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Cloudways vs GoDaddy Web Hosting: which is more reliable? (2026)

GoDaddy Web Hosting is more reliable than Cloudways, scoring 76.5 vs 32.0 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Cloudways reported 12 incidents and GoDaddy Web Hosting reported 5, with effective uptime of 93.37% and 99.49% respectively. GoDaddy Web Hosting resolves incidents faster on average (14m).

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score

Cloudways

32.0/100

Operational

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GoDaddy Web Hosting

76.5/100

Degraded

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MetricCloudwaysGoDaddy Web Hosting
Reliability score32.076.5
Rank (web hosts)#9#5
Uptime (90 days)93.37%99.49%
Incidents (90 days)125
Partial / major outages50
Avg time to resolve1d 3h14m
Outages we detected00
Transparency score100/100100/100

Where Cloudways and GoDaddy Web Hosting differ

  • Cloudways reported 2.4× as many incidents as GoDaddy Web Hosting over the last 90 days (12 vs 5).
  • Cloudways had 5 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for GoDaddy Web Hosting.
  • GoDaddy Web Hosting fixes problems faster: 14m on average, against 1d 3h for Cloudways (121.1× quicker).
  • Cloudways's longest outage on record lasted 3d (Apr 2, 2026); GoDaddy Web Hosting's lasted 20h 21m (Jul 9, 2026).

90-day uptime

Cloudways

Aug 4, 2026: 95.65% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 5, 2026 – Aug 7, 2026: no incidentsAug 8, 2026: 90.18% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Aug 9, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 10, 2026: no incidentsAug 11, 2026: 77.28% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Aug 12, 2026 – Aug 19, 2026: no incidentsAug 20, 2026: 98.73% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 21, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026: no incidentsAug 24, 2026: 96.63% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 25, 2026: 94.68% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 26, 2026 – Aug 29, 2026: no incidentsAug 30, 2026: 91.79% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 31, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 1, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 2, 2026: 93.20% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 3, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026: no incidentsOct 1, 2026: 89.27% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 2, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 3, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 4, 2026: 95.72% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 5, 2026 – Oct 11, 2026: no incidentsOct 12, 2026: 20.85% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Oct 13, 2026: 50.09% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Oct 14, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026: no incidentsOct 20, 2026: 31.24% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Oct 21, 2026: 8.39% uptime, 2 incidents (Major outage)Oct 22, 2026: 0.00% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Oct 23, 2026: 47.30% uptime, 2 incidents (Major outage)Oct 24, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago93.401% average daily uptimeToday

GoDaddy Web Hosting

Aug 4, 2026 – Sep 14, 2026: no incidentsSep 15, 2026: 99.98% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 16, 2026 – Sep 26, 2026: no incidentsSep 27, 2026: 99.72% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 28, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026: no incidentsOct 22, 2026: 98.18% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 23, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 24, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 25, 2026: 86.81% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 26, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.496% average daily uptimeToday

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