Before I go any further, I must say I am very pleased with GoDaddy’s support so far! I’ve had a DNS problem which Lauren (from GoDaddy) helped my solve within a few minutes. Wait time on the phone was approximately 6 minutes. I just wished they had a toll free number though.

GoDaddy even got a step further by calling me back the day after to make sure I was satisfied with their service and support. I think that they’ve had some negative feedback about their support in the past and now they’re making up for it.

That said, for only $4.29 a month, it just doesn’t get any better than GoDaddy.

Ok so Week #1 has gone by much too fast and I didn’t spend has much time as I would’ve like to on this case study.

We are now going to add some useful Wordpress plugins and we’re also gonna add a nice customized theme to our website.

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While GoDaddy has an automated script installer, the latest Wordpress version available is 2.3.3. So instead of using the installer, I’ll install Wordpress 2.5 from scratch.

To upload Wordpress, I use Filezilla, a free FTP client.

Watch this video to see how to install Wordpress on your GoDaddy hosting account:

Note that the username and password information used for FTP is those entered when setting the website.

Next step: adding Wordpress plugins and selecting a theme.

Stay tuned!

This is the first time I try GoDaddy and I gotta say that setting up the account is a little bit more complicated than with HostGator or HostPapa. 1and1 is a bit complicated too.

The way GoDaddy hosting works is that once you’ve signed up, you must “setup a website” which will be made available in the next 24 hours. I like instant processing better but I’ll survive.

Take note that I’ve chose to use PHP5 as PHP4 is deprecated and no longer supported. Here’s how to setup your website within your GoDaddy account:

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