Bluehost vs. GoDaddy: Compare GoDaddy & Bluehost Hosting (Review)

GoDaddy has the brand pricing and mind-share in the website industry. Bluehost is one of the oldest and most reputable shared hosting companies on the Internet. If you are looking for the best overall deal on web hosting and are limited to just GoDaddy and Bluehost then GoDaddy is better at the cheaper end and Bluehost is better at the Plus tier. They were originally founded as a domain registrar but now provide a huge range of business services. I've also written how their domain services compare to NameCheap and how their hosting compares to InMotion and SiteGround. But the key feature to call out is databases. BlueHost doesn't limit them on the Plus plan. GoDaddy caps them at 25 on the Deluxe which otherwise is comparable to the Plus plan. In July 2013   GoDaddy had a proprietary backend that was sleeker and more straightforward than cPanel but became frustrating limiting and unwieldy if you ever tried to build out multiple sites on the account.  Read more