GoDaddy Review
GoDaddy is a goliath among giants in the web hosting industry. The company owns and maintains data centres and internet hardware connections since 1997.
The company, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, has a bawdy, redneck reputation with feisty Superbowl commercials featuring the GoDaddy girls. Founder and CEO Bob Parsons runs a blog and radio show.
Don’t be deceived by the PR spin – GoDaddy is a state-of-the-art, slick web hosting operation with a customer base running in to the millions.
Products and Services
Go Daddy offers an easy-to-use site-builder, personalized email account, blog/podcast tool, photo album and more – all free that puts you online for just the cost of a domain registration.
The tool WebSite Tonight® thousands of people with no technical skills develop their own online presence. The tool is basically an HTML coder for users to edit a collection of GoDaddy web site themes.
GoDaddy offers a complete line of ecommerce and online marketing tools, designed for non-programmers to get up to speed quickly, including a shopping cart that acts as an e-commerce site or catalogue.
Secure Sockets Layer Certificates-or SSLs; encode sensitive user data so shoppers and site visitors can be assured their personal and financial data is passed across the Internet safely and without fear of identity theft or fraud.
Benefits of Choosing GoDaddy.com
One of GoDaddy’s big attractions for customers is a massive catalogue of more than 50 free application downloads from WordPress blogging, to Joomla content management, shopping carts and utilities designed to save time and money in setting up web sites.
Of course, many of the ‘free’ applications are open source software that is free to download elsewhere if you know where to look, but for those new to web design, the resource be still a great time saver.
According to GoDaddy, this free software has been downloaded more than a million times.
GoDaddy is also the WordPress web host of choice, so PHP and MySQL are at the heart of the GoDaddy plans.
Reliability and Performance
The usual suspect of a 99.9% uptime commitment comes with all GoDaddy hosting packages. All Go Daddy data centres in the US and Europe have integrated monitoring and fire systems, security technology and 24/7 onsite security staff.
Double power paths and network connectivity mean the GoDaddy stays on line if one system drops. Data is backed up incrementally and kept off site. Data centres are climate controlled top provide optimum operating conditions for servers.
Operating systems and other critical software is maintained with regular updates and patches.
Customer Support and Service
GoDaddy does not skimp on customer service – there’s a sales and technical support team waiting at the end of a phone in London 24/7. Online Email ticket support is available through the web site. A vast searchable online knowledge base and FAQ site will provide the answers to many common support questions.
GoDaddy Web Hosting Features
Lots of hosting plans are available on Linux and Windows servers with script enhancements, unlimited bandwidth and unlimited downloads. Linux hosting offers Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails scripting and the Windows platform has ASP.net. Both support FrontPage extensions. The Plesk 7.5 control panel; comes on each platform for Shared and Dedicated Hosting.
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