Review by boiledover Added: February 5, 2008

Review text: Nice hosting for the price, they have integrated google webmaster tools and have alot software available to install.

Review by themadgamer Added: December 7, 2007

Review text: My problem with Godaddy lies with their dedicated servers. This review is only based on their dedicated server and assisted support package.

Godaddy tried to keep the site up (from what they told me) however every time it hit Digg's home page it went down. I had the most beefed up server they offered (best processor and 4 gigs of ram) yet still, on two occasions in three days, the server went down completely and they needed to build me a new one.

That is what they told me. The site was down for 4-5 hours each time. I was told at first it was an Ethernet card problem, then I was told it was a hard drive issue. This happened two times in three days!!

This is unacceptable in general, but completely unacceptable when you are paying $340 dollars a month. Luckily I got my money back in ful, however be warned. If you are running wordpress, they will try and say it is wordpress's fault.

The real blame here lies somewhere in their hardware (which they will not tell you the brand of) and their configurations of MYSQL and Appache.

I moved my site to Media Temple and I am on a virtual dedicated server. I have the same configuration with wp-cache and have hit the home page of digg a few times with no problem.

Again, I still have smaller sites hosted with Godaddy and I have no problem with those. The Godaddy team did seem to be trying to figure out the problem, but in the end the fact that they would not tell me what kind of hardware they were using paired with the fact the site was going down constantly was more than I could stand.

Review by DevTop Added: June 13, 2007

Review text: Great prices. Service is good for normal issues, bad for anything highly technical. Great host for personal sites, but I wouldn't trust GoDaddy with a mission-critical business site (for that I'd recommend Dewahost).

Review by dmittleman Added: April 14, 2007

Review text: If they spent as much time/mone/attention on their post-purchase backend interface (their dashboard for using their site) as they have on their pre-sale front end, they'd be a great site.

I had trouble figuring out how to accomplish my tasks in their dashboard. I gave up fairly quickly as there were other options in the marketplace much more useful to me. (This interface requires I put in a performance rating, so I am giving them a 3 based on no information at all.)

Note that my experience was in 2005 (after the first round of rowdy SuperBowl ads). I can't speak to their dashboard today.

I also can't speak to server performance as I only set up a test site to learn their environment; I never ran a live production site on their servers.

Review by kaiwinthrop Added: March 30, 2007

Review text: Godaddy is cheap, and the basic plan is quite thin. works ok though. i cant stand the crowded user ops page, full of ads. Whatever you want theyve got it but youll have to pay.

Review by uncleshag Added: March 23, 2007

Review text: Easy set up, support is better than average.

Review by Shadyman Added: February 6, 2007

Review text: Good hosting for the price, quick support, but doesn't get full marks from me for not having cron jobs available.

Review by AhmedF Added: January 29, 2007

Review text: This has to be the most horrible host I have used. From blackmailing (we were told you are spamming, thus you owe us $185 to get 'unsuspended') to ridiculous charges of using too many resources (the site wasn't live and known to anyone), I would tell everyone to run (quickly) from Go Daddy