Are you developing a website or a blog?
Well, you’ll agree that having a great website or blog is not just about aesthetics and having plenty of features. One of the most considerable challenges is its maintenance, which is highly reliable on getting it hosted on a well dependable hosting platform.
People give importance to varying criteria and therefore choose what they feel is ideal for their blog or website. Choosing a reliable hosting company with a good experience is bound to make your work easier.
If a hosting company is popular with n-number of great customer reviews, you are bound to trust that service. The two competent website hosting service providers that most of my clients get confused between are Bluehost and GoDaddy. These are trusted by millions.
To clear your confusion, here is everything you need to know about both these web hosting service providers.
Bluehost vs GoDaddy: Which one is better in 2020?
PRICING
Bluehost offers plans at a cheaper price for the long term plans, i.e 2-3 years. It, therefore, attracts more customers.
Bluehost pricing: What’s the cost of Bluehost hosting?
Bluehost comes with a different range of website hosting plans, all of which include shared, cloud, VPS hosting and many more features. There are 3 categories of plans for different sets of people; i.e. beginners, advanced and professionals. The plans offered by Bluehost are:
- Basic Plan
- Plus Plan
- Choice Plus (Prime) Plan
Bluehost Basic Plan: The cheapest website shared hosting plan is the Basic Plan that costs $2.95/month. It provides one website and a free domain name. It comes with the following features:
- Domain hosting – 1 website and 25 subdomains
- Email Accounts – 100 emails
- Storage – 100 GB
- File Count – 50000 files
- SSL Certificate – Yes(free)
- Network Bandwidth – Unlimited
- Free domain registration – Yes (one domain)
- Free dedicated IP – No
- Database tables – 1000 tables
- MySQL database – 20 databases
For more details check out their basic full plans here
Bluehost Plus Plan: This is the middle range web hosting plan which costs $5.95/month. With this plan, the user is allowed to install unlimited websites and also gets the below features with it.
- Domain hosting – Unlimited websites and subdomains
- Email Accounts – Unlimited email accounts3. Storage – Unlimited
- File Count – 50000 files
- SSL Certificate – Yes(free)
- Network Bandwidth – Unlimited
- Free domain registration – Yes (one domain for one year)
- Free dedicated IP – No
- Database tables – 1000 tables
- MySQL database – Unlimited
- Free domain Privacy – No
Bluehost Choice Plus (prime plan): This plan is the most advanced plan suitable for professional bloggers which cost $5.95/month. It comes with attractive features like spam protection, website backups, etc along with the features given below.
- Domain hosting – Unlimited websites and subdomains
- Email Accounts – Unlimited email accounts
- Storage – Unlimited
- File Count – 300000 files
- SSL Certificate – Yes(free)
- Network Bandwidth – Unlimited
- Free domain registration – Yes (lifetime)
- Free dedicated IP – Yes
- Database tables – 3000 tables
- MySQL database – Unlimited
- Free domain Privacy – Yes
Is there any money-back guarantee in Bluehost?
Yes, there is. Bluehost offers a money-back guarantee of 30 days for all its new users. They only return the website hosting charges but not the domain registration or any other charges. You can make payment to Bluehost by Net banking, debit/credit card or PayPal.
GoDaddy pricing: What’s the cost of GoDaddy hosting?
There are three types of pricing plans are offered by the GoDaddy:
- Economy Plan
- Deluxe Plan
- Ultimate Plan
Economy Plan
This plan is the basic plan offered by the GoDaddy which is for $2.49/month. It allows you to host one website. The other features include:
- Free domain: Yes (with yearly plans)
- Uptime guarantee: 99.9% UPTIME
- Free website install: One website
- Storage: 100 GB
- Bandwidth: Unlimited
- Business email: Free (for 1st year)
Delux Plan: This shared website hosting plan costs $4.99/month, in which GoDaddy allows you to install unlimited websites with the below features:
- Free domain: Yes (with annual plans)
- Uptime guarantee: 99.9% UPTIME
- Free website installs: unlimited installs
- Storage: Unlimited
- Bandwidth: Unlimited
- Business email: Free (for 1st year)
Ultimate Plan: This plan costs $7.99/month. It allows its users to install unlimited websites, Free SSL and provides the following features:
- Free domain: Yes (with annual plans)
- Uptime guarantee: 99.9% UPTIME
- Free website installs: unlimited installs
- Storage: Unlimited
- Bandwidth: Unlimited
- Business email: Free (for 1st year)
- Competing load times
- Free SSL certificate – Yes (for 1st year)
- Free Premium DNS – Yes
- Database – Unlimited
Is there any money-back guarantee in GoDaddy?
Yes, GoDaddy provides a 30-day money-back guarantee for its new users. It returns only the website hosting charges but not the domain registration or any other charges.
In GoDaddy its money refund works in two methods:
- For annual plans within 30 days of purchasing the plan
- For monthly plans within 48 hours of purchasing the plan
Both Bluehost and GoDaddy have different types of shared hosting plans. Bluehost shared hosting basic plan starts from $3/month. The same applies for GoDaddy. Its basic plan starts at a rate similar to Bluehost. When it comes to the long-term plans, let’s check which one is worth buying.
Bluehost shared website hosting plans start at $2.95/month which is 60% cheaper than GoDaddy’s Deluxe plan and 40% cheaper than GoDaddy’s Economy plan. Also, the Bluehost prime plan costs $5.95/month.
The above pricing comparison clears that when you go with long term plans, Bluehost saves more than GoDaddy. So Bluehost wins over GoDaddy in pricing.
SECURITY SUPPORT
Bluehost has excellent security support. It offers the below security features:
- SiteLock security: This feature scans and safeguards the website from unwanted attacks of harmful malware or codes.
- Cloudflare protection against DDoS: Bluehost gives access to the Cloudflare CDN to its users to keep their website safe from DDoS attacks.
GoDaddy protects its servers throughout the year and also provides DDOS (Distributed Denial-of-Service). It uses Cloudflare, firewall and many other tools to keep its hosting server or the websites out of DDOS attacks.
CONTROL PANEL
Bluehost uses Linux operating system so that you can install scripts (WordPress or Joomla, etc) easily with the Dashboard.
While Bluehost offers Linux based website hosting plans, GoDaddy offers both Windows and Linux hosting plans. It helps the user to pick the plans as per their requirements.
If you have doubts about the difference between Windows Vs Linux website hosting, the below information will clear all of them.
- The windows hosting allows the user to use tools like PHP, ASP.Net, ASP, and MySQL to build the website.
- The Linux hosting allows the user to use tools like WordPress, Python, Pearl, Dreamweaver, etc.
In this case, GoDaddy is the clear winner as it provides both types of hostings helping you choose as per your requirements.
GUARANTEED UPTIME
Both Bluehost and GoDaddy have a guaranteed uptime of 99.9%
Bluehost uptime: 99.9% of Bluehost uptime guarantee can be divided into the below specified periods of downtime:
On a daily basis – 8.6 seconds
On a Weekly basis – 1 minute and 0.5 seconds
On a Monthly Basis – 4 minutes and 23.0 seconds
On Yearly Basis – 52 minutes and 35.7 seconds
The above means, on average for a year the total downtime comes to 1 hour as it offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee.
GoDaddy Uptime: 99.9% of GoDaddy uptime guarantee can be divided into the below specified periods of downtime:
On a daily basis – 1 minute and 26.4 seconds
On a Weekly basis – 10 minutes and 4.8 seconds
On Monthly Basis – 43 minutes and 49.7 seconds
On Yearly Basis – 8 hours 45 minutes and 57.0 seconds
The above means, on average, for a year, the total downtime comes to 8 hours where it offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee.
The uptime comparisons show that Bluehost beats GoDaddy in its uptime by 1 hour/year against 8 hours/year with 99.9%. So here Bluehost wins by proving its guarantee.
SPEED
When it comes to the loading speed of the websites, on average Bluehost shared hosting websites load at 3.2 seconds. GoDaddy shared hosting websites load at 2.94 seconds. This data can be retrieved from multiple tools like GTMetrix or Pingdom.
In website speed, both Bluehost and GoDaddy are almost the same.
OTHER FEATURES
There are loads of different features are offered by Bluehost like free domain, free SSL certificate, unlimited storage, database, bandwidth, etc. There is no doubt about Bluehost being one of those companies which provides lots of features at an affordable price.
GoDaddy’s features are a little different. Even though it provides some features like free domain name, but they are limited when compared to Bluehost.
Bluehost shared hosting plans offer more features than GoDaddy at lower prices. Some features like unlimited database or SSL, are free with the Bluehost plans, but not with GoDaddy.
So the winner here is Bluehost for sure.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
There are different options offered by both Bluehost and GoDaddy. You can contact their technical support team 24×7 through phone calls live chat or emails.
But when you look at the quality or the way of responding to its users’ queries, most of the users’ opinion is that Bluehost is better and more professional than the GoDaddy technical support.
Pros and Cons of Bluehost Website Hosting Plans
Pros:
- User-friendly control panel
- Single click auto WordPress installation
- 24×7 reliable professional customer support
- Unlimited bandwidth and webspace
- Multi-domains supportable
- Attractive website security with SSL, regular backups, SSH shell, etc.
Cons:
- There is no monthly hosting plan, the plans start with a minimum of 1-year.
- While filling the billing information, there is a lot of upselling.
Pros and Cons of GoDaddy Website Hosting Plans:
Pros:
- Very easy and simple to use dashboard.
- More than 125 Auto apps install and auto-update like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.
- Fast website loading time with modern infrastructure facility
- 24×7 customer support
- Back to back discount and coupons on its hosting plans
- Strong security with CodeGuard, Spam expert, SSL certificate and much more
- The plans are cheap comes with a free domain.
- Quarterly plans are also available.
Cons:
- A most common complaint on GoDaddy is the poor customer care support
- Another common issue as per the users is often downtime issues
FINAL CONCLUSION
We have seen the comparison of the two highly rated Website Hosting Service Providers, GoDaddy, and Bluehost. According to all the compared features, I strongly suggest you opt for Bluehost as your Website Hosting Service Provider for the best website experience.
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