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If you have watched any television within the past five years, odds are you are familiar with Go Daddy.  When it comes to web hosting services, you will have a hard time finding one that's more popular.  Their competitors might offer bells and whistles they don't have, but they lack the exposure to compete with Go Daddy as far as popularity goes.  Luckily, their service lives up to the hype.  They offer a variety of web hosting options, different packages and countless additional features, making them a great option for hosting a personal or small business website.  They're a great web hosting service that is easy to setup and use and has competitive rates and valuable add-ons.

Standout Features

• Several complex email hosting options
• Advanced web design assistance
• Unparalleled security and privacy settings
• Detailed business solutions section

Hosting Package:

Go Daddy doesn't offer much in terms of storage space and monthly bandwidth with their Economy Plan.  Most websites likely won't outgrow its 10 GB in storage space and 300 GB in monthly bandwidth.  However, those numbers don't leave much room for ambitious pursuits.  Plus, you have to purchase at least 3 months of this plan right out the gate, which is about the time it takes for a site to expand beyond the limitations this plan imposes on it.  When you attempt to upgrade your options, you have the choice of the Deluxe or Unlimited plans.  The Deluxe Plan offers much more as far as features go, but there are still limits when it comes to storage space and monthly bandwidth.  Most users might not have any use for features that don't have any limits, but I see them as helpful.

When a website becomes more popular than the bandwidth they're allowed, it often experiences extended periods of downtime.  The Internet is unpredictable.  Your website could be wallowing in the depths of internet obscurity one day and on the front page when someone enters a keyword attached to your website into Google the next.  You never know what's going to happen.

You could always go with their Unlimited Plan, which offers unlimited disk space and monthly bandwidth, but comes with a $14.99 per month price tag.  Plus, three features in this plan have limits for some reason: FTP users, number of email addresses and total email storage.  Most users probably see the name "Unlimited Plan" and think all of the features with numbers attached are going to be unlimited, but that's not the case here.  You could get a lot of mileage out of the Unlimited Plan.  Unfortunately, the price tag puts it out of reach for most beginning website entrepreneurs.

Ease of Use:

You will find that the services Go Daddy has to offer are easy to use, but they require patience at times.  For instance, expect long waiting times for requests (such as the installing applications or setting up databases) made on your hosting account.  Many users might have an issue with this flaw because their visitors demand new and fresh content without having to wait for it.  This wait time is understandable though.  When your service is as popular as the one Go Daddy offers, your servers are going to get overloaded every so often.  It's inevitable.  They should get more powerful servers to eliminate these delays.  Luckily, Go Daddy's popularity has remained consistent over the years, which means they're a solid option in the web hosting world.  There are some things that are so minor that you should look past them, but are still worth looking into.  This is one of them.