GoDaddy Unlimited Hosting 2026: Capped at 25% of One CPU Core

GoDaddy's Hosting & Security Services Agreement is the contract that sits under a web hosting, WordPress or VPS plan. We read the version published on its Indian site on 14 October 2026. It is stamped "Last Revised: 30-09-2026".

The agreement offers unlimited hosting in plain terms: "we offer unlimited bandwidth and some plans offer unlimited disk space and websites", and "This means that we do not set a limit on the amount of bandwidth, websites or disk space you may use in the operation of your website".

A few paragraphs later it sets out the limits. The sentence that does the work contains the phrase "including the unlimited plans" — the caps are written to apply to the plans sold as uncapped, and the document says so itself rather than leaving it to be inferred.

Read the CPU and memory lines together. A Linux hosting plan is entitled to a quarter of one CPU core and 512MB of RAM, and the agreement states the consequence directly: "In the event these limitations are exceeded, your site may slow down or not be served until more resources are added."

The storage caps carry a different consequence. An account over the inode, file, table or gigabyte limits "may be issued a network violation warning and will be required to reduce the number of inodes, files and folders, tables or gigabytes (as the case may be), or may be temporarily or permanently suspended, in our sole discretion".

There is a separate rule for WordPress plans that has nothing to do with resources at all: "Any Managed Hosting for WordPress account found to be hosting a non-WordPress website may be issued a network violation warning… or may be temporarily or permanently suspended, in our sole discretion."

Credit where it is due. A great many hosts stop at the words "fair use" and never publish a number. GoDaddy publishes eight of them, in the contract, where they can be read before you buy. That is the useful thing about this document.

The free trial is the only place in the agreement where a bandwidth figure appears at all — "10 GB monthly bandwidth". On the paid plans bandwidth is described as unlimited and no number is given, though the agreement reserves the right to act if usage "presents a risk to the stability, performance or uptime of our servers", in which case "you may be required to upgrade to a VPS, or we may take action to restrict the resources your website is utilizing".

The cPanel VPS product has a third regime again, and it is candid about being a judgement call: "VPS with cPanel offers unlimited number of accounts… Although we do not wish to set a specific limit, as a guideline, a threshold of 100 accounts will be considered normal, reasonable use." How that is assessed is stated too: "We evaluate your usage in comparison to typical levels of usage engaged in by other users."

That is a direct quotation, and it is the single most practically important sentence in the document. The full line reads: "Our servers are not an archive and we shall have no liability to you or any other person for loss, damage or destruction of any of your content."

The agreement puts the backup duty on the customer in terms: you are "solely responsible for undertaking measures to: (1) prevent any loss or damage to your website or server content; (2) maintain independent archival and backup copies of your website or server content".

What happens at the end of the relationship is set out just as plainly, and it is the part worth acting on before you ever need it:

Note the two halves. GoDaddy will not move your files out for you, and if you leave without moving them yourself, the agreement says they go and no copy can be produced afterwards. The cheap precaution is an independent backup you hold yourself, taken before you cancel anything — which is exactly what the agreement asks for anyway.

Where backups are included with a support plan, the agreement states the interval: "The backups offered with these support plans are snapshots taken on a 10-day cycle." And hosting backup services "will be cancelled if the Hosting subscription plan is cancelled".

The agreement offers "a Service uptime guarantee of 99.9%… of available time per month". Three qualifications follow in the same breath.

You have to ask. "If we fail to maintain this Service Uptime Guarantee in a particular month (as solely determined by us), you may contact us and request a credit of 5% of your monthly hosting fee for that month." It is not automatic, and whether the guarantee was missed is "as solely determined by us".

It is a credit, not money. "The credit may be used only for the purchase of further products and services from us, and is exclusive of any applicable taxes." On a Rs. 299 monthly plan, 5% is roughly Rs. 15 of store credit.

And the exclusions are wide. The guarantee does not cover "outages that do not affect the appearance of your website but merely affect access to your website such as FTP and email", nor interruptions caused by your own "custom scripting, coding or the installation of third-party applications", nor scheduled maintenance.

GoDaddy will attempt to migrate a site from another host "at your request and in our sole discretion", but the agreement names the point at which the service stops being offered: "Hosting Migrations are not available for websites with over 10GB of data or more than 1,00,000 files."

It also declines the backup during the move — "We will not perform website backups or archives in connection with a Hosting Migration, and we recommend that you back up your third-party hosted website before migration to ensure that no data is lost" — and disclaims the outcome: "You agree that we are not liable for any delay in website resolution or loss of data related to your Hosting Migration."

One further clause is easy to miss and matters if you ever leave. Images licensed through GoDaddy "are intended for GoDaddy hosted customers only", and on export "it is solely your responsibility to ensure your continued right to use any images incorporated therein". A site that moves may be carrying pictures whose licence did not move with it.

Content removal. "we reserve the right to remove your server, website, or any content temporarily or permanently if you are in violation of this Service Agreement or if your server, website, or other content threatens the stability of our network or create risk to GoDaddy or its other customers."

Scanning. "GoDaddy reserves the right to scan your hosted account for malicious content (e.g., malware)" and may then "take whatever steps it deems reasonably necessary to mitigate or remediate any security threat".

Support touching your site. "in the course of providing you with technical assistance, it may be necessary for our support staff to modify, alter or remove the content of your hosted product."

Technical requirements you must keep up with. Where you fail to meet or upgrade to minimum technical requirements "as determined by GoDaddy in its sole discretion", GoDaddy "reserves the right to limit, mo[dify]" the service, and "shall not be held liable for any disruption or loss of service resulting from your failure to do so."

We are reporting what the document says, and stopping there. Whether any of these clauses is valid, binding, fair or enforceable is a question for a court or a regulator and not for a shopping guide. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and nothing here limits any statutory right you have, which applies regardless of what a contract says.