Making of…
So apparently godaddy is the biggest domain reseller in the world, which is how I initially bought this.
First off, godaddy’s website is a piece of shit. I can’t find my way anywhere through the ads and its just badly designed. The price for purchasing the domain seemed cheap and they did offer some sortof free hosting, I thought. I believe I clicked through about 5 pages of “do you want this upgrade” before I could get the free hosting. Turns out there is no easy way to install WordPress with their “free” hosting. I tried doing it manually but I really don’t know what I’m doing and it just wasn’t working. This was not helped by the fact that I couldn’t find any shell access to my site and the myAdmin style control panel was unintelligably crappy.
So I drew the conclusion that I would probably have to actually pay for hosting, no big deal, but guess what, I’m not buying it from you godaddy. JustHost has a much better site and turns out their control panel and pretty much everything about it feels more usable and professional.
Apparently godaddy wasn’t even the real registrar for this domain, enom was. Who is also selling jamesdev.net for about a third of the price listed at godaddy, huh? When I tried to create an account it became clear to me that enom wasn’t interested in selling me anything unless I was willing to invent a fictitious domain reseller business.
Since JustHost offered to transfer my domain for free when I purchased hosting I figured that would be a good idea if it meant I never had to visit godaddy’s site again. So, I got an email from pipe DNS requesting authorization for the transfer. Turns out they are another registrar, visited their site, and it looks fabulously simple and clean of ads, bingo!
One well designed site for managing my domain: pipe DNS
One well designed site for managing my hosting: JustHost
Maybe this will work out.
I’ve learned that it’s always better to go with the small providers. They still have the urge to compete with prices and services.
Good luck, I’ll keep an eye out for your blog.
Welcome to the world of web hosting and installing apps
What sort of stuff are you going to be blogging about?
This is my first venture into the world of web tubes. What will I be blogging about? More specific than game development, programming, random thoughts … I can’t say. But it probably won’t be advice from an expert web-developer
What a nice surprise. So far I love everything you’ve written. This should be fun.
Don’t know how to put a picture in.
Hi Robin! I don’t see any way to select a picture either, I’m still working it out as I go…
To get a picture by your name, you can setup a Gravatar account, it is very fast and safe to do. But also totally not necessary ‘-)