SiteGround review for shared hosting GoGeek plan – our amazing journey from 2013.

Our SiteGround review – constant SG investments in speed

• implement fast SSD drives in all their plans to enable your sites loading faster
• constantly optimize and fine tune their servers to make them running faster
• created native SuperCacher plugin for caching your site and speed it up
• integration of free CDN (Content Delivery Network, CloudFlare) so your site load faster for international visitors
• support the latest software versions (e.g. PHP 7.x) for speeding up & making your site more secured
• enable SG SuperCacher plugin to be compatible with premium WP Rocket caching plugin thus additionally boosting your site’s speed

Some useful links on SG speed:
Latest web hosting speed technologies
SuperCacher increases the number of hits a site can handle and boosts the website loading speed
Best Data Centers on Three Continents

Our SiteGround review – superb security experience

• Server security is one of SG top priorities – they perform many security measures to keep servers and our websites secure. So far we didn’t need any special Premium security plugins/service. SiteGround implemented zero-day update (SG alerts us on update of the system the same day patch is released) or their security team assemble a special rule for their application firewall that will protect those who have not been updated to the latest versions immediately.
• We are using security plugins such as All in one security and firewall and that plugin, along with the following WP hardening codex rules and SiteGround efforts, were enough so far to protect us and clients sites. 

Our SiteGround review – awesome support experience

• From time to time we have a few smaller issues for which we have to contact SG Support. On live chat they respond within a few minutes and solve those smaller things/answer questions very fast & efficiently.
• If we have to open the support ticket, it is solved in average one or two hours by knowledgeable technicians. That is why SiteGround 24/7/365 Support is one of the best hosting supports out there: customer friendly and responsive. SG constantly invests in supporting processes & people development.

Some other important hosting attention points in this SiteGround review

• you must choose appropriate SiteGround hosting plan taking into consideration: your future traffic and number of websites/ folders/ files you will have on your account (inode)
• you must monitor your CPU usage as CPU limits (number of executions per month) like on all shared hostings. Reason for this is that other users on the same shared hosting do not suffer in speed and bandwidth. It could be an issue if you run site with high traffic or you didn’t optimize it properly so it uses a lot of CPU processor power. You can solve this issue by properly optimizing your site and/or upgrade your plan.
• the back-end interface of the user area could require from you a bit of adjustments as it is not so much “user friendly”, especially if you are not  accustomed to cPanel usage
• SiteGround initial hosting plans prices are really affordable, but after initial billing period is over (one, two or more years), their prices raises and you must be aware of that before you initially commit yourself.

Useful advices for transferring your site(s) to SiteGround

• do not cancel your current hosting before your site (and domain, if you choose so) are transferred to your new hosting
• possible options for domain and site transfer from the old hosting to SiteGround: 
  1) transfer both (domain and site) to SiteGround hosting 
  2) transfer site to SiteGround hosting and keep the domain on old hosting 
  3) transfer site to new hosting and transfer domain to dedicated domain company (like Namecheap) – preferred option

Conclusion: SiteGround GoGeek – THE shared hosting plan

Despite the flaws that every hosting has, SiteGround GoGeek plan is the closest to a perfect solution for individual bloggers, small businesses and freelancers that want excellent hosting with 24/7/365 high quality support. A big plus is human face of SiteGround – hard working and knowledgeable people behind SG. They constantly improve hosting hardware and software features and in the same time increasing support services (see numbers below).

What are your experiences with SiteGround GoGeek plan? Let us know in the comments or/and give us your review for this plan, especially if you are another happy user like we are.

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