GoDaddy Hosting Review
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** Domain Name Registration **

Introduction:
GoDaddy is the world’s largest privately held web hosting provider and domain name registrar. They started out as just a domain name registration company and have evolved over time to offer ancillary services including web hosting with a robust package and tons of advanced features.

This is really more of an ala cart web hosting experience as GoDaddy offers more types of web hosting plans than any other host we feature. This is great for the person who may want to get something up & online fast and may not have much need for functionality. For instance if you are just looking for a brochure web site to showcase your company information you can choose their web site tonight plan which comes with a free web site builder, 50 MB of space (which is plenty for a brochure site) 1GB of bandwidth, and the ability to create 5 web pages for your information.

They also offer the larger plans that feature unlimited domain hosting, a free SSL certificate, pod casting, and tons of other features. This way with GoDaddy you can start out small and grow, plus your domain name is registered there as well and GoDaddy incorporates everything into one control panel which makes it nice.

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Features:
  • Free Domain Name
  • Alias Domains
  • $19.99 SSL Certs
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    Price

    The pricing at GoDaddy varies from plan to plan. The GoDaddy economy plan goes as low as $2.80/mo and the premium plan starts at $14.95/mo. Again this is really an ala cart offering so each plan has different features and customizations. You do get the 24x7x365 support with every plan and the control panel interface to administrate your account and there are tons of value added features with each plan.

    If  you are not sure what you need and want to find a one stop shopping experience that offers tons of different selections then stop by GoDaddy and check out all of the offers.
    Score: 9.5/10
    Server Reliability And Performance
    GoDaddy is one of  the largest web hosting companies for several reasons and one of the best of those reasons is the quality of the best of breed hardware that they have always invested in to serve their customers needs.  Over the years their attention to the details of the evolving server hardware market has allowed GoDaddy to stay ahead of the curve & their competition to maintain one of the best reliability reputations in the industry.

    Score: 9.5/10
    Uptime

    GoDaddy has a world class Data Facility with 30,000 sq ft in their network operations center. They apply a DWDM multi 10 GB Ethernet backbone as well as multiple tier 1 bandwidth providers to ensure that their clients emails and web sites are lightening fast. The facility also has environmental controls, emergency power backups and 24x7x365 network monitoring.
    Score: 9.5/10
    Customer Service

    Customer service at GoDaddy is excellent and their representatives are very smart about all the different features and product offerings. You can dial up GoDaddy anytime day or night 24x7x365 and they have an advanced ticketing system  for email response which usually gets a response within an hour.
    Score: 9.5/10
    Customer Feedback

    There are probably millions of customer reviews about GoDaddy, lots of them very positive and some which complain about the ala cart style hosting offers, most of those people would prefer an all in one hosting service. Most of the people have great things to say about the GoDaddy backend control panel system, that the customer support is responsive and that the servers are very reliable.
    Score: 9/10
    Hosting Ratings:
    Server Reliability 8.5/10
    Performance and Uptime 8.5/10
    Customer Service 7.0/10
    Price 8.5/10
    User Feedback 6.5/10
    Overall Rating 78%
     
    Plan Specs:
    Cost
    		 $3.19/month
    Space
    		 5 GB
    Bandwidth
    		 250 GB
    Email Addresses
    		 500
    Databases
    		 10
    Money Back Guarantee
    		 Yes

     

     

     

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