GoDaddy vs Crazy Domains – Our Surprising Results [2021]

Which is better, GoDaddy or Crazy Domains? Even though GoDaddy is a more globally popular web host and domain registrar than its Australian competitor, they’re both not so different when it comes to unreasonable prices, limited features, and unstable performance.

To properly compare GoDaddy and Crazy Domains, I evaluated both services across five different categories. I was surprised to find that to get the best out of each service; you need to purchase add-ons or subscribe to the most expensive packages.

My advice? Before you make any decisions, take a look at Hostinger’s offerings instead.

Click here to see GoDaddy’s latest deals, or keep reading to find out why GoDaddy only just beat Crazy Domains in this challenge.

1. Plans and Pricing

Both Web Hosts Have High Package Renewal Rates

GoDaddy has four shared hosting plans for Linux and three plans for Windows. In contrast, Crazy Domains has three shared hosting plans for both Linux and Windows.

With GoDaddy, you can choose to sign up monthly, annually, biennially, or triennially. With Crazy Domains, you can be billed annually, biennially, triennially, or decennially (10 years).

Both GoDaddy and Crazy Domains offer similar prices for shared hosting and have high package renewal rates given the standard features (see the features section). I’ve labeled the features as standard when compared with more feature-rich and resourceful hosts like Hostinger.

GoDaddy provides a free domain name and a 30-day money-back guarantee with annual plans (48 hours with monthly subscriptions). You’ll also get free website migration with WordPress hosting.

Crazy Domains don’t offer a free domain or free website migration. However, it provides a 60-day money-back guarantee.

Neither GoDaddy nor Crazy Domains are great value for money – but if you opt for one of GoDaddy’s WordPress hosting plans, you do benefit from optimized hosting and some decent WordPress-specific features like a simple WordPress setup wizard and servers that are optimized for WordPress.

2. Features

GoDaddy and Crazy Domains Offer Standard Features and Few Freebies

GoDaddy’s four shared hosting plans include from 100 GB to unlimited disk space (HDD), 10 to unlimited MySQL databases, unlimited bandwidth, and free Office 365 Email (for the first year). You can also host 1 to unlimited websites (depending on the plan).

Other key features that come with all Linux packages include cPanel and a software application installer. You’ll also get a free SSL certificate with GoDaddy’s higher-value plans for the first year.

On the other hand, Crazy Domains’ shared hosting plans for Linux come with unlimited bandwidth, 100 to unlimited email accounts, 150 GB to unlimited disk space, and you can host 1 to unlimited websites (depending on the plan).

Other notable features include cPanel, an application installer, and 2 to 10 free stock images (from its image stock service). Unfortunately, Crazy Domains doesn’t offer free SSL certificates.

If you want more included features for shared hosting, Hostinger offers weekly backups, Git, a free SSL certificate, and the latest WordPress versions. Its higher-tier plans also come with SSH access and daily backups.

3. Performance

Both GoDaddy and Crazy Domains Have Disappointing Performance

GoDaddy has servers in the US, Europe and Asia, whereas Crazy Domains has servers in Australia, the UK, the USA, Belgium, India, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Even though Crazy Domains mostly targets Australian users, it has a more global presence than GoDaddy.

Both hosts only use SSD storage with specific plans. Unlike traditional disks, SSD drives make a remarkable difference in your website’s loading speed, stability, and overall performance.

GoDaddy provides a free CDN (Content Delivery Network) with WordPress hosting, but Crazy Domains doesn’t include it with any of its plans. A CDN boosts your website’s loading speeds, among other benefits, by placing it on a global network of cloud servers.

Both hosts promise a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Neither host has a perfect actual uptime, but GoDaddy users reported slightly more downtimes than Crazy Domains.

Despite being a big name in the website market, GoDaddy has one of the worst loading speeds I’ve come across. Find more detailed performance tests in GoDaddy’s full review.

On the other hand, the Crazy Domains loading speeds are slightly better than GoDaddy’s but still not good enough to be considered reliable. Check out more performance tests and detailed results in this expert Crazy Domains review.

Despite Crazy Domains performing slightly better than GoDaddy, neither host is good enough for the price. On the other hand, Hostinger is one of the top performers in the web hosting scene.

4. Security

Both Hosts Offer a Limited Range of Security Features

GoDaddy and Crazy Domains both secure servers with DDoS protection, strong firewalls, and 24/7 server monitoring. They also secure all account emails with antivirus/anti-spam software.

Both hosts use CloudLinux OS in all Linux-based shared hosting plans. CloudLinux OS securely isolates each account on a server to protect it against threats targeting other accounts. It also ensures the fair allocation of the server’s resources.

As previously mentioned, GoDaddy includes free CDN with its WordPress hosting plans. Another benefit of a CDN is that it acts as an additional layer of DDoS protection.

Crazy Domains includes free automatic weekly backups with all its plans, while GoDaddy only includes daily backups with specific plans.

Both hosts have a limited range of security features. Even though GoDaddy’s security is slightly better than Crazy Domains, I would recommend going with a provider such as Hostinger if you want top-notch security.

5. Support

Both Hosts Have Responsive but Unhelpful Support

Even though the Crazy Domains knowledgebase is more comprehensive than GoDaddy’s, it’s less organized, making it more difficult to find helpful articles and tutorials.

GoDaddy’s customer support is available 24/7 via live chat and phone. It also has multiple global call centers serving different countries and languages. I went for the live chat, and even though I was connected instantly, the agent wasn’t as helpful as I expected and was a bit misleading.

Crazy Domains has 24/7 support via live chat, phone, email, fax, and mail. I tried out the live chat, but like GoDaddy, the agent wasn’t very helpful. The representative also misadvised me.

Both hosts have responsive support, but what good is it when the staff isn’t properly trained, right? Unfortunately, neither host has reliable support.

You Don’t Get Your Money’s Worth with Either GoDaddy or Crazy Domains

As you can see, there are several unflattering things with GoDaddy and Crazy Domains. Both hosts offer standard features at slightly high prices compared to other more affordable and feature-packed services in the same tier, like Hostinger.

They both also fall behind in terms of performance, security and provide average customer support. It’s no surprise that neither GoDaddy nor Crazy Domains made it to this expert list of the best web hosting services, but Hostinger did.

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