GoDaddy Review

Some background: I'm not a webmaster who is in charge of 20 websites nor am I making a living through setting up web hosting, installing WP, designing websites, etc. I am someone that started looking for a web hosting company to build a site for myself to host my photography portfolio.

1. Value - amazing. As everyone probably knows already, GoDaddy has the cheapest for everything most of the time. I signed up my Economy web hosting through an affiliate link and it only costed me $1/mo. for the first year! You will not find anything for this price for the features.

2. Uptime - 99.9%, which is today's industry standard. I've heard some bad things about GoDaddy's uptime when I was researching and before I signed up. But from my own personal experience, I have not had any downtimes at all. None (I use Pingdom to track my site's uptime). Downtime differs from server to server. But I've not experienced any downtime. Maybe I'm just lucky.

3. Features - eh… GoDaddy uses "cPanel" - in other words, their own customized version of cPanel. If this is your first time signing up for hosting, I do not think you'll care since you will get used to it pretty quickly. I did try the standard cPanel but I find that I actually liked GoDaddy's version much better. It looks much organized to me and easier to find things.

4. Support - this is the one thing that GoDaddy sucks at. They representatives do not seem to know much about web hosting. As a newbie, I learned most, if not all, about hosting, WP, SQL databases, etc. from Google or YouTube.
 
BlackCobra said:
Well, this is my official review of GoDaddy, I've been with them for about a week or two now and I think I could provide a great view on how their services are. While it only took about an hour for our Name Servers to update (their our registrar as well) it still took about a full day before parts of the world could see my forum, once that set into play, we had a few slow moments for a day or two and ever since that we've been running spotless and at a perfect speed. I can honestly say, the only thing I came across in GoDaddy that I absolutely hated was the MySQL Databases, instead of being allowed to import a GZip database (use to be my standard backup selection, I now do gzip and plain text), instead of allowing gzip, the ONLY allow plain text imports into the databases, this for me was a pain in the butt as I've never had to deal with this before, but honestly, that's the ONLY thing I found about them that I didn't like.

I hope that this review helps someone out and best of luck to you all.
Click to expand...

thank you !
 
If you're thinking if the GoDaddy can help you easily build a wonderful and efficient site, then this GoDaddy web page designer evaluation will response your question. GoDaddy is the biggest sector address sector registrar in the world, and provides one of the best set of web page building resources to its clients.
 
Very unhappy with shared hosting service, virus infected all the time. They tell to buy more and more things which are not affordable. Although you get a free IP so SSL cost is reduced but still would not recommend shared hosting of Godaddy.
 
I never liked godaddy upsell or price changes on thier website hosting. I like to have same price every year not a new one after first year.


When a hosting company always has coupons then you know it will cost more next timeto renew hosting. why not just tell people this is the price and no games if the websiote hosting is good and the prices are good..
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top