SiteGround
SiteGround is a popular shared hosting provider for hosting simple sites.
They offer multiple hosting options.
They offer lots of new features to make hosting WordPress websites easily.
Performance
The performance they offered is good.
SiteGround offers 99.99% uptime and they kept the promise for the last 24 months.
From February 2019 to December 2019, they kept their promise and maintained 99.99% to 100% uptime.
In January 2020, they dropped to having 99.92% uptime.
The loading time is also good. This is important because most people won’t wait for a slow site to load.
The sites that are tested load after less than a second. This is very good since this speed is above average.
Customer Support
SiteGround offers a live chat for support. It’s available 24/7 so you won’t have to worry about it being unavailable.
The support staff answers very quickly, so we can reach them without trouble any time of the day.
Site Migration.
Siteground offers free site migration for 1 site if you move to them.
This way, you won’t have to do the hard work of moving the site yourself.
With this option, we can avoid downtime and worry for any issues that comes up since we get help from SiteGround to do the migration.
Free SSL Certificate and CDN
SiteGround offers integration with CloudFlare so that we can use their CDN to cache our site’s content.
Setting up CloudFlare integration is very easy since e can do it with one click.
This way, it loads faster without us doing much work.
Also, Let’s Encrypt is built-in so we can use the certificate they issue for free.
We won’t have to worry about renewals since it’s done automatically.
WordPress Features
Daily backups are offered for free so we won’t lost any data.
We can keep up to 30 backup copies of our websites.
Also, we can set up unlimited amounts of email accounts for free.
They can be managed with the webmail interface that they offer.
Antispam features are also included so we won’t worry about our inboxes being filled with junk mail.
Also, we can make a staging site so that we can test features that will go to our production website without messing with the production site itself.
More advanced features for people that can program include different versions of PHP so we can maintain compatibility with older apps.
Git integration lets us check-in code to our Git repos and runs code from there from our SiteGround account.
Caching is also offered so users don’t have to repeatedly download the same content again and again.
Uptime is maintained by generating alerts when it’s down. And SiteGround’s sysadmins will take a look at them immediately.
Also, we can collaborate with other people and show sites to clients.
MySQL and PostgresSQL database management systems are offered so we can pick the database system of our choice to use.
Apache or Nginx can be used for reversed proxies.
At least one WordPress site can be migrated for free, depending on the plan.
Conclusion
Overall, they have lots of useful features for hosting small sites.
They offer security and performance that are above average.
The polls shows that many people like Siteground: