Tear off SiteGround and Hostinger hosting pseudo-halo, multi-user stepping on the pit experience sharing

Today a user complained to Xiaodi that SiteGround hosting prompted CPU overrun and the website was suspended, and asked to upgrade to the $44.99/month package. His SG hosting still has a few months to expire, before consulting Xiaodi said that he wanted to switch to ChemiCloud hosting at the end of the period, but he had to change it immediately after encountering this incident.

Prompts that the site is suspended ↓. On a side note: if it'sChemiCloud HostingInstead of shutting down the website in case of resource overload, it temporarily restricts the access of IPs with excessive access to maintain the resource balance, which is more humanized.

Send an email requesting an upgrade from the current $6.69/month package to the $44.99/month package ↓.

He is now using GrowBig $6.69/month package, about 1W exposure per month, put their own foreign trade website. According to reason this should not exceed the right, things happen in this renewal node is also intriguing.

In fact, this is the host business commonly used routines, Hostinger this trick also played very 6. deliberately misreported that the host CPU or hard disk reading and writing exceeds the limit, the site is suspended, you need to upgrade the package. Some people don't have that expertise, don't know what's going on, afraid that the website can't be accessed properly affecting the business to upgrade the package.

Some people may say that this is not afraid of affecting the reputation and forcing away customers? The users who understand this scheme would not have gone to the high price of renewal, the expiration of the replacement. Do not understand this scheme, but there are many people with money, there will always be users will choose to believe, spend money to “eliminate”.

In fact, Dee was in theHigh-speed and stable foreign trade hosting recommendations, advantages and disadvantages of in-depth comparison + registration tutorialsThe article mentioned the disadvantages of SiteGround and Hostinger hosting, and it is not recommended to buy them. Maybe the article is too long, too much hosting at once, we can not catch the focus. So D wrote this article separately to help you avoid the pit.

To reiterate:SiteGround and Hostinger hosts are very trashy, all kinds of problems with the website, not suitable for foreign trade websites. A lot of articles on the internet say that these 2 hosts are good, and even some famous people have been recommending these 2 hosts, all because of the fact that there areReferral Rebate! There are a lot of users online who call these 2 hosts crap too.

Some people haven’t encountered any issues with these two hosting providers so far—either because they’ve been lucky, or because their websites don’t get much traffic, so the problems aren’t apparent. We’ve built websites for a large number of users and frequently work with various hosting providers; our assessment has been validated over a long period of time and across many websites, so it’s worth considering.

There are more than enough good hosts on the market that are more stable, faster and cheaper. There is no need to use the above 2 controversial and complaint hosts.

Why do so many people recommend SiteGround and Hostinger hosting?

The internet is awash in touting SiteGround and Hostinger as the 2enjoy togetherWhen it comes to web hosting, many well-known influencers and figures—including Sam from MiKe—recommend these two providers. It’s worth explaining why, to help everyone understand the reasoning.

From an objective point of view, these 2 hosts are not bad, they are good in general, just not good enough. Xiaodi often say that they are garbage, because Xiaodi is a website builder, the host requirements are higher, and there are many better hosts to choose from at the same price.

SiteGround and Hostinger hosting background is very simple and easy to operate, the price is affordable, the performance can be used, the big brands are also reliable, so it is very suitable for novices to use, and used to do most of the simple website can also meet the demand.

Xiao Di often says that while SiteGround and Hostinger have speed and performance limitations—making it difficult to optimize website speed, especially on mobile devices—they also suffer from occasional instability, poor compatibility, and many other issues.

Why do so many people recommend these 2 hosts? Why don't they recommend other hosts?

Because the main needs of the general public are ease of use and reliability (and brand recognition). Websites built by beginners using plans such as 90% or higher receive very little traffic, have low concurrent user counts, and place minimal load on the server, making it impossible to truly test their performance. When problems arise (such as slow loading speeds), they tend to blame plugins or their own technical skills, unaware that the issue actually stems from the hosting provider.

Beginners are more concerned with low barriers to entry (ease of use), the ability to quickly set up a server and deploy a website, and—ideally—a well-known brand that inspires confidence. SiteGround and Hostinger perfectly meet the needs of beginners.

As for the drawbacks of these two hosting plans, most beginners won’t encounter them—or they won’t be affected by them (since their websites have virtually no traffic). They also don’t understand speed and performance; they’re just happy to have their websites up and running. Others are willing to spend the money and go straight for the top-tier plan, which naturally results in far fewer issues.

Plus, since they’re well-known and come with built-in traffic and trust, recommending these two hosting providers has a much higher success rate. Add to that the high commissions, and it’s no wonder so many people are flocking to recommend them. Users are satisfied, and you get to make money—what’s not to love?

SiteGround is better than Hostinger in terms of brand recognition, ease of use, and overall performance, which is why more people choose it. Hostinger’s main advantages are its use of the LiteSpeed system and its low prices.

That explains why these two consoles, despite their lackluster performance, are still recommended by so many people. So why doesn’t diiamo recommend them? Because Xiao Di is a perfectionist and a speed enthusiast—I have high standards for consoles.

(not only ...) but alsoChemiCloud、ScalaHostingHosts such as these are better in every way and I definitely recommend these hosts in preference.

To be honest, if Di recommends SiteGround and Hostinger hosting, can earn more commission! But I'm more of a personality and a believer, so never recommend SiteGround and Hostinger.

Having said that, there are still novice users with some technical knowledge who demand a little more from their hosts, who install a bunch of heavy software and know how to use Google speed tests. Using SiteGround, Hostinger hosting can't meet the demand and start looking for alternatives.

Then it came to Di here, after we recommended the use of theChemiCloudHosting that has a greater increase in speed and is cheaper with better performance. That's why this article was written to tell you about the disadvantages of SiteGround and Hostinger hosting.

If you have high standards like Xiao Di, or if your website is relatively complex and these two hosting providers can't handle it, you can try the hosting provider recommended by Xiao Di.

SiteGroundDisadvantages

SiteGround (SG for short) used to be the most popular web hosting provider.Shared HostingSiteGround is a good choice for hosting, cost-effective, fast, stable operation, good service and full functionality. SiteGround is a household name that is basically mentioned in articles recommending hosting on the web.

SiteGround ranked first in a Facebook poll, uses Google Cloud servers, and is recommended by many bloggers. It’s fair to say that, among shared hosting providers in the same price range, it offers the best value, speed, and overall balance—so it’s no surprise that it tops the sales charts.

SiteGroundHost advantages.

1. Fast WordPress backend and good frontend speed.
2. Higher parameters than other brands of shared hosting for the same configuration.
3. Distributed cloud hosting with SSD solid state drives (not even using NVMe);
4. Deeply optimized WordPress with 3 levels of caching and good speed;
5. Moderate prices for the first rental (2.5 times the renewal fee), in line with the public budget.
6. Live Chat human service support.
7. High security, with professional firewalls and bot blockers, automatic backups.
8. 30-day money-back guarantee.

SiteGround has many advantages and is a great shared hosting provider, but you get what you pay for—its drawbacks are just as obvious. After bringing in new investors in 2019, the company started cutting corners in pursuit of profits. If you search for “SiteGround” in Facebook groups, you’ll likely see a lot of complaints; SiteGround has been consistently deleting negative reviews.

The screenshot below is from onlinemediamasters.com:

The server oversold severely leading to a great performance drop, excessive restrictions on CPU performance. Before also limit the number of bound sites, in order to reduce costs offline Live Chat function customer service quality decline, a look at cPanel price increase immediately switched to Site Tools ...

Later, when they saw the issue had escalated, they relaxed the limit on the number of websites a bit and restored Live Chat. If you search for SG opinion polls on Facebook, you’ll find that many SG users have started switching to ChemiCloud Hosting.

SG CDN used to use Cloudflare CDN, which offered both paid and free plans. Later, in an effort to make more money, they ended their partnership with Cloudflare and switched to their in-house SiteGround CDN (which also offers free and paid plans), but its performance and features aren’t as good as Cloudflare’s. In their quest to make money, they’ve actually made things worse.

SiteGroundHost disadvantages.

1. About 2.5 times the price of renewal!Super expensive.
2. Finding people to falsely advertise, brush the number of votes, delete bad reviews, and turn bad reputation.
3. Various limitations in the latter part of the year, starting to get stuck(To allow users to upgrade their packages);.
4. Limit the number of sites tied to it as well as the number of visits, and users have reported serious CPU limitation issues;
5. Additional fees for changing rooms.
6. Site Tool has too few features and average customer support.
7. It requires the use of its domain name resolution service, which is much less flexible;
8. Mobile is generally slow and not well optimized;
9. TTFBAs well as long server response times, severe overselling, and slow speeds.

Another point we feel SG Server is not so good is that there is not much room for optimization. It uses its own cache and plug-ins, which is great for the novice user. However, it is not suitable for tech-savvy people who love to tinker, because the guide cannot use other caching solutions.

There are 4 lengths of time available when you purchase the GrowBig package.Corresponding to 4 kinds of prices(Data as of April 10, 2022).

See the problem? $29.99 This monthly price can buy a higher-end dedicated hosting with N times higher configuration, this price isReferenceThe price is to set off the other packages. Renting 24 months and 36 months monthly rent instead is more expensive than renting 12 months, this is SG's scheme! Deliberately let people choose the 12-month length package.

Why? BecauseMany times the price of SG renewal feeFor example, at the beginning of the 12-month GrowBig package price is $6.99/month, renewal 1 year price is $24.99/month ↓, renewal 2 years price is $19.99/month ↓.

(The above chart shows the renewal price of GrowBig package on May 20, 2023↑)

Some people think they can switch to a new account after the term expires and continue buying new servers at discounted prices, but SG isn’t that easy to take advantage of. New accounts cannot link domains from previous accounts, nor can they use payment methods—such as credit cards—associated with previous accounts. In comparison, Vultr’s 1H1G high-frequency server costs just $6 a month, with monthly billing and a renewal price that stays the same. You get what you pay for.

The SG backend speed is good, after all, the use of Google Cloud Server, but the frontend speed is not as fast as advertised, the test results are not as good as Vultr. if your business just started, you can first rent SG server temporary use, the package expires and then move the site to other servers. Diiamo recommends renting a better VPS server directly in one step, recommending Register Vultr Server.

Note: Woocommerce built cross-border e-commerce standalone site has high hosting requirements, it is not recommended to use SG server to build, because after the visit up SG will limit the CPU, read and write rate, etc.. If you are rich and capricious, when I did not say.

A user purchased our *Advanced Advanced Speed Optimization TutorialHe optimized it himself and it loaded in about 1 second on the computer, 99 points. Mobile 51 points, 4.4 seconds to load, using SiteGround server.

Google test tool suggests long server response time ↓:SG servers are really mediocre and won't be fast.

By the way, SG'sRobot InterceptorThere is a bug. there was an accident that blocked the Google ad program, resulting in the Google ad prompt landing page URL is invalid. I sometimes open the ladder software to visit some foreign SG built website, will also be blocked as a robot, turn off the ladder access normal. If the customer access is blocked, most likely turn around and go away.

2023-05-20 Update: SG is now abandoning Cloudflare CDN in order to make money and using its own CDN (free and paid versions), but the number of nodes, speed, and features are not as good as theCloudflare.Recently, I've been building websites with a couple of clients' SG servers (GrowBig packages), and I've noticed that the backend as well as the frontend are slower than before, and it's just getting worse and worse.

A friend bought SG's paid CDN with full-page caching, but the result is not as good as the free Cloudflare CDN. a few people approached us to optimize the speed, built their own websites, and used SG's paid CDN, with a load time of 2.9 seconds on the computer side, and 9 seconds on the mobile side.

2025.04.19 Update: We took an order for WordPress site speed optimization using SiteGround server + FlyingPress CDN ($5/month). Diiamo is optimized to be very fast on the computer side, with a Google Speed Score of 99 and a total load time of 0.4 seconds!

But the mobile score is very bad ↓, only about 60 points, total load time 4-6 seconds. I've been tossing it around for a while and it still hasn't improved, there's always a bottleneck there, and it's a common problem that SG mobile is slow.

The picture below shows the switch to ChemiCloud Hosting, using the free CloudFlare CDN, Google tests mobile scores. The difference is too obvious ！！！！

Update 4/24/2025: A speed optimization client sent me a picture saying the site wouldn't open. I took one look at the icon UI and knew it was the SG servers messing up and told it to contact the hosting customer service directly.

The hosting customer service said that the website occupied too many resources, affecting other people's websites (low configuration shared hosting has this problem), so the temporary stop website access, but the customer's website does not have much access....

SG servers oversell badly and put too many sites, so the limits are severe and easily overrun and blocked. No kidding, Google and other crawlers crawling a little more vigorously may cause the site to be over quota and stop access.

Update 07/31/2025: Chatting in a microsoft group, the group talked about SG servers.

October 28, 2025 Update: Another SG user gave feedback to Di that the host's CPU usage reached the limit, prompting the need to upgrade the package. Merchants commonly use the same routine as Hostinger.

Right now 1W exposure per month with GrowBig $6.69/month package and that's all over the limit, too restrictive.

Received an email about upgrading the package ↓.

Take Dee's advice and switch toChemiCloud Hosting, speed measurement effect ↓.

To sum up SiteGround hosting has a lot of drawbacks, there is a ceiling limit for speeds that cannot be optimized. But at the same time it has a lot of advantages, high ease of use, and is still a good choice for beginners. The reason why I don't recommend it is because there are better choices, and Diiamo recommends it!Chemicloud Hosting.

HostingerDisadvantages

It's famous for the past few years and is known as the cheapest LiteSpeed hosting that only accepts refunds within 30 days. The server usesliteSpeed TechnologyWith the LiteSpeed caching plugin site speed can be, m class!Yan SirRecommended it says fast to the scalp (just listen).

In fact, we’ve received a lot of feedback and read many bloggers’ reviews of Hostinger. The general consensus is that Hostinger’s servers are subpar and experience frequent issues. For the same price, Hostinger offers less CPU and RAM, slower SATA SSD drives, and suffers from severe overselling.

We have used Hostinger server, the backend function is very little, far from cPanel rich. Below is a picture of a customer's website Google speed test suggests the problem, Hostinger server response time is too long.

Hostinger was exposed to painting fake sales inTrustPilotWriting fake comments, voting for myself in Facebook polls, being boycotted by a large group of foreign bloggers writing articles, and having a bad reputation.

The following is a quote from a well-known American speed blogger TOM article, clickView original article.

Tom also said Hostinger faked his blog to write articles to promote his own server.

Here is a screenshot from Johnny's own blog post, a well-known overseas blogger.

Several clients have rented Hostinger hosting for their own websites.The standard plan server seems a bit sluggish in the backend. During the website-building process, we received a warning that disk usage was too high, with 97 instances exceeding the peak limit, and we were asked to take corrective action.

There’s only one brand-new, unfinished website on the entire server—no content, no visitors—and yet it’s supposedly exceeding the usage limit? When I contacted customer service, they said it was a false positive, but really, they were just trying to scare newbies into upgrading their plans.

If you sign up for a plan costing $20 or more per month, the speed is fairly reliable, and it’s no problem for low-traffic websites. But if the price is that high, you might as well go with an annual plan—it’s actually better to justChemiCloudSomething like LiteSpeed servers, which perform better and are much cheaper.

Updated 2024.09.05 with real feedback from site VIP members and slow customer service response.

Hostinger's pricing strategy is the same as SiteGround's: the monthly rates are extremely high. The longer the subscription term, the greater the discount, but the renewal price is about 2.1 times higher (a rip-off). This is one of the reasons we don't recommend using it.

The picture below is a text published by Sam, the material god, on the material network, clickView original article.

The following is a screenshot of the original website of another website builder

In short, Hostinger’s hosting quality is poor, it offers poor value for money, has numerous restrictions, provides subpar customer service, lacks ethical standards, and employs underhanded tactics. Can a company like this truly be expected to consistently focus on delivering quality products and serving its customers well? We don’t think so, and we do not recommend using their servers.

When it comes to website development projects, what I, Xiao Di, fear most is when clients use their servers. The quality is poor, there are a ton of issues, and it affects our work. Clients might even mistake server problems for issues with our website development.

Updated 2025.02.06:A cosmetic client's B2B foreign trade website suddenly became inaccessible via URL, prompting "xxx.com redirects you too many times.", but it opens successfully via the background button above the Hostinger server, and Diiamo (www.diiamo.cn) guesses it's the server.

Customer service said that because the website uses CloudFlare's CDN, it caused issues with the server's SSL functionality. They temporarily disabled CloudFlare's proxy feature (the orange cloud icon in the domain name resolution settings was turned off). The site should be accessible again shortly, and you can then re-enable the proxy feature.

The truth is, it’s just that their server technology isn’t up to par—none of the other servers have this problem. Hostinger and SG do such a great job of marketing that beginners are basically misled into choosing these two providers when buying a server. The client had already purchased this server on their own before coming to us to build a website. We suggested switching, but they weren’t very keen on the idea, so I didn’t want to push the issue.

Updated 2025.02.10:Or the same customer, called me to say that the background operation of the site is slow, upload pictures and products card. After the test found that the ladder speed is not a problem, in all likelihood, is the host cause (in my server setup did not have this problem), and then he contacted the host customer service to deal with it.

Six months later, he had a problem with his service, couldn't fix it after tossing it around on his own, and finally accepted the fact that Hostinger was a piece of crap and asked me to help him get a different server. Now I don't like to persuade people, everyone has their own perception tax to pay.

While migrating the server, I discovered that I couldn't download files! The download speed was only a few dozen KB/s, and files larger than 200 MB were terminated by the server halfway through the download, even though the system indicated the download was complete. When I checked the files downloaded to my computer, I found that they were much smaller in size—they were corrupted and unusable.

Previously my most annoying host was SiteGround, now Hostinger is the one that bothers me the most.

Updated 2025.03.08: A customer boughtOxygen Plugin...After editing, I couldn't save the page, and the problem persisted even after disabling all other plugins. It worked fine when I tested it, so it was most likely a hosting issue; I therefore suggested he contact customer service.

Feedback the next day said the problem was solved, it was the Hostinger firewall default settings were too high mistakenly intercepted, resulting in the inability to write data. Even the basic adaptation of a well-known plugin is not done properly, which shows something about Hostinger.

Updated 2025.07.08: Members of this site have given me feedback on Hostinger hosting cards ↓.

One person experiencing a problem may be an isolated case, but with so many people giving feedback about cards and problems, there is a high probability that this host really doesn't work.Take advice, eat your fill, and don't use Hostinger.

Perfect Alternatives to SiteGround and Hostinger Hosting

Among the popular shared hosting providers currently recommended by many users, SiteGround and Hostinger stand out. If you're not considering these two, which alternative would you choose?

We live in information bubbles; we only see what others want us to see—and this is just as true in the web hosting industry. In fact, there are many excellent shared hosting providers that perform much better than SiteGround and Hostinger.

Today, Xiao Di recommends an excellent hosting provider to everyone. Its name isChemiCloudOffering better value, superior performance, faster speeds, and enhanced customer support, it stands as the perfect alternative to SiteGround and Hostinger hosting services.

The only drawback is that it uses cPanel, which isn’t as streamlined as SiteGround or Hostinger. However, cPanel is feature-rich, allowing for greater website customization—which, in Xiao Di’s opinion, is actually an advantage.

Xiao D in "ChemiCloud Hosting Purchase Tutorial》provides a detailed overview of the benefits of ChemiCloud hosting and how to use it. It features illustrated tutorials on common cPanel operations for websites, so even beginners can understand and perform these tasks in no time.

 Click to view detailed information about ChemiCloud and registration instructions. 

Many users trust Diamore's integrity and expertise, choosing to migrate their websites toChemiCloudHost, with excellent reviews↓.