I have a love hate relationship with my Web host, Go Daddy. This popular Web host is great for quick domain name registrations, especially considering that they offer domain name registrations for 1.99 when you purchase two months of hosting for only $3.99 per month. Go Daddy has about a million different packages for aspiring e-commerce developers, bloggers, Google Adsense users, pretty much anything about Web development that anyone may want to learn, Go Daddy has a package with a monthly fee to make the process easier.
However keeping in mind that many other Web hosts offer discount plans for multiple domain names (commonly referred to as reseller accounts), for a Web publisher, Go Daddy bills can get quite out of hand. Though Go Daddy offers reseller accounts, their packages do not offer comparable features, MySQL tables and access as Go Daddy. Therefore, if you are hosting 10 different sites, it is a $40 per month bill that you will be footing. Go Daddy is very convenient for quick site set-ups that need fast turn-over. They also offer email packages, MySQL tables, PHP access and many other services that come with the hosting plan that allow a Web Developer to throw a site up quick for about $10 (2 months hosting for $8 plus domain registration for $2). GoDaddy offers easy site maintenance with a very convenient control panel to maintain all the various aspects of a site.
In addition, Go Daddy offers a very convenient domain name control panel as well. However one thing that I have found disheartening about Go Daddy is their telephone customer support. I have often pulled my hair out trying to get information on problems related to my site. I have often been told different things by different technical support representatives and that makes it difficult to trust Go Daddy for any long tern service. Additionally, I have found Go Daddy's domain redemption policy somewhat terrorist-like. If you fail to renew your domain name in a timely manner, Go Daddy will hold it in redemption before releasing it to other registrars and in order to pull it out of redemption, it costs $150. That seems a little exorbitant to me. They also have a policy regarding their backups where if you need to access any files from the backups, they will charge you $150. Again, that seems exorbitant in comparison to other hosts. In my opinion, Go Daddy offers a very user-friendly service for the novice Web publisher. However for the educated consumer, Go Daddy is very overpriced and you will find yourself hairless dealing with their technical support representatives.
by Filip Nowak on September 15th, 2007
at 10:10 PM CDT
I have been using GoDaddy as my hosting service to host my website that is hosted right now on different hosting company. I personally wasn't happy with GoDaddy shared hosting, because my website was loading really slow and the uptime of the site wasn't so excellent as the technical support said. The price is not that bad for the hosting plans, but I would not suggest you to use their hosting because your site will load really slow and you the site won't be even to uptime of 95%.
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