GoDaddy review
The largest registrar, with hosting attached
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Quick verdict
Convenient if your domains already live there. Rarely the best hosting on technical merit alone.
Best known as a domain registrar, GoDaddy also sells shared, WordPress, VPS and dedicated hosting, plus a website builder. Convenience of a single account is the main draw.
Who it suits
- · First-time site owners
- · Keeping domains and hosting together
Who should look elsewhere
- · Aggressive upselling throughout the interface
- · SSL and backups often cost extra rather than being included
- · Performance is unremarkable for the price
Hostoholic Score
How this rating is built
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What is good
- Everything in one account alongside your domains
- 24/7 phone support in the UK
- European data centres available
- Very large knowledge base
What is not
- Aggressive upselling throughout the interface
- SSL and backups often cost extra rather than being included
- Performance is unremarkable for the price
The detail
Features and specifications
Anything marked unknown has not been verified by an editor yet. We would rather show a gap than a guess.
Hosting and platform
- Control panel
- cPanel / custom
- UK data centre
- Yes
- Data centre regions
- United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States, Singapore
- Free SSL
- Yes
- Email hosting included
- Yes
- Free migration
- Unknown
- Money-back period
- Unknown
Performance and tooling
- Staging environment
- Unknown
- CDN included
- Unknown
- Object caching
- Unknown
- Redis
- Unknown
- Automatic backups
- Unknown
- Backup retention
- Unknown
Developer access
- SSH access
- Yes
- Git
- Unknown
- WP-CLI
- Unknown
- Cron jobs
- Unknown
- PHP versions
- Unknown
- Node.js support
- Unknown
Ecommerce and security
- WooCommerce support
- Yes
- Malware protection
- Unknown
- Web application firewall
- Unknown
- DDoS protection
- Unknown
- Support channels
- phone, live chat, knowledge base
Pricing
What it costs
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Pricing not yet verified
Hosting prices change constantly and promotional rates change weekly. A stale figure here would look authoritative and be quietly wrong, so we link you to the source instead.
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Sources
Where this information came from
- GoDaddy hosting overview· Capabilities and plan structure · checked 17/08/2026
- GoDaddy pricing page· Entry pricing — not yet verified · checked 17/08/2026
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