Best Reasons to Use GoDaddy
GoDaddy is the biggest, most popular domain registrar and a leader in website hosting for a good reason, they rock at what they do. Here is a list of the best reasons to do business with GoDaddy.Get hosting with unlimited storage and bandwidth on the GRID platform ensuring that your site doesn't get overwhelmed for less than $5 a month. Add three bucks and you can host multiple domains on the same account. And that doesn't even take into account the excellent domain pricing.
It's not just submitting a trouble ticket and waiting for someone to get back to you. GoDaddy is big time and they have non-outsourced people on the phones anytime you need them.
Typical shared hosting plans can only handle so much traffic so if your site gets mentioned somewhere like on a news article or a Digg page, or you start ranking for a high traffic search term in Google, expect your site to bog down or stop responding. Not only will you lose those visitors, but people aren't going to link to a dead site and Google will stop ranking a site that people can't get to. With GoDaddy's GRID hosting, resources are automatically reallocated to your site during times of high traffic so unless their entire network crashes, your site will stay online.
Using the easy online tools and free of charge, you can add a Wordpress blog or a fully functional forum to you site in a matter of minutes even if you know nothing about writing code.
If you need to upload or download some files from your site and are using a computer without a standard FTP client, you can still manage the files on your site using you web browser and the FTP client in the Hosting Control Center.
Even if you don't have FTP access (maybe the computer you are using has FTP blocked) you can still add, edit, and delete the files on your site using the file manager. No matter where you are, if you notice something that needs to be changed on your site (typo, price change, broken link) and you have Internet access, you can make the change.
If you don't want to have to call customer service, chances are you can find an answer to your questions in the online knowledge base.
Instead of the same old routine of thinking up a domain name, checking to see if it is available, finding out it is taken, and repeating over and over, Smart Search lets you put in keywords you want in your domain name and returns a list of domains that are available.
The most basic hosting solution will get your site online for less than $5 a month, but you still get $185 worth of advertising credits when you combine the credits from AdWords, MySpace, and Facebook.
On ASP sites, being able to control the 404 page is a great way to create dynamic, database driven sites much like how htaccess is used for rewriting on PHP servers. But a lot of hosting companies don't give you the ability to customize 404 behavior on their basic packages so you have to upgrade to a virtual or dedicated server which is far more expensive. With GoDaddy, you can designate and file you want as the 404 page so you can do things like look at the URL the user is requesting and generate a page on the fly that returns a 200 status.
This is a good way to get shot down by Google.
All 404 pages should return 404. Not 200.
Returning 200 will result in Google seeing a lot of duplicate pages for the 404
Therefore you will get penalized by Google.
My goodness you can't find your web page in Google. Wonder why?