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I just set up a new “economy hosting” plan with Godaddy.com for a project that I’m working on. I have heard both good and bad things about Godaddy’s hosting, but this site doesn’t require much space or transfer, so I’m not really concerned about having a top notch host right now.

Here’s what I got, and how much it cost.
12 months Economy Hosting (Shared Linux): $43.09
12 months Dedicated Hosting IP: $35.88
12 months Turbo SSL: $19.99
Total cost for the year was $98.96

Not a bad price for a dedicated IP and the SSL certificate. The user interface, however, leaves much to be desired. It just seems pretty clunky to me. Also for that price, you can only host one domain name. It would only be another $30/ year or so to add capability to host multiple sites.

So far…
Pros:
- Cheap hosting
- Cheap SSL
- Cheap Dedicated IP

Cons:
- User Interface
- Only able to host one domain

Parsing PHP code on pages with HTML extensions
Usually with shared hosting, we are forced to use the .htaccess file to change any configurations in the apache server, such as parsing PHP on a page with a .html extension. I have done this many times, but when I attempted to use my regular .htaccess entry, it didn’t work. The browser tried to download my index.html page.

After doing some searching, here’s what worked. (Godaddy shared linux hosting)

For PHP 4
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php .html

For PHP 5
AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php .html

As I said, I just bought this, so I’ll update this page with any significant findings.