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GoDaddy

Overview

GoDaddy is one of the largest and cheapest web host around. Ideally suited for experienced webmasters, GoDaddy offers large amount of space and bandwidth at the cheapest price. We will recommend GoDaddy for those who know what they are doing.

Reliability

Godaddy hosting have always figured in netcraft top performance list, due to their excellent hardware and connectivity. But that is the rating for network uptime.

Godaddy oversell their hosting, just like most of the hosting providers. Even though there are occasional complaints, Godaddy provides uptime that is better than industry standard. They do not keep high traffic websites on their servers (even before you use a small percentage of bandwidth available, you will most likely cross the CPU usage limit) which actually helps to make sure that the server performance remains good.

Control Panel

Godaddy use their own control panel, which is a major let down. The features and ease of use is not comparable to cPanel or plesk.

They offer windows hosting also, at the cheapest price imaginable for Windows+SQL Server+ASP+PHP packages. But the bad thing is, they don’t allow enterprise manager connection for the SQL server. That means you are forced to use their interface for SQL server, which is a pain.

Customer Support

Godaddy offers 24/7 phone support and support tickets. Phone support has a reasonably high waiting time, and is level I support. Tickets get answered generally in 6 hours or so. Overall, there is a lot of complaints about godaddy support. If you are totally new to web hosting, godaddy support won’t be the best help you are expecting. Instead of a personal care, you might have to be satisfied with copy pasted answers and links to their knowldgebase.

Value for Money

They offer some of the cheapest rates in the hosting industry. Starting from $3.45 per month, they offer excellent value for money. The basic package allows only one domain to be hosted, but other packages allow multiple domain hosting which helps to save a lot of money for serious webmasters.