So I moved my website to Siteground. Pros & Cons
Hi guys,
last week I decided to migrate my current website from WA servers to Siteground. I'm not leaving WA. So why did I do that?
I'm using a plugin to monetize my website, called ASA2. It's an awesome plugin to embed amazon products easily and it's fully customizable. Check out my website to see it in action.
The thing is that, in order to optimize the plugin's performance and balance the workload, you need to set up a cronjob. And WA doesn't allow to set up custom cronjobs. And without this feature, my website's user experience is crappy.
Now that I've been working with my website hosted in Sitegator I can tell you what I like about them and what I missed from WA hosting.
Siteground Cons:
- Since I'm a beginner, what I really miss is the Site Comments system. Now I'm ready to start receiving comments from people... but I can use the system anymore. I couldn't use it anyway since I'm using Disqus as comment engine.
- The hosting service is very limited. The only available feature is FTP.
Siteground Pros:
- cPanel. What does this mean? Simply: you have a ton of tools to manage your server, and this for me means FREEDOM. For example SSH Access, cronjobs, SSL, domain manager (subdomains, redirections, ...)
- Speed improvement. Siteground is much faster than WA, at least in my case. With WA, navigating through the WordPress back office was a nightmare, toooo slow.
- Caching tools: you can integrate CloudFlare and other caching tools direct from the cPanel, avoiding setting up accounts and that staff.
Other than that, the customer service has been great in both WA and Siteground.
I will probably write another blog entry explaining how I migrated the website... Believe it or not, it was a pain in the ass, so I think it could be useful for those who want to migrate their websites out from WA.
Regards,
Adrian
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I moved my site to SiteGround too after finding WA's hosting being insufficient for my blog theme's needs. Pretty happy with SiteGround so far! :) Just wondering, what do you mean by "The hosting service is very limited. The only available feature is FTP."?
What I tried to say is that you can't manage your server/hosting. With WA, you hardly have access to your website through FTP. You can't access your server through SSH connection or create cronjobs for example. Two features that you will need if you are using custom plugins or advanced plugin's features.
In my case, I'm a backend web developer and I just need to have full access to my website so I can sleep at night... :)
Oh, I see. I thought you were trying to say that SiteGround's hosting (rather than WA's) was very limited! Also, I didn't buy my domain from WA but from elsewhere, so I just pointed the nameservers to Siteground when I moved my site.
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Hi Adrian,
How do you move your site to Siteground? Did you ever write that blog how you migrated it? We're trying to do that with another account we have here but not getting any help. How do you access the FTP info?
Thanks,
Judy