GoDaddy Hosting Review – When a Domain Provider becomes a Hosting Seller!

Welcome to my Godaddy Hosting Review. When it comes to the industry of domain ownership and hosting, GoDaddy is the elephant in the room. It certainly has the brand recognition…

Updated on March 13, 2018

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Welcome to my Godaddy Hosting Review. When it comes to the industry of domain ownership and hosting, GoDaddy is the elephant in the room. It certainly has the brand recognition down. With hosting available for as little as a dollar per month, it’s hard to beat their price point and they recently revamped their user interface to improve the customer experience from a usability perspective.

If there’s charm to GoDaddy’s website builder it is its simplicity. But of course, while simple is usually easy to use, simple also means limited (which you discover when you realize there is no blog and eCommerce features).

The support they offer is round-the-clock service by an award-winning team — featuring 24/7 server monitoring and an emphasis on anti-hacking measures. Though their uptime guarantee isn’t outstanding, their page load speeds are industry-leading. All in all, GoDaddy is a reliable option to accommodate your hosting needs.

Introduction to Godaddy Web Hosting!

Contents Of This Review

Go Daddy was founded in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons, a Marine Corps veteran. GoDaddy is one the most prominent provider of hosting services which digital marketers talk about. Statistically, it is the largest domain page name registrar in the world and offers one of the most comprehensive sets of website building tools.

Rs 99.00* .COM Domain! Get going with GoDaddy!

As of December 2014, GoDaddy served approximately 13 million customers and had 4,908 employees worldwide.GoDaddy is a prominent player for website hosting because of the depth it offers.

Its Economy Plan has measurable numbers and maximums that make it easy to monitor. This plan offers unlimited bandwidth and parked domains, but the disk space allowed is 100GB.

Why Choose GoDaddy Hosting Company?

  • A Large variety of shared, VPS, and dedicated plans.
  • New Pro tool helps web professionals assist their clients with hosting.
  • Offers both Linux and Windows web hosting.
  • A great all-in-one choice for purchasing web hosting & domain names.
  • A free domain with yearly accounts.
  • Access to cPanel for Linux and Plesk for Windows.
  • Now with improved speeds & data centers around the globe.
  • Several vanity domain registration options.

Various hosting services provided by GoDaddy Website

  • Godaddy Linux Hosting

Linux is a UNIX- based and open source platform that is predominantly used for Website hosting. The LAMP is the most important feature of Linux. The LAMP is an acronym used for Linux, Apache, MariaDB/MySQL, and Perl/PHP/Python.

LAMP signifies the combination of software and server technologies which are open source and thus making Linux web hosting offers the optimal solution to website hosting with the limited budget.

Linux Hosting basic plans offered by GoDaddy are starts at a minimum investable amount of Rs99.oo/month named Starter plan.Starter plan is best for hosting a single website. Also, there are other plans offered by Godaddy are Economy, Deluxe, and Ultimate. The plans differ by prices and features offered.

  • Godaddy Windows Hosting

Windows hosting, uses Windows as the servers’ operating system and offers Windows-specific technologies such as,NET, Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL).

  • Godaddy WordPress Hosting

Among the various blogging platforms, WordPress is definitely one of the most popular blogging programs. There are two types of WordPress platforms: WordPress.com and WordPress.org. For the former, your site is hosted by WordPress and you will be assigned a sub-domain website (e.g. yourname.wordpress.com).

The benefit of hosting your website under WordPress.com is that it costs you nothing. However, you won’t have full access to certain features (e.g. WordPress.com does not support plugins, which are one of the most important features of WordPress). In addition, WordPress.com is “ad-supported”. This means that ads may be randomly displayed on your blog.

  • Godaddy Virtual Private Servers

VPS Plan is started from $16.99, in which you will get 1 GB of RAM with 40 GB of storage. You will also get Free 1 year SSL certificate.

  • Godaddy Dedicated Servers

Dedicated Servers plan to start from $69.99 in which you will get 4 CPU Cores @ 3.1 GHz with 4 GB of RAM and 1 TB storage.

  • Godaddy Cloud Servers plans

Godaddy’s cloud servers are powered by SSD for faster disk I/O and improved performance across the board.

GoDaddy’s New Website Builder

Build a better website in less than an hour.The plans under this category and their pricing are explained below-

Personal

  • For sharing your passion online
  • No credit card required. Try it free for one month.
    Then ₨ 389.00/mo (₨ 4,668.00/yr) after.
  • Responsive mobile design.
  • Website hosting.
  • 24/7 support.

Business

  • For businesses just starting out.
  • No credit card required. Try it free for one month.
    Then ₨ 639.00/mo (₨ 7,668.00/yr) after.
  • Responsive mobile design.
  • Website hosting.
  • 24/7 support.
  • Security (SSL).
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Business Plus

  • For businesses looking for more customers.
  • No credit card required. Try it free for one month.
    Then ₨ 999.00/mo (₨ 11,988.00/yr) after.
  • Responsive mobile design.
  • Website hosting.
  • 24/7 support.
  • Security (SSL).
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
  • Email Marketing.
  • Social Media Integration.
  • Globally-Optimized Speed.

Online Store

  • For businesses that want to sell products online.
  • No credit card required. Try it free for one month.
    Then ₨ 1,499.00/mo (₨ 17,988.00/yr) after.
  • Responsive mobile design.
  • Website hosting.
  • 24/7 support.
  • Security (SSL).
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
  • Email Marketing.
  • Social Media Integration.
  • Globally-Optimized Speed.
  • Online Store.
  • Built-in shopping cart with secure checkout.
  • Accept credit cards, debit cards, net banking, and wallets.
  • Offer discounts and coupons.
  • Manage orders and inventory.
  • Configure shipping and tax rates.

Godaddy Hosting Uptime Guarantee

GoDaddy (full benchmark) performs stellar in the Uptime test, with an average result of 99.96 percent. Its best run was 100.00% but has been as bad as 94.72 %. GoDaddy’s most recent result on Mar 25 was 100.00 percent. GoDaddy has shown rocky up times when you first start hosting with them, however, after a month things become pretty stable.

Their tech team reached out to me to explain that they think it only happens when new customers get added to the server and Apache needs to restart – and after the server is full it does not need to reload as often. The stats I’ve collected seem to support this theory, and they claim they’re working on a solution.

GoDaddy Hosting Review 2017Godaddy Hosting – Money Back Policy

You may request a refund within 30 days of purchase for annual plans.You may request a refund within 48 hours of purchase for monthly plans.

After 30 days, you may request an in-store credit for any unused time remaining on your annual plan. Unused time will be prorated based on the date of purchase.You cannot get multiple refunds for the same product.

 

Steps To Install WordPress on Your Godaddy Hosting Account

  1. Log in to your GoDaddy account.
  2. Click Web Hosting.
  3. Next, to the hosting account, you want to use, click Manage.
  4. In the Popular Apps section, click WordPress.
  5. Click Install Now.
  6. Complete the on-screen fields, and then click OK:
    • Domain — Select the domain on your account you want to use.
    • Directory — Enter the directory after the domain name where you want to install WordPress. If you want the domain name itself to use WordPress, the directory field should only have “/” entered.
    • Enter a Username, a Password (and its confirmation), and an Email Address.

WordPress will be installed to your hosting account with the options you selected within 24 hours. When it is complete, you will receive a confirmation email.

Godaddy Hosting Review – Our Final Verdict

GoDaddy has the name and reputation that make it hard to ignore. It is not the best web hosting service but is a worthy competitor.  GoDaddy Web Hosting doesn’t stack up overall against my recommendation – HostGator or Bluehost

However, GoDaddy hosting is solid and cheap web hosting. If you are looking for a host that,

  1.     Integrates well with domain names
  2.     Is cheap, branded, and supported
  3.     Has a lot of documentation

Hope You liked Our GoDaddy Review. What is your experience with Godaddy?  share with us in comments.