In this Siteground review, I'm going to show you everything that you need to know about
Siteground before deciding if they're the right hosting provider for you. I will provide you with
a comprehensive and honest review where i will break down the pricing structure and show you how
to get the best deal currently available next i will guide you through the entire sign up process
and judge how easy their platform is to use i will then grade their performance based on page load
speed and uptime from siteground's go geek plan that i bought and lastly i will provide you with
the pros and cons and my honest recommendations on if or who should buy siteground at the end of this
video i will give you a very special offer if you decide to pick up siteground through my link below
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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
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i will be comparing their shared hosting plan in this review as that is what most people
are looking for although sideground also offers other higher end hosting solutions
like they manage cloud hosting plans so you know that they are capable of supporting you when
you are ready for an upgrade there are three shared hosting plans that siteground offers
with the startup tier currently costing 6.99 per month you are limited to just one website and 10
gigabytes of web space which seems quite expensive to me considering it was about half this price
early in the year before their new pricing model was released if you require more than one website
then you need to look at the next two tiers which can provide you with unlimited websites
these are called grow big and grow geek plans which will cost you 9.99 and 14.99
which is more reasonable and comparable to other hosting providers i no longer consider
siteground as a budget hosting provider however i do believe they are still one of the very best
in terms of performance and i still have my own personal account with them i will explain to you
who i believe siteground is suitable for later on in the video so stick around for that apart from
the standard increase in web space and website visits the main difference that sets these two
plans apart from their startup plan and honestly many of the other hosting providers is their speed
optimizer plugin called sg optimizer on the startup plan you only get the first level of
caching which is the static caching but on their grow big and grow geek plans you get all three
levels which also includes dynamic and memcache so i'm gonna go all out and get their go geek plan
now with their domain names i really don't recommend that you buy your domain name
with siteground or any other hosting provider as they always charge you 15 to 20 dollars per year
for just the domain name and then they will add on another 10 to 15
for domain privacy so that means overall you're gonna have to fork out up to thirty dollars per
year for a domain name other reviewers don't tell you about this disadvantage because they're afraid
they're going to lose the sale but i just wanted to be upfront and honest with you and provide
you with the full knowledge to make an informed decision now what i recommend you do instead is to
buy all your domain names from namecheap.com i use them myself for all my domain names and they have
been great so the main advantage you can see over here is if you buy your domain name from namecheap
you will get the whois guard which is the privacy protection for free and all that for under 10
i've also got a link and tutorial video for you if you're interested in purchasing your domain
name through namecheap however if you don't care about the price and you think you're going to
stay with siteground for the long term then by all means pick a domain name from siteground
now fill out all your private information and we come down to this section now we need to choose a
data center locations siteground has six locations for you to choose from i always recommend you
choose the location which is closest to most of your customers so for example if you have a
local business in australia or new zealand then i would choose australia as my location but if your
customers are worldwide then i would definitely want to choose the united states siteground also
comes with very flexible monthly 12-month 24-month and 36-month plans all their plans used to cost
the same on their previous pricing structures so it didn't matter how long you choose you would
always get the same monthly price but now their cheapest plan is a 12 month plan so they are not
incentivizing you to buy three years like everyone else does they want you to buy for only 12 months
and then renew at this massive increase of 39.99 per month i really don't like this new strategy of
siteground i just think it's a bad business model it just doesn't make sense why their 24-month plan
and their 36-month plan would cost more per month than their 12-month plan anyway i would just pick
their 12-month plan and for the next part is the sg site scanner this one i would definitely
recommend you not buying it as it is not necessary so if you're happy with everything just confirm
and click pay now the overall pricing score i would give siteground is only a 5 out of
10. siteground used to be slightly more expensive than other hosting providers but they made up for
it with their performance and speed but now with a new price hike i really don't think their price
is great at all and i can't give them a better score than this so if you're someone who only
needs one website or is just a beginner starting out i would 100 not recommend siteground at this
price for you i have a better recommendation which i will share with you later on in the video
if you're someone with a budget and just want the best of the best then siteground may still
be the best option for you so just stick around for the next part of the review after purchase
setup and ease of use last year siteground did a complete overhaul of their systems
and moved away from cpanel to their own custom solution which i really love it is so intuitive
and easy to navigate so i will now show you by doing a quick install of my wordpress website
so you can see how easy and quick this actually is right
now let me show you how easy it is to install your ssl certificate and cloudflare compared
to your typical way of doing it on cpanel so you just go to security click on ssl manager
select your ssl and click get it's literally a one click install it's that easy literally i've
only clicked one or two buttons and it's done and now once your ssl certificate has been installed
then you just go to actions and enforce https click on that button and we're done and you can
easily check this by navigating to wordpress install and manage scroll to the bottom click
on this login to admin panel and now we can see that our website has a lock on it and
the certificate is valid so hopefully this shows you how easy it is to navigate through
sitegrounds dashboard and i'll also show you how easy cloudflare is to install over cpanel in the
next section overall i would score siteground a perfect 10 out of 10 for setup and ease of use
i really can't fault them with anything in this section i think all users especially beginners
would love how clean their new interface is and just how easy it is to navigate and do things to
your website i'm very impressed speed and uptime performance tests after i've installed the basic
wordpress site i went ahead and tested out the speed of the bare bones website using gt metrics
the result is 1.1 seconds this is super fast and is showing great promise considering i've
not optimized the website at all yet so now i will take it a step further and add some design
elements to it to increase the page size and the speed will be a bit slower but don't worry
if you're overwhelmed looking at this my course that i will provide you for supporting the channel
will guide you through this step by step i'm also going to configure optimum settings for the sg
optimizer plugin by turning on static dynamic and memcache i will also install cloudflare and the
free short pixel image optimizer plugin this will make it more comparable to what you would normally
do in real life the speed is now 1.9 seconds as it's way under google's recommendation of three
seconds and is close to being the fastest out of all shared hosting platforms that i've tested so
their sg optimizer plugins seems to be living up to the expectations so far lastly i wanted
to test out their grow big and go geek plans and see how fast their premium plan really is
and if it's faster than just installing a free speed optimizer plugins so now i'm going to
deactivate sg optimizer and replace it with the free plugin called wp fastest cache now let's
see what the load speed will be the new speed is now 2.7 seconds which is 0.8 seconds slower
so i would say there is enough of a difference here for their grow big and go gee plans to be
worth that extra money but only when you have enough traffic coming in of course
at the beginning i wouldn't worry about it and i just stick to their startup plan now moving on to
uptime i have been monitoring the stability and performance of siteground with uptime robot and
can report that their uptime for the last 30 days is 100 that's right their downtime was 0 minutes
in fact the last time my site was down with siteground was around 90 days ago which was
amazing you really can't beat that overall i would rate sight ground speed and performance and 9
out of 10 as you can't really fault them here on anything and their speed is lightning fast and is
one of the best i have tested for shared hosting here's a quick question for you what is your page
load speed and who is your current hosting provider let me know in the comments section below
support siteground has a few different options for you to contact them by whether you want to
call email or live chat them they are available 24 7 to help you out their customer service team
is regarded by many people as the best in the industry so i will test them out by asking
them these three different questions on live chat first i will tell them that i have been
infected by a virus on my website and asked for their help second i asked them a quick question
about their sg optimizer plugin and which plan i need to purchase to get this but one trick
i have on this question is i choose the wrong question category and the third question is i
ask them if they could do me a favor and install the ssl certificate and cloudflare for me as i
am a complete newbie and i have no idea how to do it and here are the results for question one they
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 for the second question they were able to resolve my query in
about five minutes and that includes the wait time so that's not bad at all and for my last question
siteground did not hesitate to install my ssl certificate and cloudflare they immediately did
that for me and i didn't have to click a single button on my mouse i was really impressed by their
response for that with regards to the response time i contacted them at three different times of
the day to make sure i get an overall average and not just a bias fast response time during their
off-peak hours so their three response times were 30 seconds 10 seconds and 3 minutes and 15 seconds
so that averages out to be around 1 minute and 20 seconds of wait time which is definitely the
fastest i've tested out of all companies so far so overall i would say their support was great and
i would score them a 9 out of 10. their support team was friendly and willing to help immediately
without having to ask twice and their response time is the best i've ever had from any online
service including those outside of the web hosting world i just took one mark off because they did
not actually help with the removal part of the virus scan and that was it are you enjoying
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cons so let me first start off with the cons i only had one con for siteground and that is
their price siteground used to be competitive with their pricing compared to their main competitors
it was always a little bit more expensive but you can see from the above test that i have done
they were always pretty much the best in terms of features and performance but since they increased
their price a few months ago they are just not comparable anymore for their shared hosting plan
and their renewal prices have also gone through the roof pros the first pro that stands out to me
is siteground speed and performance they have one of the fastest website speed out of any hosting
provider i tested and not to mention the 90 days straight of no downtime just can't be beaten by
anyone else the second pro is their customer support i think they are also the best in the
industry they are by far the most responsive at all times of the day and are always proactive to
help you out and not just guide you with articles to read and then make you fix things yourself the
next big pro is an intuitive back-end system which i believe is much easier to navigate and use than
cpanel this may not be a big deal for someone who has been building websites for a while but it is a
big plus for beginners just starting out this is the quick note regarding my special offer to you
if you decide to pick up siteground through my link simply just send me your full receipt and
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it's that simple overall i have given siteground an average score of 8.5 out of 10. they really
are the best in terms of performance and speed so this is my recommendation for you if you are just
after the best and fastest hosting provider with a plus support team and you have money to spend then
i would 100 recommend siteground to you i have my go geek hosting plan currently with them too
and i love it however if you are a beginner who's just starting out and have a tighter budget then i
would not recommend siteground for you there are much cheaper options out there for you to choose
from now if you think sideground is not right for you then i definitely recommend you check out
this hosting alternative or if you're happy with siteground but need help installing your wordpress
website on the platform then check out this video okay that's it i'll see you over there you