

In the event these limitations are exceeded, your site may slow down or not be served until more resources are added… for additional fees. This is why 503 errors are very common on GoDaddy.Īll Linux hosting plans are subject to the following limitations: no more than a) 25% of one CPU core b) 512MB of RAM c) 100 website connections d) 100 active processes e) 1 MB/s disk IO. Not only does GoDaddy lack server resources in their plans, but you’re not even allowed to use 25% of the 1 CPU core you have access to. It should also be noted on their hosting agreement page, they talk about resource throttling. It also uses LiteSpeed + NVMe which is faster than Apache + SATA SSDs. That’s about CPU 3x cores, nearly 6x RAM, and 2x inodes more than GoDaddy Economy. NameHero’s Turbo Cloud plan is similarly priced to GoDaddy’s Economy plan, yet it gives you 3 CPU cores, 3GB RAM, and 500,000 inodes. I used NameHero in this example but most hosts have a “specs page” listing each plan’s resources. Now pull up GoDaddy’s resource limits page to see how many resources you’re getting with each plan. This is mainly to look at prices (and show you why their number of estimated “monthly visitors” is unrealistic). GoDaddy’s IPO turned them into a profit-hungry company This is the exact same reason I stopped using SiteGround. When you see a company increasing prices while also lowering the quality of their hosting by cutting costs, it’s time to run.
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Within a couple years, they increased prices, cut back on support, servers seemed to get more crowded, and they started charging $63.99/year for SSL which is free pretty much everywhere else through Let’s Encrypt. But after their IPO, they went from customer-first to profit-first. I remember calling GoDaddy’s support several times and they were always the most helpful people based out of Arizona. GoDaddy’s 2015 IPO is when they really took a turn for the worse. What people say about GoDaddy in Facebook GroupsĪffiliate Disclaimer – I’m not an affiliate for GoDaddy since I don’t recommend them, but I am for NameHero (LiteSpeed hosting) and Cloudways Vultr High Frequency (cloud hosting) who are both miles ahead of GoDaddy in terms of speed, security, and support.ġ.Everything went downhill after their IPO.
