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Best WordPress Hosting: A SiteGround Review
So you’ve decided to create a WordPress.org website. The next step is to purchase your domain name and choose the best WordPress hosting site. But which WordPress hosting site is best? The answer to that question is subjective but I’d argue that one hosting site rises above the rest. The purpose of this post is to provide my SiteGround review and provide why I think you should choose SiteGround as your WordPress Host.
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What Makes a Great WordPress Host?
1. Fast Speed –
My SiteGround review starts with speed. According to Moz.com, your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is impacted by the speed of your website. hostingfacts.com mentions “Over a 24-month period, our SiteGround test site saw average page loading times of 585ms – faster than the 1185ms average load times we found from other web hosts.” In conducting user tests for my SiteGround review, I too have noticed the high speed not only on the front end of the site, but also editing pages on the backend as well.
Here are the average load speeds according to hostingfacts.com:
- January average speed: 740ms
- February average speed: 694ms
- March average speed: 708ms
- April average speed: 686ms
- May average speed: 686ms
- June average speed: 560ms
- July average speed: 620ms
- August average speed: 650ms
- September average speed: 483ms
- October average speed: 453ms
- November average speed: 418ms
- December average speed: 318ms
I give SiteGround’s speed 5 stars.
2. High Up-time
Almost nothing is more frustrating than a business website that goes down because of your host provider. A host outage means that you lose money. According to hostingfacts‘ SiteGround up-time review, SiteGround performs quite high with only 10 outages reported in 2017. Here are the up-time monthly percentages in 2017 according to hostingfacts.com:
- January average uptime: 99.99%
- February average uptime: 99.97%
- March average uptime: 100%
- April average uptime: 99.85%
- May average uptime: 99.98%
- June average uptime: 99.99%
- July average uptime: 100%
- August average uptime: 100%
- September average uptime: 99.99%
- October average uptime: 100%
- November average uptime: 100%
- December average uptime: 100%
Quite impressive! In total, downtime for the entire year was less than 2 hours. I give SiteGround’s up-time 5 stars.
3. Great Support
The third component of my SiteGround review is the IT support. I have had at least 15-20 tickets opened with the SiteGround IT team. From my experience, they are extremely friendly, knowledgeable, and quick to respond. They have also fixed issues with issues one of my clients had with a non-secure email address being spoofed. I give SiteGround’s customer service 5 stars.
4. Low Cost
Although not the cheapest, SiteGround has great pricing for all the above points. I typically use the “GrowBig” plan for my clients below. If you purchase these months in bulk, you’ll only pay $5.95 per month. Afterwards, you’ll pay $14.95 per month. I give SiteGround’s Cost 4 stars as the after price special is a little higher than other choices.
5. Premium Features
The fifth and final component of my SiteGround review are the premium features. SiteGround offers many great features such as:
- Free security add-ons
- Easy e-commerce installs
- Free transfers for existing websites
- Unlimited websites hosted on the 2nd and 3rd tier plans (HUGE benefit)
- Large web space for all your files
- Unlimited free email accounts (also a HUGE benefit)
- Many, many more benefits
To conclude, if you’re thinking about which WordPress host you should use, from personal experience (and very negative experiences elsewhere), I highly recommend SiteGround.
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