Siteground hosting - reviews, ethics and lies

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Submitted by david on 22 March 2008 - 11:06am

Came across this article about Siteground hosting and review sites.

It seems that Siteground has created a number of web host review sites and gave themselves top recommendations. And on their Drupal host page, they don't even link to other hosts. But one commonality? All of them have Siteground at the top of their list.

If you're thinking about hosting with them, remember this unethical and deceitful practice they're engaging in. And ask yourself if you can really trust them with your money? If they're being deceitful about this, what else will they do for a dollar?

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Magpie Coffeehouse (not verified)

31 March 2008 - 1:25pm

Lunarpages is the best...

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JOHN DOE (not verified)

2 May 2008 - 10:35pm

They advertize the bandwidth they can't afford to provide, their customer service is average at best, their servers are usually pretty slow and often down, and if you seem like a customer that's really USING THE RESOURCES they offer, they won't hesitate to show you the door.

Nothing goood about it. Not to mention the best.

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pc security (not verified)

2 May 2008 - 11:56pm

What a sleazy marketing tactic! I'd never go for such a webhost.

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Anonymous (not verified)

16 April 2009 - 8:09pm

Sorry to say that I don't really care. Siteground.com is a wonderful hoster. I am not paid by them nor have any affiliation with them other than having my website with them. I reviewed a helluva lot of hosters and Siteground's offerings were much better than others. I think Siteground is peachy. I switched and am glad.

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david

17 April 2009 - 12:10am

Creating websites to pimp your products and not being forthcoming about it is deceptive and unethical.

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web hosting reviews (not verified)

24 April 2009 - 9:55am

siteground should be boycotted! smiley

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Deniel | ecomme... (not verified)

16 June 2009 - 9:54am

Is this something ethical? I think it degraded their product.

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Domain Hosting (not verified)

16 June 2009 - 10:05am

I am a current user of lunarpages. Several times a month I deal with FTP time outs. I have had must better luck with hostgator. Lunarpages sucks.

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Iron Door (not verified)

25 June 2009 - 5:39pm

I don't really get the big deal. It seems to me that they are doing what they want to make money and gain marketing. I can say that I would not do the same but this is America!

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Stephen Hadley (not verified)

28 July 2009 - 6:51am

SiteGround is a scam. They instituted automatic rebill despite the fact that they never asked me if that was OK. Billed my account for $107 for a year of hosting without sending me any e-mail notifications to my admin. Then, when you attempt to cancel your account, you are rerouted to a LiveChat so they can try and convince you to stay on. Total scam artists. STAY AWAY from SiteGround.

I'll second HostGator. Have had great experiences with them.

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tarhely (not verified)

9 August 2009 - 11:57pm

I am not paid by them nor have any affiliation with them other than having my website with them. I reviewed a helluva lot of hosters and Siteground's offerings were much better than others.

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Jimmy (not verified)

14 September 2009 - 11:55am

This kind of thing is increasingly common at the moment, its started in the debt management industry (or was the first I noticed it) and its just snowballed

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registrazione domini (not verified)

28 September 2009 - 3:31am

If its true its not ethical. Don't understand why I big company needs to do this. If it offers great service, hosting plans and fair price there is no need to do such things.

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SkyscraperMan (not verified)

30 September 2009 - 5:51am

Yeah, I agree it not being ethical, it maybe an attempt to achieve better page rank.

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Danni (not verified)

1 October 2009 - 4:16pm

I have been using hostgator for some time now and I have to give them credit, they have always been really helpful.

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Anonymous (not verified)

23 December 2009 - 9:40pm

I've always steered clear of Site Ground. The only ones that I've been happy with are HostGator and BlueHost.

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ipotpal (not verified)

23 December 2009 - 10:04pm

Hello dear,
Excellent article and very good blog
I will back again

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Steve Austin (not verified)

24 December 2009 - 12:56am

I came across your blog its really nice to focus some negative points of siteground. Siteground advertise themselves more than hosting smiley

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Michael (not verified)

24 December 2009 - 8:06am

Siteground has always been crap in my opinion :/

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Emerson Matson (not verified)

28 December 2009 - 3:38pm

@deniel, I'd have to agree. Not that is just is unethical, it is more of degradation of their site. If they were to do that, and people would find out, it would get them into a lot of trouble.

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Carl D (not verified)

24 January 2012 - 2:19am

I'm looking for a new host right now (I'm done with lunarpages bullsh**) .. and was considering siteground .. but I saw one of those sites, via joomla .. and at least 2 or 3 of the reviews are simply verbatim copies of each other. Pathetic.

Thanks for the head's up.

Cheers

Carl

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David jhco (not verified)

13 March 2013 - 4:15pm

I have done a pretty thorough review of SiteGround including uptime and response time testing over 8 months. They are pretty good at what they do. Some of the stats:
"At it's slowest it was around 800ms and at it's fastest around 300ms. The average response time (speed) of the site was 532ms. Uptime was very stable. It was 99.97% over the entire 6 Months." - SiteGround Review

In all honesty, I am probably more capable than most beginner or intermediate website users when it comes to errors and technical issues with web hosts. So when I called technical support to see how they would treat me I asked them simply how to uninstall Joomla. The lady was pretty nice but it was not very easy to understand her. I am in the US she was somewhere in Eastern Europe.

Overall, my main concern has been with performance and security and I feel they do a good job. What do you guys think??

Thanks for the post smiley
-David

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