How to delete your GoDaddy account and upgrade to a better hosting platform

GoDaddy is considered one of the leading web hosting providers offering an easy account creation process. However, closing your GoDaddy account can be tricky.

To help you, we’ll walk you through the step-by-step process of closing and permanently deleting your GoDaddy account.

As intimidating as it is, we understand how important this decision is to your online journey. Thus, we are here to make it a hassle-free experience.

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Why delete your GoDaddy account

While GoDaddy’s services have their merits, recurring issues encourage users to cancel their hosting accounts and look for alternative solutions.

Let’s look at these questions in more detail:

• Poor site performance – many users complained about the performance of their website, slow speed and unstable operation.
• Less value for money – Despite being competitively priced, comparable Godaddy plans have less storage and support fewer websites. In addition, many features such as backups older than 1 day and website security measures are charged extra.
• Inadequate customer support – receiving a response via chat can take from five minutes to an hour. In addition, it may take up to 48 hours to respond to a troubleshooting request, and a subsequent response may take another 48 hours.
• high updates – even though the GoDaddy website announces renewal prices in advance, they can still take users by surprise and cut their budget.

While GoDaddy’s hosting service might be good enough for a test site or a simple blog that doesn’t get a lot of traffic, you should choose a better hosting provider for more serious projects.

To keep your website running smoothly, you need a hosting plan that offers exceptional performance and features, as well as great customer support and cost-effective renewals.

Luckily, there are GoDaddy alternatives that solve these problems by offering comprehensive web hosting services.

For example, Hostinger offers lower renewal prices, a more responsive customer service team, and an innovative and intuitive hPanel control panel across all of their hosting plans.

How to cancel your GoDaddy account renewal

Before permanently deleting your GoDaddy account, first cancel your hosting account renewal. This will prevent your hosting plan from automatically renewing and being charged.

Here is a quick guide on how to cancel your account renewal:

1. Sign in to your GoDaddy account, select Account settingsand go to Renewal and billing page.
2. Check the box next to your product or domain name.

3. Click on Cancel renewal button at the top of the page.

4. In the pop-up window that appears, click the button Cancel renewal button again to confirm the cancellation.

5. The next important step is to remove payment information from your GoDaddy account for security reasons. You can do this by clicking the button Payment Methods tab on the same page → Options → Delete.

Now you can move on to the account transfer process.

How to migrate from GoDaddy to Hostinger

Moving your website and domain to a new web hosting platform is critical before you start deleting your GoDaddy account. This ensures that both your site and domain stay with you even after you delete your account information from GoDaddy.

There are very few web hosts that offer site migration services for free. For example, Bluehost the cost of migration services exceeds $149.99Bye dream host offers it for $99.

Hostinger provides free site migration services along with web hosting services to make the process more convenient.

You can choose any Hostinger plan – they all come with free migration services that allow you to effortlessly transfer your site from any web host to our platform.

Our experts will take care of all the technical aspects of the migration, ensuring that your site, including all of its files, databases, and configuration settings, is safely transferred to your new Hostinger hosting account within 96 hours of starting the migration process.

This service will help you avoid the hassles and potential pitfalls of manually migrating your site and free up your time so you can focus on your online presence.

Once your site has successfully migrated, follow this short domain transfer guide to transfer your domain from GoDaddy to Hostinger in four easy steps.

How to delete your GoDaddy account

Now that your website has been migrated and is safe, let’s dive into the steps to permanently delete your GoDaddy account:

1. Sign in to your GoDaddy account.

After logging into your GoDaddy account, in the top right corner, navigate to Profile → Account settings → Renewal and billing.

This will show you all your products and domain names. Before canceling your account, you must remove all products and services listed on this page.

2. Remove all products

Once your website and domains have been transferred to another web hosting provider, you can proceed to the first step of the Godaddy account deletion process, deleting the products. This ensures a clean account closure and prevents possible complications.

To start the product uninstallation process, go to Renewal and billing page in Account settings And check the box next to Description to select all your products and domains.

Next click on Cancel renewal button. In the popup window, click on Delete my product.

After you click on Delete my product A confirmation email pop-up will appear. Here, check the box next to I confirm that in order to fulfill my request, I must open the email and select “Yes, I want to delete”. and then click on To send a letter.

Now go to your email account, open “Are you sure?” email from GoDaddy and select Yes, I want to delete! button. This will take you to your account where you will finally click one last time Delete product Button to remove Godaddy products.

You will receive a confirmation email once your products have been removed. The hosting provider will then require you to wait 24 hours before you can close your GoDaddy account.

We recommend that you check out GoDaddy return policy find out if you can request a refund for the canceled product.

3. Go to account settings.

After a 24 hour wait, you can finally move forward and permanently delete your GoDaddy account.

Switch to Contact details page through Account settings and scroll down to Confidentiality chapter. You may need to sign in to your account.

Here click on Check and move on to the next step. You are halfway through permanently deleting your GoDaddy account.

4. Read the Account Closing Message

After you click on Check V Confidentiality section, the web host will show you a new pop-up message containing the standard information about closing your GoDaddy hosting account.

Take a moment to read the information to understand the implications of deleting your GoDaddy account. Check I understand that this action cannot be undone. check the box to confirm your decision.

5. Delete your GoDaddy account.

Now proceed to terminate your GoDaddy account by clicking the button Close account button. Now you can finally work on moving to your new web host.

Please note that once you cancel your GoDaddy account, you will no longer be able to receive a refund unless otherwise permitted by its refund policy.

Conclusion

The decision to permanently delete your GoDaddy account can greatly improve the performance of your website, from increased uptime to faster loading speeds.

Let’s take a quick look at the three important steps in deleting an account:

1. Cancel Godaddy Account Renewal – stop GoDaddy from automatically renewing your hosting account.
2. Initiate site and domain transfer to Hostinger – make sure your site remains accessible under the same domain name.
3. Delete account – remember that you need to delete all your products first and wait 24 hours for the platform to allow you to continue with the GoDaddy account deletion process.

We also recommend that you back up your GoDaddy account before deleting it to protect your copy of your site data.

If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to leave us a comment below.

Frequently Asked Questions About Deleting Your GoDaddy Account

Here are some frequently asked questions about how to close your GoDaddy account: