GoDaddy vs. WordPress

GoDaddy

191 Reviews and Ratings

WordPress

3,255 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
GoDaddy	Score9 out of 10	N/A	GoDaddy Web Hosting provides users with storage, email addresses, and unlimited bandwith.	$9.99 per month
WordPress	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Wordpress is an open-source publishing platform popular with bloggers, and a content management system, known for its simplicity and modifiability. Websites may host their own blogging communities, controlling and moderating content from a single dashboard.	$3 per month 6 GB storage

Pricing

GoDaddy

WordPress

Basic: as low as $6.99
per month with an annual term
Basic: as low as $10.49
per month with an annual term
Premium: as low as $13.49
per month with an annual term
Commerce: as low as $14.99
per month with an annual term

Personal: $4
per month 6 GB storage
Premium: $8
per month 13 GB storage
Business: $25
per month 50 GB storage
Commerce: $45
per month 50 GB storage
Enterprise: Contact for pricing

Pricing Offerings
GoDaddy	WordPress
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Optional

No setup fee

Discounts available for annual subscription.

Pricing for Business and Commerce plans vary on number of GB.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	GoDaddy	WordPress
Considered Both Products	GoDaddy Jim Nelson Lead Developer in Corporate at Agreda Communications (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose GoDaddy Whenever new clients come to me for website development, I begin our relationship by asking about domain registration and website hosting. I cringe when they say they use GoDaddy and often warn them that additional time and effort may be required to accomplish their goals. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GoDaddy We had considered Wix before selecting GoDaddy, however, it did not seem as easy to use, especially the website templates. The features we needed for the company website were not all readily available in Wix, so we finally chose Godaddy & WordPress hosting for the website. The … Incentivized Helpful? Carter Durham Chief Creative Officer and Head of Product in Product Management at Alegra Learning (E-Learning, 11-50 employees) Chose GoDaddy GoDaddy compares well to other options and the tool used for building or updating the site content is relatively easy to use and problem-free. WordPress may have more options as far as templates are concerned, and we sometimes run into those constraints with GoDaddy as far as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GoDaddy GoDaddy is able to be integrated from these various platforms. I haven't used much of other services such as Host Gator, but GoDaddy's relative ease of use makes it a relatively simple platform for your small business needs. It does not quite plug and play, but it's not too far … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GoDaddy I mostly went with GoDaddy because they had a regional presence and it offered regional pricing. Also, I had used their support and they really impressed me. I was just beginning website set up and it was important to me to make sure that if things weren't working properly that … Incentivized Helpful? Elise Woodard Social Media Marketing Manager in Social Media at LMI360 - Lead Management Institute (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose GoDaddy GoDaddy is significantly easier to use than Wix and their websites look much more professional. Incentivized Helpful? Nikkii Kashub Bootcamp Instructor, Social Media Manager in Social Media at SofterWare, Inc (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees) Chose GoDaddy We selected GoDaddy for its brand awareness. Everyone knows of them and there had to be a reason why, right? Other products were much easier to use and much less costly. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GoDaddy I think that GoDaddy is better than both of the companies mentioned above. I've used both and even though the platform for GoDaddy can be a little annoying 1&1 is far worse. Overall it's a pretty good site for hosting and domains, I just prefer to have my own server on Google … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GoDaddy I chose to go with Godaddy because they've been in this space since the 90s. They are a larger organization with over 6k employees worldwide so they're not going anywhere anytime soon. I needed reliable hosting, domain name, and great customer service and Godaddy has provided … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Schroeder Full Stack Developer in Engineering at Journey Group, Inc. (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose GoDaddy If you want to host your a little mom and pop shop's website, any host will do. Use Bluehost or one of the many other CPANEL hosts out there. If you're in the buisness of doing serious web applications or hosting significant products or sites, then go with Rackspace or AWS. I'm … Incentivized Helpful? Tim Vahsholtz Website Designer, Marketing Strategist in Marketing at Quartzlight Marketing /TVAH Enterprises, LLC. (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose GoDaddy We tried putting one of our internal sites on Namecheap hosting. So far, it's fine. We don't have a lot of traffic to that site anyway, and aren't really needing much in the way of extra services. We primarily use Namecheap for SSL certificates, but GoDaddy is proving to be … Incentivized Helpful? Robert Allen WordPress Developer in Product Management at Splash Mktg (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose GoDaddy I never selected GoDaddy, but when a client doesn't want to upgrade, I won't force the issue. If a client wants a fresh build and are severely budget-constrained, Weebly is my recommendation. Having the money for a quality WordPress build but no stomach for monthly expenses … Incentivized Helpful?	Automattic Daniel Cetina Founder in Marketing at Immunity Digital Marketing (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress To work with WordPress your company needs a developer, no matter what. Unless you have the experienced developer in house, you will need one. Squarespace is superfriendly and easy to work. Has all the features for a simple and clean website. WordPress lacks this part. Incentivized Helpful? Sebastian Correa Marsico Digital Content Lead in Marketing at Tavano Team (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose WordPress It's the best option for hosting a blog on a website where you can also integrate all major marketing tools and platforms. WordPress gives you [the] freedom to use whatever tool works best for you and integrate it with your website and blog. It makes tracking, measuring, and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WordPress It is the best and free platform if you compare others and if you will use WordPress you don't have to know how to code. Basic information will be more than enough to start. Creating pages and editing posts you created is so easy to manage. If you use other platforms, it will … Incentivized Helpful? Ashley Mumm Public Relations Manager at Oregon Food Bank (Marketing & Advertising, 51-200 employees) Chose WordPress I am the biggest fan of WordPress compared to others I've tried because you can further customize and edit your site to your liking. The others feel less intuitive and more cumbersome to update. You need to know more CSS/HTML coding in order to make a change to the other sites. … Incentivized Helpful? Ramon Khan Freelance Marketing Consultant in Marketing at Ramon Khan Digital Marketing (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress There are other CMS and website builders in the market and while they do offer their own value, their number of developers, ability to customize and add functionality to the site, is very limited as well as their number of themes. They can't compare SEO-wise, and you can't … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

GoDaddy

WordPress

Comparison of Security features of GoDaddy and WordPress
Feature	GoDaddy - Ratings	WordPress 8.7 131 Ratings
Role-based user permissions	00 Ratings	8.7131 Ratings

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of GoDaddy and WordPress
Feature	GoDaddy - Ratings	WordPress 8.7 107 Ratings
API	00 Ratings	8.997 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language	00 Ratings	8.481 Ratings

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of GoDaddy and WordPress
Feature	GoDaddy - Ratings	WordPress 8.3 137 Ratings
WYSIWYG editor	00 Ratings	8.7124 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	00 Ratings	7.0123 Ratings
Admin section	00 Ratings	8.7135 Ratings
Page templates	00 Ratings	9.0132 Ratings
Library of website themes	00 Ratings	6.5134 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	00 Ratings	9.0133 Ratings
Publishing workflow	00 Ratings	8.7128 Ratings
Form generator	00 Ratings	9.0106 Ratings

Comparison of Web Content Management features of GoDaddy and WordPress
Feature	GoDaddy - Ratings	WordPress 8.6 135 Ratings
Content taxonomy	00 Ratings	8.9115 Ratings
SEO support	00 Ratings	8.7121 Ratings
Bulk management	00 Ratings	7.4102 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	00 Ratings	8.7124 Ratings
Community / comment management	00 Ratings	9.2124 Ratings

User Ratings
	GoDaddy	WordPress
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (57 ratings)	8.4 (173 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (37 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (3 ratings)	8.7 (20 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.5 (3 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.6 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (9 ratings)	10.0 (11 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (10 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Professional Services	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)