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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    GoDaddy

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AGoDaddy Web Hosting provides users with storage, email addresses, and unlimited bandwith.

    $9.99

    per month

    Upsun

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APlatform.sh helps companies of all sizes, from SaaS entrepreneurs looking to build, run, and scale their websites and web applications.

    $15

    per month

    Pricing
    GoDaddyUpsun
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    as low as $6.99
    per month with an annual term
    Basic
    as low as $10.49
    per month with an annual term
    Premium
    as low as $13.49
    per month with an annual term
    Commerce
    as low as $14.99
    per month with an annual term
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GoDaddyUpsun
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscounts available for annual subscription.—
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    Community Pulse
    GoDaddyUpsun
    Considered Both Products
    GoDaddy
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    Upsun
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    76%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    75%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    76%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    GoDaddyUpsun
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of GoDaddy and Upsun
    Feature
    GoDaddy
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    Ratings
    Upsun
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Scalability00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    WebWave
    Score9.5 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    10Web
    Score7.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GoDaddyUpsun
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (57 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GoDaddyUpsun
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GoDaddy
    Good for transferring over an existing site. Truth be told, I haven't used it for building a brand new site-- I know that this is a fairly common thing but I just never needed it. For what I've used it for, it has worked well. For a small business with anyone with a little bit of technical skill, it's surprisingly good.
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    Upsun
    In our organisation we are the only team that uses Platform.sh to host any site. This was a cost effective way for us as we were using Acquia Cloud earlier for these websites. We mostly use Platform.sh for those sites which are always in development as it is simpler and faster to handle these operations in Platform.sh. Then we do a lift and shift to Acquia as we move more towards the go live and post production maintenance side.
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    Pros
    GoDaddy
    • Registering a domain - I've found their site to be the easiest to navigate
    • Website builder - their website builder is user friendly
    • Email hosting - easy to set up and use, wether in an email app or online email.
    • Wordpress hosting - I have multiple wordpress sites I use under one account
    • Their customer service is always very helpful and easy to contact.
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    Upsun
    • As this is a PaaS it mitigates the complexities of a Cloud infrastructure like Acquia
    • We are easily able to integrate our sites with different technologies like Python and Rest
    • Helps us in providing Continuous Development cloud deployment hosting solution
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    Cons
    GoDaddy
    • Support agents are woefully undertrained, even in knowledge of their own products.
    • Support agents will always try to upsell you, even when you're dealing with an urgent, high-impact issue.
    • There's no guarantee of uptime, and there will often be gaps in service as part of normal procedures.
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    Upsun
    • Platform.sh is not for beginners in my opinion. It has a good amount of learning curve in my opinion.
    • As this is a PaaS, teams habituated with cloud infrastructure may miss the server side support from their cloud teams. I believe you will have to work on server bugs more on your own.
    • During normal maintenance periods, integrations may fail if you are working on your sites in that time, in my experience.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    GoDaddy
    We can't really choose anyone else and the cost/effort of moving all of the hosted data would be extremely large, and we just have to stick to them, and hope they improve service
    Incentivized
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    Upsun
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    Usability
    GoDaddy
    Some integration could be much cleaner and smoother. Seems it used to be easier. Plus, they took away the catch all email feature.
    Incentivized
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    Upsun
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    GoDaddy
    I think a lot of companies can learn from GoDaddy's support team. I have found:
    • Chat or phone support is almost always available.
    • Their agents are friendly and helpful.
    • Their agents seem to care and be knowledgeable about a wide range of issues.
    • I rarely have to escalate my problem to get the support that I need.
    • If they can't help me, then they can tell me why something is happening and direct me to resources that can fix my problem.
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    Upsun
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    Alternatives Considered
    GoDaddy
    We use Wix currently for our online store. It is nice and easy to use, but they don't offer the email domains as well (the last time we checked). They have pretty decent customization of the web page, but still limited. We're going to try it with GoDaddy, since we have other services from them already. It just doesn't make sense to pay two different companies for something we can do with one.
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    Upsun
    In our team we use Platform.sh mostly while sites are in developmental phase. Then we do a lift and shift to either Acquia or AWS depending on the type of sites we have. Platform.sh is really cost effective and more fluid in terms of Continuous Development hence the usage. After said development is done, we generally lift and shift to Acquia for more content heavy sites and to AWS for more transaction oriented sites.
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    Return on Investment
    GoDaddy
    • GoDaddy reduces our ROI by costing me in non-billable hours. I don't charge clients for sitting on the phone with tech support to power cycle the server or fix the php.ini file, so my $/hr takes a hit.
    • Their nickel&dime strategy requires I have an additional conversation with clients about their max recurring fees. Small as they are, I need approval for upping their bill. GoDaddy is only the cheap option if you don't value security, stability, or performance.
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    Upsun
    • Continuous development for sites in build has been fluid
    • Platform.sh is really cost effective when comparing to AWS or Acquia Cloud
    • On the other side, lack of server side support demands a big learning curve from its users in my opinion.
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