Bluehost or GoDaddy, which one is better, more importantly which one is better for your needs.
In this video i'm going to put them both to the test and compare them side by side to see who wins
the five categories i will be comparing them on are one pricing i will determine who has the best
price and what is included in those pricing plans two set up an ease of use i will show you who has
a more intuitive user interface and who makes it easier to set up and manage your website three
speed and uptime performance i will test which hosting provider is faster and more reliable four
support i will ask questions from their customer support team to determine who is more responsive
and helpful and lastly the fifth one is features i will compare the features of these two hosting
providers to determine who has more and better features overall at the end of this video i will
give you a very special offer if you decide to pick up bluehost or godaddy through my link below
i will give you my six figure blogger course for free as a bonus and a way of saying thank you for
supporting my channel now let's get straight into this video pricing options to make it fair we are
just going to compare their normal price with no extra special discount i have done individual
reviews on each hosting provider which i will leave in the description where you can purchase it
at an extra discount once you have decided which hosting provider is right for you let's compare
the cheapest plans for each hosting providers first this one is going to be really close
bluehost's basic plan for three years costs 2.95 per month while godaddy's economy plan will set
you back 4.50 per month this means that bluehost is 34 cheaper now if we compare their one year
plans it's a different story bluehost will cost 4.95 per month while godaddy is still 4.50 so now
the tables have turned and godaddy is cheaper by nine percent so i would say bluehost just beat out
godaddy for the cheapest plans now what about if you're more advanced and want their most expensive
plans i'll compare that for you now things get more interesting here where bluehost's top plan is
seven percent cheaper than godaddy for three years but for one year godaddy is now cheaper by 21 so
overall you can see that the pricing comparison is super tight both hosting companies win on certain
categories and this is probably the closest price comparison test out of all the hosting providers
i've done so far i would have to declare the winner of the pricing category to be bluehost
and give them the first point as their percentage wins are bigger than godaddy now that you know the
percentage price difference you can watch my next categories and see who offers better features and
who has better performance as the pricing factor here is pretty much the same and won't be the
determining factor on which hosting providers you choose after purchase setup and ease of use now
let's go through and assess which hosting provider is actually easy to set up and use
bluehost has a clean looking interface and is easy to navigate through to different sections on their
back end i just have a minor issue with them in that they tend to hide some free features and
easily present the paid ones instead like for the free email account if you navigate to the email
and office tab you won't find the free option to create emails instead you would have to navigate
to the advanced section and create your free email account from their cpanel that way now godaddy
doesn't do this because they don't have a custom user interface like bluehost which means that they
are not as user friendly godaddy also has a lot of upsells on their dashboard with no useful shortcut
buttons or options to build out and manage your websites like bluehost does moving on to the
wordpress installation both hosting providers give you the option for the custom one-click
wordpress installation however i found bluehost to be slightly easier and quicker to do the install
as they have a nicer user interface when doing the installation as opposed to godaddy's plain cpanel
overall this category was fairly easy to pick the winner for i'm definitely giving the point
to bluehost here their custom interface is much better than godaddy's standard cpanel interface
and it is also easier to install and manage your wordpress website on bluehost speed and
uptime performance tests first let's start with a comparison of the speed performance test from
the initial installation my test results with gt metrics show bluehost to have a page load speed of
1.5 seconds while godaddy's speed was 2.1 seconds meaning bluehost is 29 faster right off the gate
next i made sure to compare apples with apples by installing the same speed and image optimizer
plugins and putting cloudflare on both accounts to optimize it even further my test results show
bluehost to have a page load speed now of 3.4 seconds on gt metrics while godaddy's speed
was 3.3 seconds this means godaddy is three percent faster than bluehost now bluehost only has
one server location which is in the united states but godaddy has three server locations which
are in north america europe and asia so if your business is located outside of the united states
and most of your website visitors are from other countries then godaddy should provide
a faster page load speed which will provide your customers with a better user experience
now if you want more details on my test or just want more in-depth review of bluehost or godaddy
you can check out the link in my description for that the next thing we will compare is their
uptime bluehost had a perfect 100 uptime while godaddy managed to produce a decent result of
99.977 which still passed my minimum standard of 99.95 overall this was also really hard to score
but i gave the first close point to bluehost for pricing so i will have to give this one to godaddy
most things were too close to call like the page load speed but i think the advantage of having
server locations outside of the usa would suit more users so i will have to give the point to go
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release every single week support with regards to bluehost's customer support response time
their overall average over peak and off-peak periods was lightning quick at just 30 seconds
the same cannot be said for godaddy where their response time was around 9 minutes on average
which means they don't even pass my 5 minute minimum standard now in terms of staff knowledge
and helpfulness this was also a clear win for bluehost for example when i told both companies
that i had a virus on my website and asked them to send me a malware report bluehost was able to
do this for me immediately in around 10 minutes but godaddy were not willing to help me at all
they kept trying to upsell me to buy their virus protection product instead another example here
was installing the ssl certificate in cloudflare bluehost immediately accepted the challenge and
took on the tasks and completed it for me without me having to touch my computer while godaddy on
the other hand would not do anything for me and kept telling me that cloudflare is not integrated
with them so they cannot do anything about it this shows a clear difference on how both their support
teams work so based on this i would have to declare the overall winner in the customer support
department to be bluehost by a long shot and give them another point here's a quick question for you
who are you liking more so far bluehost oh godaddy and why let me know in the comments section below
features now in terms of features this one would have to be an easy win for bluehost
as they have all the features godaddy offer and so much more the biggest and most important
feature which is critical for your website and is missing for godaddy but not with bluehost
is the automatic daily backups bluehost provides daily backup for your website for free on their
more expensive plans this is standard nowadays and i believe every hosting provider should have one
so it's really disappointing to know that godaddy has not included this feature at all bluehost
also offer free ssl certificates on all their plans whereas godaddy only provides this basic
feature on their highest plan this is another one of those standard features that i believe
every hosting provider should be offering and not try and upsell you on it later
overall this one is a no-brainer again bluehost gets my point easily for the features section
recommendation so after comparing these two hosting providers over five categories
bluehost was the clear winner they won four categories while godaddy only
won one i don't think i can recommend godaddy over bluehost in any situation
they may be slightly better in website speed but 0.1 seconds difference is just not enough for the
subpar result of all the other features bluehost excels in their customer service and provide
extra features compared to godaddy so it could definitely be a suitable option for beginners
i still think though there are better options out there over these two hosting providers and i'll
let you know my pick at the end of the video this is a quick note regarding my bonus offer to you
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that easy so now that you have decided on your wordpress hosting provider it's time to go and
fully build out your website and this next video will help guide you through all of that step by
step but if you're still undecided on the hosting provider because you don't like either of these
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