SiteGround Hosting Review
SiteGround is a company born in 2004 in Bulgaria and today it could be defined as one of the main hosting worldwide thanks to its 2 million domains installed, Siteground is mainly known for its shared web hosting services but in its business it boasts also important numbers regarding dedicated servers and cloud hosting, in this Siteground review we will touch on all the features and functionalities of this provider.
SiteGround differs from other competitors precisely for its loading speed thanks to an advanced management of dynamic Chache that leads to an absurd speed, now in fact we will go into more detail on this aspect by understanding the characteristics and the way in which these exclusive features of the Siteground hosting manage to improve the site.
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Speed Review Siteground
Let’s start by saying that all the sites parked on SiteGround are hosted on super powerful machines with high speed SSD disks in some of the best data centers in the world, currently the company has several data centers which as you can see in the following photo are in Chicago , Iowa, London, Amsterdam, Eemshaven, Singapore.
Why is it so important to know the positioning of data centers? simple! because the closer it is to the country where you want your site to appear and the faster the loading time will be, that’s not all, however, because Siteground has a CDN network located in 90 countries around the world and in 194 cities, the network we are talking about is the Cloudfire network and purchased a hosting on Siteground is free for all plans.
SiteGround uses QUIC
In early 2019 SiteGround integrated QUIC into its servers.
The main advantage of QUIC is that it offers better performance for users connected to slow networks with high latency, because it handles requests differently than previous HTTP protocols, we can say that this is the basis for the next generation of Internet protocols coming : HTTP / 3.
A big round of applause has to be made here because Siteground was among the first hosting companies in the world to provide this technology to all customers for free.
Internal solutions for speed
Siteground has developed an exclusive function called “SuperCacher” based on the Nginx reverse proxy that has the ability to increase the number of hits that a site can handle and in this way increase the loading speed of the website. The SuperCacher includes 4 caching options different to optimize websites, all can be changed via the Cpanel.
Dynamic Chache
This is an extremely effective solution for dynamic websites like WordPress, it caches the HTML output created by the PHP code of these applications and puts it directly into RAM, instead of generating it every time.
Static chache
Memcached
So in summary, SiteGround is one of the best Hosting in the field of speed thanks to its countless functions and customizations that allow the user to choose the best solution, consequently our judgment regarding speed is 9/10
SiteGround pricing
Below we can see the prices for shared hosting services.
For example, we can observe that the cost for the essential plan is very advantageous € 3.95 x 12 months = € 47.4 + VAT (the price is average compared to all other hosting) by analyzing the essential plan in more detail we can see that it is possible to install a website only and that monthly visits should not exceed 10,000 views.
The price is generally higher than its competitors such as Hostinger , Serverplan or Bluehost , if you are looking for cheap hosting read our Hostinger review
This data is to be kept with pliers because exceeding this threshold the site continues to work perfectly, the data in question is precisely an estimate where Siteground tells you that this hosting is suitable for websites that do not have many visits.
Before considering the purchase of Siteground hosting, keep in mind that the price indicated is a promotional price and that upon renewal you will pay the price indicated below, purchased the first year of hosting at the price on offer so you will not pay the same amount. upon renewal, so my advice is to carefully read all the terms and conditions of any online product / service.
how do i choose the perfect plan for my needs?
Fortunately, every online hosting offers many different packages with reduced or increased features depending on your needs, before buying the best hosting for your needs think about how long your project can be and above all how much budget you have available for the creation. of your site
Going straight to the point let’s say that Siteground’s StarterKit hosting service is suitable for small websites which can be for example:
- showcase sites for niche products,
- for a portfolio site,
- small business sites.
it is not suitable for:
- large e-commerce with many products inserted (more than 1000 in my opinion)
- news site (intense traffic peaks could slow down the site and not guarantee adequate stability)
Keep in mind that each package has additional functions and different memory characteristics, now we are going to analyze all the functions present on all 3 packages
difference of SiteGround packages
In the second package offered by SiteGround we can see that there is an advanced Caching function to speed up the site, in addition to this we have the possibility to make backups more frequently and above all we can customize and schedule the times in order to make everything automatic (remember: not all hosting allow you to make automatic and free backups although it is an essential function for every website).
In the third package we have an even more powerful server power than the other packages, this allows us to aim for the top of the top.
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SiteGround Support Review
If the workhorse is the speed of this hosting, assistance is the weapon that wins the war.
Joking aside, the assistance provided by Siteground is excellent, more than anything else it is possible to talk to an operator directly with the live chat, so if there is an urgent problem you don’t have to wait a long time with endless email exchanges.
According to SiteGround itself, no provider provides the same level of support. in fact it is partially true, I have often contacted the assistance for problems on my old sites, the operator for 95% of the time has always solved my problem, even quite quickly, there is that 5% but that unfortunately I will never forget how much I contacted an operator for a site that was in Down and the operator was unable to help me, luckily then I solved by myself.
downside of SiteGround
As in everything in this world where there is no perfection, even the best hide a negative side, let’s talk about traffic, many users have complained about the many limits imposed by the provider and that often blocked the site or even the provider forced the customer to upgrade the plan, obviously these cases must be taken with a grain of salt because it should be evaluated case by case.
Another quibble is the cost per renewal which is often double compared to the first payment, if the first year you pay € 3.95 / month on renewal you will pay € 10.00 / month, but what customers do not know is that by contacting assistance you can get about a 10% discount on renewal (tricks of the trade).
Our opinion on Siteground
The web hosting solutions offered by SiteGround are undoubtedly among the best proposals in circulation in the Italian but also international sector. in addition to having quality servers and hardware, this hosting provides you with guarantees and stability in a business that is not always guaranteed
The strong point of SiteGround, or the workhorse in the opinion of many, is the Hosting plan for WordPress . thanks precisely as we said before to the SG Optimizer plugin created ad hoc by the aforementioned company to speed up websites created with WordPress, another strong point of this combination is the WordPress Starter plugin that allows you to set up and set up WordPress with one click.
