On Linux shared hosting accounts, you can view and end FTP, SSH, and Web connections. This gives you the ability to control connections to your server and to kill run-away scripts.

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Many people have had problems getting their Joomla email working for servers at GoDaddy. Here’s how I have my Windows shared hosting Joomla email settings configured:

• In Joomla, go to Site | Global Configuration
• On the Server tab, configure your Mail Setting as follows:

Mailer: SMTP Server
Mail from: your godaddy email address
From Name: your name
Sendmail path: usr/sbin/sendmail
SMTP Authentication: Yes
SMTP username: your godaddy email address
SMTP Password: your godaddy email password
SMTP Host: relay-hosting.secureserver.net

Other notes

People have suggested that the Contact you use on the Contact Us form needs to have the same email address as the one you use in the Mail Settings.

For other SMTP servers, it may be necessary to modify the SMTP port used (in the phpmail.php and/or smtp.php files). This should NOT be done for the relay-hosting.secureserver.net server. Leave it at port 25.

I upgraded my GoDaddy Windows Shared Hosting account recently to one that includes IIS7. However, I found that the error reporting for web pages stinks. Too often, I would see a generic “Error 500…” error, with no details about what caused it. Read more »

I called GoDaddy about my domain name localgeek.us.

They told me that it is possible to “park” the domain name at GoDaddy and have CNAME records for both the root domain name and “www.localgeek.us”, as well as leaving the other DNS records (MX, etc) intact.

To do this, you need to select “Parked my domain here” (not Custom).

Then create an “A” record for localgeek.us which points to 64.202.189.170.

NOTE: It’s important to use this specific GoDaddy IP address when doing this.

Then create CNAME records as shown below for subdomains.

Then setup domain forwarding to http://localgeek.is-a-geek.com

Note: When I parked the domain, it showed an IP address of 68.178.232.100 rather than the one above.

DNS Zone file

ls -d localgeek.us

[ns1.mydomain.com]

localgeek.us. NS ns1.mydomain.com

localgeek.us. NS ns2.mydomain.com

MX records

@ MX 10 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM

@ MX 20 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM

@ MX 20 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM

@ MX 30 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM

@ MX 30 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM

@ MX 30 ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM

@ MX 30 ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM

@ MX 60 SMTP.SECURESERVER.NET

@ MX 70 MAILSTORE1.SECURESERVER.NET

CNAME records

webmail CNAME ghs.google.com

start CNAME ghs.google.com

www CNAME localgeek.is-a-geek.com

ftp CNAME localgeek.is-a-geek.com

googleffffffff983143ba CNAME google.com

localgeek.us. CNAME localgeek.is-a-geek.com

sports CNAME localgeek.is-a-geek.com