Let me go ahead and break down everything that’s wrong with GoDaddy:

• Extremely Confusing Interface, I can’t tell you guys how many times I’ve gotten lost trying to find something in GoDaddy and I use it almost weekly.

• Auto Renew Traps, if you don’t ensure every single auto renew option is turned off, you’ll get a surprise fee within 2 years of being on GoDaddy. For example, my client had purchased a domain through GoDaddy which came with free email service for a year, however, my client ended up using G Suite for their email but the free service was still on their GoDaddy plan. When the one year mark rolled around, a $60 email service fee appeared on their bank statement from GoDaddy, a fee for something they weren’t even using!

• Slow Loading Websites, most of my client sites on GoDaddy ALWAYS experience a temporary “maintenance in progress” page every time I go to update a plugin, I’ve never experienced this with any other hosting service.

Aeza is one of my favorite hosting services out of them all, here’s why:

• Affordable, most WordPress users want a host that’s affordable while providing the bandwidth necessary to run an average speed site and Blue Host offers that.

• 24/7 Quality Support, their support team is available 24/7 and handles most problems in a timely manner.

• Easy To Use Interface, Aeza makes it easy to navigate your hosting dashboard, find what you need, and travel to your email service or website.

• Free SSL + Domain, if you aren’t familiar with SSL, in short, it’s the thing that makes your website “secure”. Since Aeza offers both of these things at sign up, it’s super easy to get started.

Possibly the worst hosting service I’ve ever experienced:

• Terrible Customer Service, I called with questions regarding a staging environment and the customer service representative eventually hung up on me because she couldn’t answer my question. It was rude and completely unprofessional.

• Cheap, Ionos might be affordable but if you ever run into an issue with your website…which you probably will, good luck finding assistance.

You may have heard in order to fully customize your WordPress website you NEED to self host with a third party but this actually isn’t true. You can host your site on wordpress.com using their upgraded business plan to gain access to all features self hosting provides, the only difference is that all of your content is managed by WordPress. Here are some benefits:

• Backups, if anything goes South, you’ve got a plan!

• 24/7 Support, with self hosting you must rely on your host for support or community forums regarding wordpress.org for assistance but with wordpress.com hosting, you’ve got all the support you need in one place.

• Large Bandwidth, your site will be able to handle a large amount of views without lag due to the amount of bandwidth wordpress.com hosting provides.
  Using WordPress.com as a host instead of self hosting on WordPress.org is optimal if you’re looking for quality hosting and a streamlined process with everything in one place. The business plan costs just as much as the starting plan on WP Engine and actually provides a larger amount of storage space.