Is Site Ground the host for you?
All Site Ground plans include a money-back guarantee

500,000 domains use SiteGround, because they offer:
- A Choice of Server Locations, for Localized Service
- CloudFlare Integration for Increased Uptime & Security
- Excellent, Award-Winning Customer Service
- Unique & Well Produced Tutorial Guides for First Time Webmasters
- Automatic Data Backup
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Key features
- International Servers
- Automated Monitoring
- Top Quality Tutorials & Guides
- Simple to Use
- Range of Integrated Platforms
Customer Score
- Plans 5/5
- Reliability 4.5/5
- Security 5/5
- Support 5/5
- Features 5/5

Intro
"What is SiteGround?"
SiteGround was founded in 2004 by a few university friends, and the company has steadily grown over the years. It is now a popular web hosting platform for half a million websites. Having a staff of almost 500 people, SiteGround customer support handles over 5,000 issues every single day. With a keen sense of what customers want in their web plans, SiteGround supports a wide range of different hosting options to help small businesses, individuals, online stores, boutique sites, and private individuals launch websites tailored and optimized for their specific projects and needs.

Plans
"Help me choose!"
Shared WordPress hosting is ideal for starters who are new to the web hosting game, as well as anyone who wants to launch a small-scale website, whether they be private individuals or small businesses. You can start with a shared plan, and move to cloud or VPS hosting should you require higher-end services or more security and flexibility.
Magento and WooCommerce are perfect for anyone wanting to open an online shop, complete with shopping cart functionality, and Joomla and Drupal are both great content management systems that should be chosen based on the level of tech savvy that you have. Basic sites are often WordPress, and things move to Joomla and Drupal as the level of technical sophistication increases.
Pick a shared plan when starting, and move to VPS or cloud as needed, and use the enterprise and dedicated options only when you've reached a high level of traffic or require the absolute ultimate in terms of server security, encryption, admin/root access, functionality, customization, and performance.

Reliability
SiteGround it always has the very best setups when it comes to speed technology. Whether we're talking about faster hardware, innovative network architectures, or improved software solutions, SiteGround is always one of the first to implement whatever speed tech there is. Also, the SiteGround platform is built on LXC (Linux containers) technology. This is extremely resource efficient, highly elastic, and provides a high level of stability in times of unexpected traffic spikes. Finally, proactive server monitoring systems are a very lightweight add-on that can help admins monitor server statuses to predict and avoid possible bugs and issues before they hit. The only downside to this host is that some of its plans are a little short on storage and bandwidth. Windows servers are not supported either, and there are no month-on-month shared hosting plans. Despite these drawbacks, though, robust security, great customer service, and support tutorials make SiteGround very reliable.

Security
"Will SiteGround protect your website?"
SiteGround will definitely keep your website safe and sound. SiteGround’s own unique backup system lets you have minimal resource usage, and you won’t need to worry about how long it will take to restore. This is done quickly and efficiently. Furthermore, your account won’t be affected by any others as all accounts are sandboxed meaning your coding can run securely. This account isolation means that SiteGround offers its users one of the best security isolations in the web hosting world.

Customer Support
With a staff of almost 500 people, SiteGround customer support handles over 5,000 issues every single day. With a keen sense of what customers want in their web plans, SiteGround supports a wide range of different hosting options. They can help small or large businesses, bloggers, boutique sites or private individuals launch websites tailored and optimized for their specific projects and needs. Customers can contact customer service by phone, online chat, or through the company's ticketing system. There are also free SSL certificates available for each account opened, all of which feature app auto-updating, automated monitoring of processes and systems, and daily backups.

Features
"Options that are available"
SiteGround offers WordPress hosting, servers customized for Joomla and Magento, Drupal hosting for users who want more power, flexibility, and customization on their web page, and PrestaShop and WooCommerce hosting.
All of these different options come with options for shared, cloud, dedicated, and reseller hosting, not to mention themes and tutorials beyond just hosting services. SiteGround uses SSDs (solid state drives) for all of their shared hosting plans, and these drives provide up to 1,000 times increases in input and output as compared to regular storage drives.
Customers can contact customer phone, online chat, or through the company's ticketing system, and there are free SSL certificates available for each account opened, all of which feature app auto-updating, automated monitoring of processes and systems, and daily backups.
How we review
It’s really important that you get a well-rounded review of different web hosting companies where you can see the pros and cons of each as well as our honest opinion. Our team of expert reviewers not only analyze the features and available resources to you, but they also look into the contract/agreement terms, the types of support, and they also monitor speed and uptime. All of this, along with our honest opinion, will help you to decide which web hosting company is the best for you.
We look at:
- Available features
- Customer support
- Any surprise fees or unfair clauses
- Payment options
- Available upsells
- Ease of installation
- Uptime percentage
Find a web host and sign up
We visit and analyze the sites and contracts before signing up. We check how easy it is to join and monitor the fees.
Figure out the features
Once we sign up, we look at activation time, how easy it is and what the control panel is like.
Monitor performance
When the site is running we see how well the company does. We check load times to ensure the best performance.
Chat with and rate support
We always test for customer service to see how helpful they are. We calculate a fair rating to sit beside the review.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Check out what ASO’s users have to say about the company. Their true opinions can help you decide whether of not A Small Orange is the right web hosting company for you.
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20 November 2017
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