BytelegionvsGoDaddy
GoDaddy sells Managed WordPress Basic at $83.88 for the first year on a 12-month term, then renews at $179.88 a year. Business is $119 every year, with the .com and three mailboxes included.
Over 3 years: $443.64 at GoDaddy
$357 with Business paid yearly · $289 with the 3-year plan
GoDaddy's prices from its own pricing page on November 6, 2026, 12-month term, hosting only: email after the trial and the domain after year one cost extra. Ours include both. Source
Side by side
| GoDaddy Managed WordPress Basic | Bytelegion Business | |
|---|---|---|
| First year, 12-month term | $83.88 | $119 |
| Every year after | $179.88 | $119 |
| Three years | $443.64 | $357, or $289 with the 3-year plan |
| Domain | Free in the first year | .com included and renewed with the plan |
| A free trial, length not stated on the page | 3 mailboxes included | |
| Storage | 10 GB | 20 GB |
| Migration | Free, with a guided tool | Free, done by us |
GoDaddy: US dollars, first 1-year term at $6.99 a month, then the regular $14.99 a month. Prices exclude taxes and fees, ICANN fees among them. Checked again on November 6, 2026: unchanged. Prices change often, so check the current offer before you decide. GoDaddy plans
Bytelegion: US dollars, paid upfront for 1, 2 or 3 years, same price at renewal; taxes are added where the law requires.
Beyond the price.
Who answers, who updates WordPress, how backups and restores work, what the plan holds and the terms you sign. Each GoDaddy fact links to the GoDaddy page it comes from, read on November 6, 2026; ours come from our plans and terms of service.
| Topic | GoDaddy Managed WordPress Basic | Bytelegion Business |
|---|---|---|
| Who answers | Phone, chat and text, 24/7. Priority support comes only with the Ultimate plan. Their WordPress support does not cover in-depth troubleshooting of plugin and theme problems. Sources: GoDaddy plans · Help: contact us · Help: WordPress statement of support | Email, WhatsApp or a ticket in the client area, answered by the people who run the servers, in English and Italian, with no chatbot in between. We don't promise 24/7 hours. Premium gets priority support. Sources: Our plans · Terms of service |
| WordPress updates | GoDaddy updates WordPress core for you: minor releases about seven days after they come out, major ones within two to four weeks. The plugin manager that rolls back a failed update is on Ultimate only. Sources: Help: WordPress core updates · GoDaddy plans | On Business we update WordPress core, theme and plugins for you twice a year: a backup first, then the update, then a check that the site still works. Premium does it every month and restores the site if an update breaks it. Sources: Our plans · Hosting FAQ |
| Backups and restore | Backups from the last 30 days, backups on demand and one-click restore, all run by you from the dashboard. GoDaddy states it does not guarantee that lost data can be recovered. Sources: GoDaddy plans · Help: backup and restore · Help: WordPress statement of support | Daily automatic backups on every plan, included in the price. Restores are on request, and we do them for you. Sources: Our plans · Terms of service |
| What the plan holds | 1 website (more for an added fee, sharing the same storage), 10 GB of storage, and at most 250,000 files and folders (inodes) per account. Sources: GoDaddy plans · Help: add more sites · Hosting agreement | 20 GB of storage, 120 GB of traffic a month and 3 mailboxes. Premium: 30 GB, unlimited traffic and 8 mailboxes. Source: Our plans |
| Domain and email after year one | The free domain covers the first year, plus a $0.20 ICANN fee; a .com then renews at $22.99 a year. Domain privacy is free. Email is a free trial that renews automatically at the then-current price; the page doesn't say how long the trial lasts. Sources: GoDaddy plans · .com prices · Help: domain privacy | The .com is included and renewed with the plan every year, not only the first. Your 3 mailboxes are set up on your devices by us. If you cancel, you can transfer the domain or renew it on its own at the normal price. Sources: Our plans · Terms of service |
| Renewal and refunds | Plans renew automatically at GoDaddy's then-current rates. A 30-day money-back guarantee covers plans of 12 months or more (48 hours on shorter ones); if you took the free domain, its list price is deducted from the refund. Sources: GoDaddy plans · Universal terms of service · Refund policy | Renews automatically at the same price. Full refund of the hosting if you cancel a new plan within 30 days, minus the registration price of an included domain. To stop a renewal, cancel at least 15 days before the due date; a renewal period already started is not refunded. Source: Terms of service |
| Moving your site in | A free self-service migration wizard, which installs a plugin on your old site. GoDaddy does not migrate sites by hand, and migrations are not available for sites over 10 GB or 100,000 files. Sources: GoDaddy plans · Help: WordPress statement of support · Hosting agreement | Free on every plan and done by us: site, database and mailboxes. We test the copy page by page before touching the domain, switch the DNS in your quietest hours and watch the first 48 hours. Source: Switching hosts |
When GoDaddy is the better choice
GoDaddy does some things we don't, and its first year costs less. If one of these matters more to you than paying $60.88 a year more from year two, it may be the better pick.
A person on the phone at 3 a.m.
GoDaddy answers by phone, chat and text 24/7. We answer by email, WhatsApp and the client area, and we don't promise 24/7 hours.
Backups in your own hands
30 days of restore points and a restore button in your dashboard. With us, restores are done by us on request.
Try before you pay
A 7-day free trial, no credit card required.
A cheaper first year
$83.88 on a 12-month term, against our $119.
Prices and terms checked on November 6, 2026.