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Ranking

23^rd in Best Web Hosting Companies

Rating

8/10

Price

$3.99/moSee Better Options

What's the Verdict?

Worth It, Some IssuesSee Alternatives

GoDaddy Hosting Review 2018

GoDaddy is an Internet domain registrar and web hosting company. This company has claimed to have more than 55 million domain names under management, which makes it the world's largest ICANN-accredited registrar.

And their data centers are massive. GoDaddy has a 65,000 square foot data center in The United States. This data center is connected to an optical fiber DWDM Ethernet backbone with a speed of 20 Gigabits per second. That’s probably a bunch of technological mumbo jumbo that you didn’t need to hear, but it's pretty amazing. If 65,000 square feet doesn’t impress you, try out their Arizona data center which has 270,000 square feet.

Want to know how they got their name? In 1999, a group of employees at Jomax Technologies were brainstorming and decided to change the company name. An employee said, "How about Big Daddy?" However, the domain name had already been purchased. Parsons replied, "How about GoDaddy?" The name was available, so he bought it.

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Daniel SheehanMarch 14, 2018

Pros

Great Uptime: You would expect a company like GoDaddy to have one of the best uptimes in the industry just giving the fact that they are so huge. But I have yet to hear a complaint about GoDaddy’s uptime. Uptime is one of those things you expect a web hosting company to deliver on and GoDaddy does that with style.
Linux and Windows Hosting: GoDaddy is one of the rare few hosting providers who give you the option to go for Windows rather than the industry-standard Linux operating system. If you've got ASP.NET websites, this is the place for you.
Great Tech Support: Time and time again, web hosting companies get complaints about their customer service. Whether it is a lack of knowledge or huge wait times, but GoDaddy have pulled a rabbit out of their hat with this magic. They have the absolute best customer service.
User Friendly: Most of GoDaddy is built around the idea of the newer end customers. All of their tools are “newbie” friendly. Personally I love their cPanel which should be an industry standard at this point. Everything I need is right at my fingertips and I have absolutely no complaints about their UX.

Cons

Not a Great Value: Unless you catch GoDaddy on a great promotional deal, you’re going to be a little upset at the prices you are paying. You just don’t get the same level of performance with GoDaddy’s lower end service packages. But if you catch them in a promotion, winner winner chicken dinner.
Online Store Lacks Features: For me, at this day and age, e-Commerce additions should be a no brainer. You should get all the bells and whistles because the web hosting company usually takes a chunk of your money anyways. For GoDaddy, they miss the boat with missing features and errors just attacking your store at every angle.

GoDaddy is ALL ABOUT FEATURES!

One of the great things about GoDaddy is all the great features that they have. They have a 1-click app install that allows you to have all the great apps in your website. We’re talking MySQL, ASP.net, Drupal, WordPress, CloudLinux and the list just goes on and on. Over 70 apps that are just waiting to be installed on your web hosting service.

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Fast and Secure

They also have one of the fastest response times when it comes to loading your website too. Did you know that a one second delay in loading your website equals a 7% loss in conversion? That’s 7 for every 100 possible conversions. Why would you even risk having another company host your server if they are contributing to the amount of time it takes to load your website? GoDaddy is the company with lowest latency and they’re your best chance for not falling into the latency trap.

And what about their security? Well, if we talk about GoDaddy, we have to talk about their award winning security services. Their security team looks out for your interests 24/7. DDoS attacks, malware and suspicious activity all happen on the internet, and it’s their job to make sure that those kinds of attacks or activities never find their way to your website. They are pretty darn good at it, too.

Where Are The Flaws? I Can’t Find Them!

What kinds of things do you need to know before you start using GoDaddy? Well there isn’t much to talk about when it comes to flaws. There’s a reason why this company has over 50 million domain names under their control. Their “economy” package basically hooks you up with 100 GB of storage and unlimited monthly bandwidth.

Now these unlimited packages aren’t exactly unlimited. Sure you can use as much bandwidth you want but it has to be within reason. If you’re pulling down Amazon numbers or Google numbers, they are definitely going to say something. But if you’re a hobbyist or a small business, you have nothing to fear. Their hosting services are going to be perfect for you.

Plans and Pricing

Here’s a quick look at each of GoDaddy’s plans for their shared, cloud, VPS, and dedicated hosting categories.

Shared Hosting: From $7.99 A Month

Feature	Economy	Deluxe	Ultimate
Regular Monthly Price	$7.99	$10.99	$16.99
Websites	1	Unlimited	Unlimited
Storage	100 GB	Unlimited	Unlimited
Bandwidth	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
cPanel	Yes	Yes	Yes
One-Click Install	125+ applications	125+ applications	125+ applications
SSL Certificate	No	No	1 Year
Premium DNS	No	No	Yes
24/7 Security w/ DDoS Protection	Yes	Yes	Yes

Windows Plans

Feature	Economy	Deluxe	Ultimate
Regular Monthly Price	$7.99	$10.99	$16.99
Websites	1	Unlimited	Unlimited
Storage	100 GB	Unlimited	Unlimited
Bandwidth	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
MySQL Databases (1 GB Each)	10	25	Unlimited
MSSQL Databases (200 MB Each)	1	2	Unlimited
FTP Users	50	50	Unlimited
Odin Plesk	Yes	Yes	Yes
One-Click Install	50+ applications	50+ applications	50+ applications
SSL Certificate	No	No	1 Year
Premium DNS	No	No	Yes
24/7 Security w/ DDoS Protection	Yes	Yes	Yes

Cloud Hosting: Developer Hosting from $5 Per Month

Storage Category	Regular Monthly Price	Memory	CPU Core	Bandwidth
20 GB	$5	512 MB	1	1 TB
30 GB	$10	1 GB	1	2 TB
40 GB	$20	2 GB	2	3 TB
60 GB	$40	4 GB	2	4 TB
80 GB	$80	8 GB	4	8 TB

VPS Hosting: From $24.99 Per Month

VPS Plan Type	Regular Monthly Price	RAM	Storage	Bandwidth	Dedicated IPs
Linux Economy	$29.99	1 GB	40 GB	Unlimited	3
Linux Value	$39.99	2 GB	60 GB	Unlimited	3
Linux Deluxe	$69.99	4 GB	120 GB	Unlimited	3
Linux Ultimate	$139.99	8 GB	240 GB	Unlimited	3
Windows Economy	$39.99	2 GB	40 GB	Unlimited	3
Windows Value	$59.99	3 GB	90 GB	Unlimited	3
Windows Deluxe	$79.99	4 GB	120 GB	Unlimited	3
Windows Ultimate	$149.99	8 GB	240 GB	Unlimited	3

Dedicated Hosting: From $169.99 Per Month

Feature	Economy	Value	Deluxe	Ultimate
Linux Monthly Price	$169.99	$199.99	$249.99	$349.99
Windows Monthly Price	$199.99	$229.99	$279.99	$379.99
CPU Cores	4	4	4	4
RAM	4 GB	8 GB	16 GB	32 GB
Storage	1 TB	1.5 TB	2 TB	2 TB
Bandwidth	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Dedicated IPs	3	3	3	3

What's the Verdict on GoDaddy?

Worth It, Some Issues