SiteSpin
Compared with GoDaddy

Both come with a domain.
Only one comes with a website.

GoDaddy is a registrar that added a builder. This page is about which half you are buying.

GoDaddy
an editor
SiteSpin
a conversation
The short version

GoDaddy puts everything on one bill.

The domain, the hosting, the email and the marketing tools all come from one company and arrive on one invoice, and if that is what you want then it is a real advantage and we do not have it. What arrives with it is a builder that was added to a registrar, and a site made of template sections that you keep up yourself.

SiteSpin makes the opposite trade. You answer questions, we make the design decisions, and when something needs changing you say what is different.

Who each one is for
GoDaddy, if one bill for everything is the point
SiteSpin, if the website is the point
The table

What it takes to do the same thing.

Seven questions, answered for both. Four of them GoDaddy answers better, and those are on the list because leaving them off would make the other five worth less.

What you want to do
SiteSpin
GoDaddy
Change the opening hours
Say the new hours
Open the editor, find the section, edit, publish
Start taking bookings
Ask for it
In the higher marketing bundles
Get the words written
Written from your answers
Drafted for you once, then yours to keep up
Take a card payment on the site
Not yet. The order reaches you and you take payment as you do now
Built in on the commerce plans
Choose from templates
There are none. Every site is written from scratch
A few dozen, sorted by trade
Keep the address working
We buy the domain and renew it
It is a registrar first, so this is the part it does best
Fix it when it breaks
Ours to fix
Yours to diagnose
The difference underneath all of it

Their AI hands you a draft and then hands you the editor.

That sounds like a small difference and it is the whole thing, because the editor is exactly what stopped these owners having a website in the first place. Here, asking for a booking system costs you what changing the hours costs. On an editor one is a Tuesday evening and the other is a plugin hunt.

Ask for a change, get the change
The assembly work is the product
The site is looked after, not handed over
From people who moved

Sites that came off GoDaddy.

Three sites SiteSpin wrote. Ours, and all three live.

groundwork-strength.sitespin.app
Groundwork Strength, a gym in Brighton
Shows its timetable, then gets asked
clearline-bookkeeping.sitespin.app
Clearline Bookkeeping, a bookkeeper for sole traders
Says what it costs, then gets asked
ember-and-wick.sitespin.app
Ember & Wick, a candle studio in Bristol
Takes orders
Choose GoDaddy if

Any of these is you.

We would rather you read this now than find it out in a month.

You want the domain, the email and the site on one bill
You already buy your domains there and want to keep it simple
You need to take card payments on the site this month
You want a phone number to call about all of it at once

Three common objections

"But GoDaddy is cheaper at the entry tier."
At first. GoDaddy's pricing climbs at renewal and in higher tiers, especially once you add email and marketing tools. SiteSpin Pro is one flat price, with no per-feature upsell ladder. Run the math at year three, not just year one.
"My domain is already with GoDaddy. Can I still use SiteSpin?"
Yes. Keep the domain at GoDaddy and point it at your SiteSpin site. The SiteSpin app shows you exactly what to copy into your GoDaddy domain dashboard.
"What if I need email at my domain?"
SiteSpin doesn't ship email hosting. Use GoDaddy's email service, Google Workspace, Fastmail, or your registrar's email service. Email and website are separate concerns; SiteSpin focuses on the website.

Common questions

Can I move my GoDaddy site to SiteSpin?
Yes. Describe your business in the SiteSpin chat using the content from your GoDaddy site. Bring your domain (it stays at GoDaddy, just pointed at SiteSpin).
Will I lose SEO if I move?
If your URL stays the same (you bring the domain), search engines pick up the new content within a few crawls. Your existing inbound links keep working. SiteSpin sites are built with clean semantic HTML and proper meta tags.
Do I have to buy a domain separately?
No. SiteSpin buys the domain and renews it, and that is inside the plan rather than a second bill. If you already own one you would rather keep, point it at your site instead: the app shows you exactly what to copy.

GoDaddy is a trademark of GoDaddy Inc.. SiteSpin is not affiliated with GoDaddy and is not endorsed by it. Every row above was checked against GoDaddy's published pricing and feature pages on 27 August 2026, comparing annual plan against annual plan. If a row has gone out of date, write to us and we will correct it.

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