GoDaddy Review
Go Daddy has been around since 1997 and continues to be a fast-growing company. It is known for good DNS services and domain auctions. It is the kind of company that has really picked a name that represents it well. There is something very frenzied about their website; it bombards you with information and options, as well as picture of pretty girls. That’s nice if you like pretty girls, but what is really important are the nuts and bolts behind the glitter.
Once you get behind the colorful façade, you’ll find that the situation at Go Daddy is more of grayscale affair. To be fair, there is a lot like about this hosting service. You really do have lots and lots of options, and this is a good thing, especially with a company that has a huge gap between its strengths and its weaknesses.
Their basic “Economy Plan” package consists of 100 e-mail accounts, 50 e-mail forwards, forum, blogging, and image hosting services. Naturally, you also get actual site hosting services like DNS Management, domain aliases and sub-domains and site statistics tracking. All of this starts at $6.31 or 5.51 if you agree to a year-long contract. There are also various other discount options depending on how long you are willing to commit to using the service. Those prices are a bit theoretical, however. Actually hosting a domain costs 2.25, or more depending on what kind of domain extension you intend to use. This site is also a bit of an up-selling and cross-selling nightmare. Lots of little additional features cost extra. Operating a site that requires SSL Certificates, for example, will cost you 37.94 a year.
One of the really great things about this company is that it does provide you with access to all kinds of software interface packages like Wordpress, to throw a name out there. You also get access to MySQL databases. The web servers support a wide variety of scripting languages like PHP and Frontpage Server Extensions. There are also many others, but you will soon find that many require you to upgrade to their deluxe or unlimited plan packages which, naturally, cost more. The economy plan by itself is fairly limited. You’ll only have rights to 10 GB of disk space and 300 GB monthly transfer. E-mail storage is capped at 100 MB. Essentially, the business is designed to pull you in with its excellent initial price and systematically ramp you up to higher charges. Users report that this doesn’t stop once you actually have an account either.
User experiences with this company are a mixed bag. Some like their e-mail, telephone and web-based tech support, which is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That said, many people also report that the same service is poor. The most consistent report from customers is that Go Daddy has very slow servers. They report sluggish page-load times and reduced performance even with minimal amounts of traffic. Makes sure you know what you want from this company before going in. Use it for its prices, but don’t have exaggerated expectations.
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