GoDaddy Offers Grid Hosting

GoDaddy, the largest shared hosting provider in North America, has launched a grid hosting service.

It’s now in direct competition with Media Temple for an audience when it comes to this specific type of hosting.

How do they compare?

Grid Hosting: GoDaddy vs Media Temple

Both providers offer roughly the same plans at a similar price point.

GoDaddy allows you to host an unlimited number of domains where Media Temple limits you to 100.
Media Temple has no specific limit on email storage and allows 1000 email accounts, but GoDaddy allows only 100 email accounts and a bizarrely low 100 MB of email storage.
GoDaddy offers a variety of advertising credits with Google AdWords, Facebook’s in-house ad program and others. Media Temple does not.
Media Temple has clear expertise in grid hosting, plus a very robust system for handling MySQL databases.
Media Temple also offers 1,000 GPUs, or processing units, per month; GoDaddy’s is unlimited, with the usual set of vague disclaimers.

Who’s Better?

The main reason to go with GoDaddy right now is for an easier transition to a grid setup. But Media Temple’s better established.

While we’re excited GoDaddy is offering an alternative, other hosts will be watching and will no doubt offer their own solutions in time – and without the unclear T&Cs.

There is a third option, of course. Many people will be better off with a regular cloud hosting plan.