GoDaddy vs Scaleway

GoDaddy is strongest for small businesses. Scaleway is strongest for european data residency / GDPR-sensitive workloads. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	GoDaddy	Scaleway
Starting price	$5.99/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Small businesses Domain-first buyers wanting one vendor WordPress beginners Users who want phone support	European data residency / GDPR-sensitive workloads Startups and SMBs GPU/AI workloads Kubernetes
Stated uptime SLA	99.9% (industry-typical figure; not independently confirmed on a blocked GoDaddy SLA page)	99.9% to 99.99% depending on product tier
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	3	3
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	Phone, 24/7 chat, Ticket, Docs/Help center	Ticket, Docs, Community Slack, Status page
Compliance	PCI DSS (for hosted ecommerce/WooCommerce), GDPR	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (French sovereign cloud qualification, select regions), HDS (health data hosting, France)
Hidden costs to watch for	Steep renewal-price jump after the first term (often 1.7x-2.5x the introductory rate) Long promotional terms (up to 36 months) are required to see the lowest advertised price; month-to-month billing is dramatically higher Free SSL certificate offer is often only for year one; premium DNS, backups, and site security are frequently upsold as add-ons at checkout cPanel/Plesk licensing and backup services can be bundled extras on VPS/dedicated rather than included Migration and domain privacy sometimes charged separately	Public internet egress from Object Storage: 75 GB free per month, then EUR 0.01/GB Windows Server licensing surcharge on POP2-*-WIN instance variants (roughly 2.5x the equivalent Linux instance price) Dedicated Kubernetes control plane is a paid add-on (~EUR 80/month) above the free mutualized control plane if higher SLA/isolation is needed Snapshot storage for Block Storage billed separately per GB-hour Glacier (cold) Object Storage restoration fee: EUR 0.009/GB
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18