GreenGeeks vs GoDaddy 

Web Hosting is mandatory before buying any website. As a customer, it’s difficult to decide whether to buy the hosting or not, which website is more authentic, reliable, and affordable. I have experienced both GreenGeeks and GoDaddy. The purpose of writing this article is to give you an honest opinion and guidelines about both companies. Both websites offer quality web hosting, customer service, performance, cPanel, and email services suitable for business. But in terms of shared web hosting plans, GreenGeeks is highly competitive. 

After experiencing both, I conclude that GreenGeeks has a lot of advantages over GoDaddy. It offers a free domain for the lifetime of the account and includes free nightly backup of your hosting account, free SEO, free solid-state drives (SSDs), and free marketing tools. Contrary, GoDaddy offers these types of services paid.  

I will also recommend preferring GreenGeeks over GoDaddy in terms of WordPress hosting. GreenGeeks also has a fast response time when it comes to customer support. When you need a single website hosting, you can opt the GoDaddy’s economy plan but don’t ignore the free services offered by GreenGeeks. And if you are the owner of multiple websites or have a plan to own various websites then you should go toward GreenGeeks. The main difference between the two companies is the domain registration and hosting.  GreenGeeks offers free domain name registration, but these services will be available for you only when you are the customer.

Features

In this article, we will compare the features of GreenGeeks and GoDaddy. The features like :

• Speed
• WordPress Hosting
• Security
• Pricing
• Customer Support

GreenGeeks vs GoDaddy: Speed

Nowadays, the speed of a website is one of the main factors for ranking and user experience. A website with slow speed may let you down and your dreams.
Though GreenGeeks is an affordable hosting provider, it will never let you feel that it is cheap because the speed you will get with it is like any premium hosting provider’s speed. You’ll feel like your hosted website is on a premium hosting server. On the other hand, GoDaddy provides you with a good server but not the best because it doesn’t offer its users as many features as GreenGeeks offers.

The speed of a website is an important factor for ranking. If we do a comparison in terms of speed, although GreenGeeks is an affordable hosting provider it never comprises on speed. You will get the premium speed in the free domain also. On the other hand, GoDaddy offers the best server, but the speed feature is not so good.

For GreenGeeks the GTmetrix Grades are:

GreenGeeks vs GoDaddy: Security 

GoDaddy and GreenGeeks have different approaches to technical and operational security. The comparison table of security for both companies shows that GreenGeeks offer a mix of SSL, DDoS protection, Brute Force Defense, Virus Scanning, Web Hosting Firewall,  and SPAM protection.  GoDaddy provides daily backup, 24/7 customer service, firewall, malware scanning, and DDoS protection.

	GreenGeeks	GoDaddy
Free SSL	⭐
DDoS Protection	⭐	⭐
Brute Force Defense	⭐
Virus Scanning	⭐	⭐
Hack Protection
24/7 Security Monitoring	⭐	⭐
Web Hosting Firewall	⭐
Hosting Account Isolation	⭐
SPAM Protection	⭐	⭐

GreenGeeks vs GoDaddy: WordPress Hosting

The most used Content Management System in the world is WordPress. So, the users of the WordPress websites need hosting on which they can rely. GreenGeeks and GoDaddy both provide WordPress Hosting. But GreenGeeks provides the same features as GoDaddy at a cheap price. But the price does not matter, the performance, security, and speed also matter.

You will enjoy WordPress hosting, whatever company you choose to buy. But if you ask the honest answer to the question, which one has more value-added features? The answer is GreenGeeks. It offers unlimited SSD storage, and disk space ranges between 30GB and 200GB. You can host unlimited WordPress sites with GreenGeeks. On the other hand, with GoDaddy, you can only host 50 sites, and it doesn’t use the SSD.  

GreenGeeks	GoDaddy
Hosting Types	Shared, VPS, reseller, WordPress hosting, application hosting, dedicated servers	Shared (Linux and Windows), business hosting, reseller, WordPress hosting, VPS, dedicated servers
Free Domain	✔	✔
Free SSL Certificate	✔	With certain plans
Disk Space	50 GB – Unlimited	20 GB – Unlimited
Bandwidth	10 TB – Unmetered	Unlimited
Automatic Backups	✔	✔
Control Panel	cPanel	cPanel, Plesk
Email Accounts	Unlimited	1 Free
Free CDN	✔	With WordPress hosting only
Free Site Migration	✔	Only with the fully managed WordPress hosting plans
Money-Back Guarantee	30 days (except for dedicated servers)	30 days for annual plans and 48 hours for monthly plans

GreenGeeks vs GoDaddy: Pricing

Pricing is the crucial feature that convinces people to buy web hosting from a specific website. Everyone wants value features of hosting at an affordable price. Both GoDaddy and GreenGeeks have their pricing plans. In comparison, you will notice that GoDaddy has more pricing plans (about 8) and GreenGeeks has three. But the number of pricing plans does not matter. Both companies have a return policy. With GoDaddy, you can get back your money within 48 hours or 30 days. And GreenGeeks has a 30-day money-back guarantee. The comparisons are:

GreenGeeks vs GoDaddy : Customer Support

Customer support is such type of feature you can’t ignore. What if you buy hosting, the speed, security, and performance of your website is good but you have any other kind of trouble, but company customer service is not efficient? Both sites offer customer support. GreenGeeks has 24/7 live chat support, phone, and email, their staff is good and friendly in behavior. The ticket option is also available for technical issues. Except for phone support, they are available 24/7 on weekdays. They solve any problem within a few minutes.

In GoDaddy, you can only contact through live chat and phone. In more than 20 countries, the website has local phone numbers. The live chat is not always available, it’s only available in some hours. And it takes almost 50 minutes to get connected with representatives. And they are not more helpful in technical querry. 

Summary

Here is the conclusion of whole discussion:

	GreenGeeks	GoDaddy
Price	Cheaper prices than GoDaddy. 30-day money-back guarantee	More plans, more expensive than GreenGeeks, 30-day money-back guarantee with annual subscriptions
Performance	SSD storage with all plans, free CDN with all plans, 99.9% uptime guarantee, fewer downtimes, slightly faster loading speeds	SSD storage with specific plans, free CDN with specific plans, 99.9% uptime guarantee, more downtimes, slightly slower loading speeds
Security	DDoS protection, 24/7 server monitoring, container and account isolation technology, spam protection, malware scanning, automatic app and security updates, daily backups	DDoS protection, 24/7 server monitoring, CloudLinux OS, spam protection, malware scanning, automatic app and security updates, daily backups
Customer Support	Comprehensive and organized knowledgebase, 24/7 live chat, email, and support ticket, phone (not available 24/7), highly responsive and helpful	Comprehensive but less organized knowledgebase, 24/7 live chat and phone, global call centers, live chat not always available, less responsive support

The summary clearly shows that GreenGeeks is winner , so you must go toward the GreenGeeks.

FAQs

Does GreenGeeks offer a free domain?

Yes. GreenGeeks offers a free domain name with its shared and application hosting (WordPress, WooCommerce, etc.) packages for the first year with annual subscriptions.

Is GreenGeeks better than GoDaddy?

Yes, it is. While both GoDaddy and GreenGeeks are very good options for beginners, professionals, and small to medium-sized businesses, you get more resources and free extras with GreenGeeks at a cheaper rate. GreenGeeks also has faster page loading speeds and more responsive customer support.