Siteground Review

siteground review

Siteground Overview

Siteground was setup in 2003 with two offices in the US: Humble, Texas and in New York City. It also manage operation centers in Europe: Sofia and Bulgaria. SiteGround manages multiple datacenters in US, Europe as well as Singapore. Siteground offers multiple hosting and website solutions to personal and enterprise groups.

Cheapest hosting plan offered by siteground

Plan Name Monthly Price Web Space Data Transfer  
12 Month Plan $3.95 / month Unlimited Unlimited More
Note: This is by far the most promotional offer under siteground

SiteGround Review – Hosting Features

Siteground offers shared, Cloud, Dedicated and Reseller hosting plans. Beside these general hosting solutions, siteground also provides a seperate wordpress hosting & wordpress theme design, Joomla hosting & Joomla templates design. Step by step guidance/tutorials of the two softwares are included.

Shared web hosting: Total of three shared plans – Startup, Growbig and Gogeek. Each plan has different limits on disk storage and other premium features like super cache service, number of supported websites and free ssl certificate etc. Each class plan comes a free domain name and free website migration, cpanel and ssh support.

Cloud Hosting: One of the very first cloud hosting providers. Server is fully customizable during registration and using, we can add more resources on the fly with no interruption of existing services. With this cloud platform, each account is daily backed up with free CDN support. We can choose among 3 data centers for better geographical accessibility and local speed.

Dedicated Server:There're total of 3 server plans from Intel i3-540 3.06GHz – Intel Xeon E5-2620 with up to 16GB ram as default configuration. People have 3 data center options – USA, Europe and Asia. All servers are fully managed with up-to-date setup.

Reseller Hosting:The reseller hosting from siteground is a bit different from any other hosting provider. Siteground sells this service based "credit", one credit equals to one year hosting = $49. If we purchase 11 or more credits, price can be decreased to $42/yr per credit. The thing is we have to order 5 credits to start which results in $225/yr. With this price we can give out 5 hosting accounts under 10GB space.

siteground hosting features

Besides above, siteground also provides another two special hosting services – WordPress Hosting & Joomla hosting. Although the actual hosting service is configured on same regular shared plans, they have special service for the two applications such as server end optimization and template service etc.  From editorial review, all their servers are optimized for the two softwares purpose. They just added extra explanation to it.

SiteGround Review - Performance

Regarding to performance, siteground operates multiple data center services in USA,EU and Asia pacific. They have multiple CDN network to speed up your local performance. Especially for cloud and dedicated server, clients be able to select a perfect network to get the best loading.

On server hardware level, siteground setup all platform based Intel technologies by DELL server production. Either CPU or RAM or hard disk etc are all followed enterprise IT requirements.

SiteGround Review - Price

Siteground shared plan starts from $3.95/mo promotional price while it's originally offered at $9.95/mo. Cloud hosting starts from $54/mo and fully scalable based the real usage. Pay as you go and no extra penny to be wasted. No matter if you just from shared service or choose dedicated one, the facility and quality equal the pay.

Prices are pretty fare for regular hosting services as shown. However the reseller service is not so good to go and a little complex for novice. While it's $42 per credit and 5 credits go get started, we pay a lot considering the limited resources. The truth is we are just reselling their hosting plans at small discounts.

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SiteGround Review - Customer Service

Siteground group operates multiple support centers in US and Europe. Their people are working 24*7*365 on each station to ensure every request can be handled efficiently. What really makes their support outstanding is detailed online tutorials. Especially for those popular softwares like wordpress & joomla, they created a plenty of articles with guidance on many ways of using the software. The company itself provides template development service and understand how to optimize it based their server environment.

As suggested by their people, they evaluate each employee's speed, as well as the team performance as a whole, on a regular basis. Clients don't have to wait more than a few seconds for the next available operator.

Is Siteground SEO Friendly Hosting?

Absolutely, with their stable and reliable server, your website is surely under the safe way to get high ranking with search engine. Moreover, if you check their main site you could found, within the shortest period they promote siteground to Google rank 9 which is almost the highest google rank, no other hosting website have got this rank number till present.

Siteground knows a stable server is quite important for search engine friendly and monitored the server 24×7 for 99.9% uptime gurantee. Their tech team optimized hosting server specially for popular scripts like wordpress, joomla and other open source apps. For SEO hosting consideration, siteground is in top consideration with affordable plans.

How Do We Think About Siteground?

definitely A+. siteground can be trusted by any kind of website with linux hosting and it's the most recommended budget hosting for reasonable low price. Their ultra-cheap pricing and the brilliant host of features that come with it leave very little to be desired. Furthermore, if you're going to host a CMS website like joomla, drupal or wordpress, siteground optimized their servers side by side for such scripts and offered great documentaionsl on how to use/optimize the app. You can't find anywhere else for such great resources.

More about Siteground

Besides all above, siteground provides a lot of other bonus that we could benefit such as the following:

Scalability & Excessive Resource Usage – All siteground server resources are managed seperately which will significantely reduce down time and ensure the website performance.

Environment Friendly – Siteground is 100% eco-friendly hosting and saves a huge carbon footprint every year. Siteground has been working with environment groups like the Bonneville Environmental Foundation to purchase wind energy credits to offset our energy consumption.

Easy to use – You don't have to be skillful in order to use siteground services. All stuff is managed under the standard Cpanel with the most popular third party script libraries like Joomla, wordpress, drupal and many other open source CMS. Simply few clicks away to get a professional website online.

Multiple Datacenters choice – In order to serve Asia Pacific clients with best effort, siteground launched datacenters in Singapore. The setup reduced network latency between US and Asia. If you need US level hosting & want to be located in Asia, the siteground SG datacenter is best choice. No additional fees included or any other limits to host there!

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About the Author
Kenny
Kenny is owner of webhostpark and has been working in hosting industry since 2006. We provide unbiased hosting reviews and release the latest promo news. Follow me on Google plus

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