GoDaddy Bio:
- Established: 1997
- Sites Hosted: 1,000,000+
- Location: Scottsdale, AZ
- Host Award: Great Service
- Featured Package Price:
$6.99
/month- Storage Space:25 GB
- Transfer/Bandwidth:Unmetered
- Setup Fee:Free
- Domain Name:1 Free
- Money-Back Guarantee:30-Day
- Uptime Guarantee:99.9%
- Free Website Builder:Yes
- Multiple Domains:Unlimited
- E-mail Accounts:Unlimited
- MySQL Databases:Unlimited
- Control Panel:VDeck
- Operating System:Linux
- Server Backups:Daily
- 24/7 Monitoring:Yes
- Wordpress
- Joomla
- Drupal
- Ruby on Rails
- PHPMyAdmin
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- Overall Score:
9.3
- Our Total Rating:
- Number of User Reviews:
159
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Our Review of: GoDaddy
Overview:
Check out our current #5 rated web hosting provider, GoDaddy. Located in sunny Scottsdale, AZ and led by a team of hosting veterans, GoDaddy offers a comprehensive hosting solution at the low price of just $6.99/month. Moreover, the team at GoDaddy has made a commitment to continually improving the customer experience and it shows. Their 21 million+ customers are proof of this, needless to say. Currently employing over 8,200 employees across six continents, GoDaddy has the personnel and resources to keep customers happy for the long haul.
Their hosting tools and scripts are incredibly simple to use and their support team is happy to help you get them setup and utilize them. Best of all, their support is 100% North American-based, with incredibly short hold-times.
Servers are fast and reliable also, with 11 high-tech datacenters throughout the US, Europe and South Asia.
You may also know them for domain registration, of which they're easily the largest in the world, hosting over 84 million domains across the world. They were one of the first in the domain and web hosting industry and continue to be a value and service leader to date.
Pros:
- Lowest prices out there.
- Multitude of great scripts available.
- 100% english speaking support.
Cons:
- PHPMyAdmin isn't standard, but can be enabled on each account.
Features & Specials:
With plans starting at $6.99/month, it's hard to beat the service or, more importantly, the security GoDaddy offers. Their Web Hosting Economy Plan includes a comprehensize suite, which provides daily malware and spam scanning, business verification, 1-click WordPress install, Easy-to-use cPanel control panel, automatic daily backups, free SSL Certificate and more.
For storage, the Economy Plan offers, 25 GB NVMe enhanced storage, along with unmetered bandwidth, free domain name, free e-mail and a 30-day money-back guarantee, if you aren't completely satisfied. We've found it always makes things easier to maintain your domain name at the same location as your hosting service and GoDaddy makes this totally possible.
GoDaddy also offers over 150 useful website apps for use on your account, absolutely free!
- Virtually Unlimited Everything.
- Hosted on high-performance green powered servers.
- SiteLock Security Suite free on every new account.
Reliability & Speed:
When it comes to website uptime and reliability, GoDaddy is a class leader, hosting hundreds of thousands of websites across the world. With a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee, GoDaddy offers piece of mind that few other web hosting providers can, with employees on hand 24/7 to monitor suspicious activity and help deflect DDos and other cyber security threats.
GoDaddy employs a load-balanced architecture, with over 11 datacenters throughout the world. This ensures that if there's a network outage at one datacenter, your website will be available at other datacenters, making it still available, or "live" on the Internet.
Reliability & Speed Factors:
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Summary: Ipage utilizes 2 datacenters with unique failover protection, ensuring very reliable uptime guarantee. Dual OC-48 backbone connections deliver fast web site load times. |
Support:
The North American-based phone agents at GoDaddy actually listen to customers and understanding what they need. They're also pretty good at resolving issues and communicating with customers. Wait times were short, usually 2 minutes or less. We had great experiences with chat agents as well. GoDaddy offers 24/7 phone, chat and online/email support. The online interface is a little awkward, but certainly usable once you get used to it.
Overall, we found GoDaddy suppor to be quick and friendly, easily able to answer common questions.
Average Support Wait Times:
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Control Panel:
The tools that GoDaddy offers are easy-to-use and consistently improving. In the last year, they've launched a fantastic file manager and have been incorporating more user interface standards into each of their tools. It's clear they test their interfaces for usability and they actively solicit customer feedback. Their main control panel is an in-house modified version of cPanel, which is the most popular web hosting control panel in the industry. Their version of cPanel makes modifying any aspect of your website account quick and easy. From adding domains, e-mails, databases, 1-click WordPress installation, or over 150+ website apps, no other control panel platform is easier to use, to date.
Given the robust offering of the GoDaddy suite of services, the homepage of the control panel can be a little overwhelming, but stick to your nav bar and you'll be fine. The control panel can also be a little slow around mid-day, but not so slow that it became unusable, during our tests.
What sets them apart?
"Faster, Safer, Greener Hosting" - iPage |
Incorporates the SiteLock Security Suite and Seal at no extra cost. |
You'll talk to agents located in North America, and get them on the phone in less than 2 minutes. |
Your website will be eco-friendly, and hosting is powered by 100% wind energy! |
Summary:
If you put a high value on security and want to create an effective website quickly, you're going to want to give GoDaddy a closer look. Not only is their web host offering robust and affordable, it's clear they've taken the time to understand their customers needs and they're constantly working to address those needs.
While they may be a little aggressive in marketing their extras, they really do offer an incredibly diverse and valuable suite of services. They also over many pricing specials, which make their extras seem well worth the added expense. That said, check out GoDaddy today, to see their outstanding web hosting plans.
GoDaddy Ratings ChartScore: 9.3%
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GoDaddy User Reviews
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Review by: Joseph from Santa Monica, CA, on April 17th
Happy with them for a relatively new site, with light traffic. They offer what most web hosting does at half the price. Can't advise how they handle heavy traffic sites however. Recommended
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Good host
Review by: Phillip from Cleveland, OH, on April 11th
When I went with them, I was skeptical that they might not be able to pull off decent hosting for that price. To my surprise they do a good job at both keeping the site up and running and answering questions about various issues.
I can't say that if you receive a ton of traffic if things will go as smoothly but for our average size site, I'm very satisfied.
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Quick support and easy to use
Review by: Emily from Bowling Green, on April 3rd
Some hosting companies assume you're an expert at linux and maintaining a server. I for one are pretty much a novice and appreciate the fact that Ipage makes it easy to setup scripts and manage email. Support was also fast to answer questions I had so far.
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Thumbs up
Review by: Heather from Lincoln, NE, on March 30th
Great reliability and support from them for the couple weeks having service. I will report back if this changes.
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Review by: Colin from San Mateo, CA, on March 20th
Ipage may not be the best but you get more than you pay for there. As long as you watch your bandwidth you will be fine. Storage is ample, so is support.
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Great for starters
Review by: Maddus from Fort Collins, CO., on March 16th
For starter or simple sites on a budget they are hard to beat. What all can you ask for at only $3.50/month, come on now...
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lack of technical support
Review by: Janeene from Arkansas, on March 15th
Just purchased domain and basic service could not access correct control panel...banner set to advertising partners and did not show the quickstart as listed on tutorial video. Tech support chats lasted over 10 min two seperate calls and could not get the control panes corrected. Was told to wipe cookies and clear browser and log back in. Did not work. Two hours wasted fiddling to access a basic service function. THEN was told I would be charged $15 fee to cancel less than 24 hours after signing with ipage. DO NOT BELIEVE the ad hype.
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Cheapest
Review by: Addison from USA, on March 6th
Maybe not the best in terms of features or support, but they are the cheapest all around that we could find for what we needed. Larger sites will probably need to upgrade and pay more however.
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Review by: Nate from USA, on February 24th
Low price point, but offer other addons. The site loads up quick and tech is fast to respond. B+
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Happy Camper
Review by: Amy from Amarillo, TX., on February 21st
Our site runs along smoothly with little in the way of outages and slowdowns. If you have a really busy site it might get the bandwidth throttle thing, so be aware of that. But for no more than it costs, you can't go wrong.