By choosing SiteGround web hosting you entrust your website to a team of 70 people passionate about their job. Our aim is to provide you with the industry's fastest loading speed and highest uptime, to make sure that your web hosting inquiries are served with the same care as if it was made by family or friend and to help you have not only an easy start, but also a successful website development!
SiteGround have added two unique services to provide you with the best web hosting start. First, we have designed a unique tool for quick website setup, that allows you to upload a website, an online shop, or simply setup an email or whatever you indicate you need in just a few clicks! Second, we offer free premium support for the first three months, so that you receive immediate help with your website setup, when you need it most!
Many people are unwilling to change their web host only because they are afraid it is too much hassle to move over. You do not have to worry when moving to SiteGround! Our support team will transfer your website free of charge, so that you can immediately start enjoying the best hosting quality! Additionally, you will receive free premium support for the first months so that you can rely on fast assistance during the transition period.
We provide you with unlimited web space and traffic. Thus you can host almost any kind of personal, small business and community website and grow freely to attract more and more visitors.
With SiteGround you get a FREE domain for your website with any of the most popular extensions: .com; .org; .net; .biz; .info; .us and .nl. The domain name is YOUR property and is free as long as you have an active hosting account with us.
Host Unlimited domains *In PLUS plan version!
If you choose the PLUS version of our hosting plan on the sign up page you will be able to host unlimited domain names on your account and will receive some more free extras!
Click the link to see how PLUS plan compare to our standard hosting plan.
Unlimited parked domains and subdomains
You can have multiple parked domain names pointing to your site and thus never loose traffic. For example if your main domain is domain.com, but your business is US based and you own domain.us too, you can point the .us domain to open your main website.
Additionally you can create unlimited subdomains. They can be used for different parts of your website like blog.domain.com or they can redirect the visitor to a URL of your choice. You can also create mailboxes under your subdomains. For example mail@sub.domain.com
FREE blog and CMS tools: Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, etc.
SiteGround is the expert in providing services for the most popular blog and CMS tools. With our hosting you will receive free application installation, free resources like templates and tutorials, expert support and optimized server performance and security.
FREE shopping carts: Magento, osCommerce, PrestaShop, etc.
Building an online shop has never been easier. You will have the shopping cart of your choice installed for free, and will receive additional ecommerce resources like advertising credits, merchant account setup discounts, etc.
More than 230 other applications: galleries, forums, CRMs, etc.
You can have more than 140 applications installed on your hosting account by our expert support. They include different photo galleries, forums like SMF, vBulletine, phpBB, Customer relationship management systems like vTiger and SugarCRM, and many more!
Unique in-house designed website setup tool
SiteGround has designed a unique website setup tool, that provides highly personalized guidance for website upload to each customer, based on his/her needs. With our hosting account you can have a shopping cart or a Joomla website uploaded with your content 10 times faster than if you are using the standard auto-installation tool, that the majority of the web hosts provide.
NEW: FREE SPAM protection by SPAM Experts
SPAM Experts provide one of the most advanced solutions against SPAM. We are proud that this protection is now a part of our shared hosting services at no additional cost for our customers.
UNLIMITED Email Accounts + forwarding, aliases, auto-replies etc.
You can have UNLIMITED FREE email accounts at your domain name - e.g. you@yourdomain.com.
The forwarders and aliases allow you to forward emails received to any of your email accounts to another mailbox.
Auto Responders allow you to set automatic answers for email accounts. For example, your customers can receive a confirmation that their inquiry has been received.
Web-based Email Access: Horde, RoundCube and SquirrelMail
You can access your email accounts from any computer with an Internet connection. Our hosting plan includes the three most popular web-based mail clients: Horde, RoundCube and SquirrelMail.
SMTP, POP3 and IMAP Servers; mailing lists available; spam assassin etc.
On a SiteGround hosting account you can easily send and receive email messages via POP3 and SMTP protocols. The IMAP protocol is the perfect solution if you need your email account to be simultaneously accessible by multiple clients. With SiteGround you can use any email client, such as MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, Pegasus mail and so on.
SiteGround provides phpList application, which allows you to create and manage mailing lists and send easily emails to multiple subscribers.
The standard spam protection includes free use of spam assassin software
FREE Advertising Credits worth $20
SiteGround customers get $20 Free Bidvertiser credits to promote their websites.
FREE SEO (search engine optimization) tools
There are Attracta free tools available for all customers allowing them to optimize their websites for great search engine performance.
FREE Website promotion tutorial
SiteGround customers can use our free website promotion tools and tutorial.
Discounted account for accepting online payments by 2CheckOut
In partnership with 2CheckOut, SiteGround provides a coupon code for waiving the first monthly account fee (a $10.99 value!) by 2CO. Thus we allow you to start accepting online payments immediately without risk.
24/7 technical support through our HelpDesk
Our Support team is accessible online in our HelpDesk system 24/7 and is ready to attend immediately to any issue that may endanger your website accessibility.
24/7 live chat sales assistance available
Our Sales team is accessible online in our LiveChat system 24/7 and is ready to help you with any sales related question.
95% of all critical issues addressed in under 5 minutes!
The speed, with which our support team reacts to all critical issues, is what our customers love! We are proud that the procedures and the systems we have implemented allow us to address meaningfully the majority of the serious issues in less than 5 minutes!
Great tools for the management of your files, emails, domains, etc.
You can manage all aspects of your hosting account with the help of the most popular control panel – cPanel. All its functionality is included for you to use: file manager, email manager, domain manager, password protected directories, MIME types, SSI, hot linking protection, Www and non-www Access, IP filtering, cron jobs management, Apache handlers editing, etc.
Website Statistics: AWStats, Webalizer, Referrer and Error Logs
The cPanel of your account also provides you with several different website statistics: Awstats, Webalizer and Analog stats. All of them include charts and graphs revealing useful information about the traffic your site generates. For example the number of hits, most visited pages, referral URLs and many more.
You also will have access to many useful log files to identify your visitors\' behavior, the error they encounter and much more.
Auto installers: Softaculous and SiteSoftware cPAddon
The Softaculous autoinstaller allows you to have more than 230 applications installed on your account with a few clicks through the cPanel.
There are even more applications available for simple installation through the cPAddon section, where SiteGround regularly adds new applications requested by its customers.
Data Centers in US and Europe. Great hardware and software.
You will be able to choose if your website will be hosted in the US or Europe. In each location we use only top-of-the-line hardware with extensively tested configuration. We operate Apache on CentOS and add many customizations for unmatched shared server security and performance.
Redundancy: Internet and electricity by multiple suppliers
Our datacenter provides ultra-redundant power and networking systems with no single point of failure. It sits on two unique and diverse power feeds, one that provides electricity for Ohare Airport and the other provides to the city of Chicago. In addition it has its own power generators and UPS. It also has peering relationships to multiple major fiber exchanges to provide you with faster network connections and reliable network connectivity
Backups: Weekly and option for instant manual from the cPanel
All data is automatically backed up each week, additionally you can make instant backups of your account at any time from the cPanel.
Monitoring: 24/7 human plus the best automatic by 1H Guardian
We are fanatic about monitoring the health of our servers and network and maximizing uptime. We use the fastest automatic monitoring and reaction system Guardian by 1H, which fixes overload and outage problems in less than a second after they have started. Just to compare it with the standard in-built in cPanel monitoring, which reacts on 5 minutes and to only half of the issues that Guardian fixes. On top of this we also have human monitoring 24/7.
Unlimited FTP accounts, Anonymous FTP, FTP sessions control
With SiteGround you can create UNLIMITED FTP accounts with specific restrictions on what the different people connected to your website can upload and download. It is very easy to add and remove FTP accounts as well as to change their passwords. We also provide anonymous FTP.
Unlimited MySQL and PostgreSQL, phpMyAdmin and phpPgAdmin
You can have unlimited number of MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. They can be easily managed through the corresponding systems: phpMyAdmin and phpPgAdmin
SiteGround has a unique server setup that allows each customer to choose between multiple version of the PHP to use for his/her account. Currently the supported versions are 5.3, 5.2, 5.2 (Suhosin patch), 5.1, 5.0, 4.4: This specific server set up, allows our customers to use multiple applications on one and the same account, even if they require different PHP versions.
Apart from PHP, Perl and Python are the other script languages you can use with your account.
And more: GD library, ImageMagick, Zend Optimizer, etc.
On your account you can also use multiple gallery and PHP libraries, PHP encoders and other technologies. Just few of them are: GD library, ImageMagick, CURL, Zlib, Zend Optimizer, ionCube, SourceGuardian, Mod_rewrite, .htaccess, Smarty Templates, php.ini