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Hosting a PostNuke Blog on the Cheap
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Given that I have chosen to host my FIS blog on a commercial hosting service, the service which I have opted to use for this purpose bears some mention. Godaddy is among the cheapest of major commercial hosting companies to offer a relatively full-featured hosting solutions (i.e., web, mail, database, CGI), and its offering is really only remarkable for its slightly cheaper price for basic services, as compared to the majority of its competitors. At $3.95USD/month for mail, PHP, 1 MySQL database supported by PHPMyAdmin and domain registration presently for free, it's at least on par with the general mass of dirt cheap virtual hosting options available right now.
Complaints are relatively few, given the price. It goes without saying (or at least it should), that Godaddy makes a point of leaving out a variety of potentially necessary services for which they will charge you substantial additional fees should you need them. Probably the most absurd of these is access to one's access log. Godaddy has a graphical log processing suite for which it will charge you an additional price. But even simple access to Apache's ACCESS_LOG or ERROR_LOG for your site will not be available unless you sign up for said plan. That should be unacceptable to anyone who is serious about building a productive and professional website. But then again, if you're serious about building a productive and professional website on $3.95, you likely need a serious reality check first and foremost.
This tried and true pricing scheme Godaddy puts into contemporary practice might seem a bit unreasonable, but Godaddy would likely quite fairly contest that $3.95/mo for full-featured hosting is pretty unreasonable, if that's what you expected you were going to get. What you have here is, by way of analogy, the movie theatre gouging you for the popcorn, once they've taken a loss on the ticket sale. That's the deal. One lives with it, or goes elsewhere.
A variety of additional services are merely trivial fluff or options catering towards persons new to webdesign, in need of a helping hand through the process. These are probably worthwhile contributions to the service package for those who wish them and need help getting their first message board or photo gallery of the ground.
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