The maximum time taken to respond to a page load request by GoDaddy has been found to be quite high compared to that of Bluehost, especially during a surge in site traffic. During testing with small traffic sites, Bluehost was revealed to manage a load time of fewer than 2. Both of them also manage to deliver good performance for their respective websites. One of the keys to success for an online enterprise is the availability of its website and associated features at all times.
Like many hosting companies, Bluehost offers a You will also receive a refund for the unused portion of your plan. GoDaddy promises at least Bluehost has its data center in Utah, while GoDaddy has a massive data center located in Phoenix.
Bluehost offers free SSL certificates on its plans, and the rest come at a price. For example, the company provides Codeguard, a tool allowing users to back up their files. However, CodeGuard is only free with higher-tier plans.
So, if you purchased a basic plan, you would have to pay extra for the CodeGuard feature. Asides from that, Bluehost requires you to buy SiteLock Premium for protection against malware across your website, like protection against DDoS, brute force attacks, and malicious script injection.
Besides, there are other security tools like Spam Experts filters your mail and keeps you away from malicious emails or Domain Privacy keeps your private info off WHOIS public listing with a specific charge fee. So, GoDaddy is the right choice if you are willing to pay. Thus, it is a draw for us. Good support is valuable in hosting. Both Bluehost and GoDaddy tick most of the boxes, offering email, live chat, phone support, and ticketing system. They maintain an extensive knowledge center where you can learn more about a plethora of web hosting-related topics and other things.
So I fell into a bit of a rabbit hole trying to find accurate stats here, as there was a lot of conflicting data on these two providers. A few interesting things here.
This is thanks to their service for buying domain names, and popular website builder, amongst dozens of other products. An article from also mentions those 50M domains, but has GoDaddy hosting 5M websites at the time. Or because the marketing is using the biggest number they legally can. Now an important point to note is that popularity can actually be a reason NOT to choose a hosting provider. It might mean their servers get overloaded, which could hurt your uptime and SEO — but more on that later.
Both Bluehost and GoDaddy use cPanel, which is the industry standard for controlling your website settings. The one for Bluehost is customized, and, I find, better looking. For instance, have a look at this screenshot from the GoDaddy back end. There are 3 buttons here: Manage all, Setting up and Manage.
Can you guess which one does what? The key takeaway is that it always takes me two or three extra clicks to work out how GoDaddy does things. It is still something I find annoying, and it can be overwhelming for beginners who are hosting a site for the first time. The thing is, GoDaddy is just as bad in that respect.
Winner : I find Bluehost offers a better user experience than GoDaddy, as long as you can ignore their constant attempts at selling you extra services. Now diving into the nitty-gritty. Generally speaking, both Bluehost and GoDaddy are generous with the storage options. The data is stored on SSD drives with both providers, which are blazing fast, and most of the Bluehost plans offer unlimited storage.
There are exceptions, though. The entry plan for Bluehost lets you store 50GB of data. For WordPress hosting, GoDaddy also has different limits :. Finally, one quick word about file numbers. Another slightly shady marketing technique here, as both GoDaddy and Bluehost claim to offer unlimited bandwidth. Should your website bandwidth or storage usage present a risk to the stability, performance or uptime of our servers, we will notify you via email and you may be required to upgrade.
However, GoDaddy is slightly faster, and its servers can handle more traffic. In 2 months, Bluehost had 6 outages that resulted in a This is an aspiration for many providers as the standard uptime guarantee is As for GoDaddy, in a similar period, it had 3 outages, but they were slightly longer, totaling 16 minutes of downtime.
That puts the uptime result at Response time is equally as impressive, averaging at ms. So looking at long-term monitoring, both providers are almost the same. They both are showing excellent uptime results and even better response times.
For website speed comparison, I created 2 identical websites and put them through the speed test. The key metrics here are:. This means that the provider fits in the recommended time frame. Although this result is not the best you can get.
The reason for not getting an even better result is hiding in plain sight. TTFB is at 1 second. This gives it an upper hand when comparing Bluehost vs GoDaddy performance. Nonetheless, loading speeds are quite similar.
And to have your site loaded in less than 2 seconds is a great result. In the final test, I wanted to see how much traffic each provider can handle over a very short time.
I started at 50 Virtual Users bots and decreased the number if needed. For reference, 50VUs is about the maximum I expect from mid- or high-end shared hosting plans to handle. That would add up to at least 50 monthly visits. As you can see, with the growing number of visitors, response time increases. This shows that the provider slowed down a little. On the other hand, the red line, which would represent failures, is nowhere to be found.
So while Bluehost accommodated the traffic by slowing down a little, it did pass the test just fine. In this case, the slowdown is barely noticeable, although it is there.
The blue line went up a tiny bit when the number of visitors reached So GoDaddy is capable of handling twice as many visitors, indicating more power under its servers. Altogether, both Bluehost and GoDaddy are solid providers when it comes to performance. The reliability is excellent, page loading time is great, and they can handle quite a lot of traffic. On the other hand, GoDaddy takes the win as it was at least a tiny bit better in most of the tests.
Security is the area where both providers could step up a little , but Bluehost definitely takes the win for the simplest of reasons — it includes SSL with all plans. GoDaddy, at the same time, only includes SSLs with high-end plans. This is the minimum that all providers do. However, extra services have to be purchased separately. All things considered, neither of the providers is brilliant in the security department. However, SSL is what gives Bluehost the win.
Also, there are knowledge bases, and GoDaddy steps up by offering a community forum too. Live chat is the main way for users to get help, so I contacted both providers with some questions about their security. Altogether, I got my questions answered in a quick 5-minute interaction. As for GoDaddy, you first have to use the chatbot. So it takes longer to get connected to an agent. But overall, the experience was also quite quick. The agent was friendly and tried his best to help me.
He even offered to make a discount on an SSL certificate purchase for me, as I was asking if free versions are available. So I had great experiences with both providers and picking one is simply not possible here. Both Bluehost and GoDaddy have big collections of articles and tutorials that cover documentation for their services as well as general knowledge about web hosting. Seeing as both providers offer four plans for web hosting, I compared their four plans to determine which one is more expensive.
I only considered these plans so that the comparison is more straightforward. Both providers have prices for month plans. After evaluating both providers' plans, GoDaddy 's plans are more expensive for the first year of use. However, the difference between the two can be seen in short-term pricing, where Bluehost offers more significant discounts than GoDaddy. However, GoDaddy offers more storage than Bluehost, but it limits the number of databases you can have.
GoDaddy offers a day money-back guarantee if you purchase an annual plan and a hour guarantee for monthly plans when it comes to refunds. Bluehost offers a money-back guarantee of 30 days. So, even if you don't like Bluehost's web hosting, you have 30 days to get your money back. The prices for first-time signups include discounts, and when the time comes for renewal, the prices go up for both providers.
Also, the renewal rates for Bluehost and GoDaddy are the same. So, this data has led me to conclude that Bluehost not only has lower prices for the first year and offers more significant discounts than GoDaddy, but it also has a better value for money.
Let's start with Bluehost. The signup process is simple and completely free. You can sign up for an affiliate program and start earning money in a matter of minutes. After you've been approved, Bluehost will send you a unique affiliate link, which you can use to promote Bluehost on social media and your site. The best part is that you can earn as much as you want in commissions. Bluehost will make the process even easier for you by providing personalized campaigns, promotional resources, and precise tracking.
Payments are made via PayPal days following the end of the month the sales were made. With GoDaddy , the process is more or less the same. However, the difference is in the pricing. GoDaddy offers their affiliates over GoDaddy affiliate links to pick from, including banners and text links. Both providers have superb affiliate programs, so there is no winner for that particular service.
However, if we look at the overall category, which includes pricing, refunds, and affiliates, I have to declare Bluehost the winner for this one. It's a very competitive race to the finish line between these two, and Bluehost has won in a matter of seconds! It is a tough call, but Bluehost surpasses GoDaddy in a couple of defining categories, although only marginally. So, for the overall analysis, Bluehost emerged as the winner. However, GoDaddy is not far behind. If you decide to use GoDaddy, you will not regret it.
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