Noor is a well-known webhosting blogger and industry analyst. Since 2006, he has tested a wide variety of web hosting services and posted the results on his popular blog, InlineHostBlogger.com. For each review, he extensively tests each web hosting company personally, or with his hand-picked team of technicians.
SiteGround Vs Bluehost
Updated: August 20, 2019
Choosing the right hosting service is a nerve-wracking experience because hosting can make or break your website. You have to spend hours upon hours doing research, trying to understand what sounds like gibberish and then comparing all these companies.
Here’s why this is an interesting choice, for beginners and popular blogs alike. Firstly, these two web hostings are absolutely top of the line in their category. Secondly, they are extremely popular with around 2 million customers each.
So which brand is performing best at this level?
I’ve done all the legwork for you and you’ll find a comprehensive SiteGround vs Bluehost hosting comparison below.
Noor is a well-known webhosting blogger and industry analyst. Since 2006, he has tested a wide variety of web hosting services and posted the results on his popular blog, InlineHostBlogger.com. For each review, he extensively tests each web hosting company personally, or with his hand-picked team of technicians.
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Founded in 2004, SiteGround offers web hosting services to over 1.8 million domains all over the world, according to the most recent. The company offers shared hosting, dedicated servers, cloud hosting, domain registration, and more.
SiteGround’s headquarters are located in Sofia, Bulgaria. Despite this, they have gained significant market share on a global level, including in the United States. This is owed to their excellent services and focus on the customer experience.
According to Google Trends, the popularity of SiteGround is growing at an enormous rate for the last 6-7 years.
The company is also known for giving back to the community. To that end, they sponsor WordPress communities all over the world. At the time of this writing, SiteGround claims to sponsor 49 WordPress camps in 18 countries, setting them back over $150,000 in sponsorship fees.
Clearly, SiteGround has adopted a sustainable business model that focuses on the user experience rather than solely on making a profit. Their ultimate objective is to provide website users with a rich experience.
Speed: Outstanding performance thanks to constant innovation
A fast website is essential to growing your audience. While many factors affect the load time of your site, quite a few of them have to do with the web hosting provider.
According to Gmetrix, 50% of your site speed is dependent on your web hosting provider as depicted in the below image. That is, your web hosting companies server performance, location of server and quality of the network, server hardware plays a big role in your website speed.
Factors responsible for your website speed.
Of course, there are various strategies you can use to speed up your website even more, so make sure to check them out.
In terms of SiteGround, they have developed a reputation of being on the cutting-edge of the industry through constant innovation. Not only do they develop their own tech, but they also make sure to be early adopters of the latest tools and protocols to ensure outstanding performance.
Firstly, they were one of the first web hosting providers to equip all their servers with solid-state drives. SSDs have proven repeatedly to offer far better performance than traditional HDDs.
They are also consistently among the first to adopt new PHP versions as they come out. For example, when SiteGround had already released PHP 7.3 RC, Bluehost was still running PHP 7.0. Check out our SiteGround vs Bluehost comparison review to learn more.
SiteGround was also one of the first web hosts to address the issue of HTTPS sites being slightly slower due to the validation required for the encryption certificate for each request. SiteGround implemented the TCP 1.3 and OCSP stapling method, which moved this verification to the web hosting server, thereby eliminating the delay.
Recently, SiteGround was one of the first web hosting providers to adopt QUIC. This technology deals with requests differently than other HTTP protocols.
The result is that people with slow internet connections, or ones that have high latency and packet loss, experience significantly improved performance in terms of load speed.
Furthermore, SiteGround has five data centers in strategic locations across the world. This helps speed by reducing the physical distance between the server and the end-user’s computer. The shorter the distance, the faster the speed.
While all this technology certainly looks great on paper, unlike other SiteGround reviews 2019, we actually tested the company to see if it all delivered.
We did so through a load impact test in which we sent up to 100 concurrent visitors to a website hosted on one of SiteGround’s shared hosting plans.
The results are in the graph below, where the green line represents the number of users visiting our website concurrently, and the blue line represents the load time of the page.
It’s quite clear that SiteGround delivers excellent performance. Not only was the response time excellent at 515 ms for 100 concurrent users, but it was consistently steady. There were no spikes of severely decreased load time at any point.
When comparing the speed of SiteGround with other web hosting providers like HostGator, the results are incredibly impressive.
Many other providers have inconsistent results, with load times slowing down significantly as the number of users increases.
Some stop responding completely long before the full 100 visitors arrive, like HostGator and GoDaddy, as you can see in our SiteGround vs GoDaddy comparison.
Thus, our conclusion is that SiteGround’s servers are more than capable of providing outstanding performance, even when put under heavy stress.
Like: Impressive load time that is consistent, even when under high stress.
Dislikes: They could have servers in more locations across the globe.
Speed: High speed guaranteed. Fewer sites per server means improved speed and performance.
Uptime: Unparalleled results that exceeded our expectations
SiteGround guarantees an uptime of 99.99%, which is not unusual. This guarantee is pretty much a requirement in the industry.
However, while many hosts make the promise, not all of them are able to deliver. Some do get close, but some are so far off the mark, they should be embarrassed. You can see one such example in our GoDaddy vs Bluehost comparison review.
SiteGround, however, not only delivers on their guarantee but also exceeded our expectations. Of course, as always, for this SiteGround review, we personally tested the company’s uptime.
As you can see, SiteGround had an uptime of 99.99% with only 3 short outages in six months. That’s not just impressive, it’s almost unbelievable.
We use a special tool to constantly track the uptime of a variety of web hosting companies. So, if you want to get up to date information, make sure to check out our live uptime tracking tool.
According to SiteGround’s SLA (Service-Level Agreement), they compensate you with free hosting if your website falls below the guaranteed uptime of 99.99%.
Likes: What’s not to like about 99.99% uptime?
Dislikes: N/A
Uptime: Excellent uptime at an average of 99.99%. Many months have seen uptime of 100%. They always notify of upcoming downtime for server maintenance.
Support: Quick, responsive, and knowledgeable. Just what customer support should be.
A good customer support team is essential because problems can occur. Whether it’s on the web hosting provider’s side or on your side, it’s essential to be able to get in touch with customer support to resolve the issue, preferably without negatively affecting your website.
Most webmasters find customer support to be a deal-breaker if the service is poor. Just look at some Bluehost reviews and you’ll see how many people gave up on this particular service provider because of their abysmal customer support team.
Conversely, many SiteGround reviews 2018 and beyond specifically point out how great their customer support team is. In fact, customers actually gush in their SiteGround reviews on Reddit and other platforms about how great the support staff is.
We’re quite certain that it has something to do with how great an employer SiteGround is. They’ve actually won the “Best Employer of the Year” award twice in Bulgaria!
Of course, though, for our SiteGround review, we didn’t base our conclusions on what other people were saying. We tested the support team ourselves and we’re happy to report that they are as good as everyone says.
Firstly, you can reach the SiteGround customer service team via live chat, a ticketing system, and a toll number.
The live chat is available 24/7/365 and they’re incredibly quick to respond. It only took a few seconds to connect to a live agent, which is impressive as we’ve had to wait as long as 5 minutes with other web hosting providers.
The good news doesn’t stop there. Once we connected via the SiteGround chat, the customer support representative was very helpful, but more importantly, knowledgeable and experienced.
We’ve dealt with many customer support representatives and, unfortunately, it’s quite rare to connect immediately with someone who knows what they’re doing. More often than not, if the problem is technical, the support agent will pass it on to a higher authority, which is irritating because it wastes even more time.
That has never been the case with SiteGround in our experience, as well as the experience of the hordes of satisfied customers. Many of their customers admit that they moved to SiteGround because of their excellent support team.
SiteGround also does their best to provide support to beginner webmasters. If you’re worried about building your own site, there’s a proprietary SiteGround WordPress Starter plugin that eliminates any confusion.
They also offer a site builder to make it even easier to create a stunning website, even if you’re not technically inclined. You can check out a SiteGround website builder review to see how it works. In our opinion, it’s simple to use and quite effective.
Furthermore, SiteGround also offers a special plugin that will help you migrate your site with a few clicks. The SiteGround Migrator plugin is another proprietary piece of software developed specifically to ease the transition of new customers.
If you want more help with plugins and which ones you should be installing, check out our list of essential WordPress plugins.
Likes: Highly responsive and experienced team with multiple access channels.
Dislikes: N/A
Support: Support is very friendly, fast and knowledgeable. They’re available 24/7 via chat, phone, email and a ticketing system. Free migration is included.
Bloggers: What's the biggest blogging disaster you've dealt with?
Mine: Switched hosts to HostGator and my site crashed. Support was unhelpful, was told to wait 72 hours to get site back. Panicked for 24 hours, lost a year of my life, found @siteground, who then fixed everything
— Noel | Tenacious Travel (@TravelTenacious) April 16, 2019
Security: The online version of Fort Knox thanks to cutting-edge proprietary tech.
SiteGround takes security seriously, unlike other hosting providers that only do the bare minimum and outsource the rest.
Firstly, they have a powerful service that scans customer websites for security issues. The SG Site Scanner is powered by Sucuri.net who are top-notch security experts.
The scanner works by scanning all the pages linked to the site’s homepage or another page of the customer’s choosing every day. If problems are discovered, the site’s owner receives an email alert.
What’s truly incredible about this proprietary system is that it learns and gets better at detecting threats. Furthermore, it also saves an inordinate amount of server resources that can now be dedicated to customers.
This hosting provider also offers Cloudflare CDN for free, which you can access with a few clicks from the SiteGround cpanel. Cloudflare is well-known for their excellent security features and their ability to protect customer websites from malware and bot attacks.
For example, Cloudflare’s Anycast network has a capacity of 30 Tbps that is capable of protecting websites from high-volume attacks 15 times larger than the biggest DDoS every recorded.
Between SiteGround’s proprietary security system and Cloudflare, your website is highly protected.
SiteGround takes things one step further as they’re one of the first companies to have introduced isolation technology for their servers to provide further protection against a wide range of cyber-attacks.
Security: They have their own security system with a great proven track record. Also, provide Cloudflare security features.
Pricing: Great initial deal but those renewal prices are a bit steep.
SiteGround offers a wide range of hosting plans for any budget. The initial deals they offer new customers are outstanding, but their renewal prices are quite high.
Unlike other hosting providers, though, the more expensive hosting plans (even those on shared hosting) really do offer additional benefits.
For example, the higher-end GoGeek Plan has fewer websites per server, which means better performance. It also offers a staging feature, which is pretty great because you can test changes to the code and design of your site without affecting the live version.
When we spoke to other hosting providers, like Bluehost, they told us that their more expensive plans still host the same large number of sites per server. The differences between cheaper and more expensive plans are a few features and resource usage limit.
It should be noted that SiteGround also has a special offer for students at a very attractive price, as well as a program for educators. These plans offer the same great SiteGround performance at a fraction of the cost as this hosting provider does it’s best to support academia in any way they can.
SiteGround is a highly flexible hosting service that’s suitable for any website, from the small and simple blogs to large enterprise sites. For example, SiteGround cloud hosting has an option allowing you to auto-scale your website’s resources to ensure it can handle any sudden spikes in traffic demand and usage.
Unfortunately, despite all the positives, we have to say that we are a little disappointed with the lack of storage. If your site needs more than 30 GB of space, you’ll have to enable cloud hosting, which is expensive.
Another drawback is that they don’t offer a month-to-month billing cycle. The minimum you can pay for is one year, which some might find restrictive.
They also don’t offer a trial, but they do have a 30-day money back guarantee, during which you can get your money back with no questions asked.
Price: Expensive compared to other shared hosting providers. Initial fees are attractive, but renewal prices are three times as high. Opting for longer plan cycles is recommended to get the best deal.
User Interface – SiteGround shifted from cPanel to their in house newly built control panel called Site Tools.
SiteGround was using cPanel until I was just about to finish publishing this review. They made an announcement about their new control panel called Site Tools and I had to change the review to address this new change.
Site Tools control panel by SiteGround
Its a really brave move from SiteGround which can go either way for them. Many Users regard cPanel as a very powerful and easy to use control panel used by many top web hosting companies.
SiteGround believes that cPanel limits its ability to be flexible and integrate the newest technologies to better meet the needs of its users.
Moreover, they have carefully analyzed years of collected data about which cPanel functionalities their clients use and in what ways specifically. They made sure to offer a tool or service that address all the widely-used functionalities that their clients are used to. On top of that, the new interfaces add plenty of new features to make life easier for the user.
One such exciting feature is the ability to add a collaborator to your site. This can give temporary access to any site in your account to developer and clients. You can revoke this access with just a few clicks from your control panel.
Additionally, their cloud and dedicated plans will still use cPanel and WHM.
Here’s a little info on their new account panel.
Likes: Very user-friendly control panel and account area with so many new tools.
Dislikes: Lack of cPanel.
User Interface: Their new control panel is as good as the cPanel with very exciting features. However, people will find some difficulties in shifting from using cPanel to this new panel.
Pros of SiteGround
Here are all the benefits of working with SiteGround at a glance.
WordPress: SiteGround Is Recommended by WordPress
Over 80% of the 2 million domains SiteGround hosts are based on WordPress. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that they are very adept at managing WordPress.
It’s also why they’ve developed and implemented so many WordPress-specific features, such as SG Optimizer, WP Auto Update, and Supercacher.
Other web hosting companies offer packages tailored specifically for WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. However, when you take a closer look, you’ll find that these plans are only extensions of their shared hosting packages.
SiteGround, on the other hand, has packages that were specifically designed for WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal from the ground up.
For example, their WordPress package comes with SG Optimizer, which is a highly useful plugin that improves the performance of WordPress-based websites hosted on SiteGround servers.
Drupal packages, on the other hand, feature Drush preinstalled on their servers. Drush allows customers to manage their Drupal sites from an SSH console.
Backups
SiteGround offers free auto daily backups on all their plans, though backups on demand are only available for higher-end packages, while the backup restore will cost a small fee on the cheapest plan. Otherwise, the latter is free.
Even with the small backup restore fee, you’ll be grateful that you have access to 30 copies of backups for your site if anything ever happens. You’ll be able to restore your entire site with a few clicks.
Free Transfer
On some of its plans, SiteGround also offers a free site transfer. This will save you so much time and aggravation because the SiteGround team will migrate your website for you when you sign on with them.
Here’s how easy it is to transfer your website from previous hosts to SiteGround. Just initiate a transfer request using a support ticket, and your website will be transferred in less than 24 hours.
GDPR Compliant
You won’t have to worry about your European users because SiteGround is fully GDPR compliant. It probably doesn’t hurt that they’re based in a country in the European Union.
On the Cutting-Edge of Technology
As previously mentioned, SiteGround is always the first to implement new technologies to improve security and performance. For example, they were one of the first few companies to switch their servers over to PHP 7.3. When you compare this with top shared hosting companies like Bluehost and HostGator, they still use PHP 7.0 for their servers.
Higher PHP version leads to greater speed and increased security.
Flexible Plans
SiteGround offers a wide range of plans suitable for any size website. Thus, you can start with them from the time when you have a tiny blog until it grows into a massive website and they’ll have a plan that will deliver what you need.
Outstanding Support
The outstanding support SiteGround offers is one of the best things about this company. Everyone we spoke to about SiteGround mentioned how great their support team is.
Just switched hosting from @bluehost to @SiteGround and I'm so glad I did! The support is much MUCH better!
As no company can be perfect, here are the few cons of SiteGround.
Expensive Renewal
SiteGround offers outstanding deals for new customers. However, when it comes time to renew, the prices are far higher making them a fair bit more expensive than their competitors. For this reason, we recommend that you sign up for the maximum billing cycle (three years) so you can take advantage of the very attractive introductory prices.
No Monthly Billing Cycle
You can’t pay month-by-month with SiteGround as the shortest billing cycle is one year. This can prove restrictive and irritating to some.
Limited Server Locations
While SiteGround does deliver great performance, we’d be much happier if they had more server locations. Kinsta, for example, is partnered with Google Cloud Platform so they offer data centers in 20 locations. By comparison, SiteGround only has only five or six locations. This is important because the location of the server determines latency. The shorter the distance, the faster your site will load.
Storage Limitations
The low amount of storage space available on the shared hosting plans is another issue we have with SiteGround. If your site grows beyond 30 GB, you’ll have to switch to the far more expensive cloud hosting plans.
Final Verdict
SiteGround is the number one choice for hosting in 2019. The performance and speed they offer is unparalleled, as is the level of security they provide. Their support is also outstanding, which only goes to show how dedicated they are to offering a truly delightful user experience.
They do have a few drawbacks, like the expensive renewal prices, the lack of a monthly billing cycle, the limited server locations, and the storage limitations on shared hosting plans. However, we feel that these cons aren’t that serious when compared to other hosting providers which is why SiteGround remains our number one choice for 2019!
Noor is a well-known webhosting blogger and industry analyst. Since 2006, he has tested a wide variety of web hosting services and posted the results on his popular blog, InlineHostBlogger.com. For each review, he extensively tests each web hosting company personally, or with his hand-picked team of technicians.
Choosing a web hosting company has polarised into few US-based companies. More specifically, its either HostGator, SiteGround or Bluehost at the top for the most used and trusted web hosting companies.
In this article, we’ll be conducting an extensive Bluehost Vs HostGator comparison, which should help you choose the better hosting company for your particular needs.
While both these hosts offer great performance, we will be looking at the differences between them and which one is better for your needs.
Noor is a well-known webhosting blogger and industry analyst. Since 2006, he has tested a wide variety of web hosting services and posted the results on his popular blog, InlineHostBlogger.com. For each review, he extensively tests each web hosting company personally, or with his hand-picked team of technicians.
Nowadays, choosing a good web hosting company for their websites has become quite a challenge for webmasters. A poor choice will hurt your website and company reputation.
HostGator and iPage are both owned by EIG.
EIG companies host 4.5% of all websites in the world are in fact made up of several companies like iPage and HostGator. Even though both these hosting companies are owned by the same parent company, it doesn’t mean they both offer the same performance.
In this HostGator vs. iPage review, we will be comparing which of them is better for your website.
Noor is a well-known webhosting blogger and industry analyst. Since 2006, he has tested a wide variety of web hosting services and posted the results on his popular blog, InlineHostBlogger.com. For each review, he extensively tests each web hosting company personally, or with his hand-picked team of technicians.
Going with the first company you see isn’t always a wise choice, which is why you should research a variety of web hosting companies to see which one can provide you with better service for what you want and need for your specific website.
This HostGator vs GoDaddy review will assist you in selecting between these two web hosting companies so that you choose the best one for your needs.
According to web technology surveys from W3Techs, the GoDaddy Group hosts 6.6% of all websites, whereas HostGator which is part of the Endurance Group hosts 4.9%. That’s quite high numbers and means both this host can be trusted with your websites.
GoDaddy is way popular than HostGator in terms of popularity as seen below.
Higher popularity doesn’t always mean better performance, and it will be evident in the following comparison review.
After using both the HostGator and the GoDaddy for a few months, we compared the two web hosting across eight categories on a 100-point scale.
HostGator and GoDaddy both promise a high uptime of 99.99% each month.
HostGator uses Linux x86 CentOS 6 64-bit operating systems, while its servers run on Dual Xeon E5520 2.26 GHz Quad-Core processors.
GoDaddy provides customers the choice of choosing between Linux and Windows OS before signing up. And their servers run on Intel Core i7 processors.
In the past, there have been many outages regarding the uptime of GoDaddy, which has caused many customers to become outraged and drop their service, that has changed since their transition of data centres to AWS(Amazon Web Services). Their performance is gradually increasing in the last couple of years as a result of AWS and some new exciting features.
Both HostGator and GoDaddy comes with PHP 7.2, which is one of the latest PHP version out there. PHP is a server-level programming language used for building dynamic websites. Newer PHP version helps in increasing website security and speed.
1. HostGator Vs GoDaddy – Uptime Report (15 Points)
My team kept track of uptimes for both HostGator and GoDaddy for the last 3 years using real-time uptime tracking powered by Host-tracker
The result was a 99.99% uptime for HostGator and GoDaddy. GoDaddy’s uptime and reliability increased highly in the last one year.
Winner: HostGator and GoDaddy – Our test shows that HostGator and GoDaddy score consistent uptime of 99.99% throughout our testing period.
2. HostGator Vs GoDaddy – Server Quality test(15 Points)
We tested the load time of websites hosted on HostGator and GoDaddy under high stress to evaluate the quality of servers used by both these hostings. This was done by sending 100 concurrent visitors to a web page and then calculating its load time.
Here are some of the steps taken to ensure that all tests were as fair as possible.
Each site has a WordPress 5 installation running on it, and features the same theme, the same number of images, page size, content and requests.
All the plugins and catching systems were disabled
The test was conducted several times and the best results are displayed here.
The host servers we tested are located in Chicago, IL, and Provo, UT, while the servers we used were located in Dallas, TX, and Ashburn, VA, respectively.
The Green Line indicates the number of visitors and blue line represent the adjacent response time as the traffic increase. The traffic was steadily increased from 1 to 500 visitors and the load time was noted.
HostGator’s server performance seems to be solid, healthy and consistent. The only problem is that we don’t want to see a graph with lots of ups and downs, flat lines are great for a hosting company. HostGator returned one the fastest response time of 400ms during this test.
Although, they were able to maintain this response time only until 75 concurrent visitors, which is not bad considering this website was hosted on a shared hosting server.
Response time of sites hosted on GoDaddy
Godaddy recorded a response time of 1.2s, which is 3* HostGator’s response time.
GoDaddy started at an average server response time of 1.2s, but once the traffic passed 46 concurrent visitors, it started slowing down heavily and eventually the website stopped responding.
The server was completely unresponsive and the rejection list was very high. Moreover, the final result has a large number of failed attempts. GoDaddy fared well for lower traffic and completely fell apart once the traffic hit 46 marks.
Winner: HostGator – HostGator website loaded with an average response time of 400 ms compared to GoDaddy which have an average over 1200ms.
3. HostGator vs Bluehost – Website Speed test(15 Points)
We conducted two test for understanding the speed of both these web hosting.
First test …
This test uses the concept of TTFB or Time to First Byte, it refers to how quickly the host’s server sends the first byte of data when responding to a request sent by a browser. This will determine the speed of hosting servers.
Here is the result.
HostGator TTFB was recorded at 0.377s. Anything under 0.4s is exceptional, and only a few hosting companies manage to score that high. The load time of the entire website is 1.5s GoDaddy TTFB was recorder at 0.732s, almost double that of HostGator’s. Moreover, the entire website was loaded in 4.0s, which is 3* HostGator’s load time.
Second test …
We performed a speed test from New York, Amsterdam, and Melbourne to study their website speed from different continents.
For a better understanding, We have selected couple of websites hosted under HostGator and GoDaddy for testing their speed.
Note:-Bothweb pages are exactly the same, i.e. they have the same page size, design, request, and images.
3.1 Speed of sites hosted on HostGator
HostGator showed great performance in Europe and the USA, loaded a bit slower in Australia.
Testing Location
Test 1
Test 2
Test 3
New York
1.6
1.3
1.2
Amsterdam
2.5
2.2
2.4
Melbourne
2.4
2.4
2.2
3.2 Speed of sites hosted on GoDaddy
Godaddy load time is 2* load time of HostGator from all the tested locations.
Testing Location
Test 1
Test 2
Test 3
New York
3.3
3.4
3.0
Amsterdam
2.7
2.1
1.9
Melbourne
6.3
5.0
4.5
Winner: HostGator –It’s very clear from these tests that HostGator servers are very fast and reliable.
Prices, Plans, and Features (5 Points)
HostGator and GoDaddy are very much alike when it comes to their plans and prices. HostGator has three plans: Hatchling, Baby and Business.
GoDaddy features similar plans to HostGator, naming them: Economy, Deluxe and Unlimited. The Economy plan features a single domain and 100GB disk space; the other two plans come with unlimited disk space and domains.
The graph below shows the prices and features of both company’s plans:
HostGator uses cPanel as its control panel. And for those who aren’t familiar with cPanel, it is the most commonly used control panel due to its simplicity and easy-to-use features. GoDaddy provides users with the option of choosing their own control panel. Customers can opt between cPanel and Plesk.
Behind cPanel, Plesk is the second most popular control panel and can run on both Linux and Windows OS, which can be a greater benefit depending on what your site runs on.
HostGator Vs GoDaddy – Which is the best host for beginners? (10 Points)
Are you starting a website for the first time?
Building a website has never been easier. You can build a website with just a few clicks nowadays. The process is so simple and straightforward that anyone can do it.
Is it easy to build websites using HostGator and GoDaddy?
Yes, it’s very easy to set up a website with HostGator and GoDaddy. Once you make the purchase for hosting, it just takes 2-3 clicks to start your website thanks to CMS such as WordPress and Joomla. WordPress is a content management system which makes it very easy to build a website even when you don’t know anything about building a website. WordPress powers 30% of the entire web, therefore there are tons of tutorials and videos on how to start a website with WordPress.
Both HostGator and Bluehost comes with WordPress and can be set up using just 1 click from their main account panel.
Winner: Tie. They both have similar features and setup process. There isn’t a lot of difference.
Customer Support (10 Points)
HostGator provides 24/7/365 e-mail, live chat, and ticketing systems to contact their customer service support team of specialists.
Any time we had a concern and contacted them, they were very quick to respond and always took our problems very seriously.
Their ticketing system is very fast and responds within an hour of contacting them. Moreover, their live chat boasts a wait time of just 1-2 minute.
HostGator’s support was speedy and responded in 2 minutes when contacted through their Live chat team.
GoDaddy provides toll-free call-in product support. Their one major downfall when it comes to customer service is their lack of ticketing system.
The ticketing system is common with other top web hosting companies, and it’s something that GoDaddy should utilize themselves, especially since their call in support have a long waiting time.
Moreover, their Live chat feature is not working most of the time and is limited to only a few countries and for selected hours.
GoDaddy’s chat support is limited to specific hours during a day. However, their phone support is available 24/7.
Winner: HostGator –GoDaddy’s live chat absence and Email support is a major setback for them.
My conclusions – HostGator Vs Godaddy Review
HostGator Vs GoDaddy – Final Scorecard
Web Hosting FACE-OFF
HostGator
GoDaddy
Uptime (10)
Server Quality(15)
Website Speed (15)
Performance (10)
Support (10)
UA- Interface (10)
Beginner Friendly(10)
Money-Back Guarantee (10)
Prices(10)
Total Points
100
60
Here is my conclusion for this HostGator vs. GoDaddy review…
I’ve found no major differences in regards to their plans, prices or features. However, there are noticeable differences in customer support, performance, and reliability.
HostGator has high uptime and excellent speed. GoDaddy’s biggest drawback is not offering customers a live chat feature or E-mail support.
So, based on this HostGator vs GoDaddy review, it can be concluded that HostGator is superior to GoDaddy when it comes to their unmatched capability in the field of client support, performance, and reliability. HostGator has 9 wins compared to 5 wins from GoDaddy.
Below is a quick review as to why HostGator is my preferred choice:
Quality hosting at an affordable price.
45-Day money-back guarantee with no hidden clause.
24/7 fast and an informative live chat and ticketing system.
Our testing shows that HostGator ensures constant uptime of 99.99% guaranteed throughout the entire year of our testing.
Faster than all of previously tested web hosting companies tested at Inline Hosting.
Benefits from providing users with the most commonly used control panel in the industry, which is cPanel.
Offers high-security protection features for your database.
GoDaddy vs HostGator twitter reviews and reactions
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HostGator Vs GoDaddy
– HostGator
HostGator response time was around 400ms until it reached 75 concurrent visitors, after that, load time started jumping too high.
Godaddy recorded a response time of 1.2s, which is 3* HostGator’s response time.
HostGator TTFB was recorded at 0.377s. Anything under 0.4s is exceptional, and only a few hosting companies manage to score that high. The load time of the entire website is 1.5s
GoDaddy TTFB was recorder at 0.732s, almost double that of HostGator’s. Moreover, the entire website was loaded in 4.0s, which is 3* HostGator’s load time.
HostGator’s support was speedy and responded in 2 minutes when contacted through their Live chat team.
GoDaddy’s chat support is limited to specific hours during a day. However, their phone support is available 24/7.
