Reader GoDaddy Internet Service Provider (ISP) Review
GoDaddy Internet Service Provider (ISP) Review
Founded in 1997 by CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, GoDaddy is an independently owned and operated web services company which owns and operates its own services and equipment. GoDaddy is the world’s largest domain registrar with over 6.5 million customers worldwide. It operates four physically dispersed data centres and a 24/7, 365 days/year, call centre.
Features
GoDaddy’s hosting plans feature unlimited disk space, unlimited transfer, unlimited MySQL databases, unlimited web sites, and 1,000 email accounts. Enjoy FREE Set-Up, no annual commitment, and FREE auto-install of over 50 applications including WordPress, with virtual and dedicated servers available.
Their hosting services are designed to cater for everyone from personal users with low requirements to high end users needing huge amounts of disk space and bandwidth. Customer support is via 24/7 phone support (not a toll-free number) and email (support ticket service). The customer support offered by GoDaddy is considered one of the best in the web hosting industry. GoDaddy have developed their own proprietary control panel which is not as easy to use as cPanel and takes some getting used to, It is far too complex for the general user.
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Conclusion
GoDaddy is among the top performers but is particularly suited to professional and experienced webmasters as a good understanding of the internet and web hosting is required to make full use of this web hosting company. GoDaddy gives excellent professional support but prices can be high depending upon your requirements and GoDaddy’s control panel isn’t the easiest to use.
To be fair all the web hosting services reviewed here are of comparable quality and all give a quality service so you won’t go wrong by choosing any of them. But, each service has qualities which may or may not be what you require so review each web hosting service and make your choice based on your requirements.
- There are web hosting services which are far beyond my capabilities and understanding so I have not even attempted to review such services.
- I required a web site that could be up and running in less then a day with very little prior knowledge. I needed something where the web hosting experts provided most of the background work so I could concentrate on my web site.
- Also, the offers made by each ISP change weekly, so please check each ISP prior to making a commitment.
Although each ISP has many offers which vary over time I have tried to be specific to the requirements above and ignored items such as FREE Photo Albums etc. as these can be added to most sites by downloading and installing the appropriate scripts.
If you have any comment, corrections or items you think should be added to the listings please do not hesitate to let me know.