# SiteGround

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/siteground/

Shared web hosting managed through the Site Tools control panel, sold on prepaid annual terms, with eleven data center locations across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

## Who it suits

Shared hosting with Git available over SSH and a visual interface on top, across eleven data centre locations. Cron jobs are configured in Site Tools.

Consider something else if Dynamic page caching on the CDN requires the paid Premium tier, and the advertised price is introductory on a prepaid annual term.

## iScore

46 / 100 (80% interval 42–50), rank 3 of 3 in hosting — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every hosting peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/siteground/alternatives/

- Price: 14 (8–21), weight 24%, 3 of 3 criteria scored
- Capacity and limits: 36 (25–47), weight 26%, 6 of 6 criteria scored
- Capabilities: 76 (70–82), weight 11%, 3 of 4 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: managed_databases
- Trust and compliance: 61 (55–67), weight 16%, 8 of 10 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: customer_managed_keys, private_networking
- Evidence: 89 (89–89), weight 10%, 4 of 4 criteria scored
- Adoption: 50 (40–60), weight 14%, 1 of 2 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: No — Every listed plan is prepaid; the risk-free offer is a 30-day money-back guarantee, not an ongoing free plan. ([source](https://www.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm), read 2026-09-13)
- Kind of free offer: No free offer ([source](https://www.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm), read 2026-09-13)
- Entry paid plan: $17.99/month on renewal ($3.99/mo intro, prepaid 12 months) ([source](https://www.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm), read 2026-09-05)
- Pricing model: Prepaid fixed-term subscription; advertised rate is introductory and renews higher ([source](https://www.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm), read 2026-09-05)
- When you exceed a cap: Access to the website may be limited after early warnings, rather than billed as an overage ([source](https://www.siteground.com/kb/fair-use-siteground-hosting), read 2026-09-05)

### Limits

- Storage (entry plan): 10 GB Premium Google storage on the StartUp plan (cheapest paid shared hosting plan) ([source](https://www.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm), read 2026-09-05)
- Memory (entry plan): Up to 768MB RAM per process on SiteGround shared web hosting, which includes the StartUp plan ([source](https://www.siteground.com/kb/fair-use-siteground-hosting), read 2026-09-05)
- Sites or apps included: 1 website on the StartUp plan (cheapest paid shared hosting plan) ([source](https://www.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm), read 2026-09-05)
- Monthly visits cap: Shared plans, SiteGround's stated capacity per plan: StartUp around 10,000 monthly visits, GrowBig approximately 100,000, GoGeek 400,000+ monthly. ([source](https://www.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm), read 2026-09-13)
- Included bandwidth: Unlimited traffic on all shared web hosting plans: StartUp hosts 1 website with unlimited traffic; GrowBig and GoGeek offer unlimited websites, unlimited traffic. ([source](https://www.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm), read 2026-09-13)
- File, inode or volume limit: 200000 inodes per account on the StartUp plan ([source](https://www.siteground.com/kb/fair-use-siteground-hosting), read 2026-09-05)

### Deployment

- Git deployment: Limited ([source](https://www.siteground.com/kb/what-is-sg-git/), read 2026-09-05)
- Scheduled jobs: Supported ([source](https://www.siteground.com/kb/manage-cron-jobs), read 2026-09-05)

### Infrastructure

- Edge network: Limited ([source](https://www.siteground.com/kb/siteground-cdn-configuration), read 2026-09-05)
- Regions: 11 locations: Ashburn (Virginia, US), Council Bluffs (Iowa, US), Dallas (Texas, US), Los Angeles (California, US), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Eemshaven (Netherlands), Frankfurt (Germany), Paris (France), Sydney (Australia), Singapore ([source](https://www.siteground.com/kb/where_are_sitegrounds_servers), read 2026-09-14)

### Support

- Support on entry paid plan: 24/7 expert human support on every plan, including the cheapest. ([source](https://www.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm), read 2026-09-14)

### Compliance

- ISO 27001: Not ISO 27001 certified itself; staff say only the Google Cloud services it builds on are certified (blog reply, Jun 2021). SiteGround Team reply in blog comments, Jun 22, 2021; the only 27001 statement anywhere on the site. ([source](https://www.siteground.com/blog/sg-security-preinstalled), read 2026-09-13)
- HIPAA: Not HIPAA compliant: staff state its hosting services, including the Email Marketing tool, are not HIPAA compliant (blog reply, Jul 2023). SiteGround Team reply in blog comments, Jul 17, 2023; no HIPAA or BAA wording in Terms, AUP, DPA or KB. ([source](https://www.siteground.com/blog/new-siteground-email-marketing-tool), read 2026-09-13)
- GDPR / data residency: DPA: customer may specify, subject to availability, the data center location for its hosting account content; SiteGround may move it at its sole discretion. ([source](https://www.siteground.com/viewtos/data_processing_agreement), read 2026-09-13)
- PCI DSS: Credit card data transmitted to SiteGround's payment processors is tokenized and secured by those processors in accordance with the PCI DSS requirements. Privacy Policy security section; the compliance is attributed to the payment processors, not to SiteGround. ([source](https://www.siteground.com/privacy.htm), read 2026-09-13)
- Encryption at rest: Privacy Policy: when storing information SiteGround protects its security by encrypting critical data, with access restricted, logged and reviewed periodically. Scope is personal data SiteGround collects via its site and client area, not hosted site storage. ([source](https://www.siteground.com/privacy.htm), read 2026-09-13)
- Role-based access control: Roles functionality is available only to users of type "client" associated with websites on Cloud hosting plans; roles cannot be assigned to collaborators. ([source](https://www.siteground.com/kb/can-assign-roles-collaborators), read 2026-09-13)
- Dedicated infrastructure: Cloud Hosting includes dedicated resources and a dedicated IP on every plan: dedicated resources like VPS hosting with the fully managed convenience of shared hosting. ([source](https://www.siteground.com/cloud-hosting.htm), read 2026-09-13)

## Compared with

- [SiteGround vs DreamHost](https://inetgeek.com/compare/siteground-vs-dreamhost/)
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