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:
Once you’ve setup your account you should get a confirmation email within 24 hours. While I didn’t get this email and since I run my own mail server, I know it hasn’t been caught in any anti-spam. I’ve taken a look at my account about six hours later and the website was active though.
You can check your active websites list by clicking on Hosting Account List from your GoDaddy control panel.
Now if you have registered your domain with a third party registrar, the next thing you wanna do is to have your domain’s DNS changed to use GoDaddy’s nameservers. The default nameservers for your hosting account depend on the day you set up your hosting. Follow this link to find out which nameservers to use.
Once you’ve changed your nameservers, it can take up to 48 hours for all the change to propagate around the globe. You should now have a domain name pointing to an empty GoDaddy hosting account.
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