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| Salient Features | ||
| Free Trial | No | Yes, without credit card. ( Try now. ) |
| Hosting plan starts from | 1 website $6.99/month $14.99/month(Renewal) | Unlimited website $10/month |
| Types of hosting methods | Managed hosting Cloud hosting Enterprise Hosting Student Hosting | Cloud hosting |
| Plans | Startup GrowBig GoGeek | Fully flexible and wide verity of plans are available. |
| Hosting Provider | SiteGround | DigitalOcean Linode Vultr AWS GoogleCloud |
| Service bond tenure | 1 month 1 year 2 year 3 year | 1 month |
| Renewal Cost | ~ 50% more than discounted price. | Same price NO change on renewal (Pay what you use). |
| Number of site can we host | Startup (1 Website) GrowBig (Unlimited) GoGeek (Unlimited) | Unlimited Websites |
| Payment methods | PayPal Credit Card Debit Card | PayPal Credit Card Debit Card |
| Server Locations | Iowa (USA) London (UK) Eemshaven (Netherlands) Frankfurt (DE) Sydney (AU) Singapore (Singapore) | Server location depends on which server provider you selects. |
| Storage Type | SDD | SDD |
| Free Domain | No | No |
| Team management | Only on GrowBig and GoGeek plans. | Available on all the plans. |
| Control Panel | cPanel | cPanel |
| Supported CMS | Joomla, WordPress, WordPress multisite, Drupal, e107, Typo3 and many other CMS applications can be easily installed through Softaculous Autoinstaller, that you will find in your cPanel. | WordPress, WooCommerce, WordPress multisite, Magento, Drupal, Joomla, PrestaShop, PHP, OpenCart, Yii, Yii 2, osCommerce, Symfony 3, Codeigniter, CakePHP, ProcessWire, Zen Cart, X-Cart. |
| Server OS | CentOS | Debian 8 |
| Data base type | SiteGround supports MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. With there standard hosting package you can have UNLIMITED MySQL and Postgres databases. | Cloudways supports MySQL and with any cloud hosting package you can have UNLIMITED MySQL and Postgres databases. |
| Programming Language | php | php |
| Site Security | ||
| SSL Certificate | Free in all plans | Free in all plans |
| Firewalls | Common managed Firewall protection | Dedicated Firewalls |
| Security Monitoring | Add-on $1.65/month | Free with all plans |
| Backup Method | On-sight backup and manual backup | Off-sight automatic backup |
| Backup Charges | On-site backup, So NO additional charges | Off-site backup, $0.033/GB per server |
| Support Method | 24/7 live help. Live chat, Phone support, Helpdesk tickets. | 24/7 live help. Live chat, Phone support, Helpdesk tickets. |
| Website Speed | ||
| Caches | SupperCacher available only in GrowBig and GoGeek plans | SupperCacher Available with all plans |
| CDN | CloudflareCDN FREE plan | CloudwaysCDN (Which makes website much faster) |
| Extra Features | ||
| Free Migration | Manually by using "WP Migrator plugin" and there is no limit. (for WordPress only) | One website migration by technical team totally FREE. Unlimited managed migration by using "Cloudways WordPress Migrator plugin". |
| Extra migration cost | Professional migration service by technical team will costs $30/Website | Professional migration service by technical team will costs $25/Website |
| Staging Environment | Staging environment available only in GrowBig and GoGeek plans | Available with all plans |
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SiteGround Vs Cloudways Hosting – Who wins? (July 2020)
