Bluehost Vs GoDaddy

Bluehost Vs GoDaddy

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GoDaddy has brand recognition as world-class hosting, Bluehost is an oldest web hosting company. Godaddy offers an affordable and wide range of hosting plans, Bluehost is also affordable hosting. These similarities in both the web hosting companies create more confusion among web hosting buyers. Both web hosting providers are known as the market leader and provide the best shared hosting packages. In this article, we are comparing both companies side by side according to its features, usability, plans, pricing and performance. This comparative review will help you to choose the best web hosting which suits your pocket and needs.

Bluehost Vs GoDaddy Hosting

Bluehost Vs GoDaddy Comparative Review

Plans and pricing

Bluehost offers shared hosting, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated hosting. In shared hosting plans, there are 2 plans named as Standard plan and PRO plan. With standard shared hosting plan, you’ll get unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth. But on this plan, you can host only one domain. The standard plan from Bluehost will cost you $3.49 per month using our discount link.

In PRO plan from Bluehost, you’ll get Everything Unlimited, like unlimited bandwidth, disk space and host unlimited domains on a single account. You can subscribe to this plan by paying $6.f9 per month.

Now, we will check the plans from GoDaddy. GoDaddy is oldest web hosting service provider and offers some super cheap shared hosting plans. First and most cheap shared hosting plan from Godaddy is Economy plan. With an economy plan, you get 100 GB storage space and unlimited bandwidth. This plan has restrictions on hosting websites. You can host only one domain with this plan. The economy plan will cost you $4.99 per month.

Another plan in from GoDaddy is Deluxe plan. In this plan, you can enjoy unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space and you can host multiple domains. This plan is priced at $5.99 per month.

And now the last plan in shared hosting category from GoDaddy is ‘Ultimate’ plan. With this plan, you’ll get unlimited web space, host multiple domains and unlimited bandwidth. Also, you’ll get a Free SSL certificate for your website. Subscription of this plan is available for $7.99 per month.

Customer Support Staff

Customer support is very important for every web hosting company to solve problems of customers. Bluehost and GoDaddy are known for their customer support staff. But this time, Godaddy wins the race due to its 24/7 world class customer support staff. You can connect with GoDaddy Customer care executive via a Phone call, live chat from 5 AM to 12 AM or via Email. They’ll revert back to the help within minutes.

Bluehost also has superb customer support staff. You can connect with them via a Phone call, live chat from a website, Facebook, twitter or Ticket based response system (Emails). The average waiting time to connect with the support staff of Bluehost is 3 minutes.

1 Click Scripts Installer

GoDaddy and Bluehost offer Auto-installer program with their hosting accounts. This software helps users to install Content Management Scripts like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc. with a single click. This auto installer will install selected script and will make your website ready to edit.

Free Domain Name

Another similar advantage of purchasing GoDaddy or Bluehost hosting is free .com domain name. You’ll get a free .com domain with all hosting plans from GoDaddy and Bluehost. You will get this free domain from initial plan term of 1 year. After 1 year, you’ve to renew domain name to use it.

Verdict

Bluehost and GoDaddy are well known for their best web hosting service. In this review, both web hosting companies share some similar features. If we look at plans and pricing, Bluehost wins the race because its Standard plan is affordable to newbies. In customer support, GoDaddy is known for their world class expert customer staff executives. They will revert you within minutes and will help you to solve your problems.

In this review, we did a comparison of these companies. Now, you can choose best web hosting service according to your needs. If you need web hosting with better uptime, you should choose Bluehost. If you are looking for web hosting with good customer support, go with GoDaddy. Choose your hosting company wisely after checking this review and your needs.

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Ryan Jacob

Ryan Jacob has 9 years of rich experience in Integrated Marketing Communications and Server Management. He has lead teams of professionals in his career and built online and offline reputation of organizations.

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M Imran

Hi Ryan,

This comparison is enough for me to understand for which one I should go. Thank you for sharing this article.

Regards,
M Imran

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