Bluehost vs SiteGround (2024) – Which Host is Better?

Bluehost's WordPress hosting offering is a reasonble option for those on a budget who are looking for an accessible place to start their site. It's very easy to use and they have pretty good support. While the performance of their hosting is not the best in the industry, they offer a lot of traffic for their price and their overall performance is adequate for those that can't afford high-end hosts. They offer lots of options on their wordpress hosting packages, including online shopping. They offer automatic installation, secure setup, and a free domain for the first year. They are a solid option to start with.

Siteground offers some very attractive introductory pricing across all of their plans, and their well priced 'GrowBig' package includes no website limit and quite a lot of features, though you'll need to move to a higher plan if you want to go above 20 GBs of disk space. But keep in mind that their renewal pricing is quite a lot more expensive than their introductory plans. If you have a very large amount of visitors on your site, then even their highest managed wordpress hosting plan might not be suitable to your needs, as it's suitable for up to 400,000 visitors, but they do offer other cloud hosting options that you can consider.

Monthly Pricing Based on Number of Visitors

We always try to quote the monthly fee for each host not including discounts that might apply if you pay yearly. Bluehost has introductory pricing and renews at a higher rate. Siteground's plans includes introductory discounts, and renewals are quite a lot higher, please see their website for more information.

Prices listed below is the price of our recommended PLAN based on number of visitors for Bluehost and SiteGround. Any time we have included figures in brackets accounts for overages. Sometimes it's cheaper to use a lower plan with overage fees if your host includes this in their pricing structure, but the performance of the lower plan might not be as strong.

Monthly Pricing Based on Number of Websites

The pricing below shows the closest PLAN based on the amount of websites at both Bluehost and SiteGround. These plans will also include an allowance of disk space and visitors. Some hosting companies allow additional wordpress installs for an additional fee. This can sometimes work out as more affordable than using a higher plan, if it works out as more affordable then we will list these in brackets below

Remember, hosts often include discounts when you pay on a longer basis such as yearly or over multiple years, so make sure to check these offers out if applicable.

Monthly Pricing Based on Disk Space

This is pricing per gigabyte of disk space for both Bluehost and SiteGround. As previously mentioned, if it works out as more affordable to use a cheaper plan and pay overages then we'll list that below in brackets.

Keep in mind that if you have a large amount of disk space usage for your site then you could alternatively host these externally using another service

Comparison Between Main Features

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Other Features Compared

Hosting Speed

Some managed wordpress hosting companies have an SLA (service level agreement) where they commit to a certain percentage of uptime on a monthly basis. The uptime listed below is a general figure for Bluehost and SiteGround. but it's not necessarily an SLA, see the host's T&Cs for more info. SLAs often include conditions where you get a refund of a portion of monthly fees if the service drops below a certain amount of uptime for that month

Content Delivery Networks are widely distributed networks of servers that can serve your visitors important files such as images and CSS files from a server close to their location, which can significantly increase your site speed.

Security

Website security is extremely important and all websites should be considered to be at risk. It's important to pick a host that takes security seriously. Below are some of the key security features that are offered by Bluehost and SiteGround.