Are you looking for a fast hosting provider with great customer support? Well in this Siteground
review I'm going to show you everything that you need to know about Siteground so you can make a
better informed decision on whether this hosting provider is right for you. i'm not going to waste
your time with fluff content here instead i'm going to provide you value by showing you results
from my live test like the page load speed uptime and customer support quality i also provide you
with a live demo so you essentially get to test out siteground without having to actually purchase
it for yourself and lastly i will provide you with my honest recommendations on if
or who should buy siteground i will have a special bonus offer for you if you decide to pick up
siteground through my special discounted link in the description below i also have a free checklist
on starting a successful blog for everyone so make sure to stick with me to the end and
i'll show you how to get access to this bonus now let's get straight into this 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 siteground's 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 have 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 3 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 plug-ins so now i'm going to deactivate sg optimizer and replace it with the free
plug-in 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 geek 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'd 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
down time was zero 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 siteground speed and
performance a 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 do you think siteground's page load speed of 1.9 seconds is faster or slower than what you
expected 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 ask 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 asked 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 scanned 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 biased 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
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i'll be releasing every single week pricing options click on the link in the description
or type this into your browser this will bring you to my personal discount page on siteground
where you will get their current best deal available i will be comparing their shared hosting
plan in this review as that is what most people are looking for although siteground 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 fifteen to twenty dollars per
year for just the domain name and then they will add on another ten to fifteen dollars
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 gonna 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 who is 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 the 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 this is a quick note regarding my bonus offer to you if you decide
to pick up siteground through my link just send me your receipt to bonus dot com dollar and i'll
send you access to my bonus course right away and if you want my free checklist on starting a
successful blog then just go to this link in the description to get access to that recommendation
overall i have given siteground an average score of 8.5 out of 10. they really are one of the best
shared web hosting providers i've tested they have great speeds the interface is one of the cleanest
and easiest to use and their support is also top notch you just can't beat that perfect combination
so this is my recommendation for you whether you're a beginner or advanced user looking for
the best overall shared hosting provider i believe siteground is a very worthy option that i think
you should really consider however if you're on a budget and can't afford the fairly expensive
price of siteground then i don't think they're the right option for you now i think picking the
right hosting provider is such a crucial step for your business so you must get this right
but if after watching this review you don't think siteground is the right hosting provider for you
then i recommend you check out this hosting alternative which i know will do the job but
if you're happy with siteground then go to this next video and i'll see you over in that tutorial