I’ve gotten a number of e-mails in response to a comment I made on a post about installing Wordpress GoDaddy hosting. Given the response I’ve gotten, I thought it was a good idea to provide my PHP.INI file that I’ve set up to other people looking for this. You can download it below.

The file is a complete PHP.INI file with all the configuration options you’d find in a full PHP installation. I’ve changed a few key settings that I found most important, such as max upload size and post size, allowing for high resolution photos to be uploaded.

If you have questions or suggestions about other ways to customize this file further, please leave a comment on this post.

GoDaddy-Optimized PHP.INI File

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Have you seen all those web hosting ads like the one on the right or those bluegrid favicons and wondered what the…? Well, stay tuned, because here’s the scoop on Bluehost web hosting.

Bluehost has hosted Turnipofpower.com for almost 5 months now. Since I’ve recently been promoting a “Special Offer” on my website for Bluehost, Bluetrick was kind enough to give me an opportunity to promote the offer and explain why I think Bluehost Hosting is a good deal. First of all, here are some stats:

Their Cheapest Plan

• $6.95 per month on a 2 year package - There are no other hidden costs or fees. No sucker packages that trick new people into signing up and then find out they can’t even run WordPress.
• Bandwidth: 15k GB per month
• Space: 1500 GB
• Domains: Unlimited Addon, Unlimited Parked Domains, Unlimited Subdomains
• MySQL: 50 Databases
• Control Panel you can demo ahead of time. Fantastico Support. Great support forums and tech support
• Several Affiliate Programs

The Good

For those new to blogging, let’s break down those stats into something useful. I run 4 WordPress blogs, 4 subdomains, 2 addon domains, 4 MySQL databases, yet only use 1% of my bandwidth! In theory I could buy 49 additional domains, add them to the same control panel as addon domains, install 50 of copies WordPress using the 50 MySQL databases, and run 50 blogs all for $6.95 a month.

The Bad

Now for the bad. Shared hosting by definition means you share your server with other people. Some of the people are knowingly bad or are unknowingly stupid. Either way, it is possible for them to temporarily crash the server. When that happens all your sites go down at once. My sites have gone down on occasion, but always came back up before I finished my phone call to tech support. Tech support is honest and helpful. Last time I called they told me some scripter crashed the server, but they couldn’t kick him immediately because of a “3 strike policy”. Funnily enough, I found scripters who complained about their site going down without warning and getting bad customer service. I wish they’d just freakin’ kick them off right away, those damn spammers.

Dude, you’ve gotta commit for two years before you can even try it out?? C’mon now! I don’t even like to buy ice cream without tasting it first. This one’s definitely not for the commit-o-phobes.

In the end, you will find most reputable hosting companies (those not trying to trick you with sucker deals) all offer similar packages with similar options at similar pricing. What separates them is customer service and an active support community. To entice my readers into using Bluehost, I’ve been offering the following Turnip Special Offer: Those who sign up for Bluehost using the link on my site receive 1000 Entrecredits once their site is set up. I will even walk you through getting WordPress set up on your blog using instant messaging. Some trusting souls have given me the passwords to their account, picked a theme, and said “Go!”. I don’t recommend that method in the interest of security, but it does make things quick. Just email me after Bluehost has called you to confim your hosting package is all set.

And that folks is round 2 for web hosting tales. Not a ton of dirt on this one. Stay tuned as the saga continues.

tag: bluehost

How to Start an Internet Business without Capital

I often meet new Internet marketers on various forums
and they aspire to earn the big bucks like some of the
well-known personas out there.

However, most of these new marketers have only the
slightest ideas on where to start, and a lot of them
are not willing or able to invest a startup capital in
their online business.

However, it is almost impossible to start an Internet
business without spending some money on basic
infrastructure such as hosting, domain names
and so on.

Hence, here is a rough guide on how to build an
Internet business starting with $0.

The first and most important thing to do is to list
out all your skills. What skills do you…

Click Here To Download (PDF 339 KB)

This ebook contains three links to ClickBank
products and one link to TheBestofWWW
Software which are listed as additional resources.

You can rebrand the links with your own ClickBank
username & TheBestofWWW ID# or have redirection
links pointing to the resource.

A link back to your website can also be branded into
Internet Business For Newbies 

Click Here To Re-Brand

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