Review Signal’s tests Managed WordPress Hosting, and reports in this “out-of-the-box” WordPress host niche, not all competitors are rated equal. In fact, the lower cost alternatives performed so much better than the premium plans offering close to the same support, that Ohashi suggested GoDaddy could continue to price gouge its competitors.
GoDaddy
This whole test started from a statement made by Jeff King, a senior vice president at GoDaddy and GM of their hosting division. He wrote to me, “The new products are top of the market (really, you can’t get faster WordPress anywhere now) and we’re just beginning.” Challenge accepted.
GoDaddy surprised me, and in a good way. They have a pretty bad reputation in the web community and it shows on this site where their overall score is below 50%. Yet, their WordPress hosting kept up or led the pack in some of the performance tests. In both Blitz.io load tests, out-of-the-box, GoDaddy had the highest number of successful requests, the highest number of concurrent users, and either 1st or 2nd in average response time. (WebSynthesis’s performance did beat them when their support investigated connection resets) There were some weird performance bumps during the load tests, but nothing major. The biggest blot in terms of performance was on their uptime. They had the most downtime (28 minutes) of any of the companies tracked in UptimeRobot’s monitoring (which ran longer than my second Uptime monitoring setup). But it was still 99.8% uptime, not a huge knock.
Overall, I would say GoDaddy delivered on their claim, performance wise. They appear to be in the top tier of specialized WordPress hosting companies. Given their price, I think they have the potential to push down pricing on most of their competitors who charge 3-4 times what GoDaddy charges. If we take a more holistic view, beyond performance, they still don’t have all the tools to cater to the different niches that the specialized companies are competing for (although there were some hints dropped that things like Git, Staging Environments and more were coming soon). And then there is a branding problem they are trying to overcome. But GoDaddy is definitely doing some things very right and should make the managed WordPress hosting space very interesting.
Managed WordPress Hosting Showdown – Performance Benchmarks Comparison | Review Signal Blog.
