SiteGround was founded in 2004 by a group of IT enthusiasts who also happened to be university friends. In the beginning, the friends worked from their dorm rooms. Now, the company has grown to over 320 employees and has four data centers in three continents.
SiteGround has a “Philosophy of Handcraft,” which means that it crafts high-quality, customized services to meet each client’s individual needs. In other words, the company chooses the hardware, server architecture, and software based on the needs of the client. This caught my attention back in 2014, and I conducted
Let’s take a look at the different hosting packages SiteGround offers. Then, I want to go over some of the things that I like.
SiteGround Hosting Plans
SiteGround has shared, reseller, cloud, and dedicated hosting. Let’s take a closer look at each of these plans.
Shared Hosting
SiteGround has three types of shared hosting plans. You can get the StartUp, GrowBig, or GoGeek hosting plans. The plan you should choose depends on your needs.
As the cheapest of the plans, the StartUp plan is meant for people who are just getting started with an online presence. You’ll get a free domain name, along with free setup and transfer. It also comes with a free website builder so you don’t have to worry about hiring a graphic designer if you don’t know how to create a website.
This package comes with 10 GB of web space. That is suitable for up to 10,000 visits per month. If you bring in more traffic than that, you need to upgrade to one of the other plans.
The GrowBig plan includes all of the resources you get with the StartUp plan, along with some more. Instead of just hosting a single website, it hosts multiple sites. It is also compatible with premium Joomla and WordPress integration, and it has tools to make your website run faster. Plus, with 20 GB of web space, it can accommodate up to 25,000 visitors a month. That makes it a good fit if you run a single website that gets a good amount of traffic or if you have several websites that get a small amount of traffic.
Finally, there’s the GoGeek hosting plan. This is the premium shared hosting service. This is the plan that you need to choose if you have a website or websites that get a lot of traffic. This package comes with 30 GB of web space, making it suitable for up to 100,000 visits per month. When you use this plan, you don’t have to share resources with as many people, so you can expect faster websites.
SiteGround shared hosting plans in a glance
Cloud Hosting
Cloud hosting is another option if you go with SiteGround. This auto-scalable hosting solution is also customizable. You can choose from four plans that range from 2 GB DDR3 RAM to 4 GB DDR3 RAM. They also come with 30 GB of disk space up to 80 GB of disk space, and all of the plans include 5 TB of bandwidth. In addition, you can choose between WordPress, Magento, Drupal, and Joomla integration when you go with cloud hosting.
Dedicated Hosting
SiteGround offers three dedicated hosting plans. Choose from the Entry Server, Power Server, and Enterprise Server. The first two come with four CPU cores and eight CPU threads. The Enterprise Server has 2 x 6 CPU cores and 2 x 12 CPU threads. They range from 4 GB DDR3 RAM to 16 GB DDR3 RAM, and all include 5 TB of bandwidth.
The dedicated hosting plans are compatible with WordPress, Joomla, and Magento. They are also integrated with Git.
Reseller Hosting
If you’re a web developer or designer and you maintain customer websites, you might want a reseller hosting plan. SiteGround offers a discount if you buy in bulk, and it also provides special domain name deals. When you choose SiteGround for your reseller hosting needs, you’ll get 10 GB of web space, unmetered data transfer, and free email accounts. You’ll also have unlimited FTP accounts and a free CloudFare CDN, among other features.
My SiteGround Experience: The Good Points
Now let’s dig into what I like about SiteGround. There are many things that stood out to me during my test but I am going to point out just two plus points with SiteGround (yes, just two is enough).
Advantage #1. Premium Class Web Hosting Service
In a nutshell, SiteGround offers reasonably priced premium hosting that is fast, reliable, flexible, and secure and comes with stellar customer support.
Flexibility
I was initially drawn to SiteGround because it is so flexible and scalable. With so many upgrade options and so much room to grow, it’s easy to build the hosting plan that is right for you. This makes it easy for someone to start out with a small website and turn it into a huge ecommerce site that serves hundreds of thousands of customers each month.
Site speed & Server reliability
Speed is always important with a web host. You need people to be able to blaze through your site, and that isn’t a problem when you use SiteGround (see site speed test results below). The hosting company offers static caching through SuperCache, Memcached, and SuperCacher. It also uses NGINX web server technology. This technology quickly loads static content, creating sites that move faster than most of the others out there. That is a huge bonus.
You also want a host that’s reliable, and SiteGround is just that according to my test site results (see site uptime score below). SiteGround uses proactive server monitoring to detect and fix issues immediately. It also predicts problems before they occur, allowing it to prevent them. Also, because it has its own backup system, it can restore data faster than many of other hosting companies out there. This allows the servers to maintain a 99.99 percent uptime.
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