Sunday, September 9, 2007

Now using GoDaddy.com web hosting

For the past 5 years I've been hosting my own websites on my very old (built 1999) machine. This machine has a Pentium III 400 Mhz processor with 1 GB of RAM. It is still running but it could really go down at any second. So on Friday I finally made the switch to use GoDaddy.com's web hosting. I've been planning for almost a year to move my PlayballStats.com website over to a production web server. The main reason was I wanted more bandwidth since running a web server on a cable modem doesn't scream performance. But a few things were holding me back. First was that GoDaddy Windows hosting only included 1 SQL Server Database (at a 100MB max size). Secondly, I could only host one website on the account. Meaning I would need to buy several accounts if I wanted to move all my websites. Needless to say that would be expensive. Luckily over the past year GoDaddy has raised the number of SQL Server databases plus they now allow you to host multiple websites from the same account. This was exactly what I needed to hear.

On Friday I opened the account and played around with all the settings and figured out how to upload files and create databases. Then Saturday I moved my SwapStudio.com and CheckInTheDark.com websites over to GoDaddy. I will wait until after the baseball season to move over PlayballStats since I don't want to screw up the data while the season is still in progress. And the best news... I will pay less than $200 for the 4 years of webhosting on GoDaddy.com. This is a very small fraction of the cost if I was to rebuild a new web server. And now I will be able to post more pictures since there is no need to worry about space and bandwidth.

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