GoDaddy Review

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  • Diskspace: 10
  • EmailAccounts: 100
  • MonthlyTransfer: 300 GB
  • SubDomain: 25

Control Panel
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  • Plesk
Database
  • PHPMyAdmin
  • MySQL
  • Microsoft SQL
  • Import & Export Tools
Domain
  • Private Domain Registration
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  • LifeType
  • WordPress
  • Nucleus
Easy-install CMS
  • Mambo
  • Joomla
  • Drupal
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  • phpBB
Ecommerce
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  • osCommerce-
  • POP3
  • Exchange
  • Webmail Interface
  • SMTP-authentication
  • IMAP
  • Email Forwarders
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  • Anti-Virus
  • Anti-Spam
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Photo Gallery
  • Coppermine
Platform
  • Windows
  • Linux
Server Side Scripts
  • PHP
  • CGI
  • ASP
Support
  • Phone Support
  • Email Support
  • Available 24/7
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16Found this review helpful

I was a little leery based on some of the reviews on the web but personally I've had a great experience with Go Daddy. The bandwidth both up and down stream are excellent, up time is great 9never noticed site down in 6 months) and support (when needed) is fantastic. Highly recommended.

Published 12 months ago By: wmrobrtsn (Beginner User)

4Found this review helpful

Godaddy isn\'t as good as it seems. I like the pricing and the easy navigation. However, SQL database has a limited size- so if your hosting a forum- look forward to deleting lots of threads frequently. SQL database timed out frequently and produced errors daily. They shut-down your site early!!! Which is the main reason I chose new hosting at Hostgator. For example, let\'s say you purchase a month at Godaddy today, your hosting will expire on July 5th, but they\'ll suspend your account July 4th at 12am. Soooo, always pay early... if hosting f=gets suspended and you don\'t pay- you lose everything, users/posts/db.

Published 12 months ago By: Chris (Experienced User)

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Recommended by: 14 of 32 users

Number of reviews: 32

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Peter Bjork recommends this hosting provider

Published 5 weeks ago

Godaddy has peaks and valleys on there shared hosting. Of cause it is always much traffic in weekends,, that's when your server uploads takes server time Out. Their dashbord is a joke, to slow to ugly to bad.. 

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Peter Bjork

(Beginner)

Hosting solutions: 1

Hosting type: Shared

Rizky doesn't recommend this hosting provider

Published 3 months ago

i tried godaddy hosting service for 5 months, is really worst hosting i ever had, every day is always have slowest up time or download time than the other hosting, i really not recommended to anyone, right now i think about change hosting service. i think godaddy have a great name the have a great service n hosting, but i'm totally wrong, when i decided to use their service... Read Full Review

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Rizky

(Experienced)

Hosting solutions: 3

Hosting type: Shared

O Szczypka doesn't recommend this hosting provider

Published 6 months ago

REALLY, really really bad service. My service is unavailable nearly all the time. I cant seem to load anything, and it all keeps timing out. Really slow servers also and you are limited so much. They also have a very bad UI which can be very confusing for beginners. I would not recommend them to ANYONE. 

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O Szczypka

(Experienced)

Hosting solutions: 5 or more

Hosting type: Shared

Dr. Dennis Neder doesn't recommend this hosting provider

Published 7 months ago

Lousy, lousy, lousy! Absolutely the worst of the bunch (and I've tried more than a few). GoDaddy used to be so excellent, but now, every time you call them for support their first claim is, "Well, I've never heard anyone complain about that before!" or "We have no other complaints like that", etc. Then, they go about arguing with you trying to convince you that YOU are the problem or... Read Full Review

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Dr. Dennis Neder

(Experienced)

Hosting solutions: 1

Hosting type: Shared

silvia doesn't recommend this hosting provider

Published 7 months ago

very unfriendly interface for users. very low value for money. extremely limited services. the only good thing is that you get less chances to have your website hacked because it is so hard to edit and host your won website that the hackers do not even bother to try to do it as well.... 

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silvia

(Intermediate)

Hosting solutions: 5 or more

Hosting type: Shared

joe recommends this hosting provider

Published 9 months ago

not bad, no complaints, got the 1.99 a month economy plan so at that rate i cant really be too upset 

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joe

(Intermediate)

Hosting solutions: 2

Hosting type: Shared

Mick Lail doesn't recommend this hosting provider

Published 10 months ago

I have tried Godaddy three times over the past several years just to see if anything has changed - It hasn't. Installing applications such as SMF, or Coppermine take forever.

They have long drawn out names and numbers for every database you make (confusing), and their interface is the worst in the business. If all that wasn't enough, the worst part is that every frigging page you go to... Read Full Review

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Mick Lail

(Experienced)

Hosting solutions: 1

Hosting type: Shared

Jack Garvey doesn't recommend this hosting provider

Published 11 months ago

If you have the time to talk to technical support, they are very helpful, but if you need to email GoDaddy, forget it. it will take them 3-4 hours or much more to respond to you. I have the deluxe service, and if I only had one domain in it, it would be acceptable, but when you try to add multiple domains (which is the reason you buy the... Read Full Review

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Jack Garvey

(Experienced)

Hosting solutions: 3

Hosting type: Shared

wmrobrtsn recommends this hosting provider

Published 12 months ago

I was a little leery based on some of the reviews on the web but personally I've had a great experience with Go Daddy. The bandwidth both up and down stream are excellent, up time is great 9never noticed site down in 6 months) and support (when needed) is fantastic. Highly recommended. 

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wmrobrtsn

(Beginner)

Hosting type: Unknown

Chris doesn't recommend this hosting provider

Published 12 months ago

Godaddy isn\'t as good as it seems. I like the pricing and the easy navigation. However, SQL database has a limited size- so if your hosting a forum- look forward to deleting lots of threads frequently. SQL database timed out frequently and produced errors daily. They shut-down your site early!!! Which is the main reason I chose new hosting at Hostgator. For example, let\'s say you purchase a month at... Read Full Review

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Chris

(Experienced)

Hosting solutions: 5 or more

Hosting type: Shared

Bill H Simmons recommends this hosting provider

Published 2 years ago

Great hosting. No downtime. Customer is world class!! 

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Bill H Simmons

(Beginner)

Hosting type: Unknown

Mark recommends this hosting provider

Published 2 years ago

I tried a couple of web site hosts before godaddy. I wanted to build my own site, not to be cheap but because I wanted to have control of updating content without having to rely on someone else.
The first two hosts claimed to have easy site builders but neither had support that was really of any use. I ended up frustrated with each of them. I tried godaddy... Read Full Review

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Mark

(Beginner)

Hosting type: Unknown

Bill doesn't recommend this hosting provider

Published 2 years ago

why don't visit nodadyy.com to know better of godaddy, their email client is no function for some counties at all, but they claim it is OK, and take me one month to set up and modify configuration, none of them is workable. at the end I even could not get a full refund, 

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Bill

(Beginner)

Hosting type: Unknown

Dan Dalthorp doesn't recommend this hosting provider

Published 2 years ago

The server has been unreliable. When it isn't down, it tends to be incredibly slow. Even simple SQL queries frequently time out. 

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Dan Dalthorp

(Beginner)

Hosting type: Unknown

Max doesn't recommend this hosting provider

Published 2 years ago

Godaddy.com CS persons are uninformed & untrained in technical aptitude & advice. Godaddy.com Supervisors are equally bad with a FU customer attitude. Transfers planned months in advance with recorded directions from Godaddy.com CS reps not executed properly by Godaddy.com. Godaddy continuously blamed the previous registar Network Solutions. I spoke with the previous registar multiple times and persons including supervisors who kept checking into the release and confirmed they were not... Read Full Review

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Max

(Beginner)

Hosting type: Unknown

Cory recommends this hosting provider

Published 2 years ago

I use Godaddy for all my hosting and email needs. They have some of the best customer support and their uptime is 99.9999999%. In three years I have only had one time where the email was down and it was for 15 minutes and they gave me a free month in exchange for my troubles. 

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Cory

(Beginner)

Hosting type: Unknown

Computing Waves Inc recommends this hosting provider

Published 2 years ago

Good company, been hostinf with them for almost 5 years now. 

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Computing Waves Inc

(Beginner)

Hosting type: Unknown

Mike recommends this hosting provider

Published 2 years ago

I used quite a few hosting providers, and all of them have downtimes, and its issues, but overall GoDaddy has best tech support, and much more reliable than most of its competition within the same price range. 

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Mike

(Beginner)

Hosting type: Unknown

walter doesn't recommend this hosting provider

Published 2 years ago

My site was down 3 times in 2 1/2 months . Go Daddy never notified me, I found out I was down for a few days. I had to call Go Daddy to republish the site. They just said there was a problem with the Nameservers and were really nonchalant. 

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walter

(Beginner)

Hosting type: Unknown

Carolyn Whiford doesn't recommend this hosting provider

Published 2 years ago

Go Daddy has been nothing less then a nightmare for me and my access database. I get very vague answers from the support folks and they usually turn the problem back on me without any guidance. When I search their help pages, 100's of users are making the exact same complaint and many have just move to another hosting company. 

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Carolyn Whiford

(Beginner)

Hosting type: Unknown

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