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GoDaddy.com is the world's largest domain name registrar and is the flagship company of The Go Daddy Group, Inc. The Go Daddy Group of companies also includes Wild West Domains, Inc., a reseller of domains and domain-related products and services; Domains By Proxy, a private registration service; Starfield Technologies, a research and development affiliate; and Blue Razor Domains, a membership-based discount registrar.

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GoDaddy Review

Based out of Scottsdale, Arizona, GoDaddy was founded in 1997 and has been independently owned and operated since its inception. The company offers around the clock customer support with employees located in the United States. GoDaddy operates four data centers in different locations. This allows them to better manage unforeseen issues.

GoDaddy has received many rewards throughout their years of service with the most prestigious being the Domainer’s Choice Award for Best Hosting Company of 2008. The host is proud of its many achievements which can be viewed directly on their website. GoDaddy was analyzed in the following five categories:

* Hosting plans
* Security
* Customer satisfaction
* User experience
* Technical specifications

GoDaddy offers three different monthly hosting plans, Economy, Deluxe and Unlimited at different price intervals from a three month commitment to 24 month. The minimum monthly cost is $4.24 for the Economy plan at 24 months and the maximum is $14.99 for the Unlimited plan at 3 months. The Economy plan allows for 10 GB is disk space, 300 GB data transfer, $1.99 per domain name, 1 domain per account and 10 MySQL databases.

The Deluxe plan delivers 150 GB of disk space, 1.5 TB’s data transfer, an unlimited number of domains per account, $1.99 domain name registration fee and 24 MySQL databases. Finally, the Unlimited plan gives you an unlimited amount of everything with the same $1.99 domain registration fee found with the other plans.

Since GoDaddy owns, operates and manages their own data center across the United States, their security is top-notch. All routers, servers and firewalls are the best and monitored 24/7. This indicates all data is completely secure in addition to the hardware that is supporting it.

To help support their customers, telephone and email support are available around the clock, 365 days a year in addition to a comprehensive Help Center. Furthermore, all account and site management interfaces have been tweaked by in-house programmers. This allows GoDaddy to meet exact customer requirements. The Hosting Control Center is a clean, easy-to-use interface but can often be slow or result in disconnects and inactivity.

Finally, the technical specifications of GoDaddy’s shared hosting plans support a variety of Linux and Windows programming languages. Supported Linux languages include, PHP, Python, ColdFusion, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Java and FrontPage extensions. Supported Windows languages include, ColdFusion, ASP.net, PHP and FrontPage extensions. Supported databases are MySQL, MS SQL and MS Access. Other applications that have been pre-installed include, MS IE Web Controls, WSE 2.0. ASPUpload 3.0 and ASPCrypt.

As the largest and most popular web hosting provider in the industry, there are many mixed reviews from users. However, overall, GoDaddy has excellent customer support, the newest and best equipment and the most attractive commercial actors. GoDaddy is a great place to start for new businesses to help them learn the ropes of web hosting and then expand to unlimited plans once traffic increases.

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