After using 4 or 5 of the “top hosts” over the past couple of years, it has become blatantly obvious that one hosting company absolutely blows its competitors out of the water.

When speaking with other entrepreneurs and business owners there is one company that continues to pop up in most conversations…GoDaddy. I like to ask, “so why did you chose GoDaddy for your host? or Why are you going with GoDaddy?”

The response rarely has to do with features, thresholds or service. Actually, the response usually consists of three words, “I don’t know.” “Let me guess, you saw their Super Bowl commercial.” The common phrase, “sex sells,” has never been more apparent than in GoDaddy’s racy campaigns. The company is gaining popularity at a rapid rate (not necessarily on account of its product offering).

GoDaddy is definitely not the top web host for entrepreneurs. So who does Marketing Mavens recommend as the top web host? Hands down the award goes to BLUEHOST!

This post isn’t meant to be a moral slam against GoDaddy, so I’ll keep my opinion of GoDaddy’s Marketing & Advertising strategies to myself. BUT, a quick look at the raw thresholds will show you that what GoDaddy offers in the form of scandalous women, requires you to sacrifice in service.

That’s right. Those girls don’t come cheap. A decent portion of what you pay GoDaddy goes to ginormous advertising budgets as opposed to a better product and service.

BOTH: Unlimited external domains, subdomains, FrontPage, WordPress, Joomla, PHP, Python, Java, Ruby on Rails, and CGI.

BlueHost offers a live demo of their products prior to purchase.

GoDaddy also lets you test their products. Some benefits to GoDaddy is that they are an ICANN approved domain registrar, there are no long term contracts, and they offer discounts for 12, 24, or 36 months.

Here’s the biggest deciding factor for me though: in addition to a free domain for life and unlimited thresholds, BlueHost offers CPanel 11 (incredibly intuitive and user friendly) while GoDaddy offers their own heavily customized version of Plesk that is far more restrictive.

Take a look at how simplistic yet robust BlueHost’s CPanel is…

When making changes anywhere in BlueHost, updates are seen instantly. When making changes in GoDaddy, I would often wait hours for their systems to recognize the update. This just killed productivity.

There are even more arguments as to why BlueHost is the top host, but I need to get back to work – and so do you!

Best,

Jarrod Morris

While wrapping this up I want to be fair and open about other great hosts. Here are a few others worth mentioning: Host Gator, Lunar Pages, Host Monster, IX Web Hosting, Green Geeks, Just Host.