I have really enjoyed my blogging experience to date.  I have installed WordPress many times in the past, but someone else set the site up.  When my friend Matt built my hockey team website (tnt-hockey.com) with WordPress, I figured it was time to learn how to USE  WordPress (You know this if you have been following the site for more than 9 days!).

Today I was chatting with Matt and he was complaining about how Godaddy’s web hosting service kind of sucked for WordPress.  Things like ftp uploads did not set permissions correctly on his files and permalink redirects taking 3+ hours to change.

I have a GoDaddy virtual server running CentOS (which effectively is my own Linux server on the Internet).  I offered to let Matt use my server for his blog.  I did this because he is a friend; it will not cost me anything; he turned me on to WordPress; and he did build a pretty awesome hockey site.

From the moment Matt said okay, I have:

  • Added a directory for his new site (muelface.com)
  • Created a blank database for WordPress
  • Gaven Matt the IP address of the server
  • Configured Apache for Matt’s site
  • Downloaded the latest version of WordPress
  • Dropped WordPress to the appropriate directory
  • Connected to muelface.com admin screen, and configured the database

This entire process took less than 4 minutes.  WordPress was up and rockin, waiting for Matt to put his theme in and blog his first post!

I want to share with all of you just how awesome WordPress is, GoDaddy virtual servers are, and give Matt a little motivation to get that theme in place and get his first post up SOON.  ;)

Good luck Matt!

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