GoDaddy WebHosting in Europe

londoner2009

I see GoDaddy now offer hosting in Europe - the package I've seen is their Deluxe Package which seems to have most of what I need. however their email limits seem tiny - 250 out going emails a day seems very low - say for example you want to create a forum like this that send out an instant email notifaction when a reply comes it - that would soon be reached.

But overall the package price seems good about £70 for 2 years with a 25% off promo code applied, etc

Does anyone have a better deal (better promo code?)

Also any stories about GoDaddy Hosting experiences both good and bad?

most of what I want to do is things like PHP . MySQL, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc

LA2019

There is only 2 main reasons I can think of to host your site in Europe, 1 is for legal liability reasons, have no idea on the legalities of any site but I do know that anyone who would possibly want to sue you in the USA must, if you host in Europe, launch an international legal dispute and I have heard these things can work out very costly to those who may have a grudge against your site or it's content.

The second is if you are using a .co.uk name (without your whois information kept private as a private citizen and not a business) but then ideally, geographically the server you are hosted on needs to be in the UK too if you want to have Google give you an advantage (which will be nothing or less if you don't have what people want or is not something attractive to Googles spider and algorithms).

Other than that, I have always used USA hosting, it's cheaper and just as reliable.

Personally I use Jaguarpc.com but I hear people say good and bad things about godaddy.com and hostgator.com

I guess it all depends on what your site(s) is for, how busy it gets etc etc

londoner2009

well the reason most people want to be hosted in Europe is if they're based in Europe along with most of their visitors

My current host did have UK based servers but has since moved everythign to the USA and I have noticed a slow down.

There's only so many routes for internet to go from the UK to the USA - I believe GoDaddy uses servers in the Netherlands so that should hopefully be faster

qw3rt7

GoDaddy is pretty good for domains, and pretty awfull for hosting in my (and many other peoples!) opinion. The backend is a bad joke (why not just use plesk or cPanel?) and the performance for anything dynamic (my experience was wordpress and custom php/mySQL) was very poor.

For cheap generic shared hosting hostgator have been very good in my experience, and i believe they have UK servers if you like, though i have had no problems with their Texas based ones.

However, forums are notoriously resource hungry beasts, and any reasonably successful one would soon get your shared account canned. Depending on the scale of the project in mind you might want to consider a VPS package. That way you know how much resources are available to you, you can monitor performance, and expand fairly easily if need be.