GoDaddy Review The right place to host your website

GoDaddy- The All-in-one web host

GoDaddy is a popular choice for individuals, small businesses, and even larger enterprises.

Having a business website is one of the most important aspects of business today. As the world is advancing digitally, keeping pace with it is crucial to achieving success. So if you have set up a cool-looking website the next step is to find a web host. A web host will provide space for your website on the webserver.

With thousands of players in the market, making a choice is tough. So we came up with a detailed review of one of the web hosts-GoDaddy. This review will give you an insight into its features, pros, and cons. Thus, you can decide if it is the right one for you.

About GoDaddy

GoDaddy is one of the well-known names in the web hosting industry. They offer outstanding service that includes web building, professional email, domain, and web hosting. It has millions of customers all over the globe and the number continues to increase.

They are a stable and dependable company that offers many different plans to suit your needs. Let us see the features of this web host.

Features

•Price and plans

There are 3 hosting plans that GoDaddy offers to its customers. These plans are suitable for both individuals and businesses alike.

• Economy- The first and most basic plan starts at $4.99/month. It allows you to have one website with 100GB storage, up to 100 email addresses, and unlimited bandwidth.

• Deluxe- The next is the deluxe plan that costs $5.99/month and comes with up to 500 email addresses, unlimited storage, unlimited website, and unlimited bandwidth too.

• Ultimate-The ultimate plan is priced at $7.99/month with no restriction on the number of websites, up to 1000 email addresses, and unlimited bandwidth and storage.

All the annual hosting plans come with a free domain name, 24/7 security monitoring, user-friendly control panel, and DDoS protection too.

Though the plans boost unlimited bandwidth and storage GoDaddy may at any point of time notify users if it affects their servers or uptime. In such a case you may have to switch to a virtual private server or dedicated private server.

•cPanel

With GoDaddy, you have access to a user-friendly and breezy control panel. It uses cPanel for Linux and Plesk for Windows. GoDaddy keeps it simple and straightforward to use the cPanel. It has a clean layout with everything marked and categorized appropriately.

With cPanel users have easy access to email and database management, app and add-ons installation, and website portability.

•Uptime & performance

One of the most important features to look out for while choosing a web host is their uptime and performance. In this regard, GoDaddy performs well with an uptime of 99.9%. This ensures that your website is up and accessible at most of the times.

Though GoDaddy isn’t the best performer in terms of speed, their average load time is 508 ms which is a pretty decent one to say. Statistics indicate that their page load time has been consistently improving and this is great news for all website owners.

•Plethora of applications

With GoDaddy, you can customize your website with many applications. It offers as many as 150 applications that can be installed in one click. Some of the third-party integrations include CMS like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and developer-friendly tools like CloudLinux, Python, etc.

•Customer support

Another very impressive feature that GoDaddy offers is round the clock customer support. If users get stuck at any point they always have help around in the form of live chat, international phone support, etc.

What we liked best about the customer service is that assistance is available in all forms to all users independent of the plan they have opted for.

•Website builder

Don’t have a website yet? GoDaddy can help you build it from scratch. It offers 2 options to users for setting up their website. One is their proprietary GoCentral and the other is the WordPress drag-and-drop builder.

GoCentral has dozens of templates that are categorized for specific products and services. From consulting to pet grooming you will find a template for almost all business. However, when it comes to choosing themes, there are not plenty of them to choose from and that is a bit disappointing.

While GoCentral is free, the WordPress Quick Start builder can be used only after purchasing a hosting plan for a month at least. To use this site builder you don’t need any WordPress knowledge.

•Security & backups

Security is one of the most important aspects to consider when choosing a web host. Your website security is of utmost importance. GoDaddy understands the security needs of businesses well and hence provides features like Web application firewall, content delivery network, zero-day attacks, and much more.

A very important safety feature these days is the SSL certificate. However, you can have SSL access only after paying a price of $69.99 per year.

•All-in-one business spot

Whether it is designing, marketing, or administration, GoDaddy provides it all. This feature brings a lot of convenience for small businesses as all their requirements become available under one centralized system.

•WordPress integrated

If you are a WordPress user, then you can benefit from GoDaddy’s managed WordPress hosting. This takes away a lot of technical responsibilities that otherwise you would have to handle like plugin updates, WordPress software updates, etc.

It offers a host of other features like daily backups, WordPress themes, quick loading website, migration services, and so on.

•Digital Marketing tools

If you need help with digital marketing then GoDaddy can help you with that too. It offers many tools like local SEO citation, SEO guide for beginners, email marketing, mobile-responsive templates and themes, content suggestion to improve your search engine ranking, and much more.

If you run a small business then GoDaddy’s “marketing suite” is what you should consider. This package combines SEO and email marketing, Facebook marketing tools, and Google My Business listing.

Pros

• •Unlimited bandwidth with the most basic plan

• •30-day money-back guarantee

• •Windows-based hosting

• •Easy and sleek interface

• •Affordable hosting services

• •Huge variety of products

• •Servers are both Window and Linux based

Cons

• •No CDN to boost speed

• •No backup

Final verdict

From the above review, we can conclude that GoDaddy’s goods outweigh the shortcomings. However, this web host is best suited for small businesses that don’t need many advanced features and tools to run their site.

With unlimited storage and bandwidth even with the most basic plan, GoDaddy is a good deal. Though it does not support cloud-based hosting and lacks some other features it serves fairly well. It has a good uptime record and fast loading speed which is a big plus.

So, if you are looking at an affordable and basic web host, you should consider GoDaddy for sure.