Ten Great reasons to Use GoDaddy Hosting

February 23, 2013 by

Here is my post on godaddy hosting and why to consider them, the top 10 reasons are below.  First why did I decide to even concentrate on this company at all?  Mainly because of all of the marketing hype around them butabove all because of the many accomplishments they have made in the domain registrar arena.  With Go Daddy hosting you’ll get the following features in this list.

Top 10 Factors to Use GoDaddy Hosting:

1. accounts with 500 email addresses, or even more ; chances are you will not need that many or even close, but 500 is sufficient for most small businesses.  Not only will you want to provide an email address for everyone in the company but it is not uncommon to have generic addresses also such as pr@yoursite.com, help@yoursite.com, and others;

2. 25 MySQL databases with 1 GB each, or even more ;  why would you want this?  If you install a CMS (content management system) such as WordPress it will use 1 database, therefore you could install 25 wordpress websites if you so desired;

3. unlimited Websites (host as many sites as you want); this means that you can register multiple domain names and host every one of them with on web hosting account.  Many people think that you need to purchase a new hosting account every time you would like to setup a new website and that is not the case.  You can setup 25 with their plans.

4. auto-install your favorite apps; which means you can install systems like WordPress with the push of a button from your control center.  That may sound obvious but let me tell you it is a time saver as I used to install WordPress by having to FTP into a hosting account, create a database, upload files, manually edit configuration files on the server and hope that the scripts would then install the system for me.  Those days have ended with Go Daddy.

5. daily backup; this is key to keeping your site up and running and not losing your work. Imagine if your site was destroyed, just gone, and you could not get it back . With their daily backups they wil always have a copy of your site in case you or someone else did something to destroy your website. This is piece of mind.

 

6. hosted across multiple servers; what this means is your website is on more than one computer.  When you get a hosting account you are essentially renting a slice of a computer, a piece of it.  Others are also on the same computer. It is possible that if your website is only on one computer (as other companies do) and your neighbors on the same computer do something to crash the computer, then your website will crash also.  With GoDaddy hosting they make copies of your website onto multiple computers so if there is an issue with one computer your site will not likely crash as it is already on other computers.  Replicating your site across multiple computers for you is an incredible feature for them to offer, in the past you’d probably of had to do it yourself with hardware and it was time consuming as well as expensive.

7. load balancing; this is an amazing feature at the current price point; Imagine if you had a cafe or restaurant and one door, you have plenty of space inside but people cannot get through the door, then they leave.  That can happen with your website if a lot of people visit at once.  Load balancing instantly creates another door or two at your restaurant and then funnels some people through each door so you do not lose the customers.  That is a perfect analogy for load balancing. Essentially as your website is replicated on multiple servers they route your site visitors to different computers to assure everyone can view your site.

8. security; if you’re like me you have no idea the best way to keep people out of your website and from doing harm.  Luckily they protect you from problems such as Dos (denial of service) and other malicious attacks, don’t worry if you have no idea what it means just know that it’s good

9. malware scanning; you don’t want someone to upload bad software to your website or others may download it and your site can loose credibility as well as have problems with search engines.

10. price; surprisingly the prices which include the above are well below $10 a month, many times in the $5 range and you can use a of the discount promo code to acquire it even cheaper.

So there you have it.  My top 10 list of why you may want to givegodaddy hosting a chance.  I could go into more detail but you will find from their site many other positive features that I did not even cover.

 

 

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Top Domain Sales

October 24, 2012 by

I personally like to use coupons to save money but I also like to look at it as though I am making money. If I did not spend it then I made it. At least that is my reasoning. Also some things you buy you can resell like domain names. They are assets. You can get them for around $10 give or take and potentially sell them later for a nice price. Would you believe that some domains have sold for millions of dollars. I saw a list on this site of the top domain sales and here are a few.

  • fund.com : $9,999,950
  • diamond.com : $7,500,000
  • korea.com : $5,000,000
  • shop.com : $3,500,000

and many many more domains have sold for over one million and others for hundreds of thousands. The list on that page shows 500 domains that sold for over $100,000.

So you can obtain a domain at a registrar and hold it until you may want to sell it. Here is how it works. You never truly own the domain you just get the right to control it. Every year you have to pay a fee. You can get a domain at a great price using a godaddy coupon at checkout to save some money. Then you have a one year registration and no one else can register that exact domain. You have to pay a yearly fee or you lose control of it.

Be Sure Not to Lose It
There are a couple ways to assure you do not lose the domain. You can pay multiple years up front, so you could pay for 10 years (as an example). If you do not want to pay all at once you could decide to setup an auto-renew function that will automatically bill your credit card each year. You can also set it up to bill a pay pal address. You will just receive a notice in your email once a year telling you that you paid your yearly fee. Setting up the auto-renew is probably a wise thing to do.

How to Sell Your Domain
Since you do not truly own the domain, this is what you do. You can offer your domain for sale and you can even put it on a site like godaddy.com for sale or for auction. You can set a minimum price much like you would on an ebay or similar site. When someone buys the domain you transfer the ownership of the domain to them. It is very easy to transfer from one person, or one account, to another. That is all there is to it. The purchaser now has the domain and you now have the cash.

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Deals at GoDaddy

July 16, 2012 by

One of the most interesting companies to me is GoDaddy. They started back in the 90’s as a software and services company under another name. The CEO Bob Parsons is a fascinating man that has built quite an impressive business in a very difficult and competitive industry. The company was not originally named Go Daddy but eventually that is the name they changed to. As one of the first domain registrars they have grown to be the biggest.

Marketing to Push the Company Forward
GoDaddy has always been a pioneer by marketing their company during the Superbowl with provocative advertisements. As we all know many brands, large established brands, shell out the millions of dollars to have an advertisement during the Superbowl. These companies never know if there is any true benefit to them at all, other than bragging rights at the expense of shareholders. However Godaddy used that platform as their launch pad for offline advertising and had incredible growth. They also have godaddy promo codes available online to push their growth with online marketing strategies also.

Expansion of Services
As many successful companies they chose not to stick only to one product offering. They also chose not to only offer products but expand into services as well. When it comes to products they added domains of different extension and also items such as web hosting and SSL certificates. An online auction was created for domains as well. They expanded with search services and more than just product offerings.

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