Review on SiteGround by Forum Hosting Directory

SiteGround is a well-known shared hosting provider that specializes in providing excellent hosting solutions and expert support for forum software. Its team of professionals is equally experienced in hosting phpBB, SMF, IPB, vBulletin. From the middle of 2003, when the company was created till now, it has grown to host more than 150,000 domains.

Feature-Price Effectiveness

SiteGround offers 1 value-rich plan that periodically grows. Over the last year, SiteGround increased its space and bandwidth quota several times, while keeping the same low price. You can hardly compete with SiteGround when it comes to price-feature ratio. The have it all included to the max - abundant space and traffic quotas, domain registration is free, forum installation is free, MySQL databases, cpanel with Fantastico for auto installation of phpBB and other forum software (if you want to do it yourself), and many more. And there is no setup cost if you pay annually.

Support Quality

SiteGround provides 24/7 expert forum support. They are really fast - they beat their own advertised 15-minute response time and reply faster than that. Their customers say the support team is very friendly and give detailed answers both to easy and complicated questions. Their support team is quite experienced in solving forum-related issues and will provide you with expert assistance while setting up your forum.

Customer opinion

We have received several highly positive reviews about SiteGround, which you can read below. We decided to go further than that and researched the net to see what is the image of the company in forums and other directories. There were plenty of positive reviews, which prove SiteGround is a well known company that does what it promises. Everyone is impressed with their technical know-how and speed of response.

Our Evaluation

SiteGround is rated #1 because they have excelled in all the criteria that we used to evaluate our forum hosts. In addition to that, they won lots of bonus points for the extra forum resources and services unmatched by other hosts. The company has expanded the traditional "forum services"� and provides additional free-for-all resources such as a Forum tutorials and a support forum where bulletin board software issues get resolved by the large community. Thus, the company shows that it is committed to the forum and is readily sharing its know-how with the community.