SiteGround Hosting Review
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Steven Johnson
Updated
January 21, 2020
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Overview Intro
"Siteground is the leader when it comes to hosting your first WordPress website. I can not think of a better first hosting company."
Hosting Features
Free SSL Certificate
Yes
Control Panel:
Developed In-house
Website Backups
Daily
phpMyAdmin:
Yes
Editor review
1 review
Excellent WordPress Hosting Company
Overall rating
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5.0
Features
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5.0
User Experience
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5.0
Price
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5.0
Site Speed & Uptime
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5.0
Tech Support
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5.0
SiteGround does a great job at hosting. We have been hosting with them for a couple of months with a demo site and after monitoring by the minute, we have found them to be very dependable. The sign up was simple and easy, accessing the cPanel was easy, and managing our new WordPress site was painless.
After reviewing we found SiteGround delivers on what you pay for. Their hosting is reliable, tech support is responsive, cPanel is easy to navigate and use and sites run well on their servers.
Before starting our account with SiteGround we had heard bad customer experiences due to support staff not being friendly. However, this claim hasn't been proven to us yet. Not by a long shot. We felt like they did a great job.
They have an extensive tutorial library and the support staff is ready to point you in the right direction. The flaw in thinking might be that using a web hosting company means the user won't have to learn how these tools work, but the truth is, in order to have a successful website, you have to spend the time and energy on it. No one will do it for you (for free).
Overall, our criticism could be that SiteGround is has a little bit more technical side to them. You need to have a basic understanding of open source CMS's, how hosting companies work, and know-how to ask good questions. SiteGround does not try to win you over, rather, they avidly give you solutions that will help you learn on your own. In our opinion, this works better in the long run but won't work for those who need someone to manage their websites for them.
After reviewing we found SiteGround delivers on what you pay for. Their hosting is reliable, tech support is responsive, cPanel is easy to navigate and use and sites run well on their servers.
Before starting our account with SiteGround we had heard bad customer experiences due to support staff not being friendly. However, this claim hasn't been proven to us yet. Not by a long shot. We felt like they did a great job.
They have an extensive tutorial library and the support staff is ready to point you in the right direction. The flaw in thinking might be that using a web hosting company means the user won't have to learn how these tools work, but the truth is, in order to have a successful website, you have to spend the time and energy on it. No one will do it for you (for free).
Overall, our criticism could be that SiteGround is has a little bit more technical side to them. You need to have a basic understanding of open source CMS's, how hosting companies work, and know-how to ask good questions. SiteGround does not try to win you over, rather, they avidly give you solutions that will help you learn on your own. In our opinion, this works better in the long run but won't work for those who need someone to manage their websites for them.
Reviewer Info
WordPress Experience Level
WordPress Professional
How long have you used this host:
more than 5 years
Pros and Cons
Pros
Well Established
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Steven Johnson
User reviews
1 review
Overall rating
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4.5
Features
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4.0(1)
User Experience
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5.0(1)
Price
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3.5(1)
Site Speed & Uptime
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5.0(1)
Tech Support
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5.0(1)
Great after the learning curve
Overall rating
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4.5
Features
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4.0
User Experience
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5.0
Price
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3.5
Site Speed & Uptime
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5.0
Tech Support
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5.0
I have used Siteground since I first started blogging several years ago. At first I was frustrated with some of the installations (wordpress), but after i got through those it has been super awesome. The more people I run into about hosting, they recommend siteground. So i’ll pass it along.
Reviewer Info
WordPress Experience Level
WordPress Expert
How long have you used this host:
more than 1 year
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Katrina