GoDaddy Review

GoDaddy offers far more than just web hosting. In fact, GoDaddy is one of the premiere online one-stop shopping sites. Here, you can register domains, buy e-mail accounts, get SSL certificates, and much, much more. GoDaddy also offers web hosting and even dedicated servers.

GoDaddy offers three web hosting packages: Economy, Deluxe, and Ultimate. All include unlimited bandwidth, but the Economy package only allows for 10 GB disk space. It also only allows for 100 e-mail accounts, where many of GoDaddy’s competitors offer unlimited e-mail accounts with even their lowest plan. The Economy plan does include MySQL databases, even if only 10.

All of the plans come with several hundred dollars worth of free advertising. This may be more important to business accounts, but it helps get your website into the search engines and provides exposure. Some advertising is necessary just to attract visitors. Once there, it is up to your content to impress them enough to return. This free advertising saves businesses money and gives personal accounts exposure and a free boost of traffic.

You have to purchase at least three months of the Economy plan, where you can purchase the other plans on a monthly basis. There is not a lot of disparity in price between the first two plans, as GoDaddy is trying to upsell to the Deluxe package. But if you do not need all the features it offers, the Economy package is probably your best bet. Take time to compare plans and the features and options they provide.

GoDaddy is well known throughout the industry, and one of the biggest web hosting providers online. You can purchase a domain name and register it, then host your site through GoDaddy. This is great for keeping all of your information in one place. It is also great having to deal with only one company whenever something goes wrong. Domain registration is not included in hosting, so there is a larger initial investment, but it may be worth it to keep all of your information and correspondence simpler and easier to manage.

GoDaddy offers competitive plans and pricing, as well as frequent sales and discounts on all of its products and services. GoDaddy’s pricing includes both personal and business accounts, so your personal blog can have all the bells and whistles of a much larger, more professional, site.

GoDaddy also offers WordPress hosting. However, since the plans are the same for personal and business accounts, GoDaddy is not your best option for such personal web hosting services. Competitors offer better, more targeted, packages for these needs.

For the price and features it provides, GoDaddy is a satisfactory web host, but not the best for the price. It may be worth the cost to keep all of your accounts and information under one roof, though. GoDaddy is more convenient than it is robust.