# SiteGround > Shared and WordPress hosting on Google Cloud with its own Site Tools SiteGround sells shared hosting for WordPress and other sites on Google Cloud infrastructure, managed through its own Site Tools panel. Every plan includes daily backups, a CDN, SSL, unlimited email accounts and daily malware scans, and the higher plans add staging, on-demand backups and white-label access for agencies. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** SiteGround (since 2004) - **Website:** https://www.siteground.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026 ## Pricing SiteGround is a paid product, starting at $14.99 per month prepaid for 24 months; 12 months is $2.99 a month in year one. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | StartUp, 1 month | $24.99 per month | One website, 10 GB storage and around 10,000 visits a month, paid month to month at the regular rate. | | StartUp, 12 months | $17.99 per month at renewal, prepaid yearly, after a first year at $2.99 | One website and 10 GB storage. The first 12 months cost $2.99 a month, prepaid, then the plan renews at $17.99 a month. | | StartUp, 24 months | $14.99 per month, prepaid every 24 months | One website and 10 GB storage at the lowest regular monthly rate. The sales page shows its first-term discount only on 12-month terms. | | GrowBig, 24 months | $24.99 per month, prepaid every 24 months | Unlimited websites, 50 GB, staging and on-demand backups. On a 12-month term it is $4.99 a month for the first year, then $29.99. | | GoGeek, 24 months | $39.99 per month, prepaid every 24 months | 100 GB, staging with Git, white-label access and priority support. On a 12-month term it is $7.99 a month for the first year, then $44.99. | Read from https://www.siteground.com/kb/current-rates-shared-hosting-plans on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SiteGround before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **First year of StartUp for $2.99 a month** (Other savings): On a 12-month term the first invoice is $2.99 a month for StartUp, $4.99 for GrowBig and $7.99 for GoGeek, prepaid. Renewals are $17.99, $29.99 and $44.99 a month. Source: https://www.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm ## Key features - **Site Tools panel:** Each site gets its own Site Tools panel for WordPress, email, domains and backups, so access to one site can be shared without exposing the others. - **Daily backups, CDN and SSL:** Every plan keeps daily backups and includes a CDN and SSL certificates that renew by themselves. GrowBig and GoGeek add on-demand backups. - **Malware scans and bot blocking:** Sites are scanned for malware every day with free removal, and an AI anti-bot system and custom firewall rules block attack traffic. - **WordPress services:** Free site migrations, managed automatic updates, WP-CLI and SSH, and an AI agent for WordPress. Staging starts on GrowBig, with Git on GoGeek. - **Unlimited email accounts:** Every hosting plan includes email at your own domain with no cap on accounts, plus webmail and spam protection. - **Website Builder with AI:** A drag-and-drop builder with templates, AI text and image generation and built-in SEO is included alongside WordPress. ## Good for - WordPress sites that want daily backups and staging without plugins - Agencies handing clients white-label access on GoGeek - Small businesses that want email at their domain on the hosting plan ## Worth knowing - The $2.99 a month is for the first year of a 12-month StartUp term only; it then renews at $17.99 a month, and GrowBig and GoGeek at $29.99 and $44.99. - StartUp hosts one website and suits around 10,000 visits a month; more sites need GrowBig. - Staging, on-demand backups and faster PHP start on GrowBig, and white-label access and priority support need GoGeek. - The 30-day money-back guarantee covers new shared hosting orders; renewals are refunded only under conditions in SiteGround's refund policy. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. SiteGround packs more into its cheapest plan than most: daily backups, a CDN, daily malware scans with free removal and unlimited email accounts. It's also the dearest of the shared hosts we could price over two years. The $2.99 a month lasts one year, then StartUp renews at $17.99 a month for a single site. - **Value for money: C.** StartUp's first year is $2.99 a month, then it renews at $17.99, so two years cost $251.76, about $10.49 a month. That's past the cheaper quarter of hosts and the dearest of the shared hosts we could price. A 24-month term at $14.99 a month costs more. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial. New shared hosting orders get a 30-day money-back guarantee, which isn't a trial. - **Features: B.** Every plan keeps daily backups, a CDN, SSL that renews itself, daily malware scans with free removal and unlimited email accounts. Staging and on-demand backups wait for GrowBig, but nothing in the core job is missing on StartUp. - **Ease of use: C.** No app store rating to go on. Each site gets its own Site Tools panel, which is tidy, but there's still a domain, email and a site to set up. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** A web panel only, with WordPress and WooCommerce as the named integrations. There's SSH and WP-CLI for developers, but no API is on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SiteGround's own pages on 17 October 2026. Its rates page answered our reader with a robot check when we checked it again that day. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - SiteGround's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 4 of the 21 other web hosts we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on features (B, above 11 of 21) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $14.99 a month, against a middle price of $10.99 for the category: 10 of the 16 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace SiteGround you would be making an engine that recognises new malware as it appears. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 15 of the 21 other web hosts grade higher. It costs $179.88 a year. - You could not: An engine that recognises new malware as it appears. - You could not: Servers kept running, patched and backed up for you. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WordPress, WooCommerce **Tags:** AI features, Malware protection, Managed WordPress ## Alternatives - [Hostinger](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostinger): Shared, WordPress and cloud hosting run from its own hPanel dashboard. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kinsta-vs-siteground) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026: - https://www.siteground.com/kb/current-rates-shared-hosting-plans - https://www.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm - https://www.siteground.com/kb/can-pay-monthly - https://www.siteground.com/company Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/siteground Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).