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Does what it says, but so does everyone else.
September 11, 2017

Does what it says, but so does everyone else.

Justin Schroeder | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with GoDaddy

We've used GoDaddy for several domain purchases, host records, and occasionally hosting a client site. Currently we use GoDaddy almost exclusively for foreign held domain names (for example .de), it gets a little complicated, but basically you need to have contacts in a given country in order to register a domain there and GoDaddy provides that service for you.
  • Low cost domains and hosting
  • Relatively easy to use hosting service
  • Allows easy purchase of foreign domains
  • While the user interface has improved dramatically, the services are still all disjointed and rather confusing how they fit together.
  • The domain transfer process has some totally self-imposed restrictions, like not allowing you to transfer for 90 days after certain actions are taken on the domain. Never seen anything like it, and it can be a huge pain.
  • Hosting services are quite poor quality for the price you pay. Low speed, terrible interface.
  • Overall, GoDaddy has provided us with a service that is valuable (domain registration and hosting), but is offered by everyone. Overall the ROI has been zero, but that doesn't mean its a bad product in and of itself.
  • Registering foreign domains through GoDaddy was, surprisingly, easier than doing it through some other registrars (looking at you ENOM and AWS). This helped build some small tools to leverage that fact (like URL shortening tools).
If you want to host your a little mom and pop shop's website, any host will do. Use Bluehost or one of the many other CPANEL hosts out there. If you're in the buisness of doing serious web applications or hosting significant products or sites, then go with Rackspace or AWS. I'm honestly not sure what market segment GoDaddy is intending to go after, but I haven't found it yet.
Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Rackspace, Amazon Relational Database Service
GoDaddy's best case scenario is a domain name and hosting package for a simple wordpress site or other easy to install and maintain CMS. The only issue is that puts them in direct competition with loads of other CPANEL based hosts which are, frankly, cheaper and often just as easy to use than GoDaddy's rather convoluted self-baked system.