Godaddy Review by Daniel

March 1, 2008

I have over 50 domain names with GoDaddy. Because of the ease and flexibility of their domain name control panel I have not had to be in effect of other web host providers during major downtime, maintenance, upgrades and server migrations. They say it could take 24 hours, but I find in less than a half hour I can transfer URLS from one server to another where I have back up duplicated sites and bypass the irregularities and frustrations web hosting companies are capable of causing.

There are also many options dealing with your domain names that other providers do not make it that easy to deal with. If you get stuck in your process in 10 minutes or less you can get the help you need on the phone.

GoDaddy.com states that they offer world-class hosting as good as or better than most hosting companies offer, but we feel they are referring more to their state-of-the-art, World Class Data Center rather than to their actual web hosting products and customer service. A web host can have all the technological bells and whistles in the world backing them, but if a host service doesn’t have solid customer support and a few key features, that host will fall short of the competition.

GoDaddy.com does offer some very attractive and affordable packages. But certain key features are missing with the GoDaddy solution, as compared to our higher ranked web hosting solutions.

GoDaddy is not a bad value, but lacks a lot of features that competitors offer for virtually the same price. GoDaddy offers 5 GB of disk space storage, 500 email accounts, 250 GB monthly data transfer, and limited on languages/platform support. Many other web hosting providers offer more for less. All plans with GoDaddy include these features: World Class Data Center, online set-up and instant account activation, FrontPage Extensions, 24/7 FTP Access, best-of-breed routers, firewalls and servers; Web Site Statistics, free setup, daily backups, 24/7 monitoring, 24×7 email, telephone and web-based tech support, 24/7 physical security and secure SSL Certificates (an optional extra) GoDaddy places their emphasis more on technology than on customer support.

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