GoDaddy Hosting For Wordpress Sucks
I manage a lot of blogs for companies. Some of them come to me and their website is on godaddy hosting. I have to tell them that godaddy hosting is the worst place for their blog. Why?
One of the most important things to do for a blog that will help you with seo is to use a custom permalink structure. In order to do so, you write something like /%category%/%postname%/%monthnum%/%day%/%year%/
That means the exact url to a blog post will read like http://www.thingsthatjustpissmeoff.com/ categorynamewhichcontainskeywords/ blogposttitlewhichalsocontainskeywords/
It add a mod rewrite to the htaccess file on your server to make this happen.
However at godaddy hosting, this never works. I called their tech support to get their assistance. They tell me mod rewrite works fine but maybe it won’t work on their version of apache. After an hour back and forth on this, the final verdict was “There is a lot of documentation at apache.com about our version of apache and you could try to figure out how it all works there.”
Lets see. I can show initiative and go to apache.com and learn all about godaddy hosting’s version of apache or I can just tell all my clients to go to another hosting company. No skin off my back if it won’t work on godaddy hosting’s version of apache.
I just can’t believe that since millions of people use wordpress that godaddy would not be a little more helpful in trying to resolve this issue. They are the ones that will lose clients because of it. My clients will host somewhere else is I ask them to so it doesn’t hurt me either way. I’m just pissed off because I tried for over an hour to work with them rather than just tell my clients that godaddy hosting sucks and they were not willing to help find a fix for me.
So from now on I will just recommend that people who want to use a wordpress blog and rank well in the search engines that godaddy hosting is not the best place to be.
