GoDaddy lied lol. Wordpress is only about 44% of websites online, 63% of the CMS market. A LOT of that is because of the super user-friendly blog style to it. You can run a wordpress site with zero programming knowledge which is appealing to people who want to run a little site. ASP.net is about 6%, still I think GoDaddy might have just wanted to ship you out the easiest option available if you hired them to make a website.

Wordpress is a no-code platform so naturally it's used by more people, whereas ASP.NET is all code.  Your tasks and needs determine what platform to use.  You may want to try no-code or low-code to see if they suit your needs.  That was what I did in the 1990s.  I used a database tool called Alpha 5 that had very little coding, but found that I needed more, so I moved to Access.

GoDaddy sucks. There's a reason why I left them three years ago and never looked back. I've been with 4 or 5 different service providers over the 20 years I've been running this site. GoDaddy was BY FAR the worst of them all.

So my first bit of advice to you is: RUN! Get as far away from GoDaddy as possible. I recommend WinHost.

As far as my SQL Server seminar goes, it's designed to work with SQL SERVER. I don't know if it will work with MySQL. I've never used MySQL. I would assume once you get the connection string right, it MIGHT work. But again, I don't know.

And I don't use ASP.NET. I use Classic ASP. It's been around for decades. It's solid, stable, tried, tested, and true. The website you're using right now is built with Classic ASP. Never had a problem... after leaving GoDaddy, that is.

So, if you want to learn what I am teaching, you have to get what I'm recommending you get. Classic ASP hosting from WinHost. It's less than $10/mo. If you get anything else, sorry, but you're on your own.

And to concur with what Adam said, according to GPT: "As of the most recent data, WordPress is used by around 43% of all websites on the internet. This percentage reflects WordPress's dominance as a content management system, enabling users to create, manage, and modify content on a website without needing specialized technical knowledge."

Now the GoDaddy rep might be saying 80% as a figure of speech. I do it too. "99% of nerds are Star Trek fans." I don't have data to support that, but it seems right. LOL. However I don't trust GoDaddy or the barely-paid foreign support staff they employ. I've literally been on the phone with GoDaddy support and had to explain TO THEM how things work.

Thanks, I agree.  I have made the move to leave GoDaddy and move the WinHost, the account is already setup. I have a simple HTML site that worked good, I had no reason to move to WordPress but did it anyway.  Now I am switching back.  I'll give Classic ASP a try, following what you present in class.  Has to be better than my previous choices. I had a WordPress programmer setup a database table in WordPress and that did not work out, exporting data, importing data etc. What a waste of effort.