Siteground Vs HostGator - A Comparison Of Both Service Providers

SitePoint is a web hosting service provider based in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2021, it began offering dedicated hosting to its registered clients. In July 2021, it offers shared server hosting services for about 2,500,000 domains world-wide. It offers unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space, unlimited e-mail accounts, free domain parking, free web design templates, site maintenance, website optimizing tools, shopping carts, domain name registration, and more. In addition, in late 2021 it started offering managed servers with intrusion detection and protection.

In this SitePoint review, we look at what siteground offers its customers. First, let us have a look at their overall features. Siteground offers various levels of hosting support to fit the needs and requirements of the different clients they support. They provide two hosting packages, Silver and Gold, based on the amount of space required by the client. Their siteground plus package are priced higher than the Silver or Gold package because of added features.

One of the most important features of siteground is its claimed 10 ssd disks for every disk. This is actually not true. They may advertise this as the maximum amount of space allowed for each disk but this is probably not the case because if they support uptime and down time then this number would definitely be lower. A more accurate figure would be about 10 ssd disks/month which is equivalent to the average lifespan of a computer's hard drive.

Another feature that is supported by siteground is WordPress support. WordPress is the most popular blogging software around. It is free to download, install and use. This makes it highly compatible with siteground plan which can be used for any kind of business online. Some of the best features of WordPress include: super fast uploads, unlimited themes support, great security and customization options and search engine optimization (SEO).

Although this hosting provider has many advanced features, siteground offers limited custom design and management tools. Other siteground providers such as HostGator have several advanced features such as free domain name, website builder and SSL certificates among others. But among all these offers limited features and only some of them are useful. The reason behind this is that siteground does not have much money to spend on advertising and marketing.

While most of the hosting plans have limited storage capacity, siteground uses the least amount of space possible at the highest price possible. Since they do not have much overhead expenses, they can afford to offer the most features and functionalities to their customers. But just because they have less features it does not mean that they have inferior services. Their advanced features and easy user interface to allow them to provide a quality service to their users at a very low price.