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Since 1997, the web hosting and domain name registration giant has racked up 17 million customers around the world and oversees more than 71 million domains. The mass-market appeal saddled GoDaddy with a bland reputation for appealing to the most inexperienced shared hosting customers, but the last several years have seen leadership changes, revamped infrastructure, and powerful, comprehensive services that cover the full web hosting spectrum.
Running the world’s largest cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures, GoDaddy offers fast, secure, and scalable VPS plans for those early customers, like me, who are looking to take the next step in hosting. We ran the virtual private servers through the gauntlet to rate GoDaddy’s services, performance, and support compared with other veterans of VPS hosting.
GoDaddy VPS Hosting Review: 3.8 Overall Rating
Knowing when your business or websites are ready to take the leap into a VPS hosting plan can be tricky. Symptoms of outgrowing shared hosting include needing more storage space, specialized security, or dedicated computing resources, among other signs. Although the GoDaddy name might not be the first hosting provider to come to mind, the company’s VPS plans offer the same security, speed, support, and value the brand embodies in shared hosting.
A beacon of flexibility, GoDaddy offers four VPS options for both Windows and Linux plans, in addition to three levels of managed services. Our biggest complaint is that site owners are responsible for migrating their information and files to the VPS, but we appreciate that GoDaddy will provision the virtual server in minutes and take care of patching, security, monitoring, backups, and more.
Users get root access or can manage their server from the free cPanel installation. In addition to ample processing power and unmetered bandwidth, GoDaddy includes one year of a free SSL certificate and provision-free upgrades as you scale through the VPS plans:
GoDaddy Features: 4.0 Rating
In addition to speedy provisioning, GoDaddy lets you get straight to work configuring your environment by offering six operating system options. Management through cPanel will appeal to first-time VPS customers making the jump from shared hosting, but we appreciate that GoDaddy also offers administrative root access for installing components, such as PHP, proxy servers, and other modules, with ease.
Site owners can manage their VPSes themselves if they dare, but GoDaddy includes some managed services as a default. The company’s team will handle patching, security monitoring, and backups as part of the semi-managed service, with migrations and premier support available to fully managed customers.
Another perk to signing up for one of the managed plans is that GoDaddy, in partnership with SiteLock, will take care of speed and security. A content delivery network will come pre-installed, as well as malware removal tools and a web application firewall.