Answers.Body: <p>I would say that it will probably be ok, but I wouldn't add it to your existing public-facing site. I would setup a subdomain for it and not install any other plugins, allow account creation or use it in a public way (except for CRM tasks like event registration, etc.)</p>
  
  <p>Exploits of WordPress via plugins and themes are common, especially with the default permissions in a shared hosting environment like you describe. Keeping good backups is enough mitigation of this for a regular website, but you will have people's private information in this database, so you need to be much more careful.
  Personally, I wouldn't be eager to do it, but if you have no other option, it is possible, just keep it separate from your main website.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I am handling membership (about 600 dues-paying members) for a small "shoestring" non-profit using spreadsheets and it is a pain. We have a GoDaddy hosted website (cheapest economy plan) using WordPress. It looks like CiviCRM may be a good choice for us. Will it work if added to our existing GoDaddy environment or will we need a larger, more powerful server? Sorry, I don't have or understand all the technical specifications. :-(</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Install it, see how it goes, put a small test transaction through. It's dense, but https://docs.civicrm.org/sysadmin/en/latest/requirements/ will tell you what you need, compare that to what GoDaddy's plan provides.
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ThreadText: # GoDaddy Compatability
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-10-01)
  
  I am handling membership (about 600 dues-paying members) for a small "shoestring" non-profit using spreadsheets and it is a pain. We have a GoDaddy hosted website (cheapest economy plan) using WordPress. It looks like CiviCRM may be a good choice for us. Will it work if added to our existing GoDaddy environment or will we need a larger, more powerful server? Sorry, I don't have or understand all the technical specifications. :-(
  
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  > **username_1**: Install it, see how it goes, put a small test transaction through. It's dense, but https://docs.civicrm.org/sysadmin/en/latest/requirements/ will tell you what you need, compare that to what GoDaddy's plan provides.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2019-10-01. Score: 1
  
  I would say that it will probably be ok, but I wouldn't add it to your existing public-facing site. I would setup a subdomain for it and not install any other plugins, allow account creation or use it in a public way (except for CRM tasks like event registration, etc.)
  
  Exploits of WordPress via plugins and themes are common, especially with the default permissions in a shared hosting environment like you describe. Keeping good backups is enough mitigation of this for a regular website, but you will have people's private information in this database, so you need to be much more careful.
  Personally, I wouldn't be eager to do it, but if you have no other option, it is possible, just keep it separate from your main website.
  
  
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