SiteGround Reviews – Honest Review with Uptime & Performance Data!

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Finally, another post after the long break.

Would you advise purchasing a 6 month hosting plan for a niche site. I’m a newbie and I wanna start my Amazon niche site this holiday. All I can afford is below 30 dollar- very much regarding our currency exchange rate here.

HI

Just to tell, Siteground have a really bad support, and I feel like this is really a thing to notice !

I have a client who have chosen siteground to host their site, and strange things is happen from time to time, which I haven’t seen before at other hosting companies.

When we are contacting the live support, I have to write our problem first, which can take a long time to clear out, and then they answer it very shortly and we are 8 out of 10 times “disconnected” after that answer. Leaving us still unclear of what to do.

We have used hours and hours of trying to get support, and the best way is to open a support ticket, which will then be answered by up to 6 different “supporters”.

So the conclusion from my side is that, I will never recommend siteground to anybody because of the bad service. They might be good on something, But I feel that I have to sort everything out myself.

This is the first time I have come to your blog and I must say that you have shaped it pretty well. Btw, I never heard such positive reviews about SiteGround. Have you used their services or this is just your personal opinion?

It is really thorough researched article about SiteGround. I like the fact that you were able to find actual uptime and page load time details.

For beginners who are looking for a budget hosting, Siteground doesn’t suit them well 🙁

What a great review! I am sure you might have dedicated several hours to prepare this GIANT review on SiteGround. After reading your review I consider to do business with them. But unfortunately I signed up for 3 years with another share hosting service, recommended by Dom, the HPD guy. One short question, do you write this short of content yourself or hire writer? please mention. Thanks.

Good review. I think it’s a bit pricey for a beginner. For me I buy reseller hosting for my sites and sell the excess capacity.

Hello,

From last 8 months, I have been using SiteGround to host my big coupon sites as well as my amazon micro niche sites and i have been very much impressed with their service.

Specially their support, as they have very good staff with good technical knowledge.

A few months ago, I got some technical issues with my WordPress website, so iI had to contact SiteGround Support staff for the help and within few hours of opening a support ticket, my problem was solved.

So, after 8 months, I can say, SiteGround is one of the best when it comes to Reliable Web Hosting. I also written a review on my website to tell more people about this hosting company so that they can leave all those ugly hosting companies and migrate to SiteGround for better service.

And I must say, you have written your points very clearly in this review. Great Work Done.

Regards,
Julie Schrier

Hi:

I want to change hosting and email provider. I am using now Globat, but have a lot of problems with the email service. Some emails take hours to arrive and some never does.

Can you please tell me is SiteGround emails service is reliable and fast? I don´t want to go through all the trouble changing providers and end up with the same problem. Or if there is a more reliable email provider?

I would appreciate a lot feedback from an expert like you.

Regards from Costa Rica,

Emilia Bermejo

Really good hosting. Fast, safe and excellent technical support.

I used their service for one of my old project for a Magento store and still running. The best thing i found about them is “Prompt Customer Support”. Their support is super fast there is no complain about it.

For uptime I would give them a 8, they have recently raised their prices on the larger packages, I would give them a 6 on price. For the security of their servers I would give them a 10. I wrote review about siteground for an Italian site also. Great hosting!

Server is down from past 10 hours.

Siteground is worlds worst hosting provider, they provider shared hosting and claim that they are best but the fact is that they are one of the worst in terms of support and server uptime,

I lost my business reputation beacuase of siteground in 10 hours i lost revenue.

Please do not become a victim of fraud by siteground,

If you are unable to provide service please refund my amount and let me know. So, i can take backup and move to a different hosting provider as i don’t need this kind of service.

Account ID: 877825
Check results:
Recommended DNS servers: ns1.sgp28.siteground.asia, ns2.sgp28.siteground.asia
Domain DNS servers: ns1.sgp28.siteground.asia, ns2.sgp28.siteground.asia
Domain DNS (NS) check: ns1.sgp28.siteground.asia, ns2.sgp28.siteground.asia
Limitations: OK
Recommended DNS (A): Unable to resolve recommended DNS (A) record with WHM
Check site by IP (whmaccount): Could not obtain account IP address
Domain DNS (A): 77.104.150.87
Domain DNS (A) Record check: Please set your DNS (A) record
Accessing account by server IP address: Could not open site (response code: 0)

I had read a lot of wonderful things about Siteground. So I went in with pretty high expectations, especially moving away from Host Gator.

It turned into one of the most disappointing experiences with support I’ve ever dealt with. Over a period of 5 days I dealt with numerous different techs all working on migrating my two simple WordPress websites. After a couple of days the migration was “complete” and on their end it appeared to look fine. However, that’s apparently the only place it appeared to be working.

Even in following their instructions to view the website in staging I was unable to verify that it was actually successfully migrated. There were site wide CSS and image issues. I confirmed the issue on multiple PCs and several browsers. The problem persisted across the board.

Even so, tech after tech assured me that it was simply my fault for not clearing cache / resetting DNS.

After a period of 5 days I finally gave up, as I simply needed to move on to a host company that could actually deliver.

The cancellation process was equally as frustrating. It took 30 minutes to cancel, as they force you to speak with a chat rep before they will let you cancel.

The cherry on the cake of this experience was they flat out refused to refund any portion of my payment. I paid $229 for a dedicated server, another $99 for the setup, and another $30 for an extra migration. $0 was refunded.

Their policy that they simply don’t refund dedicated server payments is simply mind boggling. Especially in a case where I never was able to actually use the dedicated server and neither WordPress sites were successfully migrated.

Perhaps the most disappointing and frustrating host experience of my entire career.

Hi Al Amin. Great review here. Btw I use siteground for my Amazon niche site and it was great so far.

Thank you for sharing such a nice and indepth review. I am sure will buy SG hosting for one of my sites soon.
Regards,
M Imran

one of the worst server in my life i have seen is site ground. they are too commercial not providing good service.. if any problem occur they are asking the money extra

IF YOU WORK HARD FOR YOUR BUSINESS AND YOU LOVE IT ,PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM SITEGROUND

So migrating from hostgator to siteground was one of the biggest business mistakes i made.A couple of days after migration ,i started having server issues.they actually shot my site down wthout notifiying and they said i went over my traffic limit,So i upgraded.I Keft having sever issues on the daily and whenever i contact them ,all they tell me is to upgrade my accout.I kept on upgrading even to one of the best servers they had and after several promises of not having anymore problems with new server,i was still having loads of server issues
Siteground has affected my business immesly as i get customers from google .Google had to pull my website out of searches both on mobile and on desktop due to the high amount of errors on my site
i had about 16000 server errors .So this has affected my business alot and i moved my site bk to hostgator for a very cheaper price,not a single server error.website is so fast iits amazing.Now am waiting for google to reindex all my links and start showing my website but for now,im dealing with the consequences of migrating to siteground

Great post Al-Amin. I follow your blog and I should say I’m impressed with quality of some posts. I looked at siteground and it seems a good solution at a fair price. It includes a lot of additional features that are all included. Thanks for the recommendation, will give it a try.

I was confuse earlier if i should try siteground for my next website. Some of the point of siteground seem promising and had quality so i go for siteground. Thank you for sharing!

The article is very interesting and very useful for the readers. Especially the new ones know about this.

This is an informative post review. I am so pleased to get this post article and nice information. I was looking forward to getting such a post which is very helpful to us.Thanks for sharing. As per Our Experience Siteground Is best Web hosting. Fast, safe and excellent technical support.

Thanks

SiteGround is really a best hosting service. Their overall performance is good and they rock in their customer support which Many web hosting providers lack. they are highly recommended.

Thanks for great Siteground review. SiteGround hosting is good and fast. They offers free domain name Free CDN. Also they are now offering free SSL with top notch support.

What I liked most is their fast customer support!

Overall – I’d recommend SiteGround!

Im from Malaysia and faced bad experience with site-ground as well. They is plenty limited features which you wont know when purchase time. those who newbie in hosting, will trap on their web hosting plan. beware !. As Merv mention in comment, they will keep on asking upgrade whenever they you contact live support/post tickets.

Regards,
Krishna
from Malaysia

We take customer feedback seriously and we have reviewed your account. We see that you have only become our client about a month ago. We checked your account on our GrowBig Plan and we couldn’t find any issues you have reported via chat, phone or the Helpdesk system. No upgrades have been offered to you as a solution, as you have not submitted any requests for assistance to our customer care team. Please note that after we investigate an issue we always give you several alternatives as options for resolution and let you decide which one suits you best.
Our system shows your site is running normally. We want to point out that our GrowBig plan has all the essential features from our entry plan like all SSD storage, free SSL certificates via Let’s Encrypt, free email etc, and on top of that allows hosting multiple domains, gives you priority technical support, caching tool for faster speed and more. Because it is a shared hosting plan, your account shares the resources of the same server with other users, and we have specified the allocated usage that the plan can accommodate. We are transparent about the resources available for each plan on our sales pages and our team is always available to help you determine what will be a suitable solution for your website needs.

Seriously, someone recomending for a full year seems like someone working for siteground making this review very biased.

My experience with SG has been anything short of pleasant. Their customer service sucks big time. I feel they are really not connected with their customers. They are really good at getting you hooked and then leave you plastered to the wall hanging on ur own.

Bad email support – they don’t inform u about anything. Only frequent automated emails I got was that your website is clean. BFD!!

From my experince, When a company tries to justify customer complaints as they have done in these reviews with their own reasons thats make them not help the customer but arrogant.

That’s how I felt when I had to deal with customer service at SG. Would not recommend them to anyone as they lack in customer support, weak in their performance and are pricey. You won’t get full bang for your buck.

This is really a informative knowledge about shared hosting. Thank you For your Support.

hey al amin thank you so much for u recomended hosting plan i am very helpfull.

Hi,
This review is really excellent. I have taken a decision that I will moved my site to Siteground after s few months.

Hello dear,

This is one of best hosting. I used this hosting and feeling awesome.
Thank you SiteGround.

I am using Namecheap since 2 years and it’s good for a newborn website. Currently I have 3 websites which I want to host together in a good and reliable hosting. Which one should I choose?

I personally like managed WordPress hosting for a WordPress blog. Currently, I’m using another shared hosting. But I think Siteground is the best for WordPress blog.
However, thanks for this review.

Few People have complained about Siteground support. But remember quality is better than support. You will get the worst support from Amazon server but they are best is quality.

Good in depth article mate. Currently switching over to these guys and it’s good to get another person perspective / experience.

Cheers

One thing to flag: The service itself is fine, but their renewal process is incredibly shady. They auto-renew all services automatically at a price they set, and provide no option in their system to turn auto-renew off.

The only way to avoid the charges to to manually contact customer support for every single service. On top of that, they refuse to refund charges that auto-renew (unless you escalate, in which case their tune changes).

It’s essentially a scam to make extra money off people who aren’t paying attention when renewal comes up. This doesn’t reflect well at all on the underlying philosophy of the company — SiteGround clearly cares much more about a little extra revenue than about its customers.

Hi Ayaz,

We would like to add some clarifications on our auto-renewal process.

Please note that our automatic renewal system exists in order to prevent downtime for the sites of our customers. For our clients’ convenience, the auto-renew option is enabled by default on their account.
You can change this setting at any time via your client area billing section—> billing settings. Each service you have purchased with us is listed there and with a simple slide button, you can select to turn off the auto-renew. You can also request assistance about that from our team.
We are sorry about the confusion on managing the auto-renewal option, which our chat operator did not address very well in your recent conversation on this topic.

At the same time, we can see she has correctly pointed out in your session that we sent multiple notifications via email prior to charging you for the renewal. When there is no action on your part the system processes the payments automatically.
The rates about each service and their renewal rates are clearly displayed in your client area and you can view them. In addition, when you get close to the expiration date of a service you are using upon logging into your client area we also alert you that you have services due for renewal, and we prompt you to take action about them. We are transparent about our prices, but in case you are not sure about the amount you need to pay you can always check with our team.

Regarding auto-renew charges, we would like to clarify that as per our terms they are not eligible for a refund. Please note that upon sign up you have agreed with our terms and accepted them for using our services. We have made an exception in your case and refunded the services you wished to cancel in your client wallet.

Regards,
SiteGround Team

Siteground has the absolute worst customer service. Rude technical support people and totally not helpful. I had a rep on the phone and she would not open a support ticket for me. Told me to go file a support ticket myself. My site has been hacked after I warned them that my site was under a brute force attack — and they did nothing. Then they made it so I can’t even access my account to clean the code. But they did try to sell me a package with one of their partner companies to clean the code.

I will be moving my websites and I can’t warn anyone considering them as a host enough to BEWARE!

Hi Christine,

We were sorry to hear you are not satisfied with our services We checked on your case and we would like to add some clarifications.

With regard to incidents of hacked websites – please note that our hosting service does not cover cleanup. As a web host we take care of the security on the server, we set up the firewall, security rules, create our custom patches for known application issues even before the actual application developers release their official patches, and much more. Still, a big part of the security of the website depends on the website owner – they have to make sure they use strong passwords, they keep their application and plugins up-to-date. Even when we do everything in our power to ensure security on server level for our clients’ accounts, a website can get infected for example due to a weak password – and this is not something that the web host can control. For this reason, when we detect malware activity on your account we place a limit and inform you about the incident with the goal to protect other users or websites you may have on the account. In your client area, we provide information about the infected files and options to remove them: on your own or by using a third-party service. Our system shows we have scanned your account and provided you with a list of the compromised files earlier this year. As we cannot remove the infected files, we have given you as an option to refer to a third party provider that has the expertise in this field.

Regarding your point about our agent not assisting you with a ticket opening, there has been a misunderstanding in the way we communicated to you why your request for restoring the website from an older version was not a solution to the problem. As you have contacted us to check why we haven’t offered this option upon the initial case of detected malware activity, our operator on the phone has explained that we do not recommend this practice as a solution to a hacked site. When it is not clear how and when your site got infected, simply taking an older version of your website can still contain the compromised files, which will not solve the initial problem. The more effective solution in such cases is to clean up the problem files, and we have again referred you to the ticket where we had the scanned results for the website.
Once you have cleaned your account you can request a new scan, and when we verify there is no more malware we put your website back online.
We can see that yesterday you had a conversation with another representative who has granted access to your IP address so you can work on your website and remove the compromised files generating malware activity.

Good article! I see you recommend inmotion over siteground? Any specific reasons? I have a friend who has a dedicated with inmotion and is very happy, but curious your view points! Thanks!

Hello dude,
I already check many hosting (world class) and i think Siteground is the best shared hosting i’ve ever known. Btw, thanks for sharing dan that’s great review.

I’ve question for you, and please answer it. Which one “Siteground and Inmotion” having best quality of hosting? It’s mean about server quality, features, and then support.

Thank you. ^_^

Dear Brother,
You are my affiliate marketing guru. I have started affiliate marketing by seeing your video tutorial. So, whenever I find any article from you I try to read it. You are a pioneer in this industry in our country. So many blessings for you.

Hello dear,

I’ve tried a lot of hosting company in 5 years but I never get a satisfactory result from anyone. My site running not good.

The Siteground company is only hosting company and this company features is good. Every time I had to use siteground’s support I was very well assisted. All of the representatives are kind and helpful.

Thanks.

Hi Alamin,
It is in reality thorough researched article about SiteGround. I later the fact that you were skillful to locate actual uptime and page load mature details.
But I am always loved to use reputation and good customer support hosting company.
Thank you for sharing.keep it up.

Great hosting service! Customer support should always be this good! The tech support guru’s here have gone above and beyond for me many times. I don’t feel like I just have a host with SiteGround, I feel like I have a partner I can rely on.

Such a pleasant post love to peruse your article and got so much data and it will exceptionally supportive for me and I trust heaps of individuals will get data. Continue sharing this kind of article, thanks for sharing!!!

Do not, I repeat. Do not, use this hosting company.

They advertise that their shared servers allow for X amount of visitors a month, but this is not accurate. They really mean CPU seconds or processing power, meaning if your site is any more than a standard 5 page non-interactive platform, it won’t be able to run on shared servers.

Once your hosting is restricted, you have to wait for the next month to change to the next CPU cycle (to get your CPU time back)

However, what’s worse is- the CPU restriction is removed after 1 month.. which just so happens to be the period of time to receive a refund…

So if you actually wait out the time for the next CPU usage time, you’re no longer able to get a refund.

In addition, if you want to upgrade your plan to add more processing power… you pay the difference as if you’re renewing past your first term, so you lose your X% off that you got when signing up.

Meaning, instead of upgrading from $6 to $12 (first term rate).. you’re upgrading from $6 to $30 x 12 months… even though you’re still in the first term. You are punished for not going with the highest available term when signing up.

Lastly, support is pretty lackluster. Technicians will advise you to fix issues by restarting your PC and/or clearing browser cache.

It reminds me of basic floor room IT… sounding like “is your monitor on?”

If you want to have anything more than a standard 5 page site with a contact form… I highly suggest to you to use another company.

Otherwise, they will upsell you- and you will take a loss.

Same deceptive marketing as everyone else. They advertise a low price, then they auto bill at the full price at the end of the term. Or the low price only applies when you sign on the dotted line for 3 year term. No Transparency. Really hard to find ANY host with integrity or honesty.

Hi Mike,

We were sorry to hear you feel this way. We aim to be transparent about pricing policies and they are easily accessible on our website.
Our sales pages include our regular rates, along with promo prices and current discounts offered. In addition, upon checkout, a client is notified that the promotional price is only valid for the initial billing period. At that step, the client can select a longer period – 24 or 36-month, in order to secure the said savings for a longer period. Last but not least, renewal prices are displayed in the Customer Area Billing section and we always send email reminders about upcoming renewal with information about the discount rate available if the user renews manually in advance.

Regards,
SiteGround Team

if you want to upgrade your plan to add more processing powe, you pay the difference as if you’re renewing past your first term. Good article! I see you recommend in motion over site ground? Any specific reasons?