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A2 heißt jetzt Hosting.com. Hier ist, was sich geändert hat.
Überspringen Sie diesen Abschnitt nur, wenn Sie den Rebranding-Verlauf bereits kennen. Alle anderen brauchen den Kontext, weil es die Mathematik in einer Weise verändert, die im Marketingtext nicht formuliert ist.
Weltgastgebergruppe, a UK-based hosting holding company that owns Krystal, TSOHost, and roughly two dozen other brands, acquired A2 Hosting in January 2025. Three months later, am April 28, A2’s domain switched to a 301-redirect pointing at hosting.com. WHG had been holding the premium hosting.com domain as a parked asset. Rather than running two consumer brands in parallel, the parent company chose consolidation.
What changed for buyers:
- Namen planen: Startup became Starter, Drive became Plus, Turbo Boost became Pro, Turbo Max became Max.
- Term length: the headline 36-month introductory pricing was replaced with a 12-month term, matching SiteGround.
- Spec democratization: LiteSpeed, NVMe, and AMD EPYC now ship on every shared plan. Pre-rebrand these were Turbo-only.
- Resource transparency: RAM, vCPU, and IOPS are now listed publicly on each tier. The legacy A2 product pages hid these.
What stayed the same: das “Guru-Crew” support brand, 24/7 phone and chat coverage, the 30-day money-back window, and the data center footprint.
Why it matters for this comparison: the famous “20x faster Turbo” pitch that distinguished A2 from SiteGround for years is no longer a product differentiator. It’s the baseline. Every shared plan gets the LiteSpeed plus EPYC stack. That fundamentally changes how value compares against SiteGround at the entry tier, where SiteGround StartUp now looks underweight on raw infrastructure.
Pricing Tier by Tier (And Where Each One Wins)
Mapping plans across these two isn’t perfectly clean. Hosting.com fields four shared tiers; SiteGround fields three. We grouped by closest functional equivalent and called out where the comparison breaks down.
Einstiegsstufe: einzelne Seite, light traffic
- Hosting.com Starter: USD 3.99/mo on a 12-month term. 15 GB NVMe, 1 Seite? ˅, 2 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, tägliche Backups, LiteSpeed-Cache, kostenlose CDN. Erneuert sich um 14,99 USD/Monat.
- SiteGround StartUp: 2,99 USD/Monat bei einer Laufzeit von 12 Monaten. 10 GB SSD, 1 Seite? ˅, ~10,000 monthly visits cap, tägliche Backups, keine Inszenierung, no Ultrafast PHP. Erneuert sich um 17,99 USD/Monat.
The entry-rate gap looks like USD 1/mo in SiteGround’s favor. Everything else flips the other direction. Hosting.com Starter ships 50% mehr Speicherplatz, publishes guaranteed RAM and CPU figures (SiteGround doesn’t on shared), runs LiteSpeed instead of NGINX, and renews at USD 14.99/mo against StartUp’s USD 17.99/mo. That’s a USD 3/mo renewal saving.
Three-year all-in math: SiteGround StartUp lands at USD 35.88 for year one plus USD 431.76 across years two and three at renewal, insgesamt USD 467.64. Hosting.com Starter lands at USD 47.88 plus USD 359.76, insgesamt USD 407.64. So the entry-rate advantage SiteGround appears to hold flips into a USD 60 saving on Hosting.com over three years on the cheapest tier.
Aufstiegsstufe: mehrere Standorte, WordPress-fähig
- Hosting.com Plus: USD 3.99/mo on a 12-month term. 30 GB NVMe, 2 Websites, 3 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, LiteSpeed-Cache. Renewal sits in the USD 10-11/mo range based on legacy Drive pricing carried over.
- SiteGround GrowBig: 4,99 USD/Monat bei einer Laufzeit von 12 Monaten. 20 GB SSD, Unbegrenzte Websites, ~100,000 monthly visits cap, Inszenierung, Ultraschnelles PHP, On-Demand-Backups, kostenloses Wildcard-SSL. Erneuert sich um 29,99 USD/Monat.
Story flips here. The 2-site cap on Hosting.com Plus kills it for anyone hosting client work or running multiple subdomain projects. SiteGround GrowBig’s “Unbegrenzte Websites” matters at this tier, and so does Ultrafast PHP for dynamic WordPress content. Set against that: GrowBig’s USD 29.99/mo renewal is roughly 3x what Hosting.com Plus renews at, and GrowBig’s 20 GB storage is 10 GB less than Plus.
Buyer split: GrowBig fits if you’re hosting 5+ small WordPress sites and need proper staging. Hosting.com Plus fits if you’re running 1-2 sites and want NVMe storage headroom plus a much gentler renewal curve.
Power tier: high-traffic single site or agency starter
- Hosting.com Pro: USD 6.99/mo on a 12-month term. 50 GB NVMe, 10 Websites, 6 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, LiteSpeed. Renewal around USD 19.99/mo per legacy Turbo Boost data.
- SiteGround GoGeek: 7,99 USD/Monat bei einer Laufzeit von 12 Monaten. 40 GB SSD, Unbegrenzte Websites, ~400,000 monthly visits, Inszenierung, Git pre-installed, white-label client area, Zugriff für Mitarbeiter, priority support routing. Erneuert sich um 44,99 USD/Monat.
This is where SiteGround GoGeek earns its renewal price for a specific buyer. Agencies and freelance shops managing 10+ WordPress sites for clients get white-label client logins, collaborator access without billing visibility, and Git pre-installed at USD 7.99/mo entry. That feature stack is unusual at any shared price point. Hosting.com Pro at USD 6.99/mo undercuts the entry rate by USD 1, gibt 25% mehr Speicherplatz, and has stronger CPU and RAM allocations, but lacks the agency tooling.
For one high-traffic WordPress site or WooCommerce store with no agency requirements: Hosting.com Pro is the cleaner pick. The renewal gap is real. GoGeek’s USD 44.99/mo renewal is 2.25x Hosting.com Pro’s USD 19.99/mo renewal at the same tier.
Oberste gemeinsame Ebene: outgrowing GrowBig but not ready for Cloud
- Hosting.com Max: USD 8.99/mo on a 12-month term. 100 GB NVMe, 100 Websites, 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU. Renewal around USD 24.99/mo.
- SiteGround Cloud (Eintrag): 100 USD/Monat. 4 CPU-Kerne, 8 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD, vollständig verwaltet.
The gap here is structural rather than competitive. SiteGround has no shared tier above GoGeek; once a site outgrows it, the upgrade path jumps directly to Cloud at USD 100/mo. Hosting.com Max gives 100 GB NVMe and 100 sites at USD 8.99/mo intro, USD 24.99/mo at renewal. Nothing in the SiteGround shared lineup matches that resource ratio. If the buyer needs more headroom but isn’t ready for managed cloud spend, Max is the more honest upgrade. Worth comparing against alternatives in our Cloud-Hosting-Zusammenfassung if you’re being pushed toward the SiteGround Cloud price tier.
Leistung und Infrastruktur: The Honest Read
Both providers run modern stacks. The differences are real but smaller than either marketing copy suggests.
What SiteGround actually runs
Google Cloud Platform across 11 hostable regions: Iowa, Virginia, Texas, California in the US; Eemshaven (Niederlande), Frankfurt, Madrid, London, Paris in Europe; Singapur; Sydney. Paris is the recent addition. Ultraschnelles PHP (SiteGround’s PHP container layer) ships on GrowBig and above and adds roughly 30% request throughput per their own benchmarks. SuperCacher runs three layers: NGINX-Direktlieferung für statische Dateien, dynamic NGINX-cached HTML for PHP output, and Memcached for object queries. The SiteGround CDN 2.0 Spannweiten 170+ Punkte der Präsenz on Google’s anycast network. HTTP/3 enabled.
The honest critique: independent monitoring isn’t always flattering. Hostingstep’s Q4 2025 measurement clocked SiteGround at 632ms TTFB global, ranking it #22 von 34 monitored hosts. Same data shows highly geographically uneven response (32ms in New York, several hundred milliseconds further out). SiteGround’s strongest suit is consistency from a nearby region, not raw global speed.
What Hosting.com runs post-rebrand
Every shared plan ships LiteSpeed Web Server Enterprise, NVMe-SSD-Speicher, und AMD EPYC-Prozessoren. LiteSpeed Cache für WordPress ist vorkonfiguriert. Free CDN across plans. The data center map: Irvine, San Francisco, Louisville, Newark, Dallas in the US; Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt in Europe; Mumbai, Singapur in Asien; Sydney; Mexiko-Stadt. Das ist 12 publicly listed locations. Hosting.com markets “40+” anderswo, but only 12 are confirmed on the data center page itself.
Hostingstep’s same Q4 2025 run measured Hosting.com at 462ms TTFB globally and ranked it #11 von 34, ahead of SiteGround’s 632ms and #22 placement on the same methodology. Online-Medien-Master’ 2026 testing put Hosting.com WordPress page loads at 1.2 zu 1.4 seconds with caching active and sub-500ms for cached pages. LiteSpeed gives Hosting.com a measurable first-byte advantage on cached pages; SiteGround’s GCP network gives it a slight lead on dynamic database queries from a nearby region. For a typical 25k-monthly-visit WordPress blog, you won’t notice the difference. For a high-traffic site serving global audiences, Hosting.com’s TTFB consistency now reads better than SiteGround’s.
Betriebszeit: the part marketing avoids
Beide veröffentlichen 99.9% SLAs. Hostingstep’s Q4 2025 monitoring puts Hosting.com at 99.98% Betriebszeit and SiteGround comfortably above 99.97% on the same methodology. Das ist ungefähr 1.75 hours of annual downtime for Hosting.com against SiteGround’s roughly 2.5 Std. Statistically a tie at this measurement window.
One historical note that belongs in any honest read: A2 Hosting suffered a multi-week ransomware outage in 2019 with customer data loss. That’s six years back, ownership has changed twice, and the infrastructure has been rebuilt under new management. But institutional memory is a legitimate part of the “skip if reliability is your top criterion” calculus.
Data center coverage by audience
European audiences are well-covered on both (SiteGround adds Madrid and Paris; Hosting.com adds Amsterdam). North American audiences are well-covered on both. SiteGround’s Sydney region serves Pacific traffic strongly; Hosting.com matches with its own Sydney location. Where the maps diverge: SiteGround has no native South American or Middle Eastern presence, while Hosting.com fills part of that gap with Mexico City (but not São Paulo). For Indian audiences, Hosting.com’s Mumbai region wins outright. SiteGround does not host in India.
WordPress: Endorsement vs Updated Stack
Two different bets on the same buyer. SiteGround sells the WordPress.org logo. Hosting.com sells the post-rebrand spec sheet. Pick the one that matches how you actually buy.
SiteGround’s WordPress story
Officially recommended on WordPress.org alongside Bluehost and Pressable. The endorsement is decades old at this point and shows up in the product. SiteGround Migrator plugin is free on the WP.org repository, with the latest release in April 2026. Staging environments live on GrowBig and GoGeek. Git pre-installed on GoGeek. The SG Optimizer plugin handles caching configuration without forcing you to install LSCache or W3 Total Cache. WordPress Starter wizard for new sites. Auto-updates on core and plugins.
Für Agenturen, GoGeek’s white-label and collaborator features are the actual differentiator. You can grant a client a restricted login to their site without exposing your billing or other clients. That’s a USD 7.99/mo entry feature, USD 44.99/mo at renewal, but comparable agency tooling on competing hosts costs noticeably more.
Hosting.com’s WordPress story post-rebrand
Keine WordPress.org-Unterstützung. But the actual stack on every plan? LiteSpeed-Cache für WordPress (Lscwp) vorinstalliert, which is arguably the strongest WP cache plugin available right now. NVMe-Speicher. EPYC processors with disclosed RAM allocations. Free WordPress migration on every tier. Staging available on Pro and Max. One-click WordPress install with auto-updates. WP-CLI access on shared.
What it lacks compared to GoGeek: native Git on shared, White-Label-Werkzeuge, collaborator-style restricted client logins. Solo bloggers and small business owners don’t miss those. Agenturen laufen 30 client sites do.
Für die meisten Solo-Blogger und Websites kleiner Unternehmen, Hosting.com’s LiteSpeed-out-of-the-box stack delivers more raw WordPress speed than SiteGround StartUp at a similar entry price. You also don’t have to climb to GrowBig before staging unlocks. Für Agenturen, GoGeek’s tooling is hard to match. For a managed-WordPress experience at the next price tier, unser managed WordPress hosting USA guide covers Kinsta, WP Engine, and other contenders if neither shared host fits.
Unterstützung: Who Picks Up the Phone
Both providers run 24/7 Über mehrere Kanäle. The differences are quieter than either marketing claim suggests.
Hosting.com (Guru-Crew)
24/7 Live-Chat, Telefon, and email/ticket. The phone number is publicly listed on the contact page (das “request a callback” pattern SiteGround uses isn’t required). The Guru Crew support brand survived the rebrand. Unabhängig 2026 reviews report chat reply times under 5 Protokoll, with phone wait times typically under 2 minutes off-peak. Quality has slipped from the late-2010s reputation: more first-line script-driven responses, more upsell pressure on routine tickets. Still rated above category average overall.
SiteGround
24/7 Live-Chat, Telefon (request-a-callback), und Ticket. Phone access works but is gated through a chat-initiated callback rather than a direct dial-in. Live chat reply often lands inside 20 seconds in independent testing. Tickets average around 15 Protokoll, with GoGeek and Cloud customers getting priority routing to senior agents. Support team is based primarily in Bulgaria (Sofia, Plowdiw, Stara Zagora) und Spanien (Madrid). Same reputation drift as Hosting.com: 2025-2026 reviews flag declining warmth versus the late-2010s legend.
If picking up a phone when a checkout page breaks at 2am is your support test, Hosting.com pulls ahead because the phone number is directly dialed without going through chat first. If chat speed matters most, SiteGround answers faster on first response. Neither matches the support reputation either provider had in 2018. Both qualify for buyers who value 24/7 coverage over support polish.
How to Choose Between These Two
Forget the feature checklists. Real decisions look more like the scenarios below.
Nur Blogger, single WordPress site, 5-15k monthly visits, Budget unter 5 USD/Monat Eintritt
Wählen Hosting.com Starter für 3,99 USD/Monat (12-Monat). 15 GB NVMe and 2 GB guaranteed RAM with LiteSpeed Cache pre-installed beats SiteGround StartUp on raw infrastructure at a USD 1/mo entry premium. Skip SiteGround StartUp here. The 10,000-visit cap is enforced, the 6x renewal multiplier (USD 17.99/mo from USD 2.99/mo) compounds fast, and StartUp lacks staging. The USD 1/mo savings disappear in month 13.
WooCommerce store, ~100k monthly visits, staging that actually works, budget under USD 30/mo all-in
Gehen mit SiteGround GrowBig at USD 4.99/mo entry (Verlängerung für 29,99 USD/Monat). Ultraschnelles PHP, tägliche und On-Demand-Backups, full staging, kostenloses Wildcard-SSL, and unlimited sites at this tier isn’t matched cleanly in the Hosting.com lineup. Hosting.com Plus’s 2-site cap kills it for serious WooCommerce. Year-one cost is similar across both. Year two is where the renewal stings. Ehrlich, if your store is already generating revenue, USD 25/mo extra rarely outweighs the staging-to-production workflow GrowBig handles.
Agentur- oder freiberuflicher Shop-Manager 10+ WordPress client sites
Wählen SiteGround GoGeek zum Eintrittspreis von 7,99 USD/Monat (Verlängerung für 44,99 USD/Monat). White-label client area, collaborator access without billing visibility, Git pre-installed, and priority support routing are hard to match in shared hosting at this price. Hosting.com Pro at USD 6.99/mo entry undercuts on entry rate and offers better CPU and RAM allocations, but lacks agency tooling. If your billing model requires separated client logins, GoGeek pays for itself within 3-4 Kundenstandorte. Wenn nicht, save the money on Hosting.com Pro. Läuft 30+ Kunden? You’re outgrowing both. Schauen Sie sich verwaltetes WordPress auf der nächsten Stufe an, oder unser Shared-Hosting-Zusammenfassung for buyers in the in-between zone.
Single high-traffic site outgrowing the step-up tier, not ready for Cloud spend
Wählen Hosting.com Max at USD 8.99/mo entry (Verlängerung ca. 24,99 USD/Monat). 100 GB NVMe, 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU at that price beats the upgrade path SiteGround offers, which jumps you to Cloud at USD 100/mo. For a buyer who needs more resources but isn’t ready for managed-cloud spend, Max is the cleanest landing. Skip SiteGround Cloud unless your team specifically needs guaranteed dedicated CPU on Google Cloud. Wenn sie es tun, Kinsta or a Hetzner-hosted setup also belong in the comparison.
Hidden Costs Both Providers Don’t Volunteer
Der Hauptpreis ist selten der Endpreis.
Domain-Erneuerung. Both offer a free domain in year one. Hosting.com’s .com renewal sits around USD 14.99/year. SiteGround’s lands around USD 17.95/year. Niche TLDs (.Geschäft, .Geschäft, .io) kostet beides mehr. Das “kostenlose Domain für immer” Linie im Einstiegsmarketing ist auf jedem Shared Host irreführend, and both qualify here.
E-Mail-Speicher. SiteGround keeps email free across the plan term but caps mailbox storage at the plan’s storage allocation. StartUp’s 10 GB doubles as your inbox cap, so heavy email use eats into site storage. Hosting.com keeps email free across plans without raiding site storage, but defaults to spam-filtered shared MX servers; serious senders are pushed toward Google Workspace integration.
Auto-renewal. Both auto-renew at the higher rate without prominent advance warning. SiteGround zeigt zumindest eine “regulärer Preis” badge on the public pricing page. Hosting.com surfaces the renewal rate at checkout but not on the marketing pages. Legen Sie eine Kalendererinnerung für den Monat fest 11, or you’ll find out the hard way.
Storage softness. SiteGrounds “GB” figures for storage cap site files plus database plus mailboxes plus backups in the visible quota. Hosting.com’s NVMe figures cover site files only on most tiers, with backups stored separately. Zwei Anbieter, two slightly different definitions of the same word. Read the fine print before you compare numbers blindly.
Häufig gestellte Fragen
Is A2 Hosting still around in 2026?
The brand was retired. Die World Host Group hat im Januar A2 Hosting übernommen 2025 and consolidated it under hosting.com on April 28, 2025. All a2hosting.com URLs now 301-redirect to hosting.com. The product, Support-team, and Guru Crew branding largely transferred. The customer-facing change is the new domain, restructured plan names (Anlasser, Plus, Profi, Max), and the standardization of LiteSpeed plus NVMe across every shared plan. Wenn ein 2024 review compares A2 Hosting to SiteGround, treat it as outdated.
Which is faster for WordPress, Hosting.com or SiteGround?
Hosting.com on cached pages and global TTFB; SiteGround on dynamic database queries from a nearby region. Hostingstep’s Q4 2025 measurement put Hosting.com at 462ms global TTFB versus SiteGround at 632ms on identical methodology. LiteSpeed plus LSCache handles cached WordPress pages with a measurable first-byte advantage. SiteGround’s GCP network plus Ultrafast PHP closes the gap on dynamic queries (Warenkorb-Updates, Suche, comment submissions) on GrowBig and above. Für eine typische WordPress-Site mit 25.000 monatlichen Besuchen, the speed gap is invisible. For a high-traffic WooCommerce store with frequent dynamic queries, the answer depends on whether your visitors mostly read cached pages or mostly hit the database.
Why did A2 Hosting rebrand to Hosting.com?
Weltgastgebergruppe, the new parent company after the January 2025 Erwerb, owned the premium hosting.com domain as a parked asset. WHG chose to consolidate under the more recognizable domain rather than maintain two separate consumer brands. The 23-year-old A2 Hosting name was retired April 28, 2025. Namen planen, term lengths, and resource disclosures changed at the same time, but the infrastructure footprint and the support team carried over.
Does SiteGround still have the WordPress.org official endorsement?
Ja. SiteGround remains one of three hosts officially recommended on wordpress.org/hosting/ in 2026, alongside Bluehost and Pressable. Hosting.com is not on that list. Whether the endorsement matters depends on how much weight you put on WordPress.org’s vetting. For some buyers it’s a real trust signal; for others it’s a partnership disclosure with marketing weight behind it.
Is SiteGround’s renewal really 6x the entry price?
Yes for StartUp and GrowBig. US Dollar 2.99 in USD 17.99 is exactly 6.0x. US Dollar 4.99 in USD 29.99 is also 6.0x. GoGeek’s USD 7.99 in USD 44.99 is 5.6x. That puts SiteGround among the steepest renewal multipliers in mainstream shared hosting. Hosting.com’s renewal markup is also real (Starter at 3.76x), but the dollar gap is smaller because the entry rate is higher and the renewal rate lower in absolute terms.
Can Hosting.com handle WooCommerce as well as SiteGround?
For most stores, Ja. LiteSpeed Cache for WooCommerce is one of the most effective caching plugins available for WP-based stores, and Hosting.com’s spec sheet (NVMe-Speicher, EPYC processors, disclosed RAM allocations) handles checkout-heavy traffic well. Where SiteGround pulls ahead: GoGeek’s staging-to-production workflow is smoother for stores that ship frequent code changes. Ultrafast PHP also handles dynamic database queries (Warenkorb-Updates, inventory checks) slightly faster on GrowBig and above. For a 50-orders-per-day store, either works. For a 500-orders-per-day store with frequent deploys, SiteGround GrowBig or GoGeek is the steadier pick.
Can I migrate from SiteGround to Hosting.com or the other direction?
Both ways. Hosting.com offers free WordPress migration on every shared plan. SiteGround offers the free SiteGround Migrator plugin for inbound WordPress moves and assisted migration on GrowBig and GoGeek. Budget 24-48 Stunden einschließlich DNS-Verbreitung. Email and database transfers usually run smoothly. Custom server-level configurations (special PHP modules, .htaccess rewrites tied to a specific server stack) sometimes need manual rework on the receiving end.
Endgültiges Urteil
Hosting.com (ehemals A2 Hosting) for buyers prioritizing infrastructure spec per dollar. The Starter and Max tiers especially outclass anything in the SiteGround shared lineup at comparable entry pricing. LiteSpeed plus NVMe plus EPYC at USD 3.99 Eintrag, 462ms global TTFB ranked #11 von 34 by Hostingstep, und ein 99.98% measured uptime makes the spec sheet hard to argue with. Skip Hosting.com only if institutional memory from the legacy 2019 ransomware incident still weighs on you, or if the WordPress.org endorsement is a non-negotiable trust signal for your audience.
SiteGround for WordPress agencies and freelance shops where GoGeek’s white-label, Zugriff für Mitarbeiter, and Git integration earn the USD 44.99/mo renewal. Skip SiteGround StartUp entirely. Hosting.com Starter beats it on every measurable spec at USD 1/mo more entry, USD 3/mo less at renewal. And skip GrowBig if you don’t need unlimited sites or the staging-to-production workflow on Ultrafast PHP. Die Erneuerungsklippe ist steil, and the speed advantage doesn’t survive Hostingstep’s global measurement.
Führen Sie diesen Vergleich jedes Mal erneut durch 18 Monate. The post-rebrand math on Hosting.com may shift again as World Host Group settles its product strategy. Ich wäge immer noch Optionen ab? Unser Hosting-Finder-Tool matches you to providers based on traffic, Budget, and audience location. Das SiteGround vs Hostinger comparison covers SiteGround against another mass-market shared host if you want a wider read on where SiteGround sits in the 2026 Markt.