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 use these 2 hosts for the time being no problem is lucky, or the site simply do not have a lot of visits, can not see the problem. We build websites to contact very many users, often dealing with a variety of hosts, our judgment after a long time and many sites to verify, it is worth referring to.

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 togetherHosts, including the rice class material god Sam, many well-known V or characters recommend these 2 hosts. Here it is necessary to explain why, to level the cognitive difference.

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.

Di often says that SiteGround and Hostinger have speed/performance ceilings though making it difficult to optimize the site speed up, especially for mobile. As well as sometimes 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 average demand of mass users is not highThe vast majority of websites made by newbies don't have any traffic and give up on the site in 1-2 years, so there's no need to use a very good host at all. It's not very practical to buy a VPS host and install the pagoda panel and optimize it yourself.

Newbie users care more about low threshold of use, affordable price, detailed tutorials, and preferably famous and reliable, and SiteGround and Hostinger perfectly fit the needs.

As for the shortcomings of these 2 hosts, most newcomers will not encounter, or no impact (site no traffic), they do not understand the speed and performance, their own site is not stuck on the OK. there are also people who are willing to spend money, directly buy the most upscale package, the problem is naturally a lot less.

Combined with the fact that they are well known and carry their own traffic and trust, recommending these 2 hosts has a much higher success rate. Plus the commission is high, so a whole lot of people rush to recommend these 2 hosts. Users are satisfied, they have money to earn, why not?

SiteGround is better than Hostinger in terms of popularity, threshold of use, and overall performance, so more people choose it.The main advantage of Hostinger is that it uses the LiteSpeed system and is cheap.

The above is the underlying logic why these 2 hosts don't perform very well yet many people recommend them. Why don't you recommend Diamo? Because Di is a perfectionist + ultimate speed seeker, and I have higher requirements for hosts.

(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 are as demanding as Di on the host, or the site complexity of these 2 hosts can not run, you can try the host recommended by Di.

SiteGroundDisadvantages

SiteGround (SG for short) hosting used to be the most popularShared 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 is ranked #1 in the Facebook poll, uses Google Cloud Server, and is recommended by many bloggers. It can be said that it has the best price/performance ratio, speed and balance among shared hosting in the same price range, and it is not unreasonable to get the sales crown.

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.

SG has many advantages and is a very good shared hosting, but it has the same obvious disadvantages. 19 years after the addition of investors to chase profits began to die, Facebook group search " SiteGround ", you may see a lot of complaints, even if SG has been removing bad reviews The company has been in the process of removing the bad 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 ...

Then when they saw how big things were getting they loosened the limit on the number of sites a bit and reinstated Live Chat. search Facebook for SG polls and you'll see that a lot of SG users are starting to switch to ChemiCloud Hosting.

In the past, SG CDN used Cloudflare CDN, which has both paid and free packages. Later on, in order to make more money, SG CDN canceled the cooperation with Cloudflare, and changed to use its own SiteGround CDN (free and paid packages), but the acceleration effect and function is not as good as that of Cloudflare, which is worse and worse in order to make money.

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 and severe slowdowns in overselling.

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 about changing their account after expiration to continue to buy new servers at a discounted price, but SG's wool is not that good. The new account can't bind the domain name of the previous account, and you can't use the credit card of the previous account to pay. In contrast, the Vultr 1H1G HF server is only $6 a month, paid monthly, and the renewal price remains 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. Diamo 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.

One of our users bought a copy of ourAdvanced 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). Diamo 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 Diamo 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).

We actually received a lot of feedback and have read a lot of bloggers' reviews about Hostinger. The general feeling is that Hostinger servers are not of good quality and often have problems. For the same price, Hostinger has less CPU and RAM, slower SATA SSD disks, and 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.Regular package server feels a bit stuck in the background speed. The build process prompted high disk usage, with 97 times over the peak asking us to rectify.

The entire server is only a brand new half-baked website with no content and no visitors will actually be over-utilized? Contact customer service and say it is a false alarm, in fact, is to scare the white upgrade package.

If you rent a package of more than 20 dollars / month speed is more guaranteed, running a small traffic website is no problem. However, if the price is so high, it would be better to rent it on a yearly basis.ChemiCloudSomething 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, with a very high price for a monthly subscription. The longer you pay, the bigger the discount, and the renewal price is about 2.1 times (the pits). This is one of the reasons why we don't recommend 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 hosting quality is not good, the price is not high, and there are many restrictions, customer service is not good, morality is not good, dirty tactics. Will such a company always do a good job with its products and serve its customers well? We don't think so, so we don't recommend using its servers.

Building station orders, Xiaodi I am most afraid of customers with their servers. Quality does not work a whole lot of problems, affecting us to build a station, the customer may also misunderstand the server problem as we build a station has a problem.

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 Diamo (www.diiamo.cn) guesses it's the server.

Customer service said that because the site uses CloudFlare's CDN, resulting in problems with the server's SSL function, temporarily disable CloudFlare's proxy function (domain name resolution orange cloud off), after a while will be able to access normally, and then open the proxy function on the line.

In fact, the server technology is not good, other servers do not have this problem. Hostinger and SG publicity do too good, newcomers to buy servers are basically misled to choose these two. Customers looking for us to do the site before they bought this server, we suggest that he is not too happy to change, I can not say anything more.

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.

Relocation server found unable to download files! Download speed dozens of kilobytes per second, the file more than 200MB download to half by the server to terminate the download, prompting the download is complete. Check the computer to download the file found that the volume is much smaller, is a defective file can not be used.

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

Updated 2025.03.08: A customer boughtOxygen PluginThe problem remained the same, I couldn't save the page after editing and disabled all other plugins. My side of the test no problem, in all likelihood it is the hosting, so I suggested that 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 silos, seeing only what others want us to see—and this holds true in the hosting industry as well. In reality, there are many excellent shared hosting providers that perform significantly 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. In fact, Xiao Di sees this as an advantage.

Xiao D in "ChemiCloud Hosting Purchase TutorialThe article details the advantages of ChemiCloud hosting and how to use it. It provides illustrated tutorials for common Cpanel operations, making it easy for beginners to understand and perform tasks themselves.

 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↓.