GoDaddy Bio:

  • Established: 1997
  • Sites Hosted: 1,000,000+
  • Location: Scottsdale, AZ
  • Host Award: Great Service
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  • 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
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  • Ruby on Rails
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  • Overall Score:

    9.3

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  • Number of User Reviews:

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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:

Uptime Guarantee
99.9%
Server File Backups
Load-Balancing
Connections
Dual OC-48
24/7 Monitoring
Redundant Power
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:

Chat Wait Time
5 seconds
Phone Wait Time
2 minutes
 

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%

Value for Money

4 / 5
Reliability & Uptime

5 / 5
Customer Courtesy

5 / 5
Technical Support

5 / 5
Features

4 / 5
Storage Space

4 / 5
Bandwidth

5 / 5
Tech Response Time

5 / 5
Ease of Use

5 / 5
Server Speed

4 / 5
 
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No problems yet...

Review by: Luke
       from Fort Worth, on October 4th
        I recommend this host

Signed up about a month ago with these guys. Instant account setup and plenty of account options. No big downtime so far and tech support is pretty quick.




 
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Very satisfied

Review by: Frank
       from Austin, on September 29th
        I recommend this host

In going with iPage. Quick account setup gets your site live asap. Support has also been fast. For shared hosting I recommend.




 
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Lowest price...

Review by: Mark
       from SLC, UT, on September 27th
        I recommend this host

If you check around, they are the lowest price available, that I could find at least. Not to mention they provide nearly 100% of the popular requested scripts. Jump on it!




 
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Review by: Jerry
       from Concord, on September 21st
        I recommend this host

They are owned by one of the largest hosting companies out there. So they do have adequate personnel to handle support and resources to make your site run pretty smooth. We haven't really had any big issues with them, so I have to recommend them.




 
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Great contender

Review by: Marty
       from Glendale, CA, on September 17th
        I recommend this host

After being constantly let down trying to find a cheap decent host I decided to try iPage. Needless to say I have been very satifisfied thus far. And support is really good, just wish they answered a little faster, but no biggie...




 
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Very good support...

Review by: Joey
       from Near Chicago, on September 13th
        I recommend this host

I had to use support to fix a severe technical issue with a plugin I installed. The wait was pretty short and they solved the problem to my satisfaction. No issues with service either...




 
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iPage

Review by: Lukas
       from Birmingham, AL, on September 2nd
        I recommend this host

All in all a great host. Will not beat the price for what you get and you are with a large hosting company (I believe 3rd largest?) Only nit pick is my site was down for a little while due to some type failure, but it was rectified.




 
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Really liking support

Review by: Nikki
       from Wisconsin, on September 1st
        I recommend this host

If you are a complete newbie like me the support Ipage offers should be very appealing to you. Chat support is right there to answer your problems.




 
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Hard to beat the price

Review by: Samuel
       from Des Moines, Iowa, on August 30th
        I recommend this host

I spent a lot of time looking for the right host to transfer to. I wanted a specific feature set and lowest possible price, but still reliable. I tried out ipage after reading the reviews here and think they are a good choice for the money. Reliability is good and tech support is excellent so far.




 
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Review by: Garrett
       from Austin, TX, on August 26th
        I recommend this host

Pretty decent host here. Not all that much to gripe about to be honest. No host can truly offer unlimited anything, so that claim is obviously false. But they do give you plenty for the price and support is adequate and fast.




 
 
 
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