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Overview

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With more than a thousand website hosting services out there, it’s pretty difficult to find the host that’s perfect for your needs.

At first glance, GoDaddy is great, having low prices and some great features.

But if you look at customer reviews and feedback, you’ll see some polarized opinions, too.

So what is the case exactly with GoDaddy? Should you sign up with them, or not?

Well, here at HostingFacts, we want to help make the decision easier for you. So, we have signed up with GoDaddy to test their performance. We took a deep look at all their features and terms and wrote this definitive review to make it easier for you to know if GoDaddy meets your needs.

Pros & Cons

GoDaddy is one of the largest domain name registrars and reputable hosts. Their performance is good and offers tons of web storage. However, it lacks some features like backups, SSL certificates and staging areas.

Let’s check out the main pros and cons in detail:

ProsCons
  • Easy to use: I find their interface pretty intuitive to use, I would recommend it for beginners.
  • Speed: In my tests, GoDaddy offered OKish speed.
  • Windows servers: GoDaddy also offers Windows-based hosting.
  • Storage: All your files combined can’t be more than 250,000 files (inodes). That’s the only storage limitation they have – quite generous.
  • Bandwidth: The traffic your site can get with each plan won’t be limited.
  • Expensive: They don’t offer the cheapest deals out there. They become even more expensive when the basic add-ons (backups and SSL certificates) are purchased.
  • Uptime: Sadly, GoDaddy’s uptime is below the 99.05% standard.
  • No backups: Unless you purchase their paid add-on, there’s not a backup system in place.
  • No SSL: If you want to have your site SSLed (pretty important these days), you’ll need to pay for a certificate.
  • Missing advanced features: Sadly, GoDaddy doesn’t come with some advanced features like staging areas or Git repositories that may come in handy for developers.
  • No migration services: Unlike some other hosting providers, they won’t help you migrate your websites from another host.

GoDaddy Pricing

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Quick Facts:

  • Money-Back: A slightly confusing 30-day money-back guarantee.
  • Website Migration: No free transfers. Cost for managed migration $99.99 per site. The migration will take 7-10 business days.
  • Free domain: Free for the duration of the initial annual plan (12, 24, 36 months, etc.).
  • Ease of Signup: Very easy signup.
  • Payment Methods: All major credit cards and PayPal are accepted.
  • Hidden Fees and Clauses: Somewhat confusing refund policy & terms such as “If a Hosting Service has already been performed, then it is non-refundable (if not yet performed, eligible for a refund within 30 days of the date of the transaction).”
  • Upsells: A lot of upsells. Price variation for the initial term length, site migrations, backups, SSL certificates, security, and more.
  • Account Activation: Fast account activation.
  • Control Panel and Dashboard Experience: cPanel.
  • Installation of Apps and CMSs (WordPress, Joomla, etc.): Lots of 1-click installation options with the most popular open-source apps.
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Shafiq Armani
I'm Shafiq Armani, an expert in selling group buying tools. With more than 10 years of experience in the digital marketing industry
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