GoDaddy Web Hosting

Web Hosting
Go Daddy is the largest hostname provider of the world. The web hosting plans from Go Daddy are available in Windows as well as the Linux based hosting. Its web hosting service is provided with extensive language support. The Windows based hosting plans are offered with languages supports of Cold Fusion, ASP .net, and Front Page Server Extension. The Linux based hosting plans are offered with languages supports of Python, Cold Fusion, Ruby, PHP, Perl, Java, Ruby on Rails, and Front Page Server Extension. Although the language supports of Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, and Ruby on Rails is not available in Linux Economy Plan and Cold Fusion Language Support needs about $02 USD to be paid extra for a 3-month purchase which is the minimum term duration. PHP4 (in safe mode) is applicable to IIS6 accounts, PHP5 is applicable to IIS7 accounts.

Multiple dozens of add-on applications are provided with the web hosting plans of Go Daddy. These add-on applications include mainly the following -
* Administrative tools like
o Akismet (Pro Blogger Version)
o Navicat
o SQLyog Enterprise
o WISE-FTP
* Advertising tools like
o Noahs Classifieds
o OpenX,
* Blogs related tools like
o BlogEngine.NET
o dasBlog
o Geeklog
o Lifetype
o Movable Type
o reBlog
o Serendipity
o WordPress
o Zemanta
* Content Management tools like
o anyInventory
o DotNetNuke
o Drupal
o Joomla
o Mambo
o MODx
o Moodle
o Nucleus
o Pligg
o SilverStripe
o Tandem Server
o Xoops
* Content Providers Tools like
o Fotolia
o Simply Hired
* eCommerce Solutions Tools like
o CRE Secure
o nopCommerce
o osCommerce
o Pinnacle Cart
o ShopSite
o Zen Cart
* Galleries tools like
o 4Images
o Coppermine
o Gallery
* Message Boards or Forums tools like
o phpBB
o Simple Machines Forum
o Vanilla Forum
o YetAnotherForum,
* Other tools like
o OpenDB
o OrangeHRM
o phpFreeChat
* Project Management tools like
o Brim
o dotProject
o Mantis
o phpCollab
o PHProjekt
* Social Networking tools like
o elgg
* Tools for Scripts like
o jQuery
o script.aculo.us
* Website Add-Ons tools like
o Kampyle Feedback
o Network for Good
o PHCDownload
o phpMyFAQ
o phpmyvisites
o WebCalendar
o WWW Paint Board
o YOURLS
o Zemanta
* Wikis Tools like
o MediaWiki
o PmWiki
o TWiki

All the web hosting plans whether on Windows or on Linux platform are provided with the following free common features -
* 24 X 7 FTP access
* World Class Data Centers
* Daily Backups
* Best of Breed Routers
* Firewalls and Servers
* Web site statistics
* FREE Email Addresses
* Google ® Webmaster Tools
* Ad Credits from MySpace ®
* Ad Credits from Google ®
* Ad Credits from Face – Book ®
* Fotolia ® Photo Credits

Go Daddy Web Hosting Plan Classification based on budgetary features
Based on the budgetary limits, the features of the web hosting plans from Go Daddy varies in the size of storage, bandwidth, number of free e-mail accounts, and number of free databases included in the packages. Go Daddy offers its customers to choose from the three different packages for three different costs as per the needs and budgets of the customers. The three plans offered by Go Daddy are Economy Plan, Deluxe Plan, and the Unlimited Plan. The details of these different plans are discussed in the next sub sections of this text.

Economy Web Hosting Plan from Go Daddy
The Economy Web Hosting Plan of Go Daddy is the basic or the starting plan of its Web Hosting service. This plan offers its customers a storage space of 10 GB. The usage bandwidth of three hundred GB (Giga Bytes) is provided for a month in this plan. One hundred unique E-Mail IDs (Email Accounts) and 10 My SQL Databases are also included in the package of this web hosting plan. The customer can choose from the options of four different terms of the plan. The three month term plan costs around $05 USD for a month however if the customer chooses a 12 month term plan, the cost is reduced to $4.75 USD for a month, hereby the customer saves about 5% of the cost. The 24 month term plan further drops the cost to allow the customer to save about 10% of the cost whereas with the thirty six months term plan, the customer can save up to 15% of the basic cost. Although, these cost saving is available to new purchases only.

Deluxe Web Hosting Plan from Go Daddy
The Deluxe Web Hosting Plan of Go Daddy is the next to basic plan of its Web Hosting service. The Deluxe Plan of web hosting fro Go Daddy is supposed to be the best value plan for the investment. This plan offers its customers a storage space of 150 GB. The usage bandwidth of one thousand five hundred GB (Giga Bytes) is provided for a month in this plan. Five hundred unique E-Mail IDs (Email Accounts) and twenty five My SQL Databases are also included in the package of this web hosting plan. The customer can choose from the options of four different terms of the plan. The three month term plan costs around $07 USD for a month however if the customer chooses a 12 month term plan, the cost is reduced to $6.65 USD for a month, hereby the customer saves about 5% of the cost. The 24 month term plan further drops the cost to allow the customer to save about 10% of the cost whereas with the thirty six months term plan, the customer can save up to 15% of the basic cost. Although, these cost saving is available to new purchases only.

Unlimited Web Hosting Plan from Go Daddy
The Unlimited Web Hosting Plan of Go Daddy is the top featured plan of its Web Hosting service that offers storage space and unlimited bandwidth to the customers for their hosted applications. One thousand unique E-Mail IDs (Email Accounts) and unlimited My SQL Databases are also included in the package of this web hosting plan. The unlimited storage is subjected to availability of space on a single server and is also subjected to the Terms of Service in the Hosting Subscriber Agreement of the customer. Limitations may apply to other plan features. The customer can choose from the options of four different terms of the plan. The three month term plan costs around $15 USD for a month however if the customer chooses a 12 month term plan, the cost is reduced to $14. 25 USD for a month, hereby the customer saves about 5% of the cost. The 24 month term plan further drops the cost to allow the customer to save about 10% of the cost whereas with the thirty six months term plan, the customer can save up to 15% of the basic cost. Although, these cost saving is available to new purchases only.

Go Daddy Web Hosting Plan Classification based on technical features
Based on the technical features, the features of the web hosting plans from Go Daddy varies in the features like FTP, databases, SSL Certificates, and different tools support included in the package. Go Daddy offers its customers to choose from the two available platforms, Linux and Windows. The details of plans of web hosting on Linux and Windows based platforms are discussed in the next sub sections of this text.

Linux Based Web Hosting Plans
Following are the major features provided in the Linux based web hosting plans of Go Daddy to its customers -
* Monthly Fee – The economy plan for Linux based hosting is available to the customers for a fee of only $05 USD for a month whereas the deluxe plan can be purchased for only $07 USD for one month however the unlimited plan is available for only $15 USD for a month. Although no additional fee is charged for set up of the server and it tuning for the best performance.
* Minimum Purchase Length – Go Daddy does not force any long term contract for its customers. The economy plan is available for a minimum contract term duration of three months whereas the deluxe and unlimited plans are available for even shorter term contract of one month only. The contract terms are shortened in the benefits of the customers to give them freedom in the services.
* Disk Space – 10 GB disk space for economy plan, 150 GB for deluxe plan and unlimited disk space for unlimited plan are included in the package.
* FTP Users – Fifty FTP user accounts are available in each type of the web hosting plan from Go Daddy.
* Email Accounts – 100, 500, and 1000 are the respective number of e-mail accounts provided with the economy, deluxe, and unlimited web hosting plans from Go Daddy.

These plans are provided with respective total e-mail storage of 100 MB, 500 MB, and 01 GB. All the plan are provided with advanced e-mail features like “Light” Webmail w/PDA, Greeting Cards – 290+ designs, Forwarding, Auto-Responder, Catch-All Email Address, Fraud, Virus & Spam Protection, Sender ID, and Email privacy and protection 256-Bit Encryption.
* Databases – The Linux based web hosting plans of Go Daddy are provided with MySQL data bases with the features like Database Backup and Restore Service, and Direct Database Access for the customer. The storage limit of each database is 01 GB. 10, 25, and unlimited are the respective maximum number of databases supported in the economy, deluxe and the unlimited plans of Linux web hosting with Go Daddy.
* Domains – All of the Linux web hosting plans from Go Daddy are offered with free of cost DNS Management, Access with and without “www” in URL, unlimited external domains, unlimited Sub domains (limited to 25 in economy plan), and unlimited Alias Domains.
* General Features – All of the Linux web hosting plans from Go Daddy are offered with the general features of permission to assign an AccountExec, SSH Access (Secure Shell), FTP over SSL (FTPS), Raw Access Logs, Site Statistics, Firewall Protection, SSL Certificate, 24 X 7 Phone/Email Support, Cron Jobs, File Manager, MySpace ® myAds Credit, Google ® AdWords ® Credit, Face – Book ® Ad Credit , Getting Started Guide, Fotolia ® Photo Credits, Forums, Photo Gallery, and Overage Data Bandwidth
* Language Support – All of the Linux based Web Hosting Plans from Go Daddy are offered with the language support of ‘Frontpage Server Ext.’, PHP4 or PHP5, and Custom PHP.ini/PHP5.ini. The Deluxe and Unlimited plans are also offered with the additional language supports of Perl with FASTCGI, Python CGI, Java, Ruby CGI, Ruby on Rails w/FASTCGI, and ColdFusion. All of the plans provide the servers to the customers with FREE Pre-Installed Application of ImageMagick and Admin Tool of paFileDB.
* Advertising and Blogs – Noah’s Classifieds and OpenX advertising tools are provided to the customers of any type of Linux Web Hosting Plans of Go Daddy. The plans also include the blog supporting tools like Blogs, Geeklog, Lifetype, Movable Type, reBlog, Serendipity, and WordPress
* Commerce Solutions and Content Management – Commerce Solutions like osCommerce, ZenCart, and Pinnacle Cart are included in all plans of Linux Web Hosting from Go Daddy. The plans also include content management tools like anyInventory, Drupal, Joomla! ®, Mambo, MODx, Moodle, Nucleus, PostNuke, SilverStripe, and Xoops
* Forums and Image Galleries – The Linux Web Hosting plans from Go Daddy include the forums like phpBB, SMF (Simple Machines Forum), and Vanilla Forum. The Image Galleries like 4images, Coppermine Photo Gallery, and Gallery are also included.
* Project Management – All of the Linux Web Hosting plans from Go Daddy include the project management accessories like Brim, dotProject, Mantis, phpCollab, and PHProjekt
* Social Networking and Scripting – Social Networking is supported in all Linux Web Hosting plans from Go Daddy with Elgg. Scripting tools include jQuery and Script.aculo.us.
* Website Add-Ons and Wiki – All servers and plans for Linux Web Hosting from Go Daddy are supported with website add-ons and Wiki Features including PHCDownload, phpMyFAQ, phpMyVisites, WebCalendar, and WWW Paint Board, Premium Add-On Application like SQLyogEnterprise is also included in all of the plans of Linux Hosting. Wikis applications like MediaWiki and pmWiki are available in all the plans. The Deluxe and unlimited plans also include the support of Twiki tool. Other features in all of the Linux Web Hosting Plans from Go Daddy include OpenDB, OrangeHRM, and phpFreeChat.

Windows Based Web Hosting Plans
Following are the major features provided in the Windows based web hosting plans of Go Daddy to its customers -
* Monthly Fee – The economy plan for Windows based hosting is available to the customers for a fee of only $05 USD for a month whereas the deluxe plan can be purchased for only $07 USD for one month however the unlimited plan is available for only $15 USD for a month. Although no additional fee is charged for set up of the server and it tuning for the best performance.
* Minimum Purchase Length – Go Daddy does not force any long term contract for its customers. The economy plan is available for a minimum contract term duration of three months whereas the deluxe and unlimited plans are available for even shorter term contract of one month only. The contract terms are shortened in the benefits of the customers to give them freedom in the services.
* Disk Space – 10 GB disk space for economy plan, 150 GB for deluxe plan and unlimited disk space for unlimited plan are included in the package.
* FTP Users – Fifty FTP user accounts are available in each type of the web hosting plan from Go Daddy.
* Email Accounts – 100, 500, and 1000 are the respective number of e-mail accounts provided with the economy, deluxe, and unlimited web hosting plans from Go Daddy. These plans are provided with respective total e-mail storage of 100 MB, 500 MB, and 01 GB. All the plan are provided with advanced e-mail features like “Light” Webmail w/PDA, Greeting Cards – 290+ designs, Forwarding, Auto-Responder, Catch-All Email Address, Fraud, Virus & Spam Protection, Sender ID, and Email privacy and protection 256-Bit Encryption.
* Databases – The Windows based web hosting plans of Go Daddy are provided with MySQL data bases with the features like Database Backup and Restore Service, and Direct Database Access for the customer. The storage limit of each My SQL database is 01 GB. 10, 25, and unlimited are the respective maximum number of My SQL databases supported in the economy, deluxe and the unlimited plans of Windows web hosting with Go Daddy. Other than My SQL Databases, the Windows based hosting plans also include the MS Access Databases and MS SQL Databases supported with Database Backup and Restore Service and Database publishing Wizard.
* Domains – All of the Windows based web hosting plans from Go Daddy are offered with free of cost DNS Management, Access with and without “www” in URL, unlimited external domains, unlimited Sub domains (limited to 25 in economy plan), and unlimited Alias Domains.
* General Features – All of the Windows web hosting plans from Go Daddy are offered with the general features of permission to assign an AccountExec, SSH Access (Secure Shell), FTP over SSL (FTPS), Raw Access Logs, Site Statistics, Firewall Protection, SSL Certificate, 24 X 7 Phone/Email Support, Cron Jobs, File Manager, MySpace ® myAds Credit, Google ® AdWords ® Credit, Face – Book ® Ad Credit , Getting Started Guide, Fotolia ® Photo Credits, Forums, Photo Gallery, and Overage Data Bandwidth
* Language Support – All of the Windows based Web Hosting Plans from Go Daddy are offered with the language support of ‘Front Page Server Ext.’, PHP4 or PHP5, Server Side Includes (SSI), ASP, ASP.NET v1.0/2.0/3.0/3.5, ASP.NET, and AJAX. ColdFusion language Support can also be added to the plan for a cost of about $02 USD for a month. All of the plans provide the servers to the customers with FREE Pre-Installed Application of MS IE Web Controls, WSE 2.0, ASPUpload 3.0, ASPJPEG 1.4, GUIDMaker, and ASPCrypt.
* Blogs and Commerce – The Linux Web Hosting Plans of Go Daddy also include the blog supporting tools like BlogEngine.NET, dasBlog, Movable Type, Serendipity, and WordPress. The plans also include the Commerce Solutions like ZenCart.
* Content Management – All of the Windows based hosting plans from Go Daddy also include content management tools like DotNetNuke 4.0, Joomla! ®, and Tandem Server.
* Forums and Image Galleries – The Windows Web Hosting plans from Go Daddy include the forums like ‘Vanilla Forum’ and ‘Yet another Forum’. The Image Galleries like Coppermine Photo Gallery and the Gallery are also included.