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10Web & SiteGround Review: Everything You ABSOLUTELY NEED to Know (2020)
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Picking the Right Hosting Platform
Picking the right hosting platform can seem like a daunting task, and you may find yourself wondering if there’s a significant difference between 10Web and SiteGround. You may even ask yourself, “Is there really a difference between the two, and does it really matter which one to go with?” Well, the answer is yes, and yes, different websites have different needs, and different hosting providers can offer you different services. So, picking the right one for you can save you a world of trouble in the long run.
A Hands-On Comparison
Hi, this is Ruben at 10Web, a managed WordPress hosting platform powered by Google Cloud. In this video, I’ll be going hands-on with both 10Web and SiteGround to give you a closer look at the key features and benefits they offer. By the way, 10Web offers a free 14-day trial with no credit card required, so you can sign up right now and try it out for yourself.
About the Companies
First, let’s talk a little bit about the companies. As I mentioned earlier, 10Web is a managed WordPress hosting platform powered by Google Cloud. It’s a disruptive newcomer to the world of managed WordPress hosting, being a Google technology partner, 10Web brings state-of-the-art technologies to WordPress, ensuring the best possible quality for all its users. If you want to check out 10Web, you can try our free 14-day trial with no credit card required, register right now and test it with us.
Simultaneously, SiteGround is a hosting company founded in 2004, and it’s currently one of the biggest hosting companies in the world. It’s recommended by WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal, and if you visit their website, you can find out that they offer four types of hosting: WooCommerce hosting, WordPress hosting, web hosting, and cloud hosting. SiteGround offers a 30-day money-back guarantee for all of their managed WordPress hosting plans, so you can sign up right now and try it alongside our video. However, keep in mind that in order to get your money back, you would have to go through some additional paperwork.
Comparing Features
Now, let’s compare 10Web and SiteGround in terms of features they offer and see which one by one.
Infrastructure
The first component on our list is infrastructure. 10Web is powered by Google Cloud, which makes it extremely fast and secure. The hosting operates on the latest generation of high-performing servers with the optimal hardware configuration. 10Web uses Google Cloud’s best servers and SSDs, Nginx, lxd containers, and PHP 7.4 to provide you with the highest-performing server infrastructure. You’re able to choose from 8 available data centers from around 4 continents. In contrast, SiteGround has recently announced that they’re also moving to Google Cloud, but the change has not happened yet, so let’s wait and see. Right now, they use data centers on 4 continents and provide 100% renewable energy match for all of their managed WordPress hosting plans.
Speed
The next component is speed. SiteGround has a software stack optimized for speed, but it doesn’t have 10Web’s exclusive speed optimization feature. 10Web guarantees that if you build your website with one of 10Web’s templates and host it on 10Web, your website will get a 95+ PageSpeed score. Also, if you migrate your website from another hosting to 10Web with just one click, your website will also get an automatic 95+ PageSpeed score. This is a fully automated solution, including high-performance hosting, image optimization, lazy load, CSS and JS minification, and much more.
Scaling
The third component on our list is scaling. Growing and scaling your business website at SiteGround can be challenging at times. They have something they call “the allowance of CPU seconds per count,” basically, this limits the amount of resources your website is allowed to use per month. The potential problem here is that if you go over that limit regularly, they may put your website on hold your website until the next month when the monthly allowance resets. With 10Web, you don’t have to worry about any set limits. 10Web offers elastic scaling to tackle any and every surge in traffic. So, if your website suddenly experiences a drastic surge in traffic, say from 2,000 visitors to 200,000 visitors in just one day, you don’t have to worry about it. Your website will not go down; it will automatically scale with the needed resources. Also, there’s no need for you to upgrade your plan manually; you’ll just need to pay for the traffic surge during that month. Additionally, for every additional 10,000 visitors or for additional 5 GB SSD storage, you’ll be charged just $2 at the end of the billing month.
Backup
The next component is backup. 10Web’s backup service performs real-time differential backups and keeps them in a very secure AWS S3 storage. The system saves only the changes made after the last full backup, so you always have the chance to come back and restore your data from the last 1,000 backup points. On 10Web, you’re able to automatically schedule all of your backups, and of course, this backup service comes with all of 10Web’s plans. SiteGround keeps the backups of their managed hosting customers for a period of up to 30 days, so you can always restore your whole website or just parts of it that you need specifically, like emails, files, and databases. 10Web also allows this option with files and databases, but the bad part is that their backup restore solution is only available if you’re on their Grow Big and GoGeek plans. If you’re using their Startup plan, you would have to pay additional money for that.
Money
10Web’s annual pricing starts at $10 bucks a month for just one website hosted there and can go as low as $6 bucks a month for 10 or more websites hosted on 10Web. Pay attention that this is the regular prices without any discounts or promo codes. When it comes to SiteGround, their regular prices are as follows: $11.95 for the Startup plan, $19.95 for the Grow Big plan, and $34.95 per month for the GoGeek plan. So, as you can see, you pay slightly more, but you get considerably less features compared to 10Web.
Security
The next component is security. 10Web is specialized in providing security services to WordPress users, specifically. The security service has built-in login number limitations, DDoS protection, a way to scan for vulnerabilities, and file changes as well as a scan and repair for healthy websites. With the help of 10Web’s security service, you’re able to scan your website for any security problems and get comprehensive reports about vulnerabilities and security problems. There are also free website audits that are being conducted automatically, but 10Web’s security team also conducts manual checkups, and we have a 24/7 system administration team that is always there for the sake of your website security. When it comes to SiteGround, their security system is based on four components: real-time server health checks, smart wealth to protect your website from exploits, AI anti-bot against malicious traffic, and a 24/7 administration team.
Additional Benefits
Three additional benefits that 10Web provides but SiteGround is completely lacking are:
* All-in-one website builder: 10Web provides you an opportunity to use a drag-and-drop website creator based on Elementor. You’re able to create a stunning website without writing a single line of code. Besides that, you’re able to choose from over 40 stunning designer-made and mobile-friendly website templates as well as over 50 premium plugins designed for every need. These plugins, such as photo gallery, slider, and form maker, will help you create a great functional website.
* Image optimization: If you want to have three times faster website speed and ten times lighter images, 10Web’s image optimization service will be a dream come true for you. It will automatically optimize the images you upload to your website, resulting in a faster website speed and up to 90% image compression without any quality loss.
* SEO service: 10Web’s SEO service allows you to see all the problems within your site and get recommendations on how to improve your website’s performance. The features of the service include but are not limited to custom metadata, XML sitemap, canonical URLs, and many more. We also have an option to check the length of your URL to make sure that it’s optimized for the best SEO results. All this will result in higher search rankings.
Conclusion
As you can see, 10Web and SiteGround are different platforms, and they offer different features for different segments. So, my suggestion for you would be: first, go define your needs and requirements and budget, and then go try both platforms. Try 10Web’s 14-day free trial with no credit card required on 10web.io and SiteGround with their money-back guarantee. But why settle for SiteGround if you have the chance to have all these beneficial features at the affordable prices of 10Web.io?
