So again, something I have come across many times over is people still having trouble connecting to MySQL databases from their GoDaddy Windows hosting accounts. First and foremost, traditional methods do not allow for this. But why you ask? The MySQL connector itself requires a full trust environment. GoDaddy has their servers limited to medium trust for security reasons. Thus, a full trust DLL will then always throw an error in a medium trust environment. This explains most all of the errors people get when trying to go about things in this manner. » Read the Rest
One thing I have come across time and time again are fellow developers who are completely perplexed by the GoDaddy GDform.asp form mailer. What they often times do not realize is that this is not the only method available to them; GoDaddy also allows for the use of the CDONTS and CDOSYS functionalities. Proof of this can be found in the GoDaddy help knowledge base found here: http://help.godaddy.com/article/1485
The CDOSYS functionality is what I am going to focus on here as it is what I personally use and have had amazing results with. It uses the System.Net.Mail namespace and can be used with all of the Windows hosting accounts on the GoDaddy network. Certain hosting accounts however do have some limitations as to how many messages can go out in a day, which I will discuss later in this post. If you want to check out the GoDaddy help knowledge base article on using CDOSYS functionalities feel free to check it out at the following URL, however rest assured that I am going to simplify it for you a bit: http://help.godaddy.com/article/1073 » Read the Rest