It’s the virtual era now. As the number of website increases, even a person who has little to no knowledge about how a website is built thinks he/she can do it. There are so many brilliant opportunities presented by Web Hosting it does have brilliant future to look forward to.
Web hosting services have now come into the picture, what these services do is make the website or a web page created by or for organization/individual visible to the world on the internet.
Other mentionable things that web hosting does is provides storage space, and maintaining the sites as well as its security all at a fix monthly cost.
Siteground was started in 2004 and now is counted amongst the leading and top developing hosting companies in the world. Cloud, shared hosting and dedicated servers are some of the services Siteground provides. The team at WordPress.org which is one of the largest CMS(Content Management System) has even recommended Siteground hosting that is exactly how I found out about Siteground and I have been successfully using it for quite some time now. I have summarized some points below and divided them into pros and cons so you can have a very clear understanding of what I have discovered by using this hosting service for 1 complete year.
Pros
- 99.999% Up-time which is much more impressive than the global average Uptime of 99.900%
- 5 major data center in the world which makes it much faster.
- A very simple U/I, accessible backup and unlimited emails & databases.
- Free SSL certificate which will provide authenticity and PHP 7 for much better performance
- Free security add-ons and faster site loading with supercacher
- A free domain name and 30-day money back guarantee
- Free website migration when other websites charge around $49 to $149 for the same.
- Highly knowledgeable customer support with average 10 minutes reply time
Cons
- Shared hosting plans are actually expensive
- Storage space provided is much less when compared to other sites.
- A vague and risky WordPress plugin
Conclusion:
Rather than being a subsidiary of a larger organization, you should go for independent web hosting.
Which is something you can do with a web hosting company like Siteground. Free add-ons that you will only find at Siteground. I’ll be honest with you Siteground is very transparent with its services and follows “what you see is what you get” principle to the T you should go for it.