Web Hosting Comparison

GoDaddy vs. Hostgator vs. Hostinger: Pricing

Pricing is one of the biggest concerns when choosing a web hosting provider. There is, indeed, a perfect price-to-features ratio when it comes to web hosting and ideally, you need to aim for the optimal balance between these two. To help you make the right decision, we have listed a price comparison below on a monthly basis.

Period Length
3 months	$8.84/month	$11.95/month
6 months	$6.84/month	$11.95/month
12 months	$5.84/month	$8.95/month	$5.99/month
24 months	$4.84/month	$6.95/month	$5.49/month
36 months	$3.84/month	$5.95/month	$4.99/month
48 months	$3.49/month

Prices displayed without VAT

As you can see, Hostinger provides you with, by far, the biggest amount of features for the lowest price. Each plan offered by Hostinger is cheaper than HostGator and GoDaddy equivalent. To give you an even clearer picture, have a look at the table below. Here, you’ll find the total amount you’d have to pay for each plan you subscribe to for a certain period f time.

Period Length
3 months	$26.52	$35.85
6 months	$41.04	$71.70
12 months	$70.08	$107.41	$101.40
24 months	$116.16	$166.80	$166.80
36 months	$138.24	$214.20	$196.20
48 months	$167.52

Prices displayed without VAT

The difference is as clear as a day – Hostinger offers considerably better prices than GoDaddy or HostGator. Here, HostGator is the most expensive of the three, with GoDaddy not that far behind. Please note: Hostinger’s 36-month plan costs almost two times less than the HostGator’s 36-month plan. In conclusion, with Hostinger, you get a better package with more features at, literally, a fraction of the cost of Hostgator or GoDaddy plans.

GoDaddy vs. Hostgator vs. Hostinger: Uptime

When comparing different web hosting providers, you’re almost certain to come across the term ‘uptime’. Uptime refers to the total amount of the time that your site is active on the internet. Even a slight hiccup in uptime (website downtime), can result in reduced customer retention and subsequent loss of revenue. If you want to make your website accessible to everyone at all times, you should choose a provider with the highest uptime in the industry.

In the charts below, you can see that only Hostinger has no recorded downtime. Both, GoDaddy and HostGator, have experienced significant downtimes, enough to affect the user experience and your revenue. These numbers are based on actual websites, hosted by these platforms. What you see is what you get. Another point for Hostinger!

Godaddy vs. Hostgator vs. Hostinger: Speed

Another key metric that you should pay attention to when choosing the right web hosting provider is website speed. The issues caused by slow loading websites is not only reduced client retention and drop in the revenue, but also SEO, as search engines rank websites with faster loading speed higher. For an optimal user experience, as well as website SEO, you should never compromise on website speed and loading time.

Site speed relies substantially on your web hosting provider. As you can see from the numbers above, Hostinger offers 10 up to times faster website speed.

GoDaddy vs. Hostgator vs. Hostinger: Customer Support

‘Robust customer support’ may sound like a fancy marketing catchphrase, and nothing more. But at times, it could be the ultimate deciding factor in choosing one web hosting provider over another. Don’t believe us? Just ask someone who’s had a not-so-friendly exchange with a customer support representative.

Of course, customer support is not only limited to one-to-one queries. Today, it includes the aggregation of online tutorials, community support and on-demand help. Hostinger excels in all of these categories. Whether you are a novice wanting to setup your very first website, or a web development maestro looking to explore every nook and cranny on offer, Hostinger’s customer support has got you covered. In contrast, HostGator lacks any kind of technical help or support. GoDaddy’s technical support, while not completely non-existent like HostGator’s, is far from ideal, according to the reviews.

Hostinger Customer Support

Hostinger boasts industry-leading customer support. Objective measures, such as lightning fast ticket response time, together with no delay live chat, offer convincing evidence that Hostinger leads the industry in this category. Live chat is always available, and you’ll find the option floating on each page of Hostinger’s site. There are also a ton of tutorials available for all sorts of builds.

Hostgator Customer Support

HostGator seems to have focused its customer support strategy on billing. And though this means that payment support is highly convenient, you’re looking at essentially zero technical support and HostGator reviews seem to reflect that. Additionally, a popular complaint regarding HostGator’s customer support is exceedingly long waiting time, with unfriendly and unhelpful personnel.

GoDaddy Customer Support

GoDaddy, while being one of the biggest names in the web hosting industry, pays very little attention to its customer support. GoDaddy receives very low approval ratings for the way it handles customer queries. Analysis of GoDaddy’s reviews show that, similar to HostGator, you’re looking at long lines, and unqualified support staff.