GoDaddy Review

About GoDaddy • http://www.godaddy.com

Go Daddy can truly call itself the granddaddy of web hosting companies. The giant firm was founded in 1997 by Bob Parsons, and is today one of the most successful Internet companies in the world and also the world’s largest domain name registrar. With headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona and multiple data centers throughout the US and Europe, GoDaddy is big enough and comprehensive enough to be your single point of contact for everything you need in a web host.

Besides comprehensive shared hosting accounts to suit every need, Go Daddy also offers dedicated and virtual dedicated server options, hosted Microsoft Exchange email, contact management and email marketing services. And besides a wide range of free programs for ecommerce and site building, you can also turn to GoDaddy’s own professionals for web design. Their domain registration services are quite comprehensive, and besides registrations services, they also operate an auction for selling off some of the best-sounding URLs that have already been registered.

GoDaddy’s world-class data centers incorporate best-of-breed equipment and full redundancy, along with high-end perimeter security, email scanning and backup plans for disaster recovery. Their Ethernet backbone in the US operates at 20Gbps, and uptime is guaranteed through connections to multiple upstream providers. All data centers are physically protected with biometric access controls and other access restrictions, and the network itself is monitored 24x7.