If you are new to web hosting and don’t know about the best platform for your web needs, you need to check SiteGround.
Why SiteGround?
In 2004, SiteGround emerged as a private web hosting company. With its headquarters in Bulgaria, SiteGround progressed by leaps and bounds and started providing services of hosting, cloud hosting and dedicated sharing.
As of 2018, the company has over 400 employees and is one of the leading web hosting companies of the world.
Services
All of web hosting companies offer two services. Domain name and web hosting. It is often advised to buy domain name and web hosting services from a single company because it gets cheaper for you.
The question is, if all the websites are providing such services, what makes SiteGround so much special?
We’ll break siteGround in terms of different performances.
Uptime
This is the time a website takes to keep online. It is the running time of the company’s servers. The larger uptime, the greater your website will be available over the internet.
SiteGround is unique in a sense that they were the first to introduce account isolation feature, in order to make their clients more secure and their Linux servers perform surprisingly well, in times of peak web-traffic hours.
During the raw data, obtained from past twelve months, their average upkeep time is 99.9%
And during the year 2017, they only suffered from 10 minute outages. The number is very efficient, considering there are companies like Web Hosting Pad, which had 2000+ outages in one year.
Loading Time
A person becomes frustrated with the website if it does not load with-in seconds. A person can also never come back to a specific website, once it is known that a website has a poor loading time.
In last 12 months, it has been observed that the average speed of SiteGround is 465ms. The company offers quick and constant speed.
Easy Commerce Installation
If you are a businessman, you might have known about Magento – the powerful E-commerce application which is widely used in top commerce stores of internet, however Magento is difficult to handle, especially if you don’t possess strong technical knowledge.
But Magento is just one platform. SiteGround offers you almost 18 E-commerce platforms and that too with “1 click installation”
You get free CDN (content delivery network), PCI compliance and client’s accounts are isolated from one another. This protects the data, in case of data breach, even if one client’s account is hacked.
Security
If you want to start a business or if you deal with sensitive data, you deeply know the consequences of unthinkable.
‘What can happen if some third party gets to break your website and takes control of your precious data?’
Data could be anything – business secrets – military knowledge – patient histories etc.
SiteGround provides many features of security. Their toolkit has numerous add-ons which guard your website. Popular add-ons include Spam Assassin, IP address blacklist, leech protect and hotlink protection.
In addition, SiteGround provides a premium safety service. Available for 1 dollar per month, you can avail “Hack alert Monitoring” – a service which daily checks your website and notifies you if your website has been hacked.”
Pricing
SiteGround offers a bunch of services, inside a bundle and if you compare the bundle prices with other web host dispensers, SiteGround surprisingly comes off as a very affordable option.
Web hosting bundles start from 3.95 dollars per month which includes one website and 10 GB worth of space. Included facilities are as follows:
Free site transfer – free website builder – 24/7 support – SSD storage – Free auto daily and free Cloudflare CDN
Double your website’s space for 5.95 dollars per month and include multiple websites in your plan. You will then be given priority technical support, Speedcatcher (to boost your website’s speed) and free backup restores.
Knowledgeable Staff
The customer care staff of SiteGround has a lot of technical grip in their field. It is widely known fact that SiteGround are known to process 1500+ tickets, 800+ phone calls and 2000+ chat requests, EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Support is provided in three languages i.e. English – Spanish and Italian.
Money Back Guarantee
In the end, if you don’t like your decision to use SiteGround, you can always change your decision, along with retrieval of your money.
SiteGround gives you a money back guarantee for 30 days. This means, once you have started your day 1, till day 30 you have the option to revert back on your decision and have your money back.
To avail money back guarantee, you must apply for a “service termination request” through User Area.
NOTE: It is recommended to read all the money back conditions before opting for this decision.