About GoDaddy
GoDaddy has to be the most largest domain name registrar with 22 million domains registered. They are a part of The Go Daddy Group, Inc. which also includes companies such as Wild West Domains, a reseller of domains and domain-related products and services; Domains by Proxy, a private registration service; Starfield Technologies research and development affiliate; and Blue Razor Domains, a membership-based discount registrar.
Founded by Bob Parsons in 1997, The Go Daddy Group has grown to include more than 25.8 million domains under management. They offer a complete product line, including comprehensive hosting solutions, Web site creation tools, Secure SSL certificates, personalized email with spam and anti-phishing filtering, e-commerce tools and more.
Performance & Reliability
GoDaddy own, operate, and support their own world-class data centers.
Their highly reliable servers are running on either Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS Linux or Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Their network and server infrastructures are monitored 24 hours a day, ensuring your website is up 99.9% of the time.
Support
GoDaddy.com offers 24/7 telephone and email support but this is where they lose points:
they do not have a toll-free number. Their online knowledge base is literally filled with tons of useful tutorials and articles. All is very well organized and easy to use.
Features And Pricing
While their shared hosting plans offers a little bit less storage than some competitors (from 5GB to 200GB), chances are you won't use that much disk space anyway. Aside from common features such as PHP, MySQL, Perl and ASP.net, their packages are filled with a ton of useful stuff like Light Webmail with PDA, greeting cards with over 290 designs and email privacy and encryption. You can also install tens of applications (blogs, photo gallery, content management systems, forums, guest books, etc) within a few clicks with their pre-installed scripts.
As far as virtual dedicated servers goes, you can get a pretty decent Linux VPS for only $29,99 a month! And if none of their VPS plans totally fits your needs, then simply build your own custom package. Simple as that.
GoDaddy also offers dedicated servers with unbeatable prices: for $79.99 you get your own server with a 120GB hard disk, 1GB of RAM and 500GB of bandwidth. Just like virtual servers, you can build your own dedicated server to meet your special requirements.
Do you need to advertise your website? Great cause with GoDaddy you can get up to $125 AdWords and $200 Microsoft AdCenter credit!
All in all, GoDaddy offers such a wide range of web hosting services, like domain name registration, shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers, SSL certificates, site builder, reseller plans, that this is your one-stop-shop for all your Internet needs. Highly recommended.
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