Hello,

I developed my site locally on my laptop (this is my first install ad I'm learning it from scratch) - and so far, its been a very rewarding experience. Thank you to everyone of you who've made this possible.

My dilemmas cropped up today when I decided to migrate my site to GoDaddy.com. I have a deluxe hosting account. The first problem I realized is that GoDaddy does not allow direct access to SQL Server databases remotely. So I've had to export my scripts and run them on the server (create tables etc...). Now I'm walking through creating insert statements to be able to migrate my data from my laptop the remote database.

Here are my concerns: (1) Is this even a recommended way of installing DNN? Meaning I developed locally and I'm migrating the database as well as the files to the server remotely? (2) My biggest fear with GoDaddy.com is whether down the road, if I need to make a copy of my production to say my development machine, I would be able to do so - and whether this may kill my progress.

Put simply, I want to know if my concerns are exaggerated and whether a lot of you veterans have been using GoDaddy for years and can swear by it - or whether there are any of you who have been burnt by using them and realizing when it was too late (and would be kind to share and advise...)... If you would, please let me know if there are other good hosts I need to examine who have smoother migration paths than what I'm describing here...

Thanks a lot.

Cole

GoDaddy is better than some, worse than others.  If you haven't signed up for an account yet, evaluate the hosting companies that sponsor this site.  Most will be better for DNN and more expensive, but you might find a combination you prefer.

Jeff

I have no experience with GoDaddy.  I am using WebHost4Life.

Once I started running Snapsis PageBlaster and scheduled a task on a server to pull up the keepalive.aspx page (every 20 minutes), I get a fairly decent response time.