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Our Verdict:

Overall: SiteGround hosting services offer a feature-rich control panel, Google Cloud infrastructure, and knowledgeable customer support. However, SiteGround performance is poor, and the renewal price is high, which makes it a less attractive option for customers looking for a performance-based host. The uptime of SiteGround is excellent, but it has reduced support for open-source CMS like WordPress. Overall, this review suggests that SiteGround is not a good choice if you are looking for a WordPress hosting service that prioritizes performance.

SiteGround Pros and Cons

SiteGround Pros:

  • The SiteGround control panel is impressive.
  • Good Uptime of 99.99%
  • Email hosting, free SSL

SiteGround Cons:

  • Average speed
  • Limited customer support
  • Highest renewal price.
  • High CPU resource limits.
  • Free CDN is limited.

SiteGround Plans and Pricing

SiteGround has three different plans to get started. They are

  • Startup: Starts at $6.99 per month and renews at $14.99 per month
  • Growbig: Starts at $9.99 per month and renews at $24.99 per month
  • GoGeek: Starts at $14.00 per month and renews at $39.99 per month

SiteGround Speed Test

SiteGround TTFB

The SiteGround average TTFB is 396ms for the last 12 months. I hosted a test site on their startup plan.

Uptime

Based on last 12 months data, SiteGround site recorded an uptime of 99.99%.

Load Testing

In this load testing, I sent 500 simulateonis visitors to the test site and its recorded an 173 average response time.

SiteGround Load Test 3

Global TTFB

In this test, the site is pinged from 35 global locations to measure the average global TTFB. The SiteGround site recorded an average TTFB of 890ms. The scores are poor in most locations.

Core Web Vitals

In this test, the SiteGround site recorded a ‘Largest Contentful Paint’ of 546ms, a ‘Total Blocking Time’ of 0ms, and a ‘Cumulative Layout Shift’ of 0.

Conclusion

SiteGround, on the whole, used to be great, but with their price increase, average performance, I feel it doesn’t offer the best value for money. Although under certain conditions, one can still choose SiteGround.

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