Site Ground StartUp, € 5.99/mo. on Linux Shared

StartUp (product #37705) has been updated on April 6, 2021 (added May 28, 2016), Aggregate Rating (9.31 out of 10 from 42 reviews)

Hosted domains :	1
free domains :	0
Dedicated IPs :	0
Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
Control Panel :	CPanel
Category :	BackupDNSCDNWordpressFully ManagedWebsite Builder
Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive ChatAvailable 24/7
Server Locations :	Australia Germany Netherlands Singapore United Kingdom United States

See also initial StartUp plan location on their website!

Plan description

Editorial Review

SiteGround is a worldwide popular company that operates independently and one that offers fully-managed services for customers. The hosting provider was established in 2004.
They are specialized in the following:

• Shared hosting;
• Reseller hosting;
• Cloud hosting;
• Dedicated Servers;
• Domain registration;

SiteGround also hosts applications:

• Drupal hosting;
• Joomla hosting;
• PrestaShop hosting;
• WordPress hosting;
• Magento hosting;
• WooCommerce hosting.

Shared hosting plans are equipped with essential features and freebies, such as: free sitebuilder; free SSL and HTTPS; free email accounts; free CloudFlare CDN; free daily backups; unmetered traffic; unlimited MySQL. Reseller plans are fully-featured with advantages, like: unmetered data transfer; free email accounts; unlimited MySQL databases; free Cloudflare CDN; unlimited FTP accounts; free daily backups. Cloud options are based on innovative technology and therefore, these are fully-managed servers performing at ultra-fast speed. They are equipped with auto-scalable resources, daily backups and free CDN. Dedicated servers benefit of: IP tables firewall; SSH access; Exim mail server; 5 free dedicated IPs; private DNS server setup; Softaculous autoinstaller; Apache/Nginx and CentOS; MySQL 5 and Postgre SQL; 5 PHP versions; free Cloudflare CDN.

SiteGround focuses a lot on speed and therefore, it tries to remain updated to the latest speed technologies available on the market and offer their customers good solutions in this area. SiteGround provides SSD drives for Shared hosting and Cloud hosting plans. They also use NGINX server speed and this is available for Shared, Cloud or Dedicated Servers. Another speed optimization facility is the company’s own caching mechanism based on NGINX reverse proxy and called Geeky SuperCacher. Their free CDN is also a great advantage for customers, as it helps their websites speed faster. SiteGround uses HTTP/2 enabled servers and PHP7 as well, which are top speed technologies.

Activity on their Blog is pretty frequent. The latest articles approach various topics, from news and tips to promotions and services.

As a global presence and trying to target more local countries, Siteground has few more localized websites like:
https://www.siteground.es/ (for Spain)
https://www.siteground.co.uk/ (for UK)
https://it.siteground.com/ (subdomain used for Italy)

They also offer the prices in multiple currencies for Australia (AUD).

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