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GoDaddy - Setup My Hosting Account

Posted on timeDecember 28th, 2008 by userneil    flagComments Off


GoDaddy - Setup My Hosting Account

In order to try out using Sandvox with a GoDaddy hosted site, I bought a economy Linux Hosting account at [GoDaddy] and at the same time I bought a domain name from them, to go with it.

This is a step-by-step tutorial of what I did to setup the hosting account with GoDaddy. I did this before I tried to publish to the site host from Sandvox.

I find the GoDaddy interface very confusing. Their only concern seems to be need to sell you more. Every link within the Admin account seems to be for an extra buy-in add-on. Their help references are poor. They spam me with multiple emails to buy more from them and there is always one more that I haven’t quite unsubcribed from.

I do NOT recommend using GoDaddy as a Host.

01. I went to GoDaddy.com and Logged In

I used my Customer Number and password that I created during the original purchase.

02. On the Home section, I clicked: Hosting > My Hosting Account

03. License: I tick the Agreement and clicked Next

04. Login: I created and filled in the New User Login name and password

This is a different username and password from that used to log in to GoDaddy in Step 01.

05. I clicked Next

06. Account Details: The domain I purchased was automatically selected. I clicked Next.

07. Options: I left the default settings unchanged. I clicked Next.

08. Confirmation: I check all was OK

09. I clicked Finish

10. The next screen said the Status was Pending

11. Congratulations: Confirmed on the same page as Step 10

12. I clicked on the View Account List button on the same page as Step 10

13. The List confirmed the Status was ‘Pending Setup’

14. After about 15 minutes I received an email saying the Account was Active

When I went to view my account I now saw the Account Summary of the Active account.

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