I have one site hosted at godaddy, its a gallery with a forum attached to it, this year i haven't updated the gallery much, and the forum is very small but the MySQL DB Backups from there seem to grow larger than i expect them to. Like if i was adding plenty of photos (which i haven't recently) then i would expect the file to be bigger, but ive not. Anyone else noticed this? I really should move away from godaddy, but because they have their own control panel and i would be moving to hosting preferably with cPanel, im nervous about any problems that i might encounter. Also i think i read somewhere before that godaddy have a mysql db size limit of 200mb i think.
I'm not sure about their limit but if you're looking to move into a cpanel server, after you get something I can help assist you into getting setup / settled in. What options do they have for getting a full dump of your DB and typically the DB wouldn't grow much because of a photo, your DB is only going to be placing a few items for location and such, not storing the actual pic itself.
Thanks, i appreciate it, thats what i was thinking too, it shouldn't grow so much so quickly. Because godaddy often give generic answers to specific questions, about 3 times in as many years ive contacted them to let them know that a mysql server is down, obviously affecting more than just my site there and i get the auto response that makes no sense, usually saying something about how they cant assist with individual database issues, i guess its the downside to large companies, less of that personal touch once they grow that big.
Hey man .. there is no db limit in godaddy .. but i think you should move to managed vps .. it will cost you about 40-60$ per month with c panel but you will see a great performance when your site loading i have 3 sites hosted with godaddy and 1 big board hosted on vps godaddy good for small sites only
I thought they did, managed vps is not necessary for the site, its fine on shared hosting, i just need to move it away from godaddy. My site loads fine at godaddy, i dont have overall issues with their hosting, i have all my domains registered at godaddy, just for database reasons i will move it away from there, plus i prefer cPanel too.
Ok why not to try hostgator shared hosting ? it is faster than godaddy - but 20db connection limit @ the same time - Godaddy 50 connection @ the same time
Im already with hostgator for some of my other sites but i intend to move those sites away from hostgator too, the reason: being on a shared server that has adult sites on it. I have no issues with speed or anything like that.