Since I’m on a roll today, I might as well keep ranting. For some strange reason I can’t get WP Super Cache WordPress plugin to work correctly. I’ve read the installation docs and searched and searched for a solution. The static pages are being cached but not sent to the browser and my .htaccess file keeps getting overwritten by the plugin. There are a lot of plugins running on this blog that I can use for comparison, so I decided to rate the plugin at WordPress.org. Well, guess what their voting script is broken. Jeeeez!

After further testing, I have concluded that Godaddy hosting is inadequate even for very, very low traffic sites (10 to 20 visitors per day). This blog is on a Godaddy hosting account at the moment, test it for yourself now. Notice how long those tiny graphic files take to load?

I would recommend that you shop around before making the leap. It can take a LOT of time to move websites. I’m currently reading the hosting reviews at this website.

I have made the decision to move my entire account including domains, Linux hosting account, and will be terminating my virtual server.  It is obvious that they oversell their hosting.  Believe me, I would not be taking the time to move all of my websites if Godaddy could have solved the problem. Their customer service did respond to my issues but claimed that they couldn’t find a problem.  Well there is a problem and it appears to be due to overloaded database & web servers.

I hope you find this article before using their hosting, because Godaddy hosted sites are becoming well known for being slow and sluggish! Learn from my mistakes, read a lot of reviews before deciding.

Verisign must be growing tired of Demand Media’s mishandling of the .TV extension. It appears they have a new deal brewing with Dotster for registration of dot tv domains. This is the most exciting news I’ve seen since Current.tv won an Emmy award in 2007.  I was just about ready to write off .TV but now there appears to be a glimmer of hope. If Verisign can get a deal done with Tuvalu that extends their contract past 2012, we might, just might, have a winner in Dot TV!

It’s about bedtime and Ahead.tv has not released the daily drop list. In 4 hours, there will be around 200 .TV domains dropping and maybe one or two really, really good ones. It takes about 30 minutes to review the list and make my picks and then another hour or two to prepare the drop team. There may be a great domain dropping but I’m going to give up and get to bed, 6:00am comes early. Goodnight.

This blog is now faster even on Godaddy! I never really appreciated the amount of time it takes to load a PHP engine and make database calls. The WP Super Cache for WordPress minimizes the need for this by caching the webpages and serving them as static html files. I’m still working on getting the static pages to load and will update everyone once I get the entire plugin working.

The WordPress All-in-One SEO Pack is a “must have” for any serious WordPress blogger. After installing the plugin which is available at WordPress.org, traffic coming from Google has increased dramatically. For some reasons there seems to be a lot of interest in slow Godaddy hosting. Those posts generate the most traffic.

Today, I purchased by first server since selling Oceanweb Computer Services. I have been testing my DLS connection for several months and recently aquired a static IP address. The upload is over 700Kbs and will work nicely for serving text pages and low traffic hosting. My new server is a Dell PowerEdge 2650 with dual Xeon 2.8 cpu, 2GB ram, and 3-73GB SCSI with hardware raid card. Ebay price only $299 plus $40 shipping.

The MicroGuy network will now consist of a Godaddy Deluxe Hosting account, a Godaddy Virtual Linux server, a Windows 2003 Dedicated server at The Planet, and my new PowerEdge server running on Embarq 750Kbs DSL (5Mbs DL), 1 desktop workstation, and a notebook machine. The new puppy will be running Windows Vista Business Edition since I’m not shelling out big $$$ for Windows server.

Time for my weekly bitch about Godaddy’s slow hosting. They need to put a little link in the hosting control panel that says, “click here to upgrade your hosting account to a non-slow-ass account”.  I know it’s not just me because I’ve read in MANY other blogs about the fact that Godaddy hosting is slow. Now the question becomes, will they finally step up and do something about it? Attention Godaddy: When you put 365,411 websites on one server, it makes the server slow!!

Update! After months of testing, I am now convinced that MediaTemple is the best cloud hosting solution on Earth. Click here to try it for yourself!

How many people are working at Microsoft trying to figure out how to slow down my computer? Everytime that Microsoft releases a new OS update my pc runs slower. Over the past 15 years I have seen this time and time again. There must be an entire team at MicroSoft dedicated to making older machines obsolete so folks are forced to buy new ones. Why else would a standard PC running the same OS version run slower after each and every update. I have a customer running Windows 98 with the latest service packs and updates that runs at least 50% slower than the day it was purchased. There are no viruses, very little software, plenty of disk space, basically it’s the same machine and setup just with the latest updates and a bad case of the MSOS bloated syndrome blues.