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Network Solutions vs GoDaddy Review [current_date format=’Y’]. Which one is superior ?

Satyendra Prasad

February 4, 2023

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Surviving in a competitive market like the one we are living in today, things like a good website, social media presence, reviews, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) are some of the things that must come in handy to promote your business, but most importantly, hosting a website is the most crucial of all.

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If you look into the online world, you will find that many companies offer their best web and cloud-based hosting services with their own set of USP (Unique Selling Proposition). But here in this article, we have come up with the complete comparison and details of the two best hosting service providers network solutions vs godaddy, to ease your burden to find the best hosting solution. So, without wasting any more minutes, let’s delve deeper into the specifics of this topic.

1. Key Hosting Features: Network Solutions vs GoDaddy

Key GoDaddy Features

Easy App Installations

With more than 150 free apps, GoDaddy through its Website Builder’s drag and drop functionality, offers a chance to not only veterans but also to beginners who have no prior experience of coding knowledge. Plus, it offers flexibility to create applications using CMS sites on WordPress, Joomla and Drupal and also if you are a developer, it offers flexibility through its developer tools like cPanel, Python, PHP and MySQL.

Stronger than ever Uptime

An uptime rate for a website is an important factor, because if it’s not, what is the use of looking out for web hosting companies? Luckily, GoDaddy, understanding this pain, offers you an average uptime speed of 99.9% throughout the year. There are hardly any chances where GoDaddy’s downtime rates have come down to the average limits.

Pricing

From the pricing point of view the pricing offered by GoDaddy is pretty competitive, and the reason we say so is primarily because if you look at the basic web hosting plan, it starts from a minimal $6.26/month (Highest Tier Web Hosting Plan). One big reason why GoDaddy prices are so affordable is because they hit you with upsells in the name of some extra Website security, Standard SSL Certificate and so on. Choose wisely, before you make your move.

Ensures 24/7 Customer Support

24/7 customer support is something that is the backbone for GoDaddy and that is the reason, how GoDaddy has been growing leaps and bounds year on year. Well, if you do visit GoDaddy’s website also, you’ll find it has a 4.7 start rating by Trustpilot. To be honest, when I tried messaging on GoDaddy’s chat feature, I got a reply immediately (thanks to bots) but it was quick. Generally, after qualifying a question from you the bot designates an actual person for your service, which is fine.

Make use of best Web Security tools

If you are a website owner or not, you must be knowing how important it is to have an SSL Certificate (Secure Socket layer). There is a link that is being created by the SSL mechanism between the web server and Web browser to ensure that all data that is passing through is safe and remains private. For your information, Google tends to favor sites that have SSL Encryption and that is how GoDaddy’s web security tool helps your website gain visibility.

Provides an entire Digital Marketing Suite

If you are looking out for a breakthrough in order to attract more and more customers for your business, then GoDaddy is still there to help, how? Through its Digital marketing suite. The beauty of this feature from GoDaddy is that it helps you use useful marketing strategies through just one dashboard. So, what comes included in this Digital Marketing Suite? Well, to help you, it comes with provision to help you create social media ads and posts which you can do through GoDaddy’s custom templates, images and theme. What else you can do,

• You can create a market planner with 200 plus upcoming events
• You can engage with your target customers by its easy to create emails
• SEO – friendly
• You can track your marketing success such as email posts through Analytics and Reporting feature

Key Network Solutions features

Supports Free Open-Source Applications

Interestingly, the hosting company Network solutions comes with a few great open-source applications and developer tools such as joomla, Drupal, WordPress, python, PHP, MySQL, Ruby to name a few. So, you see, how convenient it becomes to create an own website based on one of the best programming languages one wants too.

Timely and Routine backups

This feature is based on the plan that you choose, and why we say that is primarily because some plans from Network Solutions offer daily whereas some plans do offer weekly backup for its users. Nevertheless, in order to enhance your website, the hosting company makes use of CodeGuard, for automated website backup, monitoring and restore services, but the only drawback with this feature is that it doesn’t come included with the plan and has to be purchased additionally.

Comes SSL Protected

This feature which we are here talking about is a feature which needs no separate pointing out, reason, because the feature is no longer a want but a need for any user from an hosting company and therefore to secure your site from unnecessary trespassers, transactions, logins and transfer, it provides full encryption, which in general speaking is between the Web Server and the browser. Usually, trespassing is done by traffickers who see if the site isn’t protected, they tend to penetrate inside but with SSL protected sites such as from Network Solutions, it is a next to impossible thing.

Guarantees 99.9 % Uptime

Again, the mentioned point isn’t a want but a necessity. Any hosting company you see today, comes claiming a 99.9 % uptime, which in fact is an important feature. But why is it an important factor? Don’t worry, we’ll explain through an analogy. Suppose you are an owner of an eCommerce website and just because your server is down (Downtime), do you feel, any visitor will come to your website to purchase anything, not a chance. To support of what we are saying, this year (2022),

• A big hosting company Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected 19 of its data centers due to the change in the network Configuration. The outage impacted company sites like Discord, Fitbit, Shopify to name a few.

• In 2021, Google Cloud suffered a two-hour long outage caused by configuration change which disrupted businesses like Snapchat, Etsy, Spotify, Home Depot, to name a few.

Daily Malware Scanning

Taking Cyber security safety as its primary feature, once again, the hosting company in order to keep your website up and running smoothly, uses a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy from its partner SiteLock in order to prevent digital risks. The comprehensive security solutions from SiteLock protects you from phishing scams, DDoS attacks, malicious code, ransomware or any kind of cyber threats. What else are its features?

• Scans on a daily basis to find possible threats
• Provides a Automated malware Removal
• Has ability to fix any kind of vulnerability
• Has a powerful CDN to accelerate your site speed
• Against advanced cyberthreats it has a powerful WAF security (Web Application Firewall)

One – Time Package Support

In order to provide its customers with exclusivity with its customer care such as configuring or troubleshooting, the company Network Solutions has a one-time package named “MyTime Support” an advanced help feature that goes beyond just a regular customer support call. It comes with two packages, one with support to only websites and the second with support to Website plus whole office support.

Now is the time to elaborate the depths of each feature and understand its nitty-gritty.

2. Website Performance (Uptime and Speed): Network Solutions vs GoDaddy

As mentioned above, an uptime and speed are an important factor behind any website’s smooth running and also a critical feature or component from any hosting company. As mentioned with the given analogy above, downtime, which is contrary to what we are speaking, if in any case doesn’t perform well, may cause disaster unrecoverable. Practically, nobody likes to be downtime.

Suppose, a customer visiting your website regardless of the need, finds that your website is taking more time than expected or in a worst-case scenario is displaying a 404 error. What do you feel your business will take off towards? Many call it loss of revenue. So, in such cases an Uptime speed of 99.9 % from hosting companies like GoDaddy and network Solutions becomes a paradigm. 

According to some experts, server location is also another factor for any site’s performance and speed. In order to check this, one should look out for a content delivery network (CDN).

GoDaddy Uptime Speed

GoDaddy’s delivers a quite average uptime on their shared hosting plans and if we look at its average collected from the last 6 months, you’ll find it to be around 99.98 % which also means an hour and a half downtime/year. Speaking of the stats collected from last 6 months, look below

• In September (2022) – 99.96%
• In August (2022) – 100%
• In July (2022) – 100%
• In June (2022) – 99.94%
• In May (2022) – 99.98%
• In April (2022) – 100%

Network Solutions Uptime speed

Network Solutions uptime speed is just similar to what GoDaddy has. It’s because, if you check its uptime speed from the last 6 months, the average you’ll find will be 99.69% which is again, nothing compared to sites which under-performs drastically. Look below at the uptime speeds from the last 6 months

• In September (2022) – 99.33%
• In August (2022) – 100%
• In July (2022) – 99.96%
• In June (2022) – 99.99%
• In May (2022) – 100%
• In April (2022) – 98.88%

So, you see how effective the service from Network Solutions can prove to be when it comes to performance which means great uptime and speed.

3. Pricing and Plans (Network Solutions vs GoDaddy)

The next category that we bring before you are the comparison between the two giants again but the comparison will be from the price point of view. Now, speaking of this segment, let us tell you that the comparison is going to be complex, why? Because of the range of hosting plans from both the companies.

To begin with GoDaddy, they have mainly three types of hosting services starting with the likes of Shared, WordPress and Advanced Hosting.

To get a brief idea about what gets included in each plan, have a look below.

Shared Hosting – Web Hosting – Considered to be the most economical plan to get you started with a minimum of $1.50/month.

Interestingly, all the Web Hosting plans includes:

• Daily Backups
• 99.9% Uptime Guarantee      
• Great DNS Management
• Easy Application Installer
• Cloud Linux
• FTP Secured
• 24/7 hosting expert support
• Fraud, Spam, Virus protection
• Email privacy and protection with 256-bit encryption
• 30-days money back guarantee

Shared Hosting – Web Hosting Plus – Now, coming under the same category of Shared hosting the additive benefit you get from this plan is a dedicated speed for eCommerce sites, high traffic sites or heavy plugins, starting at a minimal price range of $16.30/month.

All the web-hosting plus plans that you see from left to right includes:

• Daily Backups
• Fast CPU and RAM speed
• Free and Unlimited SSL security for each website you host
• 24/7 Network Security
• Unmetered Traffic
• Access to more than 150 free app with a 1 click install process
• 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
• 30-days money back guarantee

WordPress Hosting – WordPress Hosting – The package that you see here is completely dedicated to the CMS platform, WordPress. It comes loaded with a pack full of features options and to highlight a few are pre-installed extensions (58000+), themes and plugins. But do you know the best thing about this package is that it comes loaded with built-in security features (full-managed) and many more starting with a basic minimum package of $3/month.

All the WordPress Hosting plan that you see above includes:

• 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
• Free Domain
• 24/7 Hours malware scans and removal
• Fast Storage
• Free Professional Email for one year
• Website Backup Protection
• Free SSL certificate
• 30-days money back guarantee

Also, Ecommerce Hosting (WordPress Hosting) – Setting up an online store has become easier, how? With the open-source ecommerce platform, WooCommerce at a starting price of $18.81/month.

Most common features in the plan includes:

• Unlimited Visitors
• Unlimited Product listing with No transaction fees involved
• Comes equipped with SEO optimizer tool
• Free SSL
• Daily Protection from Malware and its removal
• Free Professional Email for one year
• 30-days money back guarantee
• 99.9% Uptime Guarantee

Advanced Hosting – VPS Hosting

Now this plan is for the ones who have advanced level of hosting needs and very ideal for developers and designers for managing multiple projects at a time. But in order to reap the expected outcome, the company showcases its VPS plan segmented in two categories which is Standard and HIGH RAM.

To understand the all-inclusive plan features from both standard and High RAM packages (Self-managed).

• Fast CPU. RAM speed with sizeable NVMe SSD Storage
• Additional dedicated IP options
• Free SSL Certificate
• Unlimited hosting accounts
• Root Access
• Monitoring and alerts
• 30-days money back guarantee
• 99.9% Uptime Guarantee

Advanced Hosting – Dedicated Servers (Self-Managed)

Get powerful and reliable dedicated servers which are highly customizable for almost all kinds of resource intensive web applications. Now, same like its peer VPS hosting, even the dedicated servers are segmented into two categories and are as HDD and SSD NVMe. If you feel interested in any of the two categories, especially the pricing and plans, you can either have a glimpse of it below or directly can visit the site.

You’ll be surprised to know what all features all the pricing plans include in common. Have a look below.

• Bare Metal Servers
• Monitoring and alerts (CPU, RAM & Storage)
• Free SSL Certificate
• 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
• Build in security comes with DDoS protection
• Optional easy to use Control panel (cPanel/WHM or Plesk Webhost)
• Free Standard hosting support
• Choosing options from HDD or SSD
• Standard Hosting phone support

Network Solutions Hosting

Now we will look at the brief pricing & plan options from Network Solutions and to see what difference does it have comparatively. But let us tell you right here itself, that Network Solutions only offers shared and not dedicated services

Web Hosting – The web hosting from Network Solutions is nowhere different from its competitor except a few as mentioned above. It starts from a basic starter price of $5.69/month.

All common elements you find in all its plans include:

• Fast RAM
• Flexible Email box options ranging from 5 to unlimited
• Free Business LLC formation
• Flexibility to create 1 website up to 10 websites
• Except the starter plan, rest all three plans come inclusive of SiteLock malware scan and automatic removal options
• 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
• Live Technical Support

Network Solutions – WordPress Hosting

With 2x fastest loading speed, powerful storage, cloud backup, all these at the starting price of $7.99/month.

All-inclusive features from all the three plans above includes:

• Ample amount of storage ranging from 50 – 200GB
• Flexible Email box options ranging from 1 to 50 depending on the plan you choose
• On Demand Cloud backup
• Domain Name
• Except of the first plan, the rest two plans come loaded with SSL protection feature
• Flexibility to create 1 website up to 1 to 5
• Mobile and SEO Friendly

4. Customer Support: Network Solutions vs GoDaddy

Just imagine, a giant company with hundreds of service offerings but no customer support. The word coming to your mind might be “Disastrous” right!! But thank God, such is not the case from the two companies. And why we say this is because of the phenomenal customer support service that comes from these two companies in the form of live chat, video guides, forums and knowledge base available.

GoDaddy Customer Support – The company guarantees to offer 24/7/365 customer support, which is free of charge. As we pondered a little, we found that the company claims to be an award-winning support through Calling whereas, just at the right side of the screen, you’ll also find “Chat Now” button through which you can initiate quick answers such as for the pricing, features of the products, interesting, in India where we are sitting, the site also offers to connect with your through WhatsApp, which indeed seems very helpful and flexible.

But, let say you are an international customer, then you can see below in the picture a glimpse of how many countries GoDaddy has its reach.

Not only chat and voice call process, you can get assistance through its help centers as well.

Not limited to this, GoDaddy also helps you with an ample amount of knowledge base, through its YouTube channel and also through a dedicated community full with like-minded entrepreneurs, to come together to help each other succeed.

Network Solutions Customer Support – Now, speaking of the customer service support from Network Solutions, it doesn’t say an award winning or use anything similar but when we visited its site to understand its customer support, we found out that in order to support its customers, the company has an entire page dedicated to it as Help & Support with chat button right at the right corner, in green color.

What led us to astonishment was the bulks of answers available in the form articles which you can access based on your need. For instance, if you are facing an issue with troubleshooting, just below you’ll find that option, giving 3-4 options initially, but if you aren’t satisfied, you find a button on the same window saying “View All articles” just as you see in the picture below.

But despite of all the searching you probably did view the articles and found nothing relevant, Network solutions helps you with an added support through both Chat which is 24/7 but as we see on the site, it doesn’t mention of 24/7 customer support through call, and restricted with 7:00am – 12:00am ET, which seems a bit odd in a fast pace as we living.

5. Which Platform offers ease of use (network solutions vs godaddy)

GoDaddy – Well to answer the above question, GoDaddy, well known for its hosting services and domain registrations, even has the best customer service which we discussed earlier for both chat as well as voice calls which is 24/7. Secondly, it has its own website builder option with an all-in-one feature to create a website including web hosting and website design editor.

• GoDaddy has some very intuitive and easy to use site building tools making it an absolute best choice for beginners.
• GoDaddy offers more than 100 design templates for its user to choose from and make their site attractive than before
• GoDaddy’s versatile business model makes it the perfect choice not only limited to above, but also by multiple payment method options, Digital Marketing Suite, Free SSL, customer domain and Analytics starting from its very basic plan.
• GoDaddy’ also through its SEO Wizard option provides wings to your business.

So, in brief, right from site hosting to its deployment, customer service, everything’s leads to only one answer, and that is GoDaddy is the best when it comes to hosting platforms with ease of use.

Network Solutions – To be honest, the hosting company Network Solutions, cannot be compared with the ease of use that GoDaddy has to offer. You know why, because Network Solutions is a different breed altogether. And why we say so is because if you look at its hosting solutions, you’ll barely see two options, i.e., Web hosting and WordPress hosting, Secondly, like GoDaddy has offerings as VPS, Windows Hosting, Web Hosting plus and Dedicated hosting options, Network Solutions has no options call as above mentioned and gets limited to only two.

Even from a pricing point of view, Network Solutions look very limited and top of that pricey. Fors Instance, where the basic plan from GoDaddy starts from $1.50/month, the basic plan or the Starter plan from NS gives you a glimpse of $5.69/month.

Even from the Customer Support point of view, there is no match with GoDaddy, because where GoDaddy has customer support for 24/7 through both call and chat, on the other hand NS has 24/7 customer support only for chat and not voice call assistance. They don’t have dedicated server hosting, but interestingly they do have dedicated customer support for an additional price which you can see through the option, MyTime Support

Overall, if you ask Ease of use, we say GoDaddy comes handier than Network Solutions because of multiple reasons and not just a few.

6. Scalability factor (network solutions vs godaddy)

GoDaddy – As we know so far how exceptionally good GoDaddy is in hosting space, but when it comes to migration of your site, the process is indeed a seamless transition. Now when we speak of transition, it could be due to multiple factors but usually it takes place when scalability has become a prime factor to you. So yes, based on the plan you choose the provision of scalability becomes quite visible.

For instance, if you check on the website of GoDaddy, Virtual Private server hosting space and the Dedicated Server hosting space, are the two options that help you with your scalability to an extent you actually need. But from other hosting space, such as the Web Hosting and WordPress Hosting, the scalability options become a bit gloomy due to its predefined templates with no access to web codes, barely giving you an option to customize it. So, forget about scalability in this part.

Network Solutions – As you know, Network Solution being a platform offering domain registrations, also equip you with DIY tools and templates in order to build your own website but here comes the twist, where customization and scalability becomes an option based on the “pay-as-you go” model from Network Solutions. So yes, there is room for scalability to an extent over here.

7. Security (network solutions vs godaddy)

GoDaddy – Security is an option which no business owner will ever mess around with. So, understanding the very basic instincts of protection, GoDaddy’s majority of all plans that you see from shared to Dedicated hosting, comes with daily backups as well as inclusion of an SSL (Secure Socket layer) protection.

But in case you need additional security with your ongoing scanning, SSL and firewall, paying a few extra bucks can take the benefits of Web application firewall (WAF), in order to provide your site with HTTPS encryption and also security threats like SQL injections, DDoS attacks through its robust Content Delivery network (CDN). Based on your needs, you can get encrypted with these SSL certificates by choosing from DV, OV or EV level of SSL certificates.

So, what do you get by choosing these plans?

• Daily Malware Scans and removal
• Block Threats
• And ultimately, peace of mind

The beauty of choosing a web Security plan from GoDaddy is that it offers you to choose from both Self-managed and fully managed SSL plans.

The good part of using SSL protected encrypted sites is that Google favors and pushes such sites for higher search rankings. So, the choice is yours.

Network Solutions – To summarize the security features from Network Solutions in a few words, it is basically categorized in 4 categories i.e,. Based on SSL certificates, Trusted Site Seal, Website Security, and cyber security solutions. So, let us understand each category in brief,

SSL Certificates – In order to provide your website with the first level of security, a use of SSL certificates is offered. A digital certificate that authenticates your site’s identity as well as enables an encrypted connection between the web server and the browser. Now once you visit this segment you are given a choice to choose your SSL certificate based on mainly two factors as filters i.e., based on the “type of site” and second the “number of domains” and once you filter, you’ll be recommended with the right option such as mentioned in the below picture.

Or else, you can directly choose from all the available options and feel it is appropriate for your needs.

• Express
• Basic
• Advanced
• Wildcard
• UCC
• Extended

All SSL certificate plans will give you 256-bit encryption, 99.99 browser recognition, domain validation, live technical expert support, an “https” with a closed padlock icon in the browser’s address bar.

Trusted Site Deal – It’s a verified seal for a website to showcase credibility, legitimacy with trust and confidence in your website.

Website Security – Here your website security is taken care of by SiteLock’s daily malware scanning checks through its four packages. In the all the four packages you get or find a few things in common,

• A Daily Malware scan up to 500 pages
• SiteLock Trust seal display on your page
• Automatic Malware Removal*

Interestingly, the greatest number of features such as SSL compatibility, GCDN (Global Content Delivery Network) and site cleaning within 2 hours you can only see it through its last three packages

Cyber Security – Last but never the least option for security if you’ll find on with Network Solutions will be dedicated for the cyber related. The company offers a 24/7 cyber security experts on call option in case of any threat identification or disaster plus give you even a mobile security coverage empowering you against phishing attacks, stolen username & passwords, blocking access to risk content, malicious looking websites and protecting private data all through their round the clock (24/7) cyber security operations center (CSOC)

But all this you here under cyber security operations comes under a cost of $4.16/month for a whole year term. The features that will come in containing under the plan would be:

• Dedicated Security Experts
• Device Monitoring
• Theft protection
• Safe browsing
• Risk Mitigation to stop fatal breaches
• Real -time Identity protection alerts

So, as you see the security features from both GoDaddy and Network Solutions are almost the same but honestly speaking, Network Solutions, comes with a more detailed approach right from SSL to Cyber security, leaving no options left for vulnerability. But again, as every good thing comes with a cost, so do the security plans from Network Solutions, which are indeed on a higher side. Overall, all the security options are the same with both the hosting service providers.

8. Server Locations (network solutions vs godaddy)

GoDaddy – In total, there are nine facilities around the three continents with more than 37K servers and where GoDaddy Stores all its data.

The three Continents are Europe, North America and Asia whereas speaking of its nine facilities, they are:

• Scottsdale (USA)
• Chicago (USA)
• Amsterdam (Europe)
• Mesa (USA)
• Ashburn (USA)
• Singapore (Asia)
• Chicago (USA), and
• Arizona (USA)

Network Solutions – Surprisingly, the server locations for Networks Solutions are unknown but for your information, the company is the oldest and most trusted hosting company from the USA, being the fourth largest in the world.

So even here, GoDaddy wins the game having an upper hand with multiple locations.

The Bottom Line (network solutions vs godaddy)

So, the winner comes straight with the name GoDaddy, why? Primarily because of the plethora of hosting options it has, which is right from basic looking shared service to a dedicated server with countless abilities. Secondly, flexible pricing options to deal with, thirdly, the more than 9 data center facilities to host from and finally with a bunch of cool options like Digital Marketing Suite, hundreds of themes and many more.

But hats off to network solutions as well which have extremely clean streamlined security features which are right from simple looking SSL certificates to critical affairs like cyber security.

Happy Reading!!