SiteGround

SiteGround is managed web hosting for WordPress and small business sites, run through its own Site Tools panel with daily backups and round-the-clock support.

SiteGround is a managed web hosting service for WordPress sites, small business sites and online stores. It takes the server work out of running a site: the hosting, the security, the backups and the support are part of the plan rather than things a site owner assembles. SiteGround Hosting Ltd. builds and sells it under its own name at siteground.com, and the company has been privately held since it was founded in 2004. Every account is managed through Site Tools, SiteGround's own control panel, which covers files, databases, DNS, email and the one-click installer for WordPress and other applications. Site Tools also switches on the multilevel caching and the SiteGround CDN, which serves pages from the location nearest each visitor. Site Scanner checks every file for malware once a day and keeps its reports for 30 days, and the backup service takes a daily copy that restores from the panel. The higher plans add on-demand backups, a staging copy of the site and Git for deploying code, on top of the WP-CLI and SSH access that every plan carries. Email accounts at the site's own domain come with spam protection and webmail, the SiteGround Website Builder is bundled for sites built without a CMS, and the AI Agent for WordPress and managed autoupdates come with every plan. SiteGround suits a site owner with one WordPress site who wants it kept fast and patched, a small business whose site is a brochure or a shop, and agencies and freelancers who host many client sites under one account. Developers who want staging, Git and shell access on shared hosting, without running a server of their own, are the other group it is built for. It is bought as one of three shared plans, StartUp, GrowBig and GoGeek, each prepaid for a term and renewing at the regular rate, with one login to Site Tools across every site on the account. The same site also sells WordPress, cloud and reseller plan families. In practice SiteGround is where a site is moved when its owner leaves another host, since SiteGround's team handles the migration, and where a first site is launched with the Website Builder before a CMS is needed. It is chosen for hosting a WordPress site and keeping it updated, for running a portfolio of client sites from one panel, and for picking a data center near the audience at signup. It sits beside WordPress, Let's Encrypt, Git and Google's storage layer, and its navigation lists Website Builder, Coderick AI, AI Studio and Email Marketing as sibling products.