While we're big dreamhost fans here at Simple Subjects, a lot of our customers use GoDaddy for hosting. So we thought it'd make sense to provide a few pointers on GoDaddy installation:
After downloading the Joomla files, unzipping them, and uploading them to your server via FTP, you'll need to take the following steps:
- In the GoDaddy Hosting Manager click the MySQL icon to setup an SQL database. Go ahead and choose a name for your database. (It doesn't matter what the name is, but it'll have to be something that nobody else has used before, so it might take a try or two.)
- Choose a password. Click Continue, then click Create Database.
- Write down the database name and the host name that it gives you. These will be used on the "Database Configuration" step of your Joomla installation.
Other than that, you should be good-to-go by following the normal Joomla installation instructions.
Installing Joomla with GoDaddy
GoDaddy are one of the largest and least expensive web hosts around. We run a number of websites on GoDaddy with no issues and are quite satisfied with the performance.