did a WordPress installation on a friend's
server so they could update their site themselves. They use
GoDaddy for hosting because it was cheap. You get what you pay
for. I can't stress this lesson strongly enough. Ever since I
completed the installation, I noticed dreadful performance on
anything that needed a database call. I complained to GoDaddy
on three occasions but nothing was really done except to say
that in a shared hosting environment "sometimes" the
performance slows down. I had hosted my blog www.russology.com
on WordPress for a couple of years now but I just signed up
for Crucial Web Host and moved my blog to my new shared
hosting account last night. Lightning by comparison. The
WordPress pages load so fast it's like static HTML, even the
ones that hit the database (MySQL 5). Crucial Web Host is $25
per month. Some might balk at that number. After all, GoDaddy
is something like $5 per month. But as I said earlier - you
get what you pay for. Crucial uses cPanel, phpMyAdmin, and
other very common tools. GoDaddy uses a bunch of different
things that aren't really intuitive and sometimes give me
problems. One thing is for sure - I certainly don't miss
seeing GoDaddy's advertisements as I do what I need to do on
my domains or hosting account.