SiteGround vs. WP Engine

SiteGround

35 Reviews and Ratings

WP Engine

55 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SiteGround	Score9.8 out of 10	N/A	SiteGround offers website hosting, as well as managed WordPress, managed Woo Commerce, fully managed cloud services available to support a variety of services, as well as reselling.	$14.99 per month
WP Engine	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	WP Engine is a website hosting service built to host WordPress for companies of any size, with features such as daily backups, firewall,SSL, and proprietary caching technology.	$29 per month

Pricing

SiteGround

WP Engine

StartUp 24 months: $14.99
per month
StartUp 12 months: $17.99
per month
StartUp 1 month: $24.99
per month
GrowBig 24 months: $24.99
per month
GrowBig 12 months: $29.99
per month
GrowBig 1 month: $34.99
per month
GoGeek 24 months: $39.99
per month
GoGeek 12 months: $44.99
per month
GoGeek 1 month: $49.99
per month
GoGeek 3 months: $49.99
per month

Startup: $25.00
*Per Month
Growth: $95.00
*Per Month
Scale: $241.00
*Per Month

Pricing Offerings
SiteGround	WP Engine
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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*Pricing for annual contract.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	SiteGround	WP Engine
Considered Both Products	SiteGround Cameron Renfro Owner at Memaddog, Inc (Online Media, 1-10 employees) Chose SiteGround Sadly, most web hosting companies are either not user-friendly or lack necessary features. No other web hosting company I've used has provided the level of reliability, features, and affordability that I've found with SiteGround with the exception of WP Engine which is a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SiteGround None of the other hosting companies come anywhere close to SiteGround. It's the gold standard. Incentivized Helpful? Ramon Khan Online Marketing Director \| Business Develoment in Marketing at National Air Warehouse (Consumer Goods, 1-10 employees) Chose SiteGround The tech side of SiteGround Web Hosting is excellent and among the best, but I think the area where they shine the most is their customer support. Incentivized Helpful? Gary Gray Founder in Information Technology at Tech Haven (Entertainment, 1-10 employees) Chose SiteGround GoDaddy and Bluehost offer grossly sub-par performance in 2017 for a price point that doesn't make sense. At least GoDaddy has great tech support - but I shouldn't have to rely on it as often as I do if all was working as it should. inMotion was overly complex on the backend, … Incentivized Helpful?	WP Engine Michael Herchenroder Senior Software Engineer in Research & Development at CORNERSTONE CONSULTING (Warehousing, 11-50 employees) Chose WP Engine We were originally on GoDaddy until we got a malware attack on their shared server. Cleaning up an infected server is almost impossible, so we decided to jump ship and set up our sites on Site Ground. We needed faster hosting anyway. Site Ground was decent, but their customer … Incentivized Helpful? Quentin Aisbett Digital Strategist in Marketing at OnQ Marketing (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose WP Engine We've evaluated many hosting providers over the years and in fairness, we've now been with WP Engine for 5 years so I'd imagine each of them has improved over that time also. However, WP Engine's support team, product development, and user experience is better than any other … Incentivized Helpful? Gordon Seirup Owner at Copper Leaf Creative (Online Media, 1-10 employees) Chose WP Engine I selected Kinsta to replace WP Engine because their performance statistics, security configuration, and technical support prowess reminded me of WP Engine circa 2012 - top-notch. Incentivized Helpful? Will Paccione Owner in Corporate at Dot Xero (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose WP Engine We used to use HostGator in the past. We feel they've gone downhill in the past few years. When other hosting companies offer free SSL certificates through the trusted "Lets Encrypt", HostGator still down't offer it (last I checked). Support takes a long time. Ability to use a … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	SiteGround	WP Engine
Likelihood to Recommend	9.5 (15 ratings)	9.9 (29 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	3.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.9 (4 ratings)	7.7 (6 ratings)