When presenting with the options of figuring out how to install your favorite Web application on your hosting account of having it automatically installed with a single click, most of us would choose the second option. This is evidenced by Go Daddy’s Hosting Connection that averages more than one-thousand application installations a day for its users.

 

North American’s largest shared hosting provider, Go Daddy has created Hosting Connection as a way to let customers install an extensive catalog of the most popular open source applications on the Internet, without leaving Hosting Connection.

Applications from such platforms as photo albums and blogs, to content management systems, can be installed without requiring users to create a database or set specific permissions. Go Daddy takes care of all of it for the user automatically.

“There are a lot of free applications on the Web. Some require instruction manuals to install if you’re not a ‘techie,’” said Katie Eldridge, in a Friday statement. Eldridge is owner of www.PartyTrainCentral.com and a Hosting Connection user. “Hosting Connection takes the guess work out of installing and configuring many apps. Just click install application and you’re done.”

Go Daddy’s shared hosting plans are all equipped to use Hosting Connection at no extra cost. Hosting Connection allows users to install, rate or even comment on applications with the click of a button. Such ease of use helps to promote increased adoption and user activity.

Applications such as Joomla, WordPress and Drupal are just a few that can be quickly installed within Hosting Connection. The user only needs to answer a few simple questions and Hosting Connection works its magic. Go Daddy recently added Elgg to the lineup, an award-winning social networking engine.

Go Daddy also provides users with the option to install premium applications, that include Wise-FTP, SQL Yog and Community Server. Customers have the option of purchasing these applications and having them automatically installed through Hosting Connection.

“As online applications became more popular, Go Daddy customers wanted a way to install applications without all the hassle. It is obvious with more than one-thousand installs a day, Hosting Connection is working,” said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons (News - Alert), in the Friday statement.

“We also wanted to give customers the ability to share their experience with the applications, which is why they can rate and review applications they’ve installed.”

Go Daddy’s hosting services offer additional advantages, such as generous disk space amounts and bandwidth. All of Go Daddy hosting accounts feature 24x7 Customer Support, world-class data centers and a guaranteed uptime of 99.9 percent.

There is a significant demand for a solution such as Hosting Connection in the virtual and online world. Everyday users want more from their applications and additional capability. A company that makes it easy to install and use not only promote additional use within that platform, it also helps to drive demand and adoption for Go Daddy services.