GoDaddy VPS Hosting Review

GoDaddy VPS Hosting - Editor's Review

GoDaddy, founded in 1999, is an extremely popular domain registrar that established themselves with popular TV Super Bowl commercials and through other means such as viral videos, word of mouth, promotions, discounts, and sponsorships.

GoDaddy offers several options for a virtual private server. With GoDaddy, you can have a Linux Plesk VPS, a Linux cPanel VPS, a Windows Plesk VPS, or a simple management custom control panel. For either a Plesk VPS or cPanel VPS, they offer unlimited domain licensing for $9.95 additional or with Plesk, you can also opt for 30 domain licensing for $4.99/mo or 100 domain licensing $6.99/mo.

GoDaddy gets most of their web hosting customers through their extremely popular domain registrar service. Anyone who has registered a domain through them knows that it takes 5 pages of offers before you can finally lay the plastic down and order. One of those options is for GoDaddy web hosting. Since GoDaddy recently past the 40 million domain mark in 2010 and has 50% market share, it is easy to understand why GoDaddy hosting is popular.

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GoDaddy VPS Hosting - Price Value Review

Note: VPS Host Reviews only considers the monthly rate for GoDaddy VPS pricing comparison and rating since the majority of VPS customers prefer to pay monthly.

VPS Host Reviews was surprised when we compared GoDaddy to other VPS web hosts. GoDaddy pricing is excellent with their generous 1GB RAM entry level VPS plans that offer at least 15GB disk space and 500GB bandwidth for only $29.95 with a basic control panel for management. For only $9.95 more, you can use cPanel or Plesk with unlimited domains which still prices their VPS hosting cheaper than most.

GoDaddy VPS Hosting - Reliability Review

One of the biggest complaints we've seen regarding GoDaddy web hosting is that their web servers often are overloaded with customers and therefore, pages may load slow at times or not at all. Of course, with the massive amount of web hosting customers, we must take in to account that most customers do not submit reviews when they are happy and those unhappy or more likely to submit a review.

The one thing GoDaddy has going for them is they run their own datacenter. Therefore, when hosting through GoDaddy, you'll be on their own web servers and not leased like many other popular hosting providers. GoDaddy offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee.

As a result and based on our research, we consider GoDaddy to be an average web host when it comes to reliability.

GoDaddy VPS Hosting - Customer Support Review

GoDaddy, because they are so large, often gets complaints in the customer service department because they can get flooded with customer support requests during peak hours or when there are major problems going on in their web hosting network. Therefore, when you need customer support the most, you may have to wait an extremely long time to get a response.

• 24/7 toll call telephone technical and billing support
• Email support with tracking
• Community Forums
• GoDaddy company blog
• Publicly available system status reports
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Search database with PDF manuals to walk you through web hosting

GoDaddy doesn't offer toll free telephone support or live chat for their web hosting customers but they do offer an excellent database with manuals, PDFs, and more to get you started. Based on reviews of GoDaddy customer support and lack of toll free support and live chat, we rate GoDaddy as below average.