Best GoDaddy Alternatives Of 2025

GoDaddy does offer managed WordPress hosting, but that’s the only managed hosting option available. TMDHosting offers fully managed hosting across Windows and Linux shared hosting, WordPress-optimized hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated hosting. TMDHosting shared plans also include a website builder.

The availability of managed hosting options for VPS and dedicated gives SMBs without an in-house IT department good options to support their website’s growing needs for security or more resources as traffic increases.

For tech-heavy businesses, TMDHosting also supports a variety of e-learning solutions and dev frameworks, including Symfony, Smarty, Django, Flask, Laravel and Webasyst.

GoDaddy (left) takes a text-based dashboard approach, while TMDHosting (right) uses a more icon-heavy design.

Overall, TMDHosting offers much more scalability and flexibility than GoDaddy hosting plans and capabilities. For companies that have needs beyond the average, TMDHosting is a welcome solution that can grow with companies instead of forcing the need to change hosts later on.

Learn more: Read our full TMDHosting review.

While WordPress.org is never free of drama, its recommendations are usually fairly decent for hosting geared toward WordPress optimization, even though part of the criteria are “contributions” to WordPress.org. Hostinger is a perpetual entry on WordPress.org’s short list of recommended hosts, while GoDaddy is noticeably absent in spite of its contributions to the Five for the Future program.

Hostinger also offers cloud hosting, unlike GoDaddy, which is attractive to businesses with large traffic spikes that don’t want to pay for high-resource hosting packages during downturns. For businesses willing to take on the complexity of cloud hosting pricing plans, they can be a viable way to save costs over using a GoDaddy website and hosting plan with less on-demand scaling capabilities.

GoDaddy’s (left) and Hostinger’s (right) main dashboards are similar but focus on different features.

Like GoDaddy, Hostinger also gives its lowest pricing for long-term contracts, so expect to pay more upfront to lock in better rates. However, GoDaddy only offers a seven-day money-back guarantee, while Hostinger offers a 30-day money-back guarantee, giving you more time to evaluate the hosting service.

Learn more: Read our full Hostinger review.

Uptime is critical to business websites, and how a host backs up its guarantee can often tell you more than the guarantee percentage itself. GoDaddy offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee. However, it only offers a 5% credit of your hosting package for that month if it fails to meet that 99.9% level. DreamHost offers a 100% guarantee and credits you one day of service for every hour (or partial hour if less than one hour total) of downtime. There is a limit of 10% of your renewal rate, but that is still far better than GoDaddy’s offer.

DreamHost and GoDaddy offer free domains for the first year on various plans. Both also offer other domain registration options, although I usually recommend keeping your domain registration and hosting separate to simplify things if you ever change hosts.

GoDaddy (left) and DreamHost (right) both offer easily accessed domain management.

Instead of cPanel, DreamHost offers a custom dashboard called hPanel, which is more user-friendly for new website owners. Likewise, DreamHost gives more information about server resources and features included in each hosting plan when compared to GoDaddy, so you know what you are buying.

Learn more: Read our full DreamHost review.

There’s no denying Kinsta is more expensive than GoDaddy, but its expertise is one of GoDaddy’s biggest failings. Kinsta excels in technical support, whereas GoDaddy is almost an internet meme for bad customer service.

Personally, in the past, I’ve had complete unresponsiveness from GoDaddy for three weeks when trying to get a simple question answered. On the other hand, I’ve never been able to stump Kinsta support and have never had a problem reaching them.

While GoDaddy offers generalized hosting, Kinsta focuses entirely on managed WordPress hosting and specialty products such as database and web application hosting.

GoDaddy’s (left) and Kinsta’s (right) hosting dashboards are both clean designs but are organized differently.

Kinsta also outpaces GoDaddy for security help. Beyond malware removal, proactive security measures and two firewalls, Kinsta also uses isolated software containers to separate shared hosting accounts. Instead of the almost-no-privacy of a hostel, those isolated software containers turn shared hosting into a sort of baby VPS, further increasing security.