GoDaddy vs. Bluehost 2025: Guaranteed Uptime or Better Value?

All things considered, Bluehost provides better managed WordPress hosting for most users. Both companies offer very similar features, but Bluehost has lower prices. Additionally, Bluehost plans include more storage and let you build multiple websites on a single plan without extra charges. GoDaddy does have one enormous advantage, though: a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Not having this can be a deal breaker for ecommerce sites.

In the following GoDaddy vs. Bluehost comparison, we'll take a comprehensive look at the two hosts' managed WordPress plans, their pricing, performance, features, customer support, and online reputation. This can help you determine which one aligns with your website goals and budget.

Bluehost vs. GoDaddy review at a glance

• Bluehost: Best value for multiple sites
• GoDaddy: Best for high-traffic ecommerce sites

	Our Pick
Star rating	4.5 AllAboutCookies writers and editors score products based on a number of objective features as well as our expert editorial assessment. Our partners do not influence how we rate products.	4.8 AllAboutCookies writers and editors score products based on a number of objective features as well as our expert editorial assessment. Our partners do not influence how we rate products.
Starting price	Starts at $3.99/mo (36-month term)	Starts at $5.99/mo (36-month term)
Money-back guarantee	30 days	30 days
Uptime guarantee	Not guaranteed	99.9%
Monthly visits	40K - 400K	25K - 400K
Number of websites	10 - 100	1 *
Storage	10 - 100 GB NVMe	10 - 30 GB NVMe*
Free SSL certificate	On all plans	On all plans
Free domain for a year	On all plans	On all plans
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Bluehost pros and cons

Bluehost’s managed WordPress plans are the same as its web hosting plans, unlike GoDaddy's. The big advantage of that approach is that it gives you the best of both worlds. You get all the convenience and power of managed WordPress hosting, but with access to cPanel on all plans, and you aren’t constrained by a one website per plan policy.

Even Bluehost’s entry-level Starter plan supports up to 10 websites and includes AI site creation tools, a free domain for the first year, a free SSL certificate, a free CDN, a staging site, a security suite, email, and 24/7 support.

It’s not all rainbows and sunshine, though. Bluehost does have a major drawback: no uptime guarantee. This is particularly problematic for ecommerce sites, because any downtime can result in potential lost revenue.

GoDaddy pros and cons

GoDaddy's managed WordPress plans give you everything you need to launch a powerful site: modern NVMe storage, website security, a free domain in the first year, a free SSL certificate, unmetered bandwidth, a 99.9% uptime guarantee, automatic daily backups, AI site tools, and 24/7 support. The feature list is comprehensive, and the uptime guarantee provides peace of mind that Bluehost cannot match.

However, GoDaddy's approach comes with tradeoffs.

First, GoDaddy’s prices are higher than Bluehost’s across all tiers. The only exception is the promotional rate on the tier three plan, which is the same, but GoDaddy renews at a higher rate. Second, GoDaddy restricts you to one website per plan. If you want to run several sites, you have to pay extra. Third, GoDaddy replaces cPanel with its proprietary control panel, which is easier to use but lacks advanced functionality. Additionally, features like staging sites and a CDN are paywalled behind higher-tier plans, whereas Bluehost includes them across all tiers.

Which managed WordPress service has the best core features?

Overall, this is a very close call, but Bluehost wins. Although both hosts have unique features, Bluehost’s inclusion of free email (via cPanel) is the tiebreaker.

	Our Pick
Websites per account	10 - 100	1*
Storage available	10 - 100 GB NVME	10 - 30 GB NVMe *
Bandwidth	Unmetered	Unmetered
Monthly visits	40K - 400K	25K - 400K
Staging environment	On all plans	Starting from Deluxe (tier two) plan
Migration assistance	$149.99 per site or self-migration with docs	Paid service or self-migration with docs
Email	5 - unlimited boxes per account	No - must purchase separately
Control panel	cPanel on all plans	GoDaddy custom control panel
Website builder	On all plans (AI-powered)	On all plans (AI-powered)
Hosting types available	Shared / WordPress / WooCommerce / Cloud / VPS / dedicated server	Shared / WordPress / WooCommerce / VPS / website builder
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Any website owner who interacts with their audience appreciates being able to send emails from the same custom domain as their website. Not having to pay extra for a custom email is a huge advantage with Bluehost. Granted, the limits on the entry-level plan are so small that they're useful only for low-volume sending, but as soon as you hit the tier two plan, the inboxes go from five to unlimited. Paid email with more features is also available, but with GoDaddy, paid email is the only way to get any kind of email with your plan.

Beyond email, Bluehost also provides more than double the amount of storage space on tier two and tier three plans. Greater website capacity further tilts the scales in Bluehost’s favor. Even on the entry-level plan, Bluehost allows you to host up to 10 websites, while GoDaddy restricts you to just one on all plans.

Which web host has the best performance and reliability?

When it comes to performance, GoDaddy sweeps the floor with Bluehost. In our independent testing, we measured uptime, FCP (how fast the first element on a web page loads), and LCP (how quickly the main content loads). As you can see in the table below, GoDaddy outperformed Bluehost across every single metric.

		Our Pick
Uptime guarantee	Not guaranteed	99.9%
Tested uptime	96.4%	99.931%
Average performance score	93	100
Average FCP	0.53 seconds	0.4 seconds
Average LCP	1.43 seconds	0.5 seconds
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Having a slow FCP or LCP score will inevitably cause some people to leave your site. However, that pales in comparison to the mass flight when a website is completely down. For this reason, uptime is the most important performance metric, and GoDaddy guarantees 99.9% uptime. Bluehost, on the other hand, doesn’t guarantee uptime on any of its WordPress hosting plans.

For ecommerce sites, not having an uptime guarantee can be a deal breaker. Blogs and portfolios generally have more room for forgiveness — but context matters. If your portfolio drives leads and receives steady traffic, downtime could be just as costly as it is for an ecommerce store. In those cases, GoDaddy's uptime guarantee can become a deciding factor.

Which web host is the better value?

Bluehost is the better value. GoDaddy charges more money for most of the same features, and unless you are willing to pay additional fees, GoDaddy’s managed WordPress hosting restricts you to a single site on all plans.

	Our Pick
Price range	$3.99-$14.99/mo (36-month term)	$5.99-$12.99/mo (36-month term)
Best value plan	Business for $6.99/mo	Deluxe for $10.99/mo
Money-back guarantee	30 days	30 days
Free domain for a year	On all plans	On all plans
Free CDN	On all plans	Starting at Deluxe (tier two) plan
Free SSL	On all plans	On all plans
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Bluehost plans

All of Bluehost’s managed WordPress plans come with cPanel access and a 30-day money-back guarantee. In addition, Bluehost plans include a free domain for one year (minimum 12-month contract), free SSL, free CDN, weekly backups, web application firewall, DDoS protection, AI site creation tools, WordPress staging site, developer features, and 24/7 chat support. Business and eCommerce Essentials also add in phone support.

• Starter: 10 websites, 40,000 monthly visits, 10 GB NVMe
• Business: 50 websites, 200,000 monthly visits, 50 GB NVMe, free domain privacy for one year, and malware detection + removal
• eCommerce Essentials: 100 websites, 400,000 monthly visits, 100 GB NVMe, free domain privacy for one year, malware detection + removal, advanced ecommerce suite, email marketing

GoDaddy plans

GoDaddy’s managed WordPress plans include a 30-day money-back guarantee, but they support only a single website and don’t provide cPanel access. Instead, plans come with GoDaddy’s proprietary WordPress control panel.

Beyond that, plans include a free domain for the first year, free SSL, daily backups, a web application firewall, DDoS protection, malware detection and removal, an AI site builder, optimization tools, a WordPress block builder, and 24/7 phone and chat support. The Deluxe and Ultimate plans also throw in a free CDN.

• Managed WordPress Basic: 10 GB NVMe storage
• Managed WordPress Deluxe: 20 GB NVMe storage, staging site, SEO optimizer plugin, TrustedSite badge
• Managed WordPress Ultimate: 30 GB NVMe storage, staging site, SEO optimizer plugin, TrustedSite badge, WordPress plugin manager, developer tools, and priority support

Which web host has the best security features?

GoDaddy wins on security by a thin margin because malware removal (not just scanning) is included on all plans. Bluehost doesn’t introduce that security feature until tier two.

		Our Pick
Malware scanning
Firewall protection
DDoS protection
Backup frequency	Weekly	Daily
Other	Malware removal (starting from tier two)	Malware removal on all plans
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Both hosts’ security offerings are extremely similar. Between the DDoS protection (which blocks traffic spikes meant to overwhelm your site), a firewall (which filters out suspicious connection attempts), and malware scanning (which detects malicious code), your site will have a solid foundation against bad actors.

Both GoDaddy and Bluehost also provide automatic backups, which are helpful if you need to revert your site to a previous working version. GoDaddy performs them daily, while Bluehost does them weekly.

Which web host has the best support and reputation?

Both GoDaddy and Bluehost offer 24/7 support through multiple channels, but the scales tip slightly in Bluehost’s favor.

	Our Pick
24/7 customer support
Support options	Phone, live chat, AI chat, knowledge base, online courses, webinars	Phone, live chat, AI chat, email, SMS (text), knowledge base
Trustpilot score	4.6	4.5
G2 rating	3.4	4
Capterra rating	3.6	4.2*
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Over the course of the past three years, I’ve had many live chat conversations with both hosts. Based on my anecdotal experiences, Bluehost’s agents provide more actionable responses. GoDaddy’s agents usually left me feeling like I was inconveniencing them. It wasn’t every time, but it was often enough that the impression stayed with me.

There is a plot twist, though. In the course of conducting this Bluehost vs. GoDaddy comparison, I discovered that GoDaddy now routes you to an AI chatbot. I used it about 5 times, and all interactions were better than my previous interactions with GoDaddy.

The only downside was that after about 2 or 3 questions, the chatbot redirected me to a human support channel with wait times of 20+ minutes. This happened every single time. I’ve never experienced wait times that long with Bluehost. Needless to say, I did not have the patience to stick around.

Looking at customer reviews on G2, both hosts have nearly identical customer support satisfaction ratios, with slightly more negative than positive feedback. The main difference is that GoDaddy's negatives heavily emphasize pricing issues, while Bluehost's are more spread across technical issues, email problems, and communication.

Their Trustpilot scores are nearly tied, with Bluehost having only a tenth-of-a-point edge. GoDaddy scores higher on Capterra, but it’s not a one-to-one comparison because the Capterra review is about GoDaddy’s website builder, while the Bluehost review is about the overall company.

Top alternatives

At this point, if you think that neither Bluehost nor GoDaddy is going to be a good choice for hosting your website, then it’s time to consider some alternatives. The three choices below are all excellent and could be used for an ecommerce site, professional portfolio, or blog:

• Hostinger: Ultra-low promotional pricing and a full ecommerce suite unlocked on the tier two shared hosting plan make it a great choice for bargain hunters
• InMotion Hosting: Extremely large storage space limits on even the entry plan (100 GB) make it a perfect option for ecommerce sites with large product libraries
• SiteGround: Pricier upon renewal compared to others, but if you consider everything that’s included — some of which other providers charge for — it’s an excellent value

Bluehost vs. GoDaddy: Which is the better managed WordPress host?

Bluehost is the overall winner here, but with an important caveat: If you are currently running, or plan to run, a very heavy ecommerce site where a lot of money is at stake, then GoDaddy is the smarter choice.

Category	Our Pick
Value
Core features
Performance and reliability
Security
Support and reputation
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For most users — bloggers, portfolio sites, small businesses, and even smaller ecommerce stores — Bluehost delivers superior value. You can host multiple websites on a single plan (10 to 100, depending on tier), with more storage space, cPanel access, and free email. These advantages give you room to grow without having to upgrade. Bluehost also edges out GoDaddy on support quality with shorter wait times and more helpful agents.

But the tradeoff is performance: GoDaddy loads pages faster and guarantees uptime, which matters most when every second of downtime costs money.

Choose Bluehost if you're launching a blog, managing multiple sites, building client projects, running a portfolio, or operating a smaller ecommerce store where occasional downtime won't devastate your business.

Pick GoDaddy if you're running a high-traffic ecommerce store where uptime is non-negotiable, you only need to host a single site, you prioritize performance over flexibility, and you're willing to pay premium prices for guaranteed reliability.

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