They were voted top 10 web hosting for the web host awards in October 2006, and continually set standards for value and price in the web hosting industry.
Value & Price
Go Daddy offers a lot of different hosting plans at incredibly affordable rates. They're the world's largest hostname provider and were in the top 10 web host awards for October 2006. They offer a colossal amount of hosting, domain, and reseller plans. Their best deal comes in their deluxe plan. With just a one year commitment, it costs $6.29 per month and includes an amazing 100 Gigabytes of space and 1,000 GB of transfer.
All of GoDaddy's shared hosting plans include:
- At least 1000 Free email accounts;
- At least 25 MySQL Databases;
- A minimum of 50 email forwards and no maximum (unlimited);
- Forums, photo galleries, blogging, and a variety of free pre-installed and add-on software applications;
- 24/7 FTP access;
- Free website stats,
- ASP, ASP.NET, and Microsoft FrontPage extensions;
- Daily backups.
- Free setup;
- No advertising on your site, guaranteed;
- No free domains upon signup; they cost $1.99 a piece with your purchase;
- 24/7 email, telephone, and Web-based tech support;
- Top-of-the- line routers, firewalls and servers;
- 24/7 physical security.
Reliability
Go Daddy has a 99.9% uptime guarantee on the network, meaning your website is guaranteed to be up and running all the time. Scalability is one of Go Daddy's main advantages over similar competing hosts. They offer an extremely large variety of upgrade options on everything from dedicated IPs, to SSL, to domain auctions and reseller accounts. Go Daddy has lots of little steps for improving your online presence and ensuring your site stays up and running consistently.
Control Panel
GoDaddy boasts its own proprietary control panel with a variety of menus, including those for managing and controlling email, websites, customer information, secure certifications, and much more. An easy, icon-based layout is generally easy to navigate, though it can get a bit cluttered in areas. The one slightly negative aspect of this control panel is that it makes you navigate through more windows than you should have to, but this is minor and not too much of a bother when you get used to it.
Customer Support
Go Daddy offers 24 hour phone support, but it's not toll free. They maintain that this is actually more effective as it allows the people who really need help to get through over those who are just wasting time. GoDaddy maintains that this allows them to cut costs and offer consistently low hosting prices; however, e-mail support and other online help is also available. |
