GoDaddy.com has really gotten their act together lately. To be fair GoDaddy.com has had their act together for awhile, but only now have I chosen to write about it. Almost all of my domainnames are registered through GoDaddy.com and I have moved over most of my hosting plans to them as well from Fortune City, which had terrible customer service.
At the lean price of $3.99 per month for the economy hosting plan, you can host a full featured site with plenty of bandwidth and storage space. The bandwidth is so high for a general purpose site, compared to other rival services, that you would have to be an extremely successful website to need to move up to the next level of hosting. You also get full PHP functionality and 10 MySQL databases. Other options available at the next level of hosting ($6.99 month) include support for PERL, Ruby, Java, Python, and Cold Fusion. If you choose a Windows-based hosting plan, you can also use ASP.net and MSSQL. For most websites, this will be more than enough.
One of the more useful features of all GoDaddy.com hosting accounts are free add-on apps that GoDaddy supplies. You can choose from a list of well known, free frameworks and applications like Drupal, Wordpress, Serendipity, Joomla, Mambo, PostNuke and others. Using the supplied GoDaddy application GUI, you can install any or all of the apps to your site in the folders you designate, and the database setup is moderated as well. Testing different content management systems has never been so easy.
