Siteground or HostGator, which one is better,
or more importantly which one is better suited to you.
In this video I will put them both to the test and compare them side by side against each other
and the five categories that i'll be comparing them on are pricing i will determine who has the
best price and what is included in those pricing plans setup and ease of use i will show you
who has a more intuitive user interface and who makes it easier to set up and manage your website
speed and uptime performance i will test which hosting provider is faster and more reliable
support i will ask questions from their customer support team to determine who is more responsive
and helpful and lastly features i will compare the features of these two hosting providers
to determine who has more and better features and at the end of this video i will give you
a very special offer if you decide to pick up siteground or hostgator through my link below
i will give you my six figure blogger course for free as a bonus and just a way of saying thank you
for supporting my channel in this course i show you how to set up your wordpress website the right
way how to adjust and tweak settings for optimal website performance and how to start driving
traffic and make money from your site now let's get straight into this review pricing options
to make it fair we are just going to compare their normal price with no extra special discount i've
done individual reviews on each hosting provider and have special discount links
for both which i will leave in the description where you can purchase it once you have decided
which hosting provider is right for you let's compare the cheapest plans for each hosting
provider first this one is going to be pretty easy siteground startup plan for three years
costs 10.49 per month while hostgator's hatchling plan will set you back 2.75 per
month this means that hostgator is 74 cheaper than siteground which is a huge difference
if we compare their one-year plans siteground will cost 6.99 while hostgator is just 3.95
which shows a smaller difference here as hostgator is now only 43 percent cheaper compared to 74
on the three-year plan so hostgator easily won out against siteground for their cheapest plan
now what about if you're more advanced and want their most expensive plan i'll compare that for
you now the comparison are very similar here where hostgator's top plan is 79 cheaper than
the siteground for three years and 47 cheaper for one year this was expected so overall you can see
that hostgator wins on price hands down but now that you know the percentage price difference
you can watch my next categories and see if the extra features siteground offers over hostgator
is worth the extra money for your specific plans but for this pricing category i have to give one
point to hostgator after purchase setup and ease of use now let's go through and assess which
hosting provider is actually easier to set up and use this one is going to be tough because both
siteground and hostgator have custom interface in their back ends which are somewhat similar let's
start with hostgator here hostgator has a clean looking interface and is easy to navigate through
the different sections on their back end i just have a minor issue with them in that they tend
to hide some free features and present the paid ones instead like for the free email account if
you navigate to the email and offers tab you won't find the free option to create emails instead you
would have to navigate to the advanced section and create your free email account from their cpanel
so that is why i tend to like sitegrounds interface a little bit better their dashboard
is super clean and responsive once you go to the website section and choose the website
you want to work on their intuitive interface makes it very easy to do anything to your site
and they don't try to upsell you on things by hiding the email set up like hostgator i believe
both hostgator and sitegrounds user interface are one of the best choices for beginners if you
haven't created or hosted a website before you will be able to get your wordpress site up and
running in less than five minutes without any technical knowledge or coding skills
thanks to their one click wordpress installation which both of them provide
overall this one was a very tight one but i would have to give the point to siteground because it is
slightly easier for me to work on my site and they didn't have as many upsell tricks speed
and uptime performance tests first let's start with a comparison of the speed performance test
i made sure to compare apples with apples by installing the same speed and image optimizer
plugins and putting cloudflare on both accounts to optimize it my test result shows siteground
to have a page load speed of 2.7 seconds on gt metrics while hostgator only managed to score a
3.9 second page load time this means siteground is 31 faster than hostgator one other thing i
should note though is that on sitegrounds higher paid plans the grow big and go geek plans come
with the option to replace your free caching plugin with sitegrounds sg optimizer plug-in
and the benefit that i received here is that it increased my site speed to 1.9 second load time
which is super fast now with this new speed siteground is now a whopping 51 percent
faster than hostgator that's more than double another thing that possibly has helped siteground
with their speed against hostgator is they currently have six locations around the world
as opposed to hostgator only being in one country which is the united states
this allows siteground to have faster speed for traffic coming from outside the united states
which is a big advantage for them to have now if you want more details on my tests or just want
a more in-depth review of siteground or hostgator you can check the link in the description for that
the next thing we will compare is the uptime siteground were able to produce a perfect 100
uptime and their site has been up for 90 days straight which is amazing same can't
be said for hostgator though for my tests their uptime in the 30-day period was only
nine 99.895 percent this is way below my standard of 99.95 percent uptime and even hostgator's own
uptime guarantee of 99.9 i was very disappointed with this result and hostgator has really dropped
the ball on this one overall another point has to be given to siteground this was an easy win
for them as their speed is much faster and are more flexible for server locations siteground
has one of the fastest shared hosting setup in the industry and hostgator is a long way off here
their site does not meet google's standard of 3 second load time and their uptime was also very
poor and they are not a reliable hosting provider do you like the level of detail in my comparison
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with regards to hostgator's customer support response time their overall average over peak
and off-peak periods was a decent four and a half minutes i consider anything under five minutes to
be okay so hostgator was just under that however siteground took this to the next level clocking in
at just one minute and 20 seconds as the average response time which is one of the fastest from
any hosting providers i have tested siteground also beat out hostgator with the level of service
and staff knowledge on fixing my problems for example when i ask them both to scan and remove
malware from my website sidegrounds chat support were willing to help straight away and scan the
website for me to check for the virus however they were not willing to remove the virus for me if any
were found it's not ideal but at least they were willing to find the virus for me and list them out
and then all i have to do was to go one by one into the files and delete them hostgator could
not do the same they were willing to help locate the malware but this took almost 30 minutes of
wait time on live chat and at the end of the conversation the support staff told me that he
had to forward it to a specialist and he will scan and send me the report separately by email this
just shows a difference in their support staff's level of knowledge and know-how so based on this
i would have to declare the overall winner in the customer support department to be siteground
and give them another point their support is three times more responsive and their level of
service is much better so it's an easy win here for siteground here's a quick question for you
who are you leaning more towards so far siteground or hostgator and why let me know in the comments
section below features terms of features this one would have to be an easy win for siteground
as they have all the features hostgator offer and so much more hostgator does however offer a nice
handy feature of the free website migration if you are moving over from another hosting provider
hostgator's team will personally do this for you whereas siteground does not offer this service for
free the biggest and most important feature which is critical for your website and is missing from
hostgator but not with siteground is the automatic daily backups siteground provides daily backups of
your website for free on all their plans this is the standard nowadays and i believe every
hosting provider should have one so it's really disappointing to know that hostgator has not
included this feature the next thing i have to discuss is speed and performance siteground has
one of the fastest website speed out of any shared hosting provider i tested i believe this is due to
their custom caching solution and having multiple server locations worldwide hostgator on the other
hand takes twice as long to load and their uptime is not reliable either overall this one is a
no-brainer again sideground gets my point easily for the feature section they are so far apart
here to me this more than justifies the extra cost you are paying for siteground to get all
these extra features and benefits recommendation so after comparing these two hosting providers
over five categories sideground was the clear winner they won four categories while hostgator
only won one i don't think i can recommend hostgator oversight ground in any situation
they may be cheaper but the price difference is just not enough for the performance loss compared
to siteground if you need a cheap hosting provider with decent features because you can't afford the
price tag of siteground i will recommend you an option in a minute but if you have the money
and are willing to pay a bit more siteground is well worth it with amazing website performance
and great customer support and i think they can serve you well this is a quick note regarding
my bonus offer to you if you decide to pick up siteground or hostgator through my link
just make sure to quickly send me your receipt to bonus dot com dot com and i'll send you back
access to my course immediately it's that simple now that you have decided on your hosting provider
it's time to fully build out your website and this next video will help you with exactly that
but if after watching this video you think siteground is a bit too expensive or you think
hostgator's performance is not good enough then i recommend you watch this video for my number
one recommendation which i personally also use myself and i'll see you in the next tutorial