Tooltester has the support of readers like you. We may earn an affiliate commission when you purchase through our links, allowing us to offer our research for free. According to BuiltWith, one in twenty websites appears to be hosted on GoDaddy. Without a doubt, they are a titan of web hosting, with around twenty million customers, more than nine thousand employees and more than eighty million domains managed.
GoDaddy offers dozens of products and comes with lots of plans available. So, first let me tell you a little more about their accommodation offer. But their offer doesn't end there, among other things, they also have a hosting reseller program so you can sell hosting plans to your customers, web design services and SEO consulting. Almost all web hosting providers make introductory offers at a very low price during the first year, to attract you.
Your plan will automatically renew at a higher rate after the first year, and the highest rate is the one you'll pay thereafter. Since these higher rates are what you'll continue to pay (and since introductory offers vary a lot), when comparing different providers, it's always best to look at renewal prices. In the table below, you can see the different launch prices compared to the renewal prices of all the hosting providers we tested. As you can see, while GoDaddy's launch prices may seem quite high compared to other providers, the increase in renewal is quite modest. So, in the end, GoDaddy comes out a little cheaper than most of the competition.
The Deluxe tier includes the same specifications and features as the Economy package, but you can host ten sites and fifty gigabytes of storage. It now also comes with free SSL certificates. If you need higher performance (e.g., two gigabytes of memory, fifty sites and one hundred gigabytes of storage), then GoDaddy's Ultimate plan is for you. It also comes with a free SSL certificate for all your sites. Its interface seems to me to be quite intuitive to use; I would recommend it for beginners.
In my last speed tests, GoDaddy worked really well and was one of the fastest web hosting providers. GoDaddy's uptime isn't the best, but it's reliable (more information below). The traffic your site can receive with each plan won't be limited. They don't offer the cheapest deals out there; they get even more expensive when basic add-ons (e.g., domain privacy) are added. Unfortunately, GoDaddy doesn't include some advanced features, such as staging areas or Git repositories, that might be useful for developers. Unlike other hosting providers, they won't help you migrate your websites from another host. But you're probably wondering when it's a good idea to use GoDaddy and when it's not.
Let me give you a couple of examples. First of all, you should set aside a budget for hosting as GoDaddy is a little expensive, especially when you start adding the basic add-ons. I would suggest GoDaddy's shared hosting for those looking for a host that is very generous with storage (but doesn't need unlimited space) and that doesn't measure your traffic. GoDaddy also offers Windows-based hosting services; this may be a good argument to convince some. I wouldn't recommend GoDaddy if you need an affordable hosting provider; check out DreamHost, GreenGeeks or our roundup of the best cheap web hosts. And if you're specifically looking for affordable WordPress hosting, check out our guide to the best low-cost hosting providers for WordPress websites. In our tests, GoDaddy also proved to be a reliable hosting provider but it wasn't the best-performing service.
Therefore, serious projects such as avid bloggers should consider other alternatives such as SiteGround or GreenGeeks. Finally, those looking for advanced options such as staging areas server-side caching or CMS (e.g., WordPress optimization options) may want to see other alternatives. GoDaddy will give you a free domain for the first period if you buy a twelve-month (or longer) offer. Email accounts are pretty generous at GoDaddy; get up to one hundred accounts with the Economy plan, five hundred with the Deluxe level and unlimited accounts with the others. There is no direct email storage limitation. With the Economy plan you can have up to ten databases; twenty-five with the Deluxe package; fifty with the Ultimate plan and one hundred databases with the Maximo* plan. With its cPanel you can easily install all kinds of applications such as WordPress Joomla Drupal or Magento. Storage is limited to twenty-five gigabytes with the Economy plan fifty gigabytes for Deluxe seventy-five gigabytes for Unlimited and one hundred gigabytes with the Maximum plans. The maximum number of files (inodes) hosted cannot exceed two hundred and fifty thousand which is quite generous. GoDaddy doesn't measure the traffic you can get with any of their plans However if your website uses too many server resources you may need to upgrade your hosting account. GoDaddy has gotten faster and faster over the past three years They also offer the latest version of PHP which will give you an additional speed boost Unfortunately they don't offer a server-side caching system and their shared hosting doesn't include dedicated speed optimization plugins for WordPress and similar CMS. In our last test GoDaddy offered good availability rates With GoDaddy you can use versions seven and eight of PHP and MySQL for your databases It is also possible to use other programming languages such as Python or Perl Advanced features such as staging areas or Git repositories are missing You can also get a Windows-based server instead of a Linux-based one. If you buy a hosting plan for twelve months or longer you'll have a thirty-day money-back guarantee Has a service level agreement with ninety-nine point nine percent uptime You can contact GoDaddy through live chat or by phone I didn't have to wait long to get in touch with an agent however the quality of support could be better I would like your learning materials to be a little more detailed. GoDaddy's performance is good and their support isn't bad However they can be a little expensive since you'll have...
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