Website Hosting Reviews

Go Daddy Review

About Go Daddy Hosting

GoDaddy.com is the world's largest domain name registrar and is the flagship company of The Go Daddy Group, Inc. Go Daddy has become the world's #1 choice for domains by providing innovative, competitively-priced products, delivering the highest quality customer service, and by always appreciating and listening to its customers!

Reliability

Even though Go Daddy is an eclectic company with many irons in the fire beyond hosting-only, they nonetheless own, operate, and support their own world-class data centers outright (as opposed to renting them like so many hosting-only companies do). The routers, firewalls, and servers running your site are all best-of-breed, and monitored round the clock. That means all your data is secured as well as the physical systems and structures supporting it.

Price Value

All Go Daddy customers can count on 24/7 FTP access, free website stats, ASP, ASP.NET, and Microsoft FrontPage extensions, and daily backups. There are no setup fees and no annual commitment required (though of course the bargains increase with your level of commitment). And even the least expensive GoDaddy plan promises no advertising will appear on your site. Also, though domains are not free upon signup, as they are with so many competing hosts, they only cost $1.99 a piece with your purchase, which is really a pittance.

Control Panel

GoDaddy touts its own proprietary control panel, though you'd be hard pressed to find a sample or demo of it anywhere on their site (or anywhere else on the net for that matter). As with most control panels, there are a careful selection of task-centered menus (Domain Names, Email, Websites, Secure Certs, Customer Info, etc.) all selectable by clicking on large, obvious buttons. Some of the menus however, like the Domain Control Panel, are a bit crowded and could use some spring cleaning in the layout department.

Customer Support

Go Daddy offers 24/7 telephone support (though not toll free), plus an elaborate and searchable Help Center, no less than 30 topic-specific .PDF User Guides, category-specific email support with a 7 hour response time.

Summary

GoDaddy.com is increasingly becoming popular and thus far remains a favorite for domain registrations. In fact, according to Webhosting.info it is growing at a rapid pace. Credit goes to their affordable pricing structures. The packages include domain registration and hosting websites. These services are priced at a very low cost. The website offers free 24/7 support. The hosting plans do not require any set up fee, no pop-ups and are a reliable company for hosting your websites. The hosting plans are divided into three categories catering to the person’s or organization’s requirement. The most basic plan i.e. economy plan starts at $3.99 per month for two months offering 5GB space. The site additionally offers virtual and dedicated servers. Furthermore, it gives a commitment of 99.9% of network uptime.