Do I need Godaddy ?

GoDaddy does not, to the best of my knowledge, have a WordPress ‘version.’ They do have an install script, but it’s free last I heard.

Are you sure the $48 wasn’t just for your hosting?

Please do not let GoDaddy confuse you. They are a great place to get a low price domain, but there is no need for special hosting. [advertisement redacted]

true, and also their prices for domain name not that great also. i’m using a host company with better deal for hosting and cheaper prices for domain.
do some search.

I work for a small web development company, we build custom solutions in ColdFusion as well as do standard html, and also develop in WordPress.

Our hosting, which is $150 yearly, is more expensive than GoDaddy. I recently did a website for a friend, and I set him up on GoDaddy because the yearly hosting was waaaaaaay cheaper than charging him for hosting through my work place.

Now… I’m not about to give him tech support *wink* which is why I set him up on GoDaddy. But GoDaddy didn’t charge any special ‘hosting’ fee for the WordPress set up. The hosting for ‘WordPress’ was the same as any standard hosting account – it just so happened to have the files for install ‘right there’.

Now, if you can find cheaper hosting and cheaper domain names else where? Have at it. I just set my friend up at GoDaddy because we buy all our domains from them at our office and I’ve never once had a bad customer support experience with them (and we purchase some 150+ domain names per year).

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NOBODY needs Godaddy. Their site led me to a place where it looked as thought I had to pay $2.99 to upgrade the server for WordPress and it turned out to be something else entirely.

I highly recommend Hostgator.

I have hosting through GoDaddy and installed Word Press for free through their apps link (they also have Joomla among other CMS apps). My initial install was not successful and I could not figure out why but I sent their support a mail and they quickly reinstalled it and got it up and running. I think their service is excellent, but you pay a premium for it. As a newbie to web publishing, I appreciate having the support, but more advanced players can probably save a bundle on hosting somewhere else.

Okay, since we don’t permit hosting rec. threads, I’m closing this.

You need A webhost to run self-hosted WordPress.

Find one you like ??