SiteGround review
Managed-feeling shared hosting with strong WordPress tooling
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Quick verdict
A safe, well-supported choice for WordPress sites that have outgrown the cheapest hosts but do not need full managed hosting.
Moved off cPanel to its own Site Tools panel and runs on Google Cloud infrastructure. Positions itself above the budget tier on support quality and WordPress-specific features rather than on price.
Who it suits
- · WordPress sites
- · Small business websites
- · UK-based sites and UK audiences
- · People who want support that answers
Who should look elsewhere
- · Renewal pricing is a large step up from the introductory rate
- · Storage allowances are modest compared with budget competitors
- · Entry plan omits several of the features it is known for
Hostoholic Score
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What is good
- Support has a long-standing reputation for actually solving things
- Staging and Git on higher tiers without moving to managed hosting
- Runs on Google Cloud with a UK region available
- Own caching stack rather than relying on plugins alone
What is not
- Renewal pricing is a large step up from the introductory rate
- Storage allowances are modest compared with budget competitors
- Entry plan omits several of the features it is known for
The detail
Features and specifications
Anything marked unknown has not been verified by an editor yet. We would rather show a gap than a guess.
Hosting and platform
- Control panel
- Site Tools (custom)
- UK data centre
- Yes
- Data centre regions
- United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, United States, Singapore, Australia
- Free SSL
- Yes
- Email hosting included
- Yes
- Free migration
- Yes
- Money-back period
- Unknown
Performance and tooling
- Staging environment
- Yes
- CDN included
- Yes
- Object caching
- Unknown
- Redis
- Unknown
- Automatic backups
- Unknown
- Backup retention
- Unknown
Developer access
- SSH access
- Yes
- Git
- Yes
- WP-CLI
- Yes
- Cron jobs
- Unknown
- PHP versions
- Unknown
- Node.js support
- Unknown
Ecommerce and security
- WooCommerce support
- Yes
- Malware protection
- Unknown
- Web application firewall
- Unknown
- DDoS protection
- Unknown
- Support channels
- live chat, phone, ticket, knowledge base
Pricing
What it costs
We publish a price only once an editor has checked it against the provider's own pricing page and recorded the date.
Renews at 13.99 — check the term length before committing.
| Plan | Type | Sites | Latest checked price |
|---|---|---|---|
| StartUp | shared | — | GBP 1.99 |
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Sources
Where this information came from
- SiteGround hosting overview· Capabilities and plan structure · checked 17/08/2026
- SiteGround pricing page· Entry pricing · checked 17/08/2026
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