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Go Daddy Tech Center
An in–depth look at the technology behind our infrastructure, security and products.
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- We answer 10 billion queries daily & are available over IPV6.
- We support 25 petabytes of networked data storage.
- We move 75GBPS of customer data over our global networks every day.
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Recent blog posts
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The Impact of Plugin Performance
In a Study of Go Daddy WordPress sites, we found: There are no caching plugins in the top 10 list. What does this mean for developers? Page caching isn’t as common as you might like. You can’t count on a page cache to speed up your code. Make sure you’re writing fast code and learning ...
by Kurt Payne on November 21, 2012
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Website Experimentation Made Fast and Easy
With the recent surge in popularity of the Lean Startup philosophy developed by Eric Ries, many people have become familiar with terms such as MVP (minimum viable product, the least-effort deliverable that can be used to validate assumptions with real customers). Split or A/B testing is another Lean Startup concept and one that we’ve been ...
by Wayne Thayer on November 15, 2012
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Mobile Web Design Checklist
Despite most websites having neglected mobile support, mobile is not only the platform of tomorrow, but it is also the platform of today. With well over 10% of the worlds web traffic going to mobile devices, it’s time to give your mobile audience some much needed attention. While the term “mobile friendly” may be subjective, ...
by Aaron Silvas on November 07, 2012
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Go Daddy Employees have a BLAST!
At Go Daddy, every individual does whatever it takes to make things happen on a day-to-day basis to keep our customers happy. We help our customers grow their small businesses and their online web presence, either by working directly with them or by continuously improving our products and services. To celebrate and reward our hard ...
by Brodi Miles on October 30, 2012
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Hosting Security – Validated
On 9/4/2012, Go Daddy’s independent auditor completed a Service Organization Control (SOC) assessment for Go Daddy’s hosting services. This assessment evaluated Go Daddy’s security controls against the Trust Services Principles and Criteria and resulted in the issuing of a SOC 2 and a SOC 3 Report. What is a SOC report? Remember SAS 70 reports? ...
by Mark Milne on October 23, 2012
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The First Steps on the Road to Service Oriented Architecture
You likely know Go Daddy for Domains and perhaps for hosting and SSL Certificates. But, you may not know that we have numerous other products, all with the overarching goal to empower domains. The development, delivery, and support of these services share many common aspects. However, as different engineering teams are typically heads-down, overcoming the ...
by J.R. Jasperson on October 19, 2012
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At Inside Go Daddy, our developers, engineers and other IT professionals discuss all things tech — from new company initiatives to the latest industry trends. Add this RSS feed or check back often to keep up with the latest tech developments at Go Daddy and across the Web.
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Product Technology Details
- Go Daddy Cloud Servers
- Go Daddy Web HostingTM
- Premium DNS
- SSL Certificates
- Website Protection Site Scanner
- Website Risk Assessment
Go Daddy Cloud Servers
Go Daddy Cloud Servers provide the best combination of features, performance, ease-of-use and price in the market today. Our custom-designed control panel makes it easy to turn VMs on or off, edit them, get new ones, add load balancers, and more. We give you the option to pay as you go or pre-pay for substantial savings.
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Our Network
- FREE load balancing for TCP services
- NAT-based firewall protection with source IP filtering
- Virtual Private Network (VPN) L2TP/IPSec VPN with PSK and password authentication
- Support for opening up port ranges
- HTTP has X-Forwarded-For header
- Personal Layer 2 private network with your own private subnet ranges
- FREE bandwidth between servers within your private network
- Includes 3 public IP addresses; additional IPs are available for a fee
- Compute API functionality available to allow you to streamline and enhance your sites. Full functionality API details can be found here.
Virtual Machines
- Guaranteed vCPU power equivalent to a Xeon processor core, with the ability to burst to four cores (1, 2, 4 and 8 GB VMs) or even six cores (16 GB VMs)
- Template library that includes 32- and 64-bit servers (CentOS) and 64-bit versions of Ubuntu, Fedora, and Windows 2008 Server
- Memory configurable from 1 GB to 1
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