Godaddy is….
It the largest ICANN-accredited registrar on the Internet since april 2005.It is also a hosting company with 10.3 million customers.It is one of the oldest registrar companies founded in 1997.They established their Indian subsidiary in January 2009.
Godaddy India Plans
It has 3 shared plans-Economy,Delux and Ultimate.Godaddy also has VPS and Dedicated servers.You can even get managed hosting where Godaddy will manage a dedicated server by letting their staff personally set up your server and install the approved Web applications you may need for blogging, eCommerce or for managing customer contacts.If you are planning to use WordPress as your cms you may opt for WordPress hosting which godaddy claims that you will have your website up in 30 seconds.Another Hosting Package for Begginers is website builder plans.You also have option of cpanel (linux) or Parallels Plesk (windows server).The most Populer of all these is Shared hosting which you can get upto 82% discount and domains for Rs120 (including tax) using above Goddady Coupons.
But the sad part is that Godaddy India do not offer unlimited disk space and MySql Database for Economy and Delux plans which their competitors offer. Also having used their website builder plan it feels that you can’t do much than writing articles.you cannot even copy paste articles directly.
GoDaddy was once offering cloud hosting so that you pay only for what you use.But soon back down saying cloud server business wasn’t seeing traction among the small and medium-sized business customers on which the company is focused.
Datacenter Proximity and uptime
GoDaddy datacenter are based in the US, Europe and Asia, covering more than 70,000 square feet.Godaddy india claims for Guaranteed 99.9% uptime which they do offer.If you are using shared hosting then most probably your website will be hosted on US servers hence these may hurt your local searches.If your site is only about indian coustomers then you should better choose other hosting provider.
Tax
Like any other hosting company Godaddy india also charges 12.5% tax which is not directly visible on homepage.These taxes are Pretty standard since these are leived by Govt.
Contact by..
godaddy India can be contacted through toll free number(which is 1800-121-0111),mail,support ticket or browsing their knowlegebase.What hurts is that being such a big company they do not offer live chat.But their toll free number makes out the loss.
Payment
Most companies take payment only through credit cards but godaddy india have 7 options which include paying by Moneybookers,Net Banking,Debit Cards,,Cash Cards,Mobile Payments or by Credit/Debit/Prepaid Card.No Worries!
Transfer
You can transfer your existing domain to Godaddy india at Rs 499+11.32 (ICANN fees).
For transfering files you have to do it manually through Hosting Control Center or by file transfer software(like filezilla).
Refund policy
Godday india offers 45 days money back Guarantee for annual products and 48 hrs for monthly products.For those who want a refund after 45 days Godaddy have a option of an in-store credit for unused years remaining on your annual plan.
Domains can also has same refund policy.But there is NO Refund for .in domains.You should read their refund policy properly since it has many cliches
You can Get a wide range of coupons for maximizing your discount..This Godaddy coupon works for both Godaddy india and Godaddy.com
Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantage
- Toll free number
- 99.9% uptime
- 45 days refund policy
- Payment options
- Biggest,cheapest & best domain Resistrar
- Godaddy Coupons
Disadvantages
- Poor Web-builder
- 12.5% tax
- Server are outside India-SEO gets affect
- Absence of live chat
Tough comptitors for godaddy in India are Hostgator.in,Bigrock.in,Znetlive.com,HostingRaja.in and to some extent Speedhost.in and Hostcats.com according to their alexa rank in India.