Bluehost vs GoDaddy comparison 2020 Review

And that’s why I’m here, Mike “The Web Hosting Guy”!

In this opportunity, we are going to review two giants in the industry: Bluehost and GoDaddy.

Both web hosts have pros and cons as we are going to see, but what option is the best for you?

I invite you to check this detailed and deep side-by-side comparison and review, so you can find the perfect hosting company and plan for your websites as a website owner.

An important note is that both companies offer a full 30-days money back guarantee.

If you're too busy to read the whole hosting review then look below to find our clear winner between the two: yes, without a doubt it's Bluehost.

Now let's find out why Bluehost won..

Bluehost:

As you can see, Bluehost offers come with different hosting packages for every kind of business.

They offer many plans to choose from and even a money back guarantee and an experienced support staff.

As they have many similar plans with GoDaddy, this will allow us to compare them more easily!

GoDaddy:

Bluehost and Godaddy Shared Web Hosting Comparison:

They are the same thing, the only thing that changes is the label, and in all honesty, promoting it as “web hosting” instead of “shared hosting services” is better marketing, because the word “shared” has some negative connotations.

However, let’s forget about the marketing and let’s go straight to the good stuff: what could a shared hosting offer to your business? One of the things we need to look for is the support speed which GoDaddy still has a long way to go to compete with Bluehost.

As you can see, both web hosting companies offer plenty of value for the cost, such as email hosting, chat and phone support, a good uptime and even website builders so you might not need to hire a web developer, however, in the higher-end plans (Prime vs. Ultimate), GoDaddy is the winner.

It brings you free SSL certificates along with free Premium DNS and x2 processing power and memory.

Furthermore, GoDaddy hosting offers you a free domain registration with any plan if you pay for 1 year in advance. 

The truth is that, if you have to go for the most complete plan of this section, then choose GoDaddy for web hosting services, because thanks to the free domain name registration, free SSL, x2 processing power and premium DNS, it offers more value at a lower cost than what Bluehost offers.

It would be a mistake to compare the cloud hosting plans by Bluehost versus GoDaddy’s Business hosting, because there are huge differences between prices and features of these two hosting providers.

First, cloud hosting is the next step after shared hosting, because it brings you more resources than shared hosting and offers a better performance:

Therefore, let’s simply check what Bluehost offers:

The answer is simple: the bigger your website is, the more resources you will need.

If your website has started to pick up the pace, then the Starter plan is ideal because you still have the full support needed.

Finally, another reason I prefer to use Bluehost hosting services offer is because of the 24/7 customer service support. Bluehost support is excellent for all of its clients.

E-commerce Battle: GoDaddy versus Bluehost

Now let's compare these two web hosts providers side by side and see which is the perfect option for you:

You can also work with WooCommerce with the GoDaddy’s plan, because all you need to do is to install WordPress and then that extension + theme, as simple as that.

However, the first difference between both solutions is the cost, Bluehost being the cheaper web hosting alternative while also having a better support team.

If your budget is not that permissive, then Bluehost is by far your best option especially because of their support team.

First, it is bad to see that Bluehost doesn’t specify the RAM or CPUs included in each plan.

This may be a turn off for the most technical users but as we can see so far Bluehost exceeds Godaddy at most levels and there's no exception in this case.

However, as a rule of thumb:

Go for GoDaddy + Magento if you…

However, you can also use a VPS hosting plan or Dedicated Server to host your e-commerce store and even get a better deal.

If you just want to run your business, then choose any of these plans and follow the recommendations I have given all along.

Now that you have your answer, it is time to continue this intense comparison between Bluehost vs Godaddy!

WordPress Hosting Comparison: 

Let's look at this head to head comparison:

Easy to use and perfect for beginners. You can get your site live in just a few minutes

However Bluehost also offers great speed tech. The plans use a powerful VPS platform and come accompanied with a customized PHP-FPM configuration for excellent speed and server response plus an advanced NGINX architecture for reliability, efficiency resulting in a great server response time for your sites according to our speed test.

Robust and solid security for your sites. The hosting plans offer you a great stack of SL Security, SL WAF, email security an advanced Content Delivery Network and daily and weekly site backups.

Easy to customize and upgrade. All you need to do is to explore the MOJO Marketplace to find all the plugins and extensions for your site builder. The platform user experience is super good. You also get $100 advertising credits to use either on Bing or Google.

Bluehost support options. It's has of the best 24/7 support team when it comes to hosting platforms. This company also set a high industry standard when it comes web hosting features offered by having a money-back guarantee, a well though ticketing system and a great website builder all topped by a great support staff.

What Are the Advantages of GoDaddy’s Plans?

Excellent technology for speed. All the plans come with multiple caching layers, PHP7, dynamic load balancing for handling traffic smoothly, dedicated resources, CDN image caching and more.

Great security. You get a free SSL that is installed for you, site monitoring and analysis, constant and reliable DDOS attacks monitoring, on-demand 90-days backups and email monitoring. However, you will have to pay $1.99 per month for the backups.

Easy to manage and scale. You get excellent management tools for administering your websites or clients, so you can spend more time on your business and less in management. Moreover, you can migrate your sites easily, and if you ever have problems, you can rely on the GoDaddy customer support team.

Easy to use. You can update everything across your WordPress sites with only 1 click. Furthermore, you can access your clients’ information from a single dashboard and you also have a great site builder.

Powerful web designer. You can design your WordPress sites with ease thanks to its thousands of royalty-free images, 10 professional themes, drag-n-drop tools from Beaver site builder and 8 page layouts

We will compare Bluehost vs GoDaddy’s Linux and Windows hosting plans.

Let's compare the Dedicated Servers offer, is there enough hosting space

Both companies offer solid plans, so let’s review and compare them! 

As you can see, both companies are very solid when it comes to dedicated servers at least that is what it seems on the surface.

With both companies, you can edit everything from the root with their custom control panel,

The only difference between Bluehost and Godaddy is that you can choose between a self-managed, managed or 24/7 fully-managed server.

If you want to go technical and take care of everything yourself, then you can go for the self-managed or any of the plans by Bluehost.

By default they are unmanaged and you will have to use their own control panel.

Speed and Performance Review: A Side-by-side Comparison

Speed and performance are the most important elements of each website.

Both companies are equipped with great tech web hosting support working 24/7. However, let’s analyze this crucial department:

Now let's skip the upper table and think about it.

I am have been dealing with both, GoDaddy and Bluehost and I think that at this point I am beyond sure that GoDaddy hasn't got a 99% uptime on their servers.

Godaddy hosting company is quite well known to have a very aggressive marketing campaign trying to hook you to them and then never deliver on their promises. They are known to pay over $100 referral fee for each new customer they get.

I truly believe that in 2020 having an SSD server is a must. The fact that GoDaddy chooses to cut corners on this when they know it could easily improve their websites speed by at least 3x is something that we should worry about when it comes to choosing a web hosting company.

Same is to be said with using CloudFlare for your website. However, Bluehost uses a Content Delivery Network by default while GoDaddy expects you to install it on your own inside their control panel.

As they have data centers all around the world, they can provide you an excellent uptime and efficiency for users all around the world at a competitive price.

Security Review: What Company Does Offer The Best Protection?

A company does not only need to make your websites fast but also protect it. Both, Bluehost and GoDaddy do a good job with that.

Let’s check how well they compete against each other in this department:

Even though you have to pay an extra $1.99/month if you want GoDaddy to back up your website data automatically, it is worth it, because they save everything in the cloud.

Both of these companies, Bluehost and Godaddy are prime targets for hackers so they do put a lot of resources to stop these attacks. Especially since GoDaddy is the biggest domain registrar out there and they've gone into offering web services just a few years ago.

That said, it's always a good practice to download and keep your backups in different places.

Ease of Use: What Company Is Better for Newcomers?

Let’s go straight to the point:

As we have seen in the review of WordPress hosting plans, we saw that GoDaddy web host even offers you a management panel to administer many clients and websites.

In regards their GoDaddy's dedicated server plans, they offer you a 24/7 fully-managed option.

Bluehost’s plans are also very easy to use, because they have been designed thinking in new users and exactly what they need.

The best plans for beginners are WordPress hosting options, because they come equipped with everything you need to start promoting your website online and building your business.

I also need to mention that Bluehost knowledge base seems way better put together than the Godaddy support docs.

If you compare one to the other you'll see that Bluehost has clear examples along with it which does make it easier to use but both Bluehost and Godaddy also offers a full 30 days money back guarantee.

Customer Support Bluehost & GoDaddy:

This is another super-important department, because if a web host company cannot offer you  24/7 support, then you will face problems.

Truth be told, GoDaddy can improve a lot in this department, because they take more than expected to respond to tickets and provide help in general but they don't have live chat.

Their customer support team is slower than Bluehost’s while even though Bluehost is not perfect, they bring a much better customer service especially via live chat or even phone support.

Therefore, the winner in this aspect is Bluehost.

It makes this company even more advisable for beginners, because if you ever need help, then they will be there to assist you. 

Don’t get me wrong, because GoDaddy support can also do so, only that many clients have been disappointed with their performance in this department. All rights reserved, our conclusion is ours and ours only and it's just an opinion.

Conclusion and Final Words:

Now you have everything you need to draw your own conclusions and choose the company that suits your business the best. Keep in mind, they offer a 30 days money back guarantee so if you're not satisfied you can always choose to get your money back via their refund policy.

We all have different needs, and this side-by-side comparisons of the different plans offered by each web hosting company will allow you to take an informed decision.