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Hosting Plan Features

Disk Space: Unlimited
Data Transfer: Unlimited
Refund Policy: 30 Day
Domains Hosted: 1
Domain Registration: Free
Price: $5.95
Control Panel: cPanel
Edit DNS Zone File: Yes
Hosting Plan Types: Shared HostingBudget HostingBusiness HostingReseller HostingDedicated Hosting

Joomla Features

Joomla Auto Install: Yes
Fantastico: Yes
Ion Cube Support: Yes

MySQL Features

MySQL Databases: Unlimited
phpMyAdmin: Yes

Support Options

Email / Help Desk: Yes
Phone Support: Yes
Member Forum: Yes

Company Details

First Year in Business: 2004

Deals and Coupons

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About SiteGround

SiteGround was established in August of 2003 in New York, USA by a group of IT professionals. Though the company is relatively new, its customer-sensitive policies have brought it to the forefront of web hosting. SiteGround’s datacenter is located in Houston, Texas where its servers host over 150,000 sites. They also have offices in the United States and Europe.

SiteGround provides not just shared hosting but also Virtual Private Servers and reseller packages. If Joomla is a requisite to your site, you’ll be glad to know that the company has received many distinctions including the ‘Best Joomla Host’ award. Folks at SiteGround accredit their success to “[their] profound technical expertise and unmatched quality of [their] customer care.”

Plans and Features

At $6.95 per month, SiteGround’s yearly hosting plan brings you a very enticing row of features starting with free setup and even a free domain name! You can have unlimited subdomains and parked websites pointing to your site. At a nominal fee, you can also host up to 6 add-on domains on your account.

Storage space clocks in at 750GB and monthly bandwidth at 7.5TB. FTP and email accounts are unlimited along with unlimited MySQL/Postgre databases. A wide range of server-side features are provided by SiteGround including support for PHP, Perl, Python, and Zend Optimizer. In addition, a whole host of free scripts and software are available to you including absolutely free installation of Mambo, Joomla, OSCommerce, phpBB, WordPress, phpNuke, Moodle, Drupal, MediaWiki, and even a line of ready-made CGI scripts.

Hosting Environment

Your account can be administered through the standard version of cPanel that SiteGround provides. From this panel, you can install scripts through Fantastico, manage your files, configure email addresses, restrict access to your site with IP filtering, edit MIME types and Apache handlers, etc. You will also find two of best industry standard database management software readily available viz. phpMyAdmin and phpPgAdmin.

Joomla

Having received the 'Best Joomla Host' award, SiteGround is widely acclaimed for its Joomla-specific features. These include free auto-installation and extensive tutorials for Joomla 1.0.x and 1.5. They also have a frequently updated section of attractive Joomla templates that would probably cost you a fortune elsewhere but just for being a SiteGoround customer, you get them free.

Tech Support

It would be wrong of any reviewer to not mention SiteGround’s excellent support team which is easily one of the most technically sound in the hosting market. You can contact support through one of three ways: email, a 24/7 hotline or live chat. SiteGround has built a reputation for itself for being one of the very few hosting companies in existence that can solve even the biggest of technical issues in minutes!

Conclusion

You’ve got to admit it; for a hosting provider that’s still a fledgling, SiteGround has proven to be a prodigy. Their ultra-cheap pricing and the brilliant host of features that come with it leave very little to be desired. Plus, if you’re going to host a Joomla site, anybody can tell you that SiteGround is a name to be feared whenever Joomla hosting is brought up. Unlike many other one-hit-wonder companies that entice you with just free templates and installation, SiteGround actually backs you with a whole ton of technical knowledge and experience. All said, your Joomla site could be in no better hands than in SiteGround’s.

Visit http://www.siteground.com for more details.


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Average user rating from: 28 user(s)

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7.9
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8.4   (28)
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8.7   (28)
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6.7   (28)
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8.0   (28)
 
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Easy for idiots!

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9.0
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9.0
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8.0
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10.0
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Reviewed by espringboard
January 21, 2010
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Pros and Cons

Pros Intuitive site builder - I was able to build a site with zero previous web experience.
Great support - fast, friendly and effective
Cons Tutorials seem either over-simplistic (not going into enough detail to get to the root of a problem) or seem to assume that you are a part time web developer and use an alien language that makes no sense to me!

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As a result of the 'cons' above, using my cpanel is limited to must dos only, using simple tasks and features. More complicated matters quickly have me totally lost, but the support group are great as are many of the free resources that do much of the work for you.

 

Simply the Best I know

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9.8
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
10.0
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10.0
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10.0
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9.0
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Reviewed by Miguel Garcia
December 01, 2009
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I will be very objective because there is no other way to rate this hosting service:

1- Time to solved issues (if any they are every time fault of us and never SG):
Simply unmatchable munimum

2- Costumer care and professionalism:
Absolutely brilliant. I've never seen something so good, so professional. Better than this, I've never seen specialized personnel with a greater knowledge of what they are doing, its knowledge is "enormously enormous", and please note I'm not a beginner!!!

3- Even today I still get "stupidly" surprised with the absolutely high level of service Site Ground have to offer us, web designers!

If you are with doubts don't even risk your name (in front of your clients eyes) with any other hosting services other than Site Ground.

 

Siteground- Great reseller hosting for 3 years

Overall rating: 
 
8.8
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
10.0
Control Panel Features:
 
9.0
Customer Support:
 
7.0
Price:
 
9.0
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Reviewed by Jeff Pence
October 20, 2009
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All my extensions work on Siteground. They are very dependable and support is good. They make you jump through a few too many hoops to submit a support ticket but they just want to make sure you've checked the FAQs first. Besides that they are one of the best I have ever used.

 

Great Service

Overall rating: 
 
10.0
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
10.0
Control Panel Features:
 
10.0
Customer Support:
 
10.0
Price:
 
10.0
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Reviewed by carmah
October 12, 2009
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I find the service at Siteground great, my time is not wasted sorting out problems in-fact it was another year that I did not have any.

 

Site Ground is AWSOME

Overall rating: 
 
10.0
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
10.0
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10.0
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10.0
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Reviewed by NX01class
October 01, 2009
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Great hosting company. You can't find a better place for the price and the AMAZING support that you get. Most of the time they will respond within minutes to your support tickets with detailed answers to solve your problems. They even fix them thier selves depending on the issue. I strongly recommend siteground to everyone considering to host a website.

 

Siteground GREAT Support team

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8.8
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
10.0
Control Panel Features:
 
8.0
Customer Support:
 
10.0
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7.0
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Reviewed by Pere Cadena
September 24, 2009
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I always get a VERY VERY VERY good support, fast and effective, with clear explanations about the issues and the way to solve or how they solve it.

 

wonderful service

Overall rating: 
 
10.0
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
10.0
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10.0
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10.0
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10.0
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Reviewed by sukhbat
September 01, 2009
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best of all. that is it.

Thank you siteground

God bless you

 

The best.

Overall rating: 
 
9.8
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
9.0
Control Panel Features:
 
10.0
Customer Support:
 
10.0
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10.0
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Reviewed by GarimaT
July 28, 2009
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I love these guys. They have the best price around, very prompt and polite customer service and blazing fast tech support. I transfered two other domains to Siteground. I recommend them highly.

 

Excellent customer support

Overall rating: 
 
9.8
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
9.0
Control Panel Features:
 
10.0
Customer Support:
 
10.0
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10.0
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Reviewed by Caroline Rösler
July 21, 2009
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Siteground delivers a great service and it's support team always provides quick solutions for all the difficulties I had as a joomla beginner. 100% recommendable!!

 

Great customer service

Overall rating: 
 
9.3
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
9.0
Control Panel Features:
 
10.0
Customer Support:
 
10.0
Price:
 
8.0
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Reviewed by Ian
July 13, 2009
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Excellent service! I've been with Siteground now for over a year, and I just keep getting surprised by how fast and efficient their customer service is! I really can't understand all the bitching about this, as every time I've asked for help, I've received it in less than an hour, sometimes as fast as five minutes! If I were to make any complaints, they would be about inodes and shared server speed. But certainly not any reason to walk away. And at the prices, I can't really work up a genuine complaint. Great service! And no, I'm not associated with Siteground in any way, except for being client.

 
 
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