Pros and Cons of SiteGround

SiteGround, a multi-national company headquartered in Bulgaria, offers website hosting, as well as managed WordPress, managed Woo Commerce, and fully managed cloud services available to support a variety of services, as well as reselling.

SiteGround continues to be an excellent choice for web hosting based on their continued performance and their innovation and continual upgrades to their hosting platform. SiteGround’s managed hosting features are particularly suited for WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal websites. The support staff goes through extensive training which really benefits customers who receive responsive, helpful, and courteous assistance.

Website Speed and Performance

SiteGround has always been one of the better web hosts for website speed and performance. With their continual technology innovations including their SiteGround Optimizer, they continue to post impressive results. Website page loading times rank just below the top performers we’ve tested.

We’ve tested over 40 web hosts since Bitcatcha was formed, and SiteGround has consistently impressed us in terms of speed and value. It’s pretty awesome that they’ve risen to compete with industry giants, considering the company was founded by a few friends working out of their university dorm rooms in Bulgaria during 2004.

Today, SiteGround has data centers in 6 countries, services more than 2,800,000 domains worldwide and has over 500 (and growing) people under their employment.

They have amassed many accolades and various sites have sung praises about them, but I would say that their biggest recognition of achievement to date is to be affiliated and endorsed by WordPress. In their WordPress’s own words, SiteGround is “one of the biggest and brightest of the hosting world”.

But web hosting isn’t the only thing the founders of SiteGround are passionate about.

The people on top believe that happy employees lead to happy customers (I can attest to that – they’ve got excellent people handling their live chat), so they’re continuously striving to keep the workplace happy, and it shows – people love working for them, as evidenced by their rave reviews on Glassdoor.

It’s a company that’s equally passionate about their staff, products and customers!

What about the data? What’s the uptime like? How do they compare against the competition?!

Uptime

SiteGround guarantees customers that they have a 99.9% uptime; the reason for this guarantee is the hosting architecture, the support team, and an almost immediate backup when needed.

The platform is built on LXC (Linux containers) technology because it is very efficient and offers unlimited flexibility.

Secondly, they have a pro-active server monitoring DevOps team that is in-house and helps detect issues and fixes them within the shortest time possible. It can also foresee potential problems in the future and take adequate action to prevent their occurrence.

In the worst case scenario when data recovery is needed, SiteGround offers the fastest data recovery. SiteGround launched their backup system in 2015 which ensures customers reduced restoration time. All these features have further helped towards making SiteGround customers get 99.9% uptime for their websites.

Security

With increased website security vulnerabilities, it’s important to know what measures your host has put in place to secure your site. SiteGround is the pioneer of secure account isolation technology.

Since 2008, SiteGround developed CHROOT account isolation on shared servers. Today, they are still leading in web hosting security. They developed this innovation while no one in the industry thought that would be possible.

There are additional security features that include; add-on HackAlert monitoring that lets website owners know of any attack on their site. It is a premium add-on for only $1 per month but very helpful.

There is also a free SSL for the high-cost host plans and leech protect feature that prevents administrators from leaking their passwords.

SiteGround Comparison with Other Leading Web Hosts

The best choice when looking for a reliable web hosting provider may depend on your budget, the size of the project and technical experience.

It may be helpful to compare and contrast SiteGround hosting with other leaders in the industry. Here is a comparison with other hosting providers based on some factors.