Web Hosting Plans

What is Hosting?

Web Hosting is a vital part of your online success. The right plan not only ensures that you have enough storage space and bandwidth for your website and visitors, it can also improve the speed of your site and make it more stable when your traffic spikes. Since there are hundreds of companies who will host your website, it can be hard to choose one that's reliable, affordable, secure and still offers the features you need, such as Windows hosting and Linux hosting options. Fortunately, Go Daddy has gone above and beyond in creating our world-class web hosting plans.

If you're new to launching a website, hosting may be a bit of a mystery. To put it simply, web hosting is space on a server, not unlike the space on your computer's hard drive, which stores the files that make up your website. Once you upload the files for your website, the server then makes them available to visitors around the world. You can access, update or replace the files on your server at any time to keep your website up to date.

Most web hosting companies offer what's called shared hosting plans, which means that several websites are hosted on the same server. This format works most of the time, but with some companies that use older technology, sites can experience slow load times and even crashes when there's a huge traffic spike. However, we've developed our own 4th Generation Hosting (4GH)® plans to overcome these issues. Our 4GH hosting plans scale as your traffic grows, ensuring that your site remains fast and reliable, especially when you need it most – during traffic spikes.

Of course, if you happen to have a large website that demands a great deal of resources, you might want to look into more specialized hosting options where you would have your own server or server space. Dedicated Servers are exactly as they sound – your own dedicated server, where you have all the resources to yourself and don't have to worry about other sites influencing your site's performance. Virtual Dedicated Servers are similar, in that they give you your own isolated area on a server and still give you the ability to access advanced server features and controls. Virtual DataCenter gives you total flexibility with the option to add or scale servers and other resources at will, so you can essentially customize your web hosting as your needs change.

While most web hosting companies offer similar plans, a key difference is features. For example, some companies only offer Windows hosting, while others specialize in Linux hosting. Some companies offer high security, but at a high price. Or huge amounts of storage, but on a slow, outdated server. Here at GoDaddy.com, we developed our 4GH plans to give you the best of all worlds.

All of our web hosting is powered by our state-of-the-art data center, which features best-of-breed routers, firewalls, servers and more, and is monitored 24/7 by our award-winning security staff. Each of our plans includes a generous amount of storage space, unlimited bandwidth, secure email addresses, access to free hosting applications and much more. Best of all, we have plans to fit every budget, from small personal blogs to international eCommerce sites, all of which are secure, reliable and easy to setup and maintain.

So whether you're new to the Web and not sure what you need or you know exactly what you're looking for, GoDaddy.com web hosting offers an affordable solution to fit your website.