Can GreenGeeks web hosting compete with the big dog GoDaddy? Here’s our comparison between these two web hosts.
As a customer of both GreenGeeks and GoDaddy, I can say that each of these companies does provide quality web hosting and email services. GoDaddy does offer many more services as compared to GreenGeeks. But, when you focus on the Shared Web Hosting plans of each host, GreenGeeks more than holds its own. In fact, GreenGeeks actually has many advantages, including a free domain name for the life of your account as opposed to GoDaddy where your domain is free only for the initial term. We also like that GreenGeeks includes solid state drives (SSDs), free nightly backup of your hosting account (with free restore once per month), and free SEO and marketing tools. By contrast, GoDaddy offers separate services for SEO and marketing—which you’ll need to pay extra for.
When it comes to green web hosting, GreenGeeks is definitely the industry leader–powered by 300% renewable energy. However, we also prefer GreenGeeks over GoDaddy in other areas such as WordPress hosting. And, when it comes to customer support response time, we find GreenGeeks far superior.
For beginners, it’s a close call when choosing between GreenGeeks and GoDaddy. If you only need a single website, you may want to opt for GoDaddy’s Economy plan. But for those that need hosting for multiple websites or website owners with a little more experience, GreenGeeks is the better option.
| GreenGeeks | GoDaddy | |
|---|---|---|
| Preinstallation | ||
| Auto Updates | ||
| Auto Data Backups | ||
| On Demand Backup and Restore | ||
| Website Staging | ||
| Optimized Caching | ||
| WordPress Security | ||
| Managed WordPress Available? |
| Ticket Support | ||
| Email Support | ||
| Phone Support | ||
| Live Chat | Limited Hours | |
| Free Website Migration | ||
| Priority Support Available |
| PHP Support | 8.3 | 8.3 |
| Unlimited Databases | ||
| PostgreSQL Databases | ||
| Node.js | ||
| SSH Access | ||
| Git | ||
| Python | ||
| FTP/SFTP | ||
| WP-CLI |
Advantages of GreenGeeks over GoDaddy:
Advantages of GoDaddy over GreenGeeks:
In both my personal experience and our testing, GreenGeeks has been far superior when it comes to website speed and performance. With their PowerCacher technology along with the other improvements GreenGeeks has implemented into their hosting platform, they consistently outperform GoDaddy.
In my personal use as a customer of both GreenGeeks and GoDaddy, I’ve also found GreenGeeks to provide faster website speeds.
Below is some sample data from our GTmetrix test results:
Started Business: 2008
Data Center Location: Chicago IL, Montreal Canada, Amsterdam NL, Singapore, ASIA
Price: $2.95 mo. – $10.95 mo.
Unlimited Bandwidth: Yes
Unlimited Storage: Yes
Unlimited Email: Yes
Host Multiple Domains: Yes
Hosting Interface: cPanel
Server Uptime: 99.9%
Full Refund Period: 30 Days
Dedicated Hosting Available: Yes
Free Extras:
Attracta SEO and Marketing Tools
Free nightly data backups
Free Solid State Drives (SSDs)
Free Let’s Encrypt Wildcard SSL
Advantages of Choosing GreenGeeks:
Started Business: 1997
Data Center Location: N/A
Price: $4.99 mo. – $7.99 mo.
Unlimited Bandwidth: Yes
Unlimited Storage: Yes (except on Economy Plan)
Unlimited Email: Yes (Ultimate Plan only)
Host Multiple Domains: Yes (except on Economy Plan)
Hosting Interface: cPanel
Server Uptime: 99.9%
Full Refund Period: 30 Days
Dedicated Hosting Available: No
Free Extras:
DudaMobile automatically converts your site to mobile (except on Economy Plan)
Website Accelerator (Ultimate Plan only)
SSL Certificate (Ultimate Plan only)
Malware Scanner (Ultimate Plan only)
Advantages of Choosing Go Daddy:
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