I thought that I would share some interesting information that I found out this week as a Godaddy.com Deluxe Shared Hosting subscribee. Well on my site that is hosted by them, I found out that they have something callled Metropolis which is free for Dexluxe Shared Hosting Subcribers. Now with Metropolis you get some free promotional tools like a Forum and a Blog. So for example if you have
www.somesite.com and you wanted to add a blog or a forum you can for free... and the great part of it is that it would be a part of your overall domain name. So for example if you added the blog and the forum you would now have
www.blog.somesite.com and
www.forum.somesite.com etc.
Now here is the catch. These two specific tools are available only if you're using their Linux hosting package. If you're using their windows hosting package(like I am at the moment) you can switch it over to Linux for no charge in your Hosting Manager or you can simply call them up and they'll do it for you.
However you must use a MySQL database as opposed to a SQL Server database. Otherwise you won't be able to make the switch. Now remember as a Dexluxe Shared Hosting Subcriber you get 25 MySQL databases, 25 SQL Server Databases and 25 Access Databases for free.
But with Linux you can only use the MySQL. So this also means that if you have existing tables in your SQL Server as I do, then you'll have to migrate the data over to MySQL. Which is not that hard to do.
Plus if you don't know how then they have Documentation on how to do it in your MySQL admin so it gives you a chance to learn something new.
I think this is worth it since you do end up having a blog and forum tool. Just wanted to share this information as I think it's very valuable.
Not to mention a Linux server is much more stable than Windows and for those of you who use Godaddy and end up getting a JRun server error from time to time which causes you to experience downtime then this will eliminate that problem.
One final thing to mention though is that if your site is built in .NET you can forget all of this. But if its in PHP or Coldfusion, then it's a gem of a find.
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