Say what you want about GoDaddy, but I think in the past 2 years they have really stepped up with their hosting packages. The new cPanel is very stable, clean, and super reliable. Adding additional sites to your host package takes 5 minutes. Installing the latest WordPress on a site? Done with a click of a button.
One issue you probably will encounter is the small file size restriction on your new GoDaddy WordPress site, which defaults to a paltry 2MBs. For shared VPN hosting, all you have to do is create a new user.ini file and save it in your webroot folder. Here are setttings to increase file uploads to 128MBs, which is probably more than enough for most sites. Don’t forget to also increase your file maximum timeout setting, too however, or the PHP upload script may timeout before your bigger files get uploaded, a common problem with servers. Many inexperienced server admins make the mistake of allowing larger file sizes but they don’t increase the script execution time!
Never heard of a user.ini file? Here’s some more details about it on GoDaddy’s website.
1 2 3 4 | upload_max_filesize = 128M post_max_size = 128M memory_limit = 128M max_execution_time = 600 |
Here’s a sample of what I have in one of my website’s “user.ini” file. By the way, “user.ini” is a special GoDaddy php.ini file they use on their hosting, it may be that if you are using a different hosting package that you need to put these settings in the php.ini file. Also, I have seen you will need to put a php.ini file in your WordPress /wp-admin folder in other hosts for WordPress to see your new file upload settings. You may also encounter that you did everything correctly but your host will override certain settings, if you find this is the case, you may have to upgrade or change hosts to accommodate the ability to upload larger file sizes.
