My partner and I used GoDaddy to set up www.ayrstone.com, an e-commerce site to sell products for small business owners, primarily in agriculture. It was extremely easy to make a useful and nice-looking web site very quickly with the Websitetonight capability. It was a bonus that we could instantly add a discussion forum, and the discussion forum is very nice, easy to configure, and easy to use.

In order to do e-commerce, we chose to use GoDaddy's Quick Shopping Cart, which was not so easy to set up. It took quite a while to set up our merchant account so we could take credit cards, and we ran into several problems. GoDaddy's customer support was excellent, but it turned out that some of the options shown on their site for merchant accounts wouldn't do what we hoped, and it was hard to find the information about the supported merchant accounts. At one point, someone from GoDaddy told us a particular merchant account would work with Quick Shopping Cart when, in fact, it did not.

So, overall we're happy with GoDaddy. It's a particularly good option for someone who's not particularly web-savvy, as the tools are very good and very friendly. Getting e-commerce set up was tough, but, since this is the first e-commerce site I have set up, I can't say whether it was easier or harder than other web hosting operations.