There are a lot better options in the same price range. It seems to be inexpensive at the beginning, but in reality, it is a case worse than "you get what you pay for" since you get less than that.

The lack of advanced features or customization is expected for an inexpensive service, but having to put up with technical support personnel that yell at you and do not even have the technical knowledge to help you is really something. Hiring unqualified people to help you (to make the service cheap I guess) only translates into these poor guys passing their frustration to you as a customer.

Unfortunately I like nothing about their service and I will be changing to other options in the same price range that I have found to work a lot better for me.

Godaddy took my money, applied it to the wrong account and my site has been down for almost a month. Now they are adverstising my site for sale on their web site. My site is Codeforeblog.com .. see for yourself. Im gonna get a lawyer.

I'be been using GoDaddy for over 2 years. When
one of my websites started getting some real
traction, I noticed access failures.

I contacted goDaddy support. First, they flat
out denied it and said it was my problem.

Then I did network testing and presented them
with
the results. 9 out of 10 accesses to their
network failed!

Honestly, I am not making the next part up.

GoDaddy told me:

1. Your problems are an aberration

2. "Don't do
that". As in don't test their network. That 1
out of 9 successful accesses are good enough!

My point if no one access your network, or they
do a couple reloads you'll never know.

But if you're doing real business this means
unknown lost sales.

STAY AWAY FROM THEM IF YOU ARE DOING REAL
BUSINESS.

Godaddy is good till today for me... I am very sorry to say now... it sucks
I have hosted 42 domains on my account, I submitted a ticket for a domain status pending they played with messages saying please wait for 10-12 days and then they told that they were migrating the account after that they said they were shifting the account to another server, and suddenly this morning they mailed me that my account was cancelled from my side. Why should I cancel my account which is hosting 42 domains.
Now they are asking to purchase a new plan and they will restore the data in 10 to 15 days.. This is a joke for me no ftp access, no hosting account All my 42 sites will be down,,
I am in a terrible situation my clients will kill me and ruin my small business ...
I only says godaddy is a piece of shit for me from now on..

They cannot stop people from stealing your smpt relays.
I have totally clean system and can change password by other peoples computer and still, daily, all smpt relays are gone by 8AM in the morning.
Their tech dept doesn't believe me and will do nothing about it.
I think they must have a hole or no good authorization.
Tech support says they have no control over relays! WHAT, you mean you can't make people authenticate to take my relays??? Ridiculous!

Avoid GoDaddy.com like the plague. There are tons of other and better alternatives in the same price range.

1. Downtime: I used GoDaddy for exactly one month. After three multi-hours downtimes - one lasting a whooping 20 hours - I had enough and moved to another hosting company.

2. Slow loading time: Watching your webpage load will make you feel like its1995 again. Remember modems?

3. Sell, sell, sell. Go Daddy only cares about one thing, selling you more stuff.

There is absolutely NO REASON to choose that hosting company. NONE.

I recently heard from a key customer (The US department of energy) that godaddy was rejecting their emails to me. I called godaddy support, and they indicated that mail was rejected because of a small error in the way the DOE set up their mail servers. Apparently, the mailserver needs to be listed in the domain's SPF and it was not so godaddy rejected the mail even though it was from the US government. Godaddy indicated they cannot do anything about it. So this means that I am not receiving mail from a major customer if I continue to use godaddy to process my mail.

The same messages are fine when they go to my gmail account.

My conclusion is that godaddy's mail service is unreliable.

go daddy used to be among the best. Not anmore. The tech support blows and continous UNresolved problems with their web side designer. A few months back it was yet another problem on their end.

I am n ow on the phone AGAIN with godaddy due to the same UNresolved issues and to ad insult to injury, I was sent a renewal notice in which I was informed that my domains will auto renew 3/31/13 when they renew 6/1 and not auto.

Go daddy is really on their way down down down and I would not refer or recommend them at this time.

Very Frustated Server. I have been very much issues in FTP / SFTP Login, mail problems, even the data loading . The server is not uptime many many hours.

I had heard from many professional software Engineer that Godaddy is just messing up with emotions. but now i have practical experience with it and please don't waste your time and emotions using Godaddy server.

Ihavehad constant problems with slow performance and not being able to access various control panel feature resulting in my not being able to update my website. Online Supportis quick but it can'tmake up for lack of uptime and access. If you are running a business you can't rely on Godaddy

I purchased website builder from you guys, and it said it came with a domain name. I chose recyclacaps.com, and it was available. I went through, made my template pages, and published. I waited 48 hours, and it wasn't up. I then purchased hosting, and still nothing. Then I noticed the domain name I purchased was still for sale!.... I am not able to contact phone support because it is long distance (which I advice getting a toll free number for a big business), so I decided to repurchase the domain name.... (So I don't know if I spent my money twice now)... Then I proceed to set up hosting again, (this time it was working) and it published my site, however it published another template and not the one I was using in website builder. So, I need to know if I spent money twice, if I am able to use the website builder I purchased for my domain name I had to repurchase, and how soon I can get my website up on the web.

-When I e-mailed them this, they replied back on how to cancel service, not how to fix my problem.... It was an automated reply, and I did just that. I don't do business with people whom take your money and run-

I was shocked that hours after paying them they called me to make sure every thing was ok and that I was happy with the service so far. And I have to say I am. There was the one small problem of the 500 e-mails as stated in the add were not there. By the time I went from my phone to get my laptop and back the gentleman on the phone had the issue resolved. I am very happy with the start of my service. If they keep up the great work they will have my business in the future for sure.

I've been with GoDaddy for some years and have had endless technical problems. Today was the final straw. In general, their web site builder has always been unstable to use. I've wasted so much time editing only to have it crash on me and have to start all over again. Uploading images can be difficult with inexplicable ghosting of buttons, sometimes, a blank spot where there should be options. Since the 'enhanced' their web site building program I find when I'm trying to update a page, suddenly everything shrinks and I can't even read the text. If I check other web pages when this happens, all is okay. I tried to submit a support ticket today only to find myself being passed from one page to another, on a loop. I phoned someone at my expense only to be told he didn't know why I was having this problem. He asked me to see if the problem existed using another computer. I don't have a bank of computers at my disposal. In the end he suggested the problem might be with my Internet connection. Not what I'd call technical support. Quite honestly, I've been offended by the 'babe' pictures long enough.A babe on a motorbike. A babe with a rugby ball. What on earth is that all about? Please folks, avoid Godaddy.

What can you say about Godaddy? Quite frankly if you value your sanity you will avoid Godaddy like the plague?

Why?

1. Downtime - Site is forever down. Only for 1 minute, maybe 2 most of the time but it makes your website unusable and customers don't come back.

2. Page load time - Type in your url. Now go and make a coffee whilst the page loads. I made copies of my site and uploaded onto other servers and it loads in less than half the time.

3. Support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Don't make me laugh. There isn't any. Send them a support ticket and you will get the usual "reply within 22 hours" rubbish. I submitted an urgent support ticket on Monday as my site had become unusable due to server issues. It's now Friday and I'm still awaiting the reply!

4. Their reviews on social networks are screened by them. They remove any negative comments immediately so that only positive reviews are left.

5. User Interface - What exactly is that all about? It's awful. 27 clicks to do anything simple.

6. DNS changes - Don't ever try to update your DNS with them. My God they must do it by carrier pigeon.

I have been using godaddy's service for about 3 months now. Personally, I use the service for business reason. What troubles me the most from their services is the fact that I can't send out files larger than 200kb. This is ridiculous! I bought the email address for my business, so that we look professional. But every time I have to send files that are larger than 200 kb (very small) I have to revert to my gmail (free email); This is very unprofessional. The deal says that I can send out files up to 30 MB per email. I don't know what's going on with my acc., but apparently, I am not the only one having this problem.

Bad service! I am very dissappointed

Go daddy used to be great with customer service- it felt like you were calling up someone who actually cared. However, there customer service is AWFUL now. I accidentally double paid for my domain and instead of refunding me one of the payments they simply took it and gave me one more year. Well that would have been fine if I cared to keep my domain for that long but since I didn't, I just wanted refund on one of the payments and one less year. They were unapologetic or understanding and have me robot-like answers. Thankfully one of the payments made was through Paypal and I was able to get my that money back through them - but Godaddy went ahead and canceled my entire domain! So now I still paid them for one year, and got nothing. Wow thanks a lot for taking my money and giving me nothing in return.

Everything at godaddy has the undertones of the soft sell, when you try to do anything on their website with your products they take you around in a circle. At the same time they keep any action needed obscure and hard to understand. You will keep clicking in order to find out what to do and they will lambaste you with more marketing. This hosting is not for people who lack experience, I have spent hours trying to get a domain name up on my hosting there, and usually I have to make a $20.00 long distance phone call for support. If you have to spend 2 hours on youtube trying to find videos that explain things on Godaddy then this hosting is not for you. I'm stuck with these people until 2018 don't make the same mistake, if you are a novice try someone else.

Previously registered domain and was trying to set up parameters when, due to the inadequate interface, accidentally deleted domain on their server. Called to have reinstated but was told I was SOL (rats would not give a refund or reinstate) I have used a computer since 1989 and had training in Visual Basic and HTML programming (A grades). I have not used their service and have told everyone I know to avoid them. Now have multiple domains with APLUS.com and very happy.

godaddy is the most fantastic hosting provider company i love godaddy. it's really daddy of all hosting companies i recommend to every one only choose godaddy hosting.

I had a GoDaddy account for years and liked it well enough, so I used them when I created an account for a client. For some reason, GoDaddy linked our two accounts so I kept getting his annual renewal notices. Each year I forwarded his renewals to him so he wouldn't lose his account. I called Godaddy and he called, multiple times each year for about seven years. Every year they assured us it was "fixed." We of course had to take their word for it until the renewal notice got messed up the following year. Finally, one year someone actually DID something, and managed to link MY account to HIS account so HE received the annual renewals. He didn't forward them to me, so I woke up one morning to find my account and my site were both dead. I tried to put the site back up, and found that my domain name had been purchased by someone else, and I couldn't get it back. I still can't. I had had the website and domain name for 10 years, and got thousands of hits a day. I had to switch from [that domain].com to [that domain].net. This morning I checked, and my site had had 3 hits. They did this to me two weeks before a MAJOR release, and essentially shrugged and said, "Not our problem." They said they couldn't even discuss anything with me because my account was now in my client's name. Since my client had moved on to another host, and this really wasn't his problem (and he wasn't interested in continuing to do this year after year) I was on my own. GoDaddy would not help me after being incompetent in the handling of this problem for seven years. Needless to say, I wouldn't go near them if I were you. Not ever.

Very confusing to choose products. I was trying to renew my website hosting. It displays several options to buy products . I expect to see only the product I need to review and may be a a button/option to see other offers. Too confusing to navigate!

They should have designed simple .!

We hosted with GoDaddy and while the server was slow at times we didn't have downtimes or any major issues.

once a company is becoming big enough
they stop treating people like people and we become numbers!
that is where godaddy is at right now!
i will NEVER do ANY BUSINESS with godaddy ever again!
they feel that they can ask for any personal details from you
and ignore you with their automatically generated letters.
NEVER AGAIN!!

Godaddy is the worst hosting server that you can find on the market.

They locked my account, removed all my data and asked me to pay again.

I had to wait 7 days to get my data back.

The support is the worst.

So I have godaddy hosting now. I have their shared hosting, the deluxe. THIS SUCKS!! I have a Pay Per click campaign and want reliable loading times. YOU WILL NOT GET THIS with godaddy Shared Hosting. When you call to order their shared hosting they will swear up and down that they monitor the server and if a site uses excessive bandwith, they will switch you etc. And that they don't overload sites like other host providers. Well were on shared and when we call they say "we cant control traffic spikes and were sorry that your loading time exceeds 15 seconds" So i got pingdom to monitor the site, it found its down alot!! Dont get their shared server!

They have a web page called Godaddy Auctions and they are not auctions because the high bidder does not win. Once you bid they will take it as an offer and they the owner of the domain will decide if they want to accept it. So the Bid is not a bid (although that is whay they claim)

Most of my business is online so selecting a domain, hosting, ssl certifiicates, domain security, etc which is required to keep my business going was a very tough job. I found all ny online requirements on GoDaddy.com . First I purchased my domain name and I was so impressed by their interface and support that I decided to buy other services from GoDaddy. The prices are extermely reasonable and the quality of service they provide is simply amaizing. I never worry obout my online identity security as I use GoDaddy services. I would recommend GoDaddy.com to others.

I only use Godaddy for web email and domain name host(no particular reason why I only use them) but in my 3 years with them, I never had a single issue and the customer service is amazing.

Their email marketing is very hard to use compare to its competitor. Email dash board very old and hard to understand.

I have their shared cloud hosting account. Our site is slow. It is down at least once every week. Don't waste your time emailing them...their email support is a joke. Their phone support is quick, but its always goes the same way. First they want to blame the issue on you. They look to see if some script is the issue. Even after you tell them you have not made changes in months. Then they put you on hold while they speak with the real tech support behind the scenes. Then they come back with BS. They say is just a loading issue and everything should be back up shortly. When you confront them with the fact that the Cloud should never have a loading issue, they play stupid. Do yourself a favor, avoid godaddy. Their pricing is good, but its not worth all the down time and frustration.

Only thing to remember about Godaddy.com is that you need to keep up the renewals (or transfer your domain away.) Failing to renew opens you up to basic bolted down tactics. They'll throw your domain up for auction and ask you to pay to become a bidder in order to pay to get it back. Whatsmore they'll keep holding onto your old domain as long as they like and sell it to whoever they please.
In terms of price they are very good, but there are many strings to consider.

That the control panel is easier to use for both the hosting and the domain, FTP file manager is complicated to change permissions on files. and also have to wait long for service personnel, it is difficult to find the root directory CPanel personally prefer the traditional.

I love GoDaddy.com I have multiple domains associated with them. I have used it basically for domain names, SSL certifies, domain protection. The good thing is that they have almost all the things you need to start a website or hosting something else. So you don't have to go to other providers for different things. The pricing is reasonable. I would recommend GoDaddy to individuals, small business and corporates.

It definitely Sucks:
We sunrisetelecom.com had been hosting our corporate website at Godaddy for more than 6 years now, and had two instances when our website was down for more than 4-5 hours, we are a world wide company and we need our website up 24 X 7.

The first outage was in Aug 2011, when our credit card expired ...they gave away the Static IP address assigned to us to someone else. The second outage happened yesterday the 20th of August, we has three payment methods active with Godaddy but just one credit card had expired all of a sudden they ended up allocating our static IP address to someone else just because the credit card that was used to buy that static IP had expired without even considering that we still had one credit card and our Paypal account still active with them. Inspite of all pleading our web site went down.

I beleive we made a smart move last night and moved our hosting to rackspace cloud, although is was a bit costly but atleast we would not get this cheap treatment anymore.

When I purchased my domain name through godaddy.com, it was highly recommended that I also purchase privacy registration through Domains by Proxy. I was told it would increase security on my site. I purchased it, but then a few days later when I needed to transfer my domain to another hosting service, I was told I would have to cancel that privacy registration, and that I would receive no refund. If the non-transferable nature of the product had been made known to me I would not have purchased it. I do not appreciate dishonest business tactics that include taking someone's money, giving no value, and then refusing a refund. I thave written to godaddy.com to request that they stop suggesting to their customers that they register through Domains by Proxy, or other similarly-practicing privacy providers. It is not wise to cheat your customers, and such cheating practices will send them away. I will not be purchasing future domains with godaddy.com because of this experience.

GoDaddy is a company that we have all probably heard of by now. Whether it be from their numerous TV commercials and internet advertisements – or via word of mouth. Fact is everyone has probably heard of them by now – and I am sure most people thought GoDaddy when they first needed hosting, or a domain name. Weirdly enough I had always steered away from GoDaddy – even though I had no personal experiences with them and no real reason to do so. Their main site never seemed to load fast enough for my liking so I had always dismissed them due to that and never looked back. A recent job however had changed that – for roughly the past 6 months I had been developing a series of sites on 2 different GoDaddy shared hosting accounts. Both accounts are on GoDaddy‘s Deluxe Linux Shared Hosting plan – now running on their GRID setup for the past 2 months (think GoDaddy‘s version of Cloud Shared Hosting). Below is my review. It’s honest. It’s not sugarcoated. It’s not here to tell you to buy from GoDaddy or to avoid them. Below is simply my experiences and my thoughts.

Using GoDaddy‘s control panel I immediately noticed one thing: I really miss cPanel. Those good old days when your control panel was a mere www.mywebsite.com/cpanel away. Now you go to GoDaddy‘s main website. Login at the top. Then select My Products. Then click on Hosting. Then click on Launch to open the hosting control panel. 5 steps as opposed to the usual 2.

Moving on we notice most changes are not done instantly. Remember when you would create a MySQL database in cPanel – create a user – and everything was done ready for you to work with in phpMyAdmin within seconds? Forget that. Most functions such as creating email accounts, ftp accounts and databases get placed into a queue. For example I once waited 45 minutes for a new database to be created – which did not exactly fit well into my time schedule for that day. Lets rewind a little bit to those FTP accounts. Usernames for FTP accounts are checked against the server or cloud you’re in – so no-one on the server can have the same username. This has never really bothered me – but I suppose it plays a role in the queue time when setting up a new FTP account. I can see this getting annoying later on – sometimes its just simpler to have a familiar username across your domains.

Soon after I joined the team a co-worker asked me if I could setup for him a quick eCommerce site he could play around with. I remembered how great Fantastico was with cPanel and quickly went to see what GoDaddy offered.GoDaddy offers its own share of one-click installations – once again everything goes through a queue so when you press install – go for dinner. We decided to go with ZenCart this time around. About 25 minutes later the install was finished and we loaded up the fresh install. For a while I thought the load time might rival how long it took for the script to install. While a basic page with some minor PHP coding would load perfectly fine – a database driven website seemed to be too much for the server to handle. A call to technical support offered up two explanations and solutions.
(The Usual) We are on a shared hosting plan and would most likely benefit from having a more dedicated solution where we would be able to utilize more system resources.
We were on their “regular” setup – however they now offered GRID hosting – which “pools” the resources of several servers allowing your site’s content to reside on multiple servers – thus decreasing resource use and increasing reliability.
There was no extra charge for going to GRID from “regular” so we went ahead with it. There was no downtime we noticed – but most of the use these accounts get is developmental or for internal applications. All our domain names worked perfectly fine following the change however adding new domains from other registrars was now another hassle. You see with the GRID setup the nameservers constantly changed – any old domains continue to work but to set up a new one you have to call in to tech support – again – and ask for the current name server to use.

The next day we went back to the ZenCart install we had yet to work with. Loading. Loading. Loading. I can’t truthfully say it wasn’t a tiny bit faster – but it was still not even average. We did a ZenCart install on our other account at this point and noticed it to be much faster. Maybe the pool our other account is in isn’t as full as this one? Maybe I had become spoiled by smaller hosting companies over the years and have grown to expect too much? Another call in to tech support let us know that our only other available solution was to upgrade to a VPS or our own dedicated server. Neither were viable solutions at the moment so we simply moved our database driven applications onto the other account in the meantime.

A few weeks after we were working on an online ordering system for a local restaurant when we encountered the queue once more. It seems mail sent from the server also goes through a queue – however this queue had a whole new wait time. We had experienced moments where our contact forms and ordering forms would take up to 10 hours to make it through. Here came another call to tech support – who politely told me if I do not use their formmail script – they cannot help me. So I quickly grabbed their script – and set up a contact form using it. Submitted it. 40 minutes later I got the email. I wanted to be sure though – this time around I was covering all my bases. I jumped onto my personal hosting account – with a different company we will not be naming. It is a simple shared hosting account – also linux. I uploaded my original contact form – the one that did not use GoDaddy‘s formmail. Pressed submit – and immediately saw the new email. I tried it again on GoDaddy. Nothing. I assume it is important to note that the contact form being used for these tests was an extremely basic mail() script. Nothing fancy, just a name and a message and submit.
*calling tech support again*

We didn’t really reach a solution here either. GoDaddy said there was a problem with the queue currently and they are working on it – however their servers are setup to only send out a certain amount of emails every 15 minutes – which sometimes causes a queue to build up. I explained that for our online ordering system the client needs to be able to get their notification emails instantly so as to confirm and check on orders. Let’s say someone is running a newsletter system for their website and has to send out their newsletter to 400 of their users at the same time as a customer is placing an order on you’re website. Good luck getting that email in a reasonable timeframe. Once again the only solution offered was to switch to a more dedicated solution. I guess it took them roughly a month to get this “queue problem” fixed – or at least that’s how long it took for our mail() forms to start functioning within the 15-minute queue period. In-fact for the past few days most submissions come instantly.

Now to some point I can understand why some of these things are the way they are. GoDaddy is a huge hosting company and a large part of their customer base has no idea about SQL injections and website security – so GoDaddy has to implement extra safety measures to double check each action and limit certain things. Let’s say someone’s website on your server gets hacked and is used to send out several thousand spam messages. This will not only bog down the server for everyone on it – it will delay any emails (longer than usual anyway) – and it runs the risk of having the server blacklisted as a spam server – causing future problems for all of the clients on that server. As such emails go through queues and each shared account has a daily limit of 500 emails (it could be 1000 – I need to double check).

Continuing with the size of the company and the amount of people on each server – that also explains the need for queues when performing various actions. GoDaddy has to allot for the fact that 15 people might be online at the same time trying to make a new FTP account, email address, or add a new subdomain. To maintain server stability they implement such actions.

In the end it really comes down to your personal preference. If my cousin calls me one day and says he wants to build a small website for his pizza place – assuming he has absolutely no idea what he’s really doing – I’d be sending him over to GoDaddy. Chances are he won’t have my problems because he won’t be using the services to such an extent. He won’t need the email to be immediate – and chances are he won’t ever make a nother FTP account to care how long it takes. He’ll grab a template – put up a simple website – maybe put a little blog – and be happy everytime he see’s his words on the internet. When he gets lost in their control panel he’ll call up tech support – be walked through what he needs – and chances are get off the phone purchasing some addon product you are pitched after almost every call. In the end – he’ll be happy. Now tell me you’re a PHP developer and have decided the internet is long overdue for the next big community scripting project – I’d probably recommend something else.

Go Daddy is awesome. It is very basic but it has a lot of options. I bought WebSite Tonight and i LOVE it. I was at WEBS.com but they stopped HTML coding so i left to find Go Daddy. I had know clue who they were until i watched a NASCAR race and saw there car so i pulled up there website and it is wonderful. Go Daddy has a very simple, east-to-use checkout and i will never go anywhere else. Thanks Go Daddy

The help they gave me when I was first starting to build my wordpress blog was fantastic, I was pleasantly surprised to reach someone late at night who not only was easy to understand, but knew how to fix the problems. Thank You Godaddy.

I have economy hosting for Godaddy. Its good, but not good at the same time. It's good because its cheap and its go daddy (reliable). But its not good, because if I have more than 2 people on the site, the site doesn't load fully for the new user. Basically, the server is okay, but if u have a site that is going to get a lot of visitors, get dedicated!

I love the customer service - I have had to call them a couple of times and they were excellent, polite and ever so helpful and it was a refreshing change to speak to someone in the US instead of India. Would definitely recommend them.

GO Daddy's Website Tonight is VERY limited. They sell you on being able to give technical help, yet their support personal DO NOT know the program. (for example, I had to explain to the tech where to go to build a table!) I was then told that their support was limited and that Website Tonight is a "Do it Yourself Program"

They are not interested in helping you, they are only interested in selling you more products!

When calling you, you are asked a variety of questions to get to the tech support you need (email, domain, website tonight) but when they answer the phone they answer it SALES and Support. They review your account and try to sell you more crap YOU don't need!

They do not know their product. Many times I have hung up the phone frustrated and call back hoping to get a more knowledgeable person. I would strongly urge you to find another company.

Love GoDaddy .. always the best choices and best products for the money. I explicitly use GoDaddy for all hosting needs. I have tried others, but nothing compares to the quality, and easily navigated back end platform that GoDaddy has to offer.

GoDaddy actually worked fine for me for about 2 years. Then I switched from HTML to Wordpress so I can edit my site myself, without my developers help. Saw its a common problem with GoDaddy, since you typically share a server with 6000 other sites, that WordPress is just too much for it and therefore load times are around 10 seconds. Tried all the cache add ons you're supposed to try to fix it, but no help. Customer support has never really been helpful, only interested in upselling your hosting needs when you call with problems. Only solution they have is deal with it or pay for a dedicated server. Instead, I switched to Host Gator (which is cheaper) and it handles to demands of Wordpress without a hiccup. What I learned, friends dont let friends host with GoDaddy...

Im in between, they have great domain name and everything like premium dns and such. But i hate their other services such as vps and servers. It's an ripoff!

They are in between the pff rating i don't know.

Go Daddy may be a good hosting site for the experienced user. For those of us who know nothing about the Meta tags, Robotx, etc. they are of no use. I subscribed to Go Daddy 11/2011. I have repeatedly called and ask why my site is not showing up on the search engines and I hear the same story: your keywords. I find (5 months later) that it must be the meta tags, etc. I am told that they can't fix it, just walk you through it. Here is the problem, the reps don't know how to fix most things. I had an experienced computer tek. talk with them and he was outraged at the lack of cooperation. Apparently, you need to know that there is a huge difference in Website tonight and the regular sites. This sucks. I've paid close to 1,000.00 and if you don't know the name of my company, your not going to find me. Good bye Godaddy!!!! Would not recommend!!

GoDaddy is a really helpful site in the support side. Generally I get a reply to my emails within 24 hours which is great for the size of the company.

The domain creation and management is easy and works great.

Only downside is they charge for whois privacy.

I'm already a customer with multiple domains. When does the owner will stop killing elephants?

The support is awesome.

It's needed a medium level of technical expertise.

They have been very helpful solving my troubles.

Is a service for medium/high level users, with no concience for nature.

I would rater recommend other services before godaddy.

Go Daddy is Ok if you're hosting a website that doesn't matter much to you, otherwise you're going to be disappointed and frustrated.

The Advantages:
* Go Daddy is cheap to get a small website going - but be aware of the lock-ins and other disadvantages.

The Disadvantages:
* Lock-ins: 1. Twice as expensive to renew as to buy new. 2. Transfers are expensive 3. Never forget to renew on time, because they will charge you a fortune to do so (eg. my one domain cost over $100 to get back).

* The User interface is massively confusing, which means that I have to contact the customer service people every time I want to do pretty much anything I haven't done before (and wait a day for a canned response) - Worst still is that I'm a techie so this stuff should be easy for me.

* Performance Sucks, even a basic website will be slow to very slow. Google and other SEO sites often randomly have problems accessing my sites because of timeouts and other random http 500 errors - this even happens for my simplest 1 page basic html 'website'. You need to pay to get the logs.

* FTP doesn't always work properly. It sometimes times out, and your files will get locked on the server leaving your website in a broken state for days.

* If you're behind a corporate firewall GoDaddy will probably be blocked, and your site may also get blocked because of the DNS lookups.

* I can't seem to backup my DBs. Apparently I don't have permissions in SSMS. And I haven't been able to find a place in the User interface to do so.

* The DBs are tiny and can't be expanded, even with all the space available to you.

You have the most reliable servers ever. Great value and great features.. Allsoe great support. The prices is good both for serversand domains .. Love GoDaddy.com. Have several domains here and have hade lots of domains here

GoDaddy really does a superior job at web hosting. I currently host about 14 sites on one account and I don't think I could be happier. Their support representatives are also extremely responsive and actually care about helping you out. Their domain registration tools are so easy to use as well. Their "control centers" are a little bit drawn out and hard to navigate sometimes, but with time, the user is able to figure it all out. I would recommend GoDaddy to anybody. Residential, small business, corporations, and even individuals! Their rates are super-fair and they are so easy to work with! GODADDY!

GoDaddy is on the wrong side of history, and their business practices are highly threatening to the stability of the internet as a whole. I have moved all 17 of my domains to a registrar with a hint of ethical concern.

I'm having some trouble with my domain, I cannot find the right answer to my questions in the FAQ. I've spent the whole day trying to work it out, wrote an email to support and still waiting

Godaddy features are great and prices are pretty cool, but the support sucks .. it takes average of 20-25 hrs for the to reply.

I LOVE this host website. I have had a domian there since 2009, and no issues at all. So I made a 2nd domain, but I never used it...but they allowed me to make a custom parking area for it. I also have an email for that domain FOR FREE! I will always use Godaddy. Always.

GoDaddy is an amazing hosting website, they offer great features at a perfect price.
Most websites over price their yearly fees, but GoDaddy gives you discounts the longer you stay with them.

Go Daddy is great because it has everything related to domain,hosting,email,search engines,website,SSL. Go daddy offers one stop solution to all your needs.

Another Great thing about go daddy is ease of buying products and services in local currency!!

They provide support very fast.

Their technical expertise is most reliable. In fact Go daddy offers 4th generation hosting technologies which is highly secure. Other hosting services providers offers 3GH and 2GH services at the similar price.

Best features are :
Best-of-breed routers, firewalls and servers
Website statistics
FREE email addresses
Google® Webmaster Tools
Daily backup
24/7 support
NO hidden fees
FREE setup and software
One-click setup
FTP access

In fact many of my friends have already purchased domains and hosting services from Go daddy. I am also going to join reseller program. and strongly recommend everyone to go for go daddy.

I have godaddy Linux Deluxe package, and would like to continue using it. The thing that makes me remain at godaddy hosting are the files manager, it use flash interface, so I dont need to open many page when I want to edit something on files manager, for example if I want to upload an archive file and than extract it, I just do all on the same page, definitely it will influence the speed of movement on file manager.

I thing godaddy.com hosting are rocks

Go Daddy are great.What do you wish you'd known before becoming a customer?I wish know their hosting's speed ,ease of use and quality.How have they handled your support queries?Answer and help us solve the problem.Customers only need general level.
I would recommend Go Daddy to friends.First,you must tell me what problems you need.Then,our staff can analysis and check them.Tell us your problems, then we can help you solve these.Customer is this host suitable for intermediate user.

Godaddy rocks, because you can find always the best prices, the top offers, the most valuable advices, the most complete packet of services, the most fast and effective support, it is definitelly Godaddy rocks all the way long.

Excellent service. I've used it to register all of my domains. Very easy to use site as well as affordable extras. They even have great specials to add while on your current order. Very reliable email hosting as well. I have 2 email accounts with each of my domains at a great discount with my domain registration. I would give godaddy.com a 9 out out 10 stars. I would recommend them to anyone looking to start an online identity. Great Work GoDaddy!!!

GoDaddy.com is one of the best web hosting services on the web! Day after day I have been looking for a good place to get a domain and easy tools to make it, they were all either to pricey or way to complicated, but at godaddy.com the have unbelievable low prices and web tools that make it easy for you to make your site! Since I have been using Go Daddy I've made 3 sites and brought a lot of traffic to it thanks to go daddy! Go daddy is my most recommended site to use! 5/5 rating!

As a registrar, GoDaddy is pretty good. The domains are reasonably cheap and the support, when needed, is top-notch.

I can't, however, say the same about their hosting as a whole. I used a dedicated server of theirs with a former client and, while the server itself was operational, I ran into several issues with what would otherwise be simple things such as SMTP server configuration (it had to go out through GoDaddy's SmartHost) and daily email caps of 1000 per day (the application being built required tens of thousands per day, all of which were to double opt-in users).

Support when it came to issues like this was helpful at times, but mostly non-existent. They ran into policy issues and didn't want to go beyond it.

They also don't offer any backup services, which is kind of silly.

For a dedicated account I wouldn't recommend them. If you have a small shared site and it's not a site of consequence, you might want to use them.

I've really enjoyed the customer experience and the uptime in my special case 100%!!! awesome. The best hosting company ever.

GoDaddy is pretty awesome because they have great support. I will go as far as saying great, just because it is the only hosting provider I've used personally. I like that they have a one click install for wordpress, joomla and others. Manual installs are ridiculous. Everytime I had to call for assistance, the techs have been super friendly and usually very helpful. They all seem to be American. No trouble with a language translator just to get your site up and going. They do try to upsell you, but aren't to pushy. The main upsells are on the site, which if you shop around you will see they charge quite a bit more than most. Of course usually you get what you pay for. The only reason I'm looking into other providers is to switch an old site on another server that uses a different CMS that godaddy doesn't support. I'm also looking to save a few bucks and would like to use an eco-friendly provider such as FatCow or GreenGeeks that uses wind energy. Overall I am pleased with GoDaddy and would recommend it to most newbies.

GoDaddy is great cause it has unlt bandwith plenty of space and doesnt cost too much for what i need :)

They are not so great because they should discount the months after a package is bought, my price is not a full $8 when it should be $5...

I run a mid-size website and my previous host was cheap, but my site was down at least once a month, their support was non-existent and every time I did get in touch with them, they blamed the problem on me (the company was Hosting Revolution, btw -- poorest excuse for a hosting provider I've ever come across).
In short, I was looking for something that was relatively inexpensive and would keep my site up. Go Daddy's hosting isn't the fastest, but my site hasn't been down once in the six months I've used them. They've also helped me, and done so in a reasonably short amount of time, with every question I've had. Oh, and they haven't blamed problems that were clearly not my fault on me, which was a refreshing change of pace.
You probably don't want to host a huge site with tons of traffic with Go Daddy, but it's definitely a decent option for someone like me.

Go Daddy is the best. Because, it gives a cheap domain (.info). The Redirection of their domain is very fast. And It also provides, SSL certificates, Private Security, and Some other features are really good.

I love Godaddy, I have been with them for over 5 years because they have great customer service and they are always available when I need help.

I have three domains registered with godaddy,and I am using their service for last three years,and their service is really good.Most important thing is that I get a lot of free stuff with just a single domain.Not only that my websites loads fast with godaddy,and I love that.But one thig I want to say that for Indian customers paying for godaddy is a headache,they only support credit card,I think they should include CCavenue as a payment option,so many of users like us can pay charges easily.Apart from this flaw godaddy is the best domain/web hos provider ever.

Godaddy has provided a all around excellent customer experience that i've enjoyed very much. I would recommend them to anyone looking to register a domain or for simple web hosting. Very easy to use. Excellent support.

I really like their complete package approach to Web Hosting. This is amplified by their descriptions of their services, so I know what I am buy and why. I also like that they let you know when your account needs to be updated well before the due dates.

With regards to managing my website, its very straightforward and easy to maintain on the control panel. Their prices are not bad either.

Great Service.
I got a quick response every time i needed.
what can you say more about the no 1 hosting and it services in the world

Now that I have finally gotten accustomed to GoDaddy's somewhat-convoluted interface for domain control, and for hosting, I am very satisfied with the performance, tech support, and overall value they offer.

The user interface is rather confusing, and seems to change on a regular basis. Evidently they have different backend modules for different areas of functionality, such as domain control, and for hosting, so you kind of "jump off" from your My Account area into each area. However, once in that specific zone, the control options offered are extremely full-featured, generally fairly obvious as to how to use them (not always) and should satisfy the most technical control-freak in terms of what can be controlled.

In terms of technical support, there is usally a 6 to 8 minute wait when you call, and then the quality of support is excellent 80% of the time. Techs are generally patient and well-trained. If I do happen to get an obviously undertrained newbie, I will politely ring off and call back again, and most likely get a more-experienced tech.

GoDaddy's hosting plans offer a great value for our clients with multiple websites because you can purchase the Deluxe Hosting plan, under which you can host as many different websites with as many different domains, as you want to, because the domain directories are all located in one area (as subfolders to your first-hosted domain). There is typically no need to purchase email plans if your client is satisfied with a simple forwarding function from a domain email to their personal email, as this service is free with the domain.

Their prices are pretty rock-bottom for plain domain registration and hosting. Because of this, they are constantly trying to upsell naive clients unneeded products, and often succeeding. Therefore I coach my clients specifically as to what they need and what they don't before they have direct contact with a salesperson or tech. If I discover a client has purchased unneeded products, they have always been pleasant and professional when we call to discontinue the unneeded products.

So now that I've become accustomed to GoDaddy's approach, and know their strengths and weaknesses, I find that, all-in-all, they offer the best overall value for my web development needs, and have been very pleased with the quality of technical support.

Generally, Godaddy is a great company. Products and Services are rich and their prices are attractive, there are so many coupons!

Some issues I'd like to say something
Firstly, the customer service response time is somewhat slowly, I have to wait for several hours to get the email replies.

Secondly, During the the process of buying products, there are too much of other recommendation, not feeling very well.

Thirdly, back control panel isn't too easy to use.

I have used Go Daddy for a very long time now, and my experience with them is absolutely great. From the great support to the outstanding prices, I would recommend this site to anyone starting out in the web design business, they're truly outstanding.

I dread any changes I have to make on my website. The employes at Go Daddy take me through all the steps and questions. I don't feel rushed or stupid, but able to work through my problems. I feel confident I can upgrade my website inexpensively and with profesional help. If I have a question I'll just ask. Thanks Marsha

Go Daddy is a very poor web host. As a web site developer, I have found them to be poor on many levels compared to other hosts I've used (some for several years with little to no issues). It seems Go Daddy maintains mysql databases on a server separate from the server hosting the web site. Those database servers go down with regular frequency and then any part of a site that relies on those databases becomes unusable. It's frequent enough that a live site can be significantly hurt by the failures. Their web servers also seem to go down frequently. It seems like they might have rollover servers, but their features don't seem to match up with the primary web servers. For example, the primary web server implements ImageMagick just fine, but the rollover server acts as though ImageMagick is either not installed or not fully configured. If using ImageMagick for a live site, this can mean total failure again and the live site. I've been working on many occasions on a site writing ImageMagick code and testing it; one moment everything is fine, the next it tells me there's no fonts to use or it doesn't understand the commands (with no changes to the code). Even their configuration of ssh for working on a web site is annoying and poor. I can be browsing through a web site directory structure and it will simply disconnect. I understand disconnecting after so much idle time, but their idle time limit is so short (just a few minutes), it makes web development very difficult and annoying. Also, if I'm browsing the directory structure, it should not consider the connection idle.

I will give them credit for having updated software -- PHP and MySQL seem to be some of the newest releases (although their PHP implementation lacks a little -- there seems to be no way to use different php.ini files to allow for different configurations for different directories, such as different prepend and append files).

The constant attempts to sell you additional items is also annoying. They constantly try to get you to buy more "features." Go Daddy may be good for the inexperienced web site developer who needs WYSIWYG editors and the like, but it is definitely not good for professional site development and I question their usefulness for reliable, live web sites at all. Their are reliable, good, economical web hosts out there and Go Daddy is NOT one of them.

Godaddy is one of the most popular providers out there, and I think especially for their very discounted .info registration.
Their control panel is some custom made solution, which is very hard to be used to and to understand for newbies.
Once you get connected with GD, you'll get tons of spam from them to your mailbox. Its like every day once or so.
Their hosting is very secure, and reliable, but has no good global traffic distribution which causes not that cool response times.
If you are a professional user, you should consider working with them, but in any other cases, I don't recommend anything but buying domains.

Go Daddy, is one of the best sites, I ever came upon and Im not just saying that. I really love using the services, very affordable for everyone. I recommend everyone to used go Daddy. sincerly Broderick e-mail: bhornes41@yahoo.com

You have to choose Godaddy if:
1 You don't care about 100% Uptime but 80-85% is enough for you
2 Don't need a good support
3 You want to pay more to have LESS things then other hosts
4 You are simply CRAZY!
Go daddy is a very good Domain registrar but I think it's one of the worst host on the Web Market!
Each time you have a problem and you try to contact support they usually tell you that the problem can't be solved until you pay something more and sometimes (almost always) they don't know neither why your website is offline nor how to solve the problem...
I had a VPS for a few months and I'm not a complete newby in web stuff, I consider my self an average user like a lot on the www.
Even with my average knowledge sometimes I can manage something into my account so instead of calling them I have to "google" to find a solution.
So If you want to join one of the worst host on webmarket...FEEL FREE TO CHOOSE GODADDY!

It's really the best services we've had over 5 years working in web production, customer service when there is any doubt about your services is altamete qualified and solve problems in a fast, I recommend the service and godaddy . com both newbies and experts in the area

I have used GoDaddy for many years and many website. In my opinion I would say that GoDaddy is the best Website hoster out there. There customer-care is one of the best I have ever come across, even though I have little use for them as I have never had a big problem there hosting. It does take some time to get used to, for people beginning with websites, but after you get a bit of technical expertise you will never go to another web host again.

One of the best things about Godaddy is thats its suitable for all users from web masters to people with little expertise
There prices are very good. $10 domain names and a cheap $3/mo hosting is very good.

I would recamend GoDaddy to anybody.

Go Daddy is the first and only domain registrar service I've ever used. I searched extensively online for all kinds of hosting and domain registration costs before I decided to go with Go Daddy. To be sincere, I chose Go Daddy mainly because of the low cost and their reputation.

As all of us agree, it is not very safe to sign up with a service if we know little about it, even though the price may look good. There are some really cheap domain and hosting services online, but many of them are from new or unknown companies. Chances are, some time in the future, their website will go down and they will go out of business without any notice to us customers. For fear of that, I did choose any of these cheap services.

I decided to choose Go Daddy and will stick with it. There is nothing to complain about the service I receive. The customer service is extremely fast and reliable. The domain managing tools are great. They also have a market place for us to sell our domains. Overall, I give Go Daddy five stars. Anyway, you cannot be wrong choosing the largest and best domain registrar service on the world!

GoDaddy provides the best choice in my opinion, I got domain hosting and the price is very cheap, fantastic.
Also, GoDaddy's 24/7 support is extremely knowledgeable, friendly, and always there!

They have great service and are always willing to help with any problems. It never takes more than 15 minutes for changes to occur if they make the changes I need. Also setting up databases and addon programs are a snap.

The thing I say the most about GoDaddy when I'm telling my clients about them and why I chose them is the support. GoDaddy's 24/7 support is extremely knowledgeable, friendly, and always there! Most of all the they are based in America and speak fluent English. Too many times the support maybe there, but the team isn't easy to understand and just leaves you with a bad experience.

GoDaddy's pricing seems to be right up with there with the competition, so they offer a fair package for price. The site is a little busy and can take a little bit to find your way around, but once you've found where things are the interface is very modern and the step-by-step setup wizards make getting your site up and going quick and painless.

I feel that any customer would be happy with GoDaddy, their features and options that you receive and can purchase cover all major platforms.

I've been using GoDaddy for about 4 years and have helped hundreds sign up and enjoy the GoDaddy experience. You won't be disappointed!

Godaddy has been an excellent host for me. It offers good features for my website. Some of the features are optional, which in my opinion should be made available free of cost. Features like Web statistics, and some level of SEO would be great.
Changes in the settings may take some time to reflect, but I've never faced a problem with downtime or reliability.
The FAQ's are very much explanatory and most of the times are enough to answer more than my questions.
I definitely recommend Godaddy for peace of mind. It is suitable for all types of users, just choose your plan carefully.
Godaddy Rocks :)

Go daddy is a great service yet they have got some bad critisism from stuff i have yet to see with my own eyes, so far i think it is a great host they provide great hosting plans and thier support is 10/10 the best i have ever seen on a website, ild recommend every one looking for thier first website should host with them.

At first the go daddy website is very easy to use, all the options are very well explained, and no hidden charges "appear" during the checkout, when you buy domain name an web hosting, since the moment you brought it to the moment you are online, only 48hrs approx. and the speed of my web site is very well i don't complain of anything. i am very happy using go daddy and in the future im sure i will use it again. i hope this review help you to make the right choice choosing the best internet hosting provider. thanks

In some aspects, Go daddy can really dominate the Domain Hosting area.. But it's not really the domain hosting I am complaining about.. My website was recently hacked, MisterHost.info that really made me mad. I contacted support and they told me to re-upload the files.. I did not have the latest version of my website template which made me even more mad, I'm still working on fixing the template, which will take a LONG TIME.

I am attempting to convince my web host to give me another month free.. Just for this hassle.
If they dont comply, I will be very mad, and will of course make a new Review.

Go Daddy's Name Servers lack, as it is very challenging to change and update them.

Hmmm... GoDaddy. I love it. GoDaddy is a great hosting service that I use all the time. I have read so many reviews on this service that say this hosting service is horrible, liars. I personally love this site. It has so many great features, such as email, domain forwarding, and more. I love domain forwarding because you can host your website anywhere possible (such as wordpress, webs.com, etc...) which helps anyone who has a website. This way you don't have to redo your whole website that you currently have hosted. Also, the email has many great features, including support for outlook, so you can set email up on your iPhone or iPod Touch/Blackberry. Their customer support is awesome, and I would FOR SURE recommend this service to all my friends. Overall, great host.

've been a customer with goDaddy for a very long time. I went with them for the value they offered and I still think they are good value. However, my latest experience with them has left me looking for an alternative host.

The problem started with their constant rehashing of the user interface which led to me ordering a Linux site instead of a Windows site. According to the knowledge base it should be possible to change the hosting plan but, as with much of the goDaddy site, it is very out of date. Following a phone call from them they eventually assigned me a Windows site but only partially refunded the amount I had paid. I then discovered they have removed the Frontpage extensions from the Windows plan and no amount of plodding through user interfaces tells me how to get them installed. I asked for a refund but they have now said the refund was made earlier and the problem is with PayPal (another faceless mega-company with zero customer relations).

The (THE) main problem with goDaddy is the customer ticket system. Every time you answer you get a new person to deal with whose name is someone P (e.g. Daniel P, Bill P, Sara P). They appear to be totally brainless when it comes to dealing with the problem.

In all of this there does not seem to be any onbudsman to whom you can turn. I actually despise the company now and can't wait for my account to expire. Bob Parson's is a just another faceless *******.

I have used Godaddy since 2004. In that time I have spent around $3000 with them.

My pet hate with them is the spammy overloaded servers - not a clean interface by far - not simple to navigate - slow - but admin interface speed has improved in the last few years.

Unlike other providers Godaddy charge for ALL extras above and beyond Domain Registration. This means anonymous whois, e-mail, so called business registration. Unless you wish just for a straighforward domain it actually is cheaper to go elsewhere.

I host many sites with Godaddy and will critically do recommend them. Support is minimal - but if you don't need it - you know what you are doing - then they are probably the best basic domain deal out there.

Although they use a US call centre (no farming off to India) the staff really have not much expertise and seem to use scripted responses.

You can also use one-time credit card payments if you are worried about security. A good feature.

In summary - cheap and cheerful - reliable - but dont expect serious support.

Hi my name is billy sullivan i have been a customer at godaddy for 5 years now i have really really enjoyed it. it is so easy to use the interface is just fantastic all neatly laid out i like their new hosting offers it is so cheap i have been with other companies aswell before hand like yahoo but not as better as this i first started off at the site when i saw the 1.99 offer i signed up for it i got so many benefits i even got free hosting with it also came with a blog too at 1 time only once my server collapsed and within a few hours it was back up and running with no loss of data.i do reccomend this to any young starting out website maker because it is so easy to use you could have your own website on within 1 hour and if you get one of their fantastic domains you are gaurenteed a free hosting plan i started using this service when i was 15 years old since then i have never looked back the one thing i dont like is paying for the applications that could be changed but i suppoise they have to make money from somewhere i have really enjoyed my time at godaddy i hope it does very wel in the long run i have really loved it i am addicted to it well done godaddy

Go-daddy is a Great! site to host with, they always have sales on to provide you with the best price. My domain cost me only $1.89NZD.There hosting plans are great, they have many features you can add to your site site such as security and auctioning off yours site, but these features do come at a price, but are definitely worth it.

There domain management interface is great, you get your own dashboard for each site where you can edit information about your site in the business listing and auto renew your site.

I have been with Godaddy since Oct 22nd 2009 when I decided to self host my wordpress blog (per a friend recommending I do).

I was looking around for web hosting, and I thought I would try Godaddy as they where advertising on TV, Web, and on Revision 3.

I purchased wordpress hosting (which runs on linux) for 4 months to see how things would be.

In those 4 months I have been able to setup a wiki, forum, and a blog with no problems. I have not even added OpenX advertising.

I am glad godaddy has a software center where they will do 1 click installs of all the major software.

They also keep on track of software updates.

There is FTP access but I have had no need for it with Godaddy's installers.

Godaddy offers 10GB of disk space, 300GB of monthly bandwidth, and 10 MySQL databases for $5/month. That is pretty cheap.

In my 4 months Godaddy has gone down only once and it was for a few hours. Godaddy gave me a free month of hosting as a sorry after I contacted them.

There email support is quick to respond but I usually find them using the normal generated message every company uses.

Overall Godaddy is a nice host, easy to use, is always up, and rarely slows down.

Firstly, let me start by saying that I have noticed a lot of bad reviews on GoDaddy. True, their interface may seem a little overwhelming at first sight, but you get used to it. True, once you start using them it is hard to "get rid" of them.

But, I have been using GoDaddy for months and for multiple websites and never had a problem with them. I had a few support questions, which were answered in a couple of hours (not too bad for a host that is hosting literally millions of websites). I have only had that one experience with their support, but the answer was timely and professional.

My websites were unavailable only once for a couple of minutes. Other than that, I have never seen any other downtime (and I use shared hosting). Speed is very good. Few times the loading was a little slow, but nothing major that I have noticed. You get a free e-mail address and free hosting with a domain name purchase, which is awesome.

People swear other hosts are much better and that they had nothing but bad experiences with GoDaddy, but in my case, that is far from true. So, in conclusion, I am very satisfied with GoDaddy and would recommend it to anyone looking for an excellent host.

I have been using GoDaddy for my company's website, and our clients, for over five years. I was attracted to them for two reasons... they were cheap, and I had heard of their founder, Bob Parsons. I remember his Parsons Technology company from the 1980s. Seeing a familiar name among the plethora of web hosting companies let me to choose GoDaddy.

It turned out to be the right choice. GoDaddy's prices have stayed low. Once we set up a domain and host it, we rarely have to worry about it. (I think we had downtime on only one domain, for less than 24 hours, in the last five years.) And their customer support is very good. Back in the old days, a phone call always had a 10 minute+ wait time, but they have steadily improved that. And they follow through, nothing falls through the cracks.

I've been impressed with the amount of services they have rolled out over the years. Putting my friend's business on GoDaddy with a shopping cart was fun and easy! They continually add new "add ons," including Google Webmaster Tools, and WordPress blogging. Although I do this for a living, I think anyone could work with GoDaddy's tools to get exactly what they want. And if you run into a stumbling block, call their tech support... Yes, even I have had my hand held by them once or twice; their directions were clear and accurate.

I have and will recommend GoDaddy to others. I'm not crazy about some of their advertising... but heck, as long as they keep sponsoring Dale Earnhardt Jr, they're okay.

One tip though: always choose a Linux plan for your hosting... way more features and add-ons!

I actually switched to them from another provider. I brought over my old domain name, and it was very easy to do. Easy sign-up, lots of help with all my problems. A+ for their tech team. Easy even for someone with little know-how like me. I needed a little extra money on the side, looked around for domain name hosts, and decided definitely that Go Daddy was the way to go, no ifs, ands, or buts. I will continue to use them as my domain name service, as soon as I need more domains. Not too expensive, but with the price comes great value. I definitely recommend them to anyone who needs hosting. When my domain names are about to expire, they send me regular emails to make sure that I remember to renew it. Without those, it could be disastrous. I would like to say thank you Go Daddy, and you guys will definitely be seeing me as a customer in the future.

I wished I would have know how great of a service go daddy would have been. My site is always up 24/7 and they have great customer support if you ever run into a problem. I highly reccomend Go Daddy because of their cheap pricing and many features. It is a good site for companies trying to start a business online or for individuals who need a good host provider. Customers don't need much technical expertise because Go Daddy has a program that makes designing your website very easy. You can choose from thousands of free templates and images that you can use to make a very appealing website. You can get a domain for as little as $2 which is a great deal and they have many great domains to choose from. It is easy to renew your website when it runs out and they don't include any hidden fees so they are a great company.

So far my experience Go Daddy has been extremely satisfactory. Upon my purchase I was contacted by a representative and he went over my order with me, notifying me of a discrepancy regarding my accidental purchase of 2 hosts. He then used that credit to save me money which I was very surprised and pleased with. But overall, the best thing about Go Daddy is how user friendly everything is. (Especially Website Tonight!) I was very pleased with the prices as well. I thought my budget was very low, but I ended up having a little extra left over and still getting everything I wanted. But on top of the low prices, they also offer a bunch of great deals and promotions, which is another thing that helped me save so much.

This was my first domain purchase so I was new to all this. I would recommend Go Daddy to anyone trying to start their own site.

I have been using godaddy for about 3 years, Prices so is normal, not high. and the uptime is very good, which gives 99.9% and with all this cheap prices GoDaddy have the best web servers in the world uptiming.

I used all shared hosting type on GoDaddy, and I must say Its ideal, for new webmasters who wants to start with economic type hosting. the price is very good for start.

Godaddy now provides grid server tecnology, it provides high uptime value and make your sites faster. i recommend that you have to try this product with beta prices. This beta prices is very good price on the web. this technology on other companies have a high prices.

Godaddy have a good support system, quick respond and informative replies. The support team is very good and sloveing probelems quickly.
Surely i would like to recommend GoDaddy.

I am currently hosted with GoDaddy for over 3 years now.

Before hosting with Godaddy, you should be aware that you can not send more than 1000 emails in their shared hosting plan in a single day.

The email support ticket normal response time is 6-12 hours.

Most of the support ticket replies are template replies, however, if the support ticket discussion continues for long time, you sometimes get a call from them to clarify the situation.

Control panel is easy to use, however, its slow loading even on 3 mbps internet connection.

Your website can be suspended if it consumes lots of CPU cycles. You can be forced to move to dedicated server in that case, or they will tell you to remove CPU intensive pages.

GoDaddy hosting is extremely reliable in terms of uptime. However, my Stats were disabled, because the site is high trafficked and it used to choke their stats program. But overall , their servers are reliable and I WOULD RECOMMEND GODADDY.

huh! godaddy is great great value and the best phone and email support in the industry. I have never experienced downtime. Godaddy is great. Very easy to manage host with many plans to shooce from. We also get free easy one click install applications like forum , chat , guestbook , content management system and many other applications. Godaddy is a perfect place to host for everyone either he is a begineer or a proffessional in webdesigning. Godaddy supports most of the programming language lik php , .net , asp my sql database , perl and others. Godaddy rocks.

I wanted good uptime , great value , best support , easy to manage and many fatures host . ANd godaddy have all these, I am satisfied with godaddy. They reply to our problems from phone within 5 minutes. No need of any technical knowledge to host a site. Godaddy is best for everyone. So i will like recommend godaddy to everyone. But if you are going to host a small website with less than 1 gb of space required then godaddy will be expensive for you. Else godaddy is the best host i have ever seen

They are really great. No words to describe. I had also tried other hosting servers, but nobody can beat GODADDY.COM. They always send promotional codes to the email and when purchasing new domains and services for my client, i will be able to use that codes and get special discount.
Their customer service is outstanding.
The navigation in their website is great. and also i can use the mobile version of the website to find the availability of the new domains, very fast from my iPhone. I love GoDaddy.
Their prices are very competitive and no hidden charges with any of their services. I encourage all of my co-workers and friends to have a personal account with godaddy for all their domains and other services.
Especially, i love the new email workspace. the securesever is very good. we can also encrypt the emails. add calendar and much more. i can keep on writing many more things.
God bless godaddy team and the CEO.

Go Daddy is ok as long as you have no problem with your hosting account or your domain. But as soon as you have a problem and you need the help of the support, it may take time.
First of all it has to be said, that all support stuff is friendly and want to help. But most of them are not really professionals, they have learned it in a quick lesson. I would call them amateurs! But they call themselves professionals and experts.
Example: I baught a hosting account and decided to install one of those hosting applications Go Daddy supports with automatic install-scripts. But the script failed, because the script hadn't got writing rights on the supposed directory it should install itself. It took 2 calls until the support got the problem right. On the second call i was promised that a technician would finish the installation. But he did not. He just copied the files into the directory, not connecting them to the database. He stated that they wouldn't support those applications. But I didn't want help on the application itself, I just wanted the intall-script they offered me to run through.
End of the song. I got the application installed. But it took half a day instead of 30 minutes, when I had done it manually.
second example: Another story is their assissted service plan on dedicated virtual servers. Once I had a Windows Virtual Dedicated Server with Assissted Service plan. One month after I had purchased it, I got an email that a root kit was found on my server and that they had to reset the whole server and I was aksed to install anti-virus software on it. I asked back if they hadn't done it themselves, because they had root acces, not I. They excused themselves and did the reiissue of the server. One month later they found again a root kit on the server with the same consequeces. this time I got really angry, but then I found out that tey werent able to secure the ftp- access of the server and they couldn't have installed any anti-virus software. Because as soon as I stopped using ftp no root kits were found anymore.
Third Example: This story is their backup service for dedicated servers. I once had purchased it with a linux virtual dedicated server. And I wanted to have a backup played onto the server. I even told them the exact date. The first try took them 3 days and as I checked back they hadn't played back all files. the secind try took only 24 hours but also wasn't complete. Only as I got rough and suggested that they may have lost files while backing up. The whole thing got a go. I was asked what was missing and after another 3 days I got the right and complete backup.
I still use Go Daddy, because of their price, but I know that if I need help from the support I need to take out the hammer to get what I want. You also need to know your stuff otherwise you wont get any help.

One of the best things in Go Daddy is their worlds cheapest domain hosting. I am very surprised to know that domain names are available in Go Daddy for less than 10 US$ a year. It was my 1st time searching for a domain hosting, and felt very lucky to be at the right place, and purchased 4 domains together in Go Daddy. The free extras with the purchase of domain are also plenty. I love some of the free extras such as personalized email accounts/forwarding, photo album, website builder, domain forwarding and masking, etc. I could say the total DNS control and other user controls in their website are highly user friendly and quite easy to setup even for layman.
As far as the customer support is concerned, Go Daddy is excellent in both technically and timely response. To my surprise while I am searching “who is” database I found that, not only individuals like me, the huge companies like Skype too registered their domains in Go Daddy. As far as I know there are no negative points, except the access speed of the hosting/domain controls from the Far East countries, which is little slower sometime! Ah who cares the speed if I could get all these goodies for just 10 US$ per year! The last but not the least, promotions dropping to my email every time from Go Daddy.com are really attractive with great discounts!

-- Doc from Taiwan ;)

While most people think “domains” when they hear the name, GoDaddy is also one of the largest and most well known hosting companies in the industry. They offer good prices, competitive features, and some of the best U.S.-based customer support in the business. The domain services and pricing are also vastly superior to other hosting companies.

But what about hosting features? Well, the allowances for items like e-mail accounts, disk space and bandwidth are lower than some other top hosting companies, but still substantial. For instance, the Deluxe plan provides 1,000 e-mail accounts, 150 gigabytes (GB) of disk space, and 1,500 GB of monthly bandwidth. This is far more than the average website owner will use, but less than HostMonster (for example). GoDaddy does distinguish itself by offering very affordable plans for both Linux and Windows servers along with language support for Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails and ASP.NET – you won’t find that at most discount hosts.

GoDaddy also has some of the best customer service. In fact, it’s one of the only hosts that actually posts expected wait times for phone service so you know what to expect; and wait times are usually less than five minutes. We’ve dealt with GoDaddy on numerous occasions via phone and e-mail, and the responses have been friendly, timely, and effective.

If, like us, you have an avid interest in domains, the sheer magnitude of domain services offered by GoDaddy makes it affordable and convenient to purchase hosting as well. Domains only cost $1.99 with a hosting plan, making it a one-stop shopping solution that’s difficult to beat. While the monthly contract is very convenient, you can save up to 15% more when choosing a longer-term plan.
Different from most hosts, the monthly plan can be purchased with no set-up fees, giving you maximum flexibility. However, you can save 5% with a 1 year plan, 10% with a 2 year plan, and 15% with a 3 year plan – the best deal from a cost perspective.
See table (left) for a list of key features and benefits for the Deluxe plan. For a complete list of features for all plans, visit GoDaddy's comparison chart.
Phone and e-mail support are available 24/7 and expected wait times are provided for each, so you can plan accordingly and save time. There is also an exclusive “Hosting Connection” community that features reviews and feedback from other customers about adding free applications (like a blog) to increase the functionality of your site. It’s a great place to learn more about the art of managing and developing a website.
10 gigabytes on the Economy plan and 150 on the Deluxe; most sites are 20 megabytes or less (1 gigabyte = 1,024 megabytes) so there is more than enough space to host a robust website.
300 GB/month on the Economy plan and 1,500 gigabytes for the Deluxe; most sites need 10 gigabytes or less. If your site has very high traffic (several million page views per month or higher) or is very image intensive, consider the Premium plan or a virtual dedicated server from GoDaddy.

“GoDaddy provides the best combination of web hosting and domain services.”

GoDaddy operates its own 30,000 square-foot data center with the latest security technology and on-site security staff. At the server and network level, safeguards such as firewalls and SPAM and virus protection for e-mail are in place to keep the bad guys out. Also, for the very reasonable price of $19.99/year, you can add an SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificate that provides extra security for an online store.
GoDaddy has invested in the latest equipment such as fully redundant power systems, high-speed routers and firewalls, daily and weekly backups, and even off-site data storage. All these steps are taken to ensure that your website is online 99.9% of the time.
After mixed reviews from customers, GoDaddy recently upgraded its control panel to put it on par with more well known brands such as cPanel and Plesk. In addition, the Hosting Connection community software makes it very easy to click and install applications such as WordPress (blog software) and Joomla (helps manage content).
Buy a 1-3 year hosting plan and save up to 15%. More good deals for hosting customers include $1.99 domains and cheap SSL certificates.

According to me the great service is the one which is really useful for all. So go daddy is providing a great service. Recently i bought two domains using go daddy auction. seventh day they delivered my domain. that was the first time i am buying a domain but go daddy made it easy for me, the best work done by me is selecting go daddy for buying a domain. In that two domains one is redirecting site and it did not get indexed. so i mailed go daddy and i received a reply within a couple of hours. they mailed me some steps to solve this problem. when i followed those steps i got my site indexed within 10 hours.when ever i have any doubt about domain i used to send a request mail to go daddy support team and will get their response immediately. so according to me go daddy is the best hosting site which is suitable for the freshers. I recommended all my friends throughout the world to use go daddy for buying and hosting domain.

1-Godaddy is great hosting company for everyone, i really like thier prices which is the best on web, and with all this cheap prices GoDaddy have the best web servers in the world which gives 99.9% uptiming.
Godaddy also gives very good discounts and offers, i really cant believe that someone can give such offers nowdays, thats really impressive

2-About thier support, its good too, quick respond and informative replies.

3-The only problem that i had when i brought a giftcard and i got 3 domains for 20$ n i left the giftcards without buying anything, and after while i found my account is 0$ and it should be 20$ :(. and support didnt help me at all about this.

4-The host is suitable for almost everything, expect as you know for proxies

5-Surely i would like to recommend GoDaddy, i even applied for thier affiliate program but it didnt work :( .

Go daddy is the daddy of all hosts. i like there domain service very much. there hosting plate farm is also cool for new users. it contains lots of valuable information.

Some thing about cost. godaddy is not cheap but they provide best service in hosting field. customer support is also very good.

I like them so much.

also they offer so many discount on timely basis. lots of domain tlds to buy. there resellers pkg is also good.

GoDaddy offers much more than just domain names and simple website hosting, but can handle just about anything you throw at their service. GoDaddy has a variety of web hosting options, different packages and a host of additional features that make it a great option for hosting a personal webpage or small business site. With competitive rates and additional valuable add-ons, GoDaddy is a great web-hosting solution that is easy to setup and simple to use.

The price is right with this host. Everyone who uses a Budget Hosting company is looking to save money in some capacity. I am no different. I really like what I have gotten from them in my time with the company as far as price is concerned.

In closing, I would like to say that the Budget Hosting from godaddy Web Hosting started out as a pleasant surprise to me, but since then, has become a trusted part of my business plan. It has helped me grow my online business at a nice rate. Thanks so much for that!

I'm pretty pleased with their service... the online chat often helps.. and the few times we had serious problems with the mssql it took a bit more tickets but they agreed to move us to a newer server which solved our problem.

I would prefer NO downtime at all... instead of the short interruptions.
The main benefits of Godaddy hosting are:

- the greatest Live support that is able to solve any kind of problem in several minutes

- low prices that include wide amount of features and services

- high bandwidth that results in websites running very fast

I love Godaddy Hosting and recommend it to everyone!

This is fantastic service provider. 100% uptime and good service. Thanks bob for good service at reasonable rate. Support having some problem like I am not able to shift a site under unlimited sites under deluxe plan. Else all is great. server response time is great. and downtime is 0 % . All offer providing by this site is really good. I give references and discount coupons to my friends so that they may get the discounts( i get discounts from newsletters from godaddy ).

Even shared hosting contains the every feature which normal IT guy needs.
In every plan those services are provided which normally hosting provider don't provide. It is providing services more than a provoder .:) Mailer solutions are also very good. I am thinking to try this one soon. I am so impressed that i want to change one site from a hosting provider to Godaddy

regards,
Rohit

A very much reliable hosting service provider,
They provide what they claim.
Their 24hr customer helpdesk is really helpful and help you in critical needs, I have suffered a lot becasue of hosting provider that only work on office timings, but godaddy is simply reliable for your all hosting needs.

Godaddy is suitable for all those who have their hosting need starting from initial entry leverl amature web developer to a professional web designer.

The all time up website it self proves godaddy as a very good technical service provider interms of hosting related services.

Because of automated service lookup all gets answered.

I had tried many other hosting service provicers interms of register domains, hosting websites but I have never seen a kind of service I have got from godaddy, I am using the godaddy services since last three years.
It is simply the great.

The internet is flooded with the webhosting service business, it is very hard to find a reliable hosting service provider. Even you can not try different hosting service to ger a reliable hosting service provider for you as it takes a lot to configure a database driver website with different hosting service provider. It also cost you more that the chare of the hosting service. In this case you can rely on godaddy as I have tried that everything with them and they have got more than satisfactory results.

So, better hosting with godaddy.

I am using godaddy for an year now. They were extremely helpful in setting up my VPS. But I ordered unmanaged servers so the only problem was support. If you need support you have to order managed server unlike others godaddy unmanaged support is not useful at all they will answer like an automated machine.It is better to order managed hosting.I strongly recommend goddady and go managed

Go Daddy Hosting offers powerful, fast and secure web-hosting solutions. All hosting plans live up to the highest level of reliability. Go Daddy is able to offer a 99.9% uptime guarantee. The hosting infrastructure is found in top world-class data centers. The data centers have a multi 10 GB Ethernet Backbone and many different bandwidth providers. Each data center is able to offer redundant power. The facilities are staffed 24 hours per day. In addition, the facilities are physically secure 24/7. The infrastructure of Go Daddy hosting offers backup and restore solutions to provide further peace of mind for customers.

Best hosting i have seen as far as value for money and features are concerned. Being a Software engineer/web developer i needed a hosting with all kind of SQL and server side scripting language support with latest installations of frameworks and components, and i got that at Go Daddy. They handle email support queries very well but it takes normally 24 hrs; so one thing that i think missing is Online instant Chat Support. That would be great addition. One more addition that needs attention is payment options.
I will surely recommend and i have already recommended to my colleagues & friends.
Best hosting i have seen as far as value for money and features are concerned. Being a Software engineer/web developer i needed a hosting with all kind of SQL and server side scripting language support with latest installations of frameworks and components, and i got that at Go Daddy. They handle email support queries very well but it takes normally 24 hrs; so one thing that i think missing is Online instant Chat Support. That would be great addition. One more addition that needs attention is payment options.
I will surely recommend and i have already recommended to my colleagues & friends.

* What do you wish you'd known before becoming a customer?
I would like to know about reputation of the site and quality service rating, certified, trusted and recommended by many.

* How have they handled your support queries?
Very well, just like true professionals. They are quick, specific and polite.

* What level of technical expertise do their customers need?
A normal customer need Technical rating 8/10. Technically 4/10, customer should know, and rest they can ask from support team.

* How have Go Daddy handled any problems?
In a quick and smart way. Very professioanlly.

* What kind of customer is this host suitable for?
I am using economic type hosting, and I must say Its ideal, for new webmasters who wants to start with economic type hosting, because of GoDaddy support team and features which are included in economic type hosting.

* Would you recommend Go Daddy to friends?
definitely yes. 100%
I must recommend to any onw who will ask for domian registration or hositng. Because GoDaddy give excellent services on very low price.

As of this review, GoDaddy.com is the fastest-growing registrar, according to WebHosting.Info, thanks mostly to its aggressive pricing. You'll find very inexpensive packages for domain registration and a hosting of a simple Web site.
Many inexperienced site builders may want to spend a substantial amount of time on the phone for handholding, so that's a caveat to consider. Otherwise, Go Daddy can give you a nice-looking Web site with ample storage, at very competitive pricing.
I feel, however, that GoDaddy.com should have more human enough face to accommodate a request to at least pro-rate the expense. That's would be great to giving more wonderful customer services as we as cunsomers, concerned so far.
And now so far, I think, that GoDaddy.com has make a lot of services-upgrading, especially on their toll-free service. So now they can proof that their services aren't just such as the salesman only, but they really have more support.

I have been a customer of Godaddy from 3 years. I'm completely satisfied with their services.

My journey with Godaddy started with their free hosting account given with domain name. Since I was a newbie to web world I just wanted to try out things without loosing any money. I had googled around and had went with them. I just believed that a company having millions of clients will surely be of worth !

In no time I upgraded to their premium plan. Want I like the most in Godaddy is their seamless integration with all their products. I do have all my domains with Godaddy and its easy to configure and manage them with my hosting. Their control panel is very simple and easy to use. The navigation is very easy throughout the site. They also provide a lot of free features with the account like Google adwords credits. Their Hosting Connection makes it easy to setup popular scripts. They have also integration with Google webmaster tools which enhances my sites Search Engine Visibility.

I have read many people blubbering about poor support from Godaddy. But till date I did not face any such problem. Whenever I raise a support ticket it has been answered with 12-24 hours. Even there are times when it was the problem from my side they have solved it !

I think Godaddy is suitable for all kinds of hosting needs. Even I have recently upgraded to their Virtual Dedicated Server(VDS) since I had 25+ sites on my Shared Hosting and I wanted to setup some Wordpress MU + Buddypress sites.

Even I have been recommending Godaddy to my friends and even they are satisfied with their services. Although I keep checking out about other hosting companies with shiny plans/prices I never dare to go with them ! I'm with Godaddy from starting and there is still a long way to go with them !

Go daddy.
that says it all! Go daddy website hosting and domains are incredible. Their customer service is incredible, always up, and have great features. If you just use domain hosting, the way that go daddy interfaces with other sites such as www.smugmug.com is incredible! not to mention how amazingly EASY it is!! I give Go daddy a 2 thumbs up!! 5-Stars!!

I never expected that the cheapest hosting would also have the most up time, best customer support, and most free features. I'm on a budget so these things are very nice to have without paying on godaddy, when on other sites you would have to pay a huge fee. Also I'm a big fan of their quick response times, Godaddy isn't a company that's going to pull a 'bait and switch'. For example, I put in a request to have my server switched from Windows to Linux, the entire process took less than two hours. I don't think I could do an entire server transfer that fast if they were sitting in front of me! Thanks Godaddy!

I have registered my domain names with godaddy.com. The registration was quick and snappy. Very good experience.
Support can improve though. The domain name configuraiton page should be made more "novice" user friendly. Its too detailed and technical for configuration. I am still not able to configure google apps on it. I gave up since I did not have the time to explore.
I keep getting good offers from godaddy. The recent 2$ domain name offer just did not work. All I wanted was 1 more domain name, 100 email accounts @mydomainname.com and want to host my simple html website. As of now I know I have to go thru a complex set of options to understand what they have to offer and purchase it. Just sooo many options during purchase. I wish the site was more user/purchasing friendly.

Now, where is my 10$ coupon :)...

Very ordinary when it comes to support, the word pathetic comes to mind! I'm a newbie trying to set up a web site. I decided to create a blog using Wordpress. I chose GoDaddy because they offered installation support on a whole range of applications. Initially I had trouble installing Wordpress. When I asked for some support I was told they don't offer support on third part applications. So why advertise that you do if you don't? Eventually, I got things going with wordpress. But simple answers to my questions would have saved me hours of learning!
Now I have a server based problem that appears through Wordpress in the form of an error message. I'm told by GoDaddy that it's a scripting error and they don't support third party software. No GoDaddy it's not a scripting error! It's a windows server error, presumably because of my incorrect initial installation. It's pointing to a local host URL and I don't know how to change it. If someone at GoDaddy at least told me where to start looking, I would have appreciated that!
Anyway, I purchased a two month hosting option to see how my ideas would work.... I will now take my money elsewhere, obviously GoDaddy are recession proof and don't need my money.

Stay away from GoDaddy if your a newbie! Spend more for good old fashioned service elsewhere.

On a final note if anyone knows a way of contacting GoDaddy management I would appreciate it. Thanks...

Everything comes secondary. Priority is Support. A live hosted site should not remain down for 4 -5 days due to lack of support and excuses saying something like "Thank you for contacting Online Support, I have looked into the escalation and our advanced support team are still investigating this matter"

I have faced this problem. Godaddy are spending more on advertisement and very less on support. All what they want is an Automatic support system if that's fail then only god knows when the issue will resolve.

I've been using Go Daddy hosting for several years now and after trying quite a few other hosting companies, they have been the most reliable with server up time that I have used.

They also have a lot of features and provide pretty much everything someone hosting a web site would need. The only "not so great" comment I have is that sometimes their customer service technical support is not experienced enough, so do not know how to help with problems that are more complicated then the normal general hosting type of problems. Overall I have been pleased with them as a hosting company.

As a person how uses Godaddy as their web host and a person who resells godaddy products I believe Godaddy has the best value for your dollar. The products are world class along with their 24/7 service. From someone who has never had a hosting company or website before to the multi million dollar business owner you will find the most reliable and easy to set up web hosting that money can buy.