Hi Richard,
I'm very pleased with your Access courses so far...great instruction. I am planning to build a database that will enable a member on my site to look for a participating service provider (I'm connecting potential consumers to providers). As I do this, I am looking to find some basic setup guidance. I plan to have Go Daddy host (already bought the domains with them, but not subscribed to hosting yet) and as I look at setting up my Access database, I noticed there is an option to build a "Blank Database" or a "Blank Web database". If I plan to use my DB on the web with Go Daddy hosting, do I need to use the 2nd (Web)DB option? My concern is that I can only build in datasheet mode with the "Web" DB option in MS Access 2010.
Thanks for all the help!

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Reply from Richard Rost:

I do highly recommend GoDaddy for your hosting. I've tried several other providers and none of them come close to the level of service, quality, and up-time that I've experienced with GoDaddy.

Make sure you get MICROSOFT HOSTING and not LINUX HOSTING. You want to be able to use the Frontpage extensions to manage your site with FP or Expression Web. You can just copy an Access database to your web and read/write to/from the database using ASP and the techniques I cover in my Web Database Seminar and/or Access Web Sync Seminar. It requires a little bit of programming, but it's the best, most secure way.

With that said, if you want to build an actual WEB DATABASE using Access 2010 then you need SHAREPOINT hosting. Now I just spent about 15 minutes doing a search on GoDaddy's site and I cannot find any Sharepoint hosting plans! Talk about bad web design. So I sent an email to their customer support asking them what plan you need to host a Sharepoint database. I'll let you know when I get a reply.

In the mean time, I know there are a dozen other companies out there that offer Sharepoint hosting. If you just Google "sharepoint access hosting" you'll see what I mean. I would hold off though and wait until I get a reply from GoDaddy. They're my first choice for anything hosting related (which is funny because my MAIN web site is hosted at a different, local facility, and I register my domain names through a different company... haha).