Liquid Web vs. SiteGround

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Liquid Web
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Liquid Web is a fully managed hosting service, boasting VPS hosting on the Storm Platform, and cloud dedicated hosting on the Storm Platform. Liquid Web supports managed WordPress, managed WooCommerce, VMware Private Cloud, as well as HIPAA and PCI compliant hosting, high availability database hosting, and dedicated or server clusters available for a variety of purposes, as well as websites.
$19
per month
SiteGround
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
SiteGround offers website hosting, as well as managed WordPress, managed Woo Commerce, fully managed cloud services available to support a variety of services, as well as reselling.
$14.99
per month
Pricing
Liquid WebSiteGround
Editions & Modules
Managed WordPress
$19
per month
Managed WooCommerce
$19
per month
VPS
$35
per month
Magenta Cloud
$49
per month
Cloud Dedicated
$149
per month
Private VPS Parent
$149
per month
Dedicated
$169
per month
Cloud Servers
$265
per month
HIPPA
$343
per month
Server Clusters
$743
per month
High Performance
1,127
per month
High Availability
1,448
per month
Database Hosting
1,498
per month
VMware Private Cloud
1,599
per month
StartUp 24 months
$14.99
per month
StartUp 12 months
$17.99
per month
StartUp 1 month
$24.99
per month
GrowBig 24 months
$24.99
per month
GrowBig 12 months
$29.99
per month
GrowBig 1 month
$34.99
per month
GoGeek 24 months
$39.99
per month
GoGeek 12 months
$44.99
per month
GoGeek 1 month
$49.99
per month
GoGeek 3 months
$49.99
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Liquid WebSiteGround
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Liquid Web
Chose Liquid Web
Liquid Web is more professional than all of them. The main reason is the rock solid support which is 24/7 available. Whenever we contact with queries, the solution is guaranteed. There is no need to create support tickets, all the queries gets solved over live chat.

Chose Liquid Web
In the last 20 years I used, between 5 and 10 hosting companies from Argentina, Canada, and USA. The best is Liquidweb. What I love from them is their support. I always know that I can send a ticket and in a short time (sometimes just minutes) I will have a reply. If I need …
Chose Liquid Web
Liquid-Web is miles ahead of GoDaddy and Network Solutions in terms of customer support. It's a pleasure to speak with the Liquid-Web team and we've needed to reach out to support far less often after the shift to Liquid Web.
Chose Liquid Web
We evaluated Kinsta and WPEngine. Both offer great platforms but the lack of solid phone support and the substantial difference in server resource allocation made Liquid Web a clear winner.
Chose Liquid Web
The only other serious contender was DigitalOcean. Media Temple and GoDaddy are both terrible. While I liked DigitalOcean and the amount of flexibility it offered, we opted for a managed solution to lighten the workload for us. So, in the end, we picked Liquid-Web and we have …
Chose Liquid Web
For me, Liquid-Web is the best overlap of:
- Web hosting standardized Tools & Software
- Quality Product (Reliable, Well-Performing)
SiteGround
Chose SiteGround
I used Namescheap in the past. I believe Namescheap is a big company compared to SiteGround, as big as godaddy. I think because of that, you get what you expect. Good services, but maybe more costly and you have to pay for everything as extra. Email $5, SSL $10, CDN $10 etc …
Chose SiteGround
None of the other hosting companies come anywhere close to SiteGround. It's the gold standard.
Chose SiteGround
SiteGround had superior customer service and site uptime. Overall we found SiteGround, an easier provider to work with, both from a user interface and customer experience perspective. It was much easier to set up a Wordpress build using SiteGround than through iPage, and we …
Chose SiteGround
I chose SiteGround because we needed that personal touch. Other service providers we have used before have terrible customer/tech support. We chose SiteGround and we will continue to use them as our quality service provider because their technical support has been outstanding. …
Chose SiteGround
We looked at Blue Hosting, Go Daddy and Square Space. The affordability of SiteGround beat them all.
Chose SiteGround
The tech side of SiteGround Web Hosting is excellent and among the best, but I think the area where they shine the most is their customer support.
Chose SiteGround
SiteGround is more reliable and their support team is more responsive.
Chose SiteGround
Sadly, most web hosting companies are either not user-friendly or lack necessary features. No other web hosting company I've used has provided the level of reliability, features, and affordability that I've found with SiteGround with the exception of WP Engine which is a …
Chose SiteGround
WP Engine, Bluehost, Kinsta, GoDaddy and HostGator
Chose SiteGround
  • Better Add-ons: SiteGround caching, staging, etc.
  • Slightly faster than Sitegator and Godaddy,
  • Great customer service, online Chat.
Chose SiteGround
SiteGround is the BEST option if you are looking for price and have a small web project. Compared to other services who want to say the same, I never had a site go down, reach memory capacity, have my information sold off to, etc. SiteGround provides what they say they can …
Chose SiteGround
In terms of customer support in resolving tickets, I believe SiteGround is much better than others out there. Unlike Bluehost which when reached puts your call on hold and have longer waiting queues then SiteGround. They do followup to see if you are running into issues. They …
Chose SiteGround
GoDaddy and BlueHost offer grossly sub-par performance in 2017 for a price point that doesn't make sense. At least GoDaddy has great tech support - but I shouldn't have to rely on it as often as I do if all was working as it should.

inMotion was overly complex on the backend, …
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User Ratings
Liquid WebSiteGround
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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7.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
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8.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
9.9
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Liquid WebSiteGround
Likelihood to Recommend
LiquidWeb is web suited for small and large companies as they offer VPS and dedicated servers, from small to very big servers if you need lot of CPU, RAM or disk.
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I used other hosting providers in the past and actually I'm very happy with SiteGround mainly because of this: * very quick to setup and install my Wordpress website * sends me weekly emails about traffic, website healthscore etc * great wordpress plugins to help with SEO and optimizing
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Pros
  • Phone support is somewhat rare, but rapid, knowledgeable, and English-speaking phone support is rarer still. Liquid Web ticks all these boxes and more.
  • Easy staging environments.
  • Partnership with iThemes for complete site management.
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  • You get a number of page views as a guide to your bandwidth, and a fixed amount of disk space on the server. So you know what you have to work with. No hazy promises of “unlimited” resources.
  • If you pay more, you’re allocated a server with fewer accounts, so there’s less chance you’ll be slowed down by your neighbors.
  • Its self-help material is pretty good — close to InMotion Hosting for knowledgebase quality.
  • SiteGround tackles slow speeds from all angles, using SSD storage, Nginx, SuperCacher, CloudFlare CDN, and HHVM.
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Cons
  • The only con I can think of is Liquid-Web is more expensive, but it is a managed VPS so the price is on par with other similar services. There are some cheaper managed VPS plans out there, but in my experience, those often come with mediocre support and periodic server issues.
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  • Business model and clarity about prices after the second year
  • Server Performance when it's stressed or under a big volume of traffic
  • Upgrading model. Sometimes I felt like it was mandatory to update and pay more for basic needs, even with low traffic volumes
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Usability
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The UX is fluid and easy to understand.
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Support Rating
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Three ways to get customer support, phone, email, and chat. Chat is available 24/7 and the agents are always friendly and very helpful. In all the instances where I needed assistance chat support agents were always available to help. Wait time is minimal and on rare occasions I had to call, the agents were very helpful as well. I can not remember a time I walked away from support without my question or concern being resolved.
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Alternatives Considered
Liquid Web is more professional than all of them. The main reason is the rock solid support which is 24/7 available. Whenever we contact with queries, the solution is guaranteed. There is no need to create support tickets, all the queries gets solved over live chat.
The organization backend is strong. Servers are costly but good.
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GoDaddy and Bluehost offer grossly sub-par performance in 2017 for a price point that doesn't make sense. At least GoDaddy has great tech support - but I shouldn't have to rely on it as often as I do if all was working as it should. inMotion was overly complex on the backend, and lacked some common hosting features (easy WordPress installs for one) that are common across all other hosts. WPEngine, had great performance, and decent support, but their own proprietary backend interface was always a shift when switching between them and cpanel. Also - VERY expensive compared to SiteGround for comparable (if not lesser) service & performance.
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Return on Investment
  • Positive! Our team voted moving our websites to Liquid Web as a top 3 decision/change made in 2018.
  • Time! We save time managing and maintaining our website thanks to Liquid Web.
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  • Consistent uptime is a positive return on time investment.
  • Support response times are a positive return on time investment.
  • If large cost increases are not, we should change to another provider at renewal time, but we have not, due to other priorities.
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