There is one downside. Once you blow through SiteGround’s introductory pricing, your plan’s price explodes.
For example, its lowest tier of shared hosting jumps from $6.99/month to $14.99 and its highest tier jumps from $14.99/month to $39.99. That doesn’t feel great.
In fact, it was the reason for most of the one-star reviews on TrustPilot. Watch for this when you’re comparing pricing and remember that your hosting plan will last a lot longer than the promotional period.
SiteGround’s trial period is just 30 days. There are a few other offerings on this list that offer a longer trial period. This isn’t a major problem though. You’ll be able to easily evaluate any host within a month.
SiteGround also offers cloud hosting. In fact, SiteGround is one of our top picks for cloud hosting. If you think there’s a chance you’ll need to upgrade to some serious hosting power once you generate lots of traffic, SiteGround is a great option that will make upgrades easy later.
Their customer support is available 24/7 across all channels — phone, chat, and email — and its knowledge base is rich and well-organized.
They also have the most transparent uptime: it has a 99.9% annual uptime guarantee (or you get a month of hosting free) and posts both its annual average and the previous month’s uptime right on its site.
10. Nexcess
Nexcess is a web hosting solution from Liquid Web — a provider we’ve featured on our lists for best-dedicated web hosting, best VPS hosting, and best WordPress hosting.
So it’s no real shock that Nexcess makes our list for best web hosts. This is especially true when you consider their wide menu of managed eCommerce hosting. In fact, they offer eCommerce hosting for:
- Magento
- Woocommerce
- WordPress
- Drupal
- BigCommerce
- Sylius
- ExpressionEngine
- Craft CMS
- Orocrm
There are a number of areas that make them stand out amongst the rest too. For example, their Nexcess Cloud Accelerator a feature that adds a layer on the cloud stack that increases the speed of your website’s loading time. That’s a huge boon because speed is everything when it comes to keeping your customers on your website and browsing.
