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SiteGround ainda executa algumas das hospedagens compartilhadas mais bem projetadas que você pode comprar, e cobra por isso todos os anos após o primeiro. Nossa pontuação média fica em 4.8 fora de 5 através 29,176 comentários que examinamos. Essa é uma nota alta, and the hosting behind it is genuinely good. What has changed in 2026 is the company around the hosting: a push into AI tools that many paying customers never asked for.
We read SiteGround’s plan pages, its cart and the full terms of service on 7 e 8 Outubro 2026. We read all 180 1- and two-star Trustpilot reviews from the past year, plus a year of Reddit threads. Two thirds of those low ratings were written without an invitation from SiteGround. We also pinged 10 do seu 11 data centers from home connections in 10 países. Most reviews that rank for this provider test one site for a few weeks. Ours looks at what happens when something goes wrong: the uptime contract, the refund terms and the complaints that never reach the five-star feed.
A resposta curta: SiteGround is a strong pick for WordPress sites in North America, Europe and Australia, avaliado 4.8 de 29,176 avaliações. Customers praise fast support and solid tools. They complain about renewal prices six times the entry rate, AI-first support routing and an AI plugin installed on their sites without asking.

SiteGround began installing its AI Agent plugin on customers’ WordPress sites by 22 Maio 2026, the date of the first WordPress.org complaint. Any review older than that misses why the plugin now shows 81 one-star ratings out of 97.
Última atualização: Outubro 2026. Dados de preços e avaliações verificados.
Visite o Site
| Nome | SiteGround |
| Resenhas totais | 29176 |
| Pontuação Média | 4.8 |
| Local na rede Internet | https://www.siteground.com |
| Endereço | C/ Serrano 1, 5º Alexandria , vai 28001 NOS |
| Suporte CMS | WordPress, Joomla, Weebly, Magento, Drupal |
| Locais do servidor | |
Número de avaliações
Média. Pontuação de revisão
Suporte ao cliente
Recursos e serviços
SiteGround sells shared hosting in three tiers (Comece, GrowBig e GoGeek), managed cloud servers, reseller accounts and a standalone website builder. Its WordPress and WooCommerce pages sell the same three shared plans with different marketing. Everything runs on Google Cloud, with SiteGround’s own control panel, called Site Tools, em vez de cPanel.
The Tools That Matter Day to Day
Backups diários, 30 days deep: every plan keeps daily copies “até 30 dias atrás”, and SiteGround says they sit in separate locations from your live site. That matters after a hack, because a backup stored on the same compromised server is worthless. On-demand backups start at GrowBig.
Estadiamento: GrowBig and GoGeek let you copy a WordPress site, test changes and push them live. GoGeek adds Git. This is the feature agencies mention most when they explain why they stay.
Free migrations and caching: a free migrator plugin moves WordPress sites in. Every plan also gets SiteGround’s own caching and CDN. A CDN (rede de entrega de conteúdo) serves copies of your pages from servers near each visitor.
Node.js and an AI layer: SiteGround added Node.js hosting on 1 Outubro 2026. Its hosted WordPress sites also get AI Studio with 20,000 free tokens a month. That AI layer is where many of 2026’s complaints start.
Limits the Plan Page Leaves Out
SiteGround’s plan cards don’t list resource caps. Its fair-use article does, though it was last updated in October 2021. StartUp gets 10,000 CPU seconds a day and 200,000 inodes. Um inode é um arquivo, folder or email on your account. GrowBig doubles the CPU allowance to 20,000 seconds and allows 400,000 inodes; GoGeek gets 40,000 segundos e 600,000 inodes. Go over them repeatedly and SiteGround “may need to limit the access to your website”.
Which limit do customers actually hit? Inodes, majoritariamente. Em setembro 2026 a GoGeek user on Reddit reported 478,327 do 600,000 inodes used across seven sites, with no email hosted at SiteGround. WordPress image sizes multiply fast, so a media-heavy site can burn through StartUp’s allowance long before its 10 GB de armazenamento.
Where SiteGround Hosts Your Site
You pick one of 11 locations at checkout: Iowa, Virgínia, Texas and California in the US, plus the Netherlands, Paris, Madri, Frankfurt am Main, Londres, Singapura e Sydney. Everything in that account lives in the region you choose. There is nothing in South America, África, India or the Middle East. For a shop selling to Brazil or India, that gap shows up in every page load.
Performance Expectations From Our Network Test
We measured network latency, the time a small packet takes to reach a server and come back. Em 7 e 8 Outubro 2026 we pinged ten SiteGround shared servers, one per location, from home and mobile internet connections in 10 países. We used Globalping’s public probes and sent 10 packets per probe. We couldn’t find a Paris server name, so Paris isn’t in the results.
Here is the closest SiteGround location for each country we tested, with its average round trip:
| Localização da sonda | Fastest SiteGround location | Average round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Madri, Espanha | Madri | 3.4 em |
| Cingapura | Cingapura | 3.1 em |
| Hamburgo, Alemanha | Países Baixos | 10.1 em |
| Manchester, Reino Unido | Londres | 10.3 em |
| Filadélfia, NOS | Virgínia | 10.7 em |
| Toronto, Canadá | Iowa | 25.2 em |
| Brisbane, Austrália | Sydney | 25.5 em |
| Macerata, Itália | Frankfurt am Main | 28.1 em |
| Aizawl, Índia | Cingapura | 109.7 em |
| Parnaiba, Brasil | Virgínia | 128.4 em |

Eight countries reach a SiteGround location in under 30 em; India and Brazil don’t. Fonte: nossa medição Globalping, 7-8 Outubro 2026.
Eight of ten countries reached a SiteGround location in under 30 em, o que é excelente. India and Brazil did not. Our Indian probe sits in Aizawl, in the far north-east, so other Indian cities may see different times. De qualquer jeito, no SiteGround server sits inside India. Treat this as a map of network distance. Velocidade de carregamento da página, caching and how busy a shared server is are separate questions.
One oddity is worth knowing. Two servers named for Iowa answered exactly like servers in Virginia and Texas, so SiteGround’s server names don’t always match where a machine runs. We used an Iowa server whose address and timing both fit Iowa.
Experiência do cliente
Most SiteGround customers are happy, but two very different groups write reviews. Trustpilot mostra um 4.9 TrustScore de 31,001 avaliações, e 93.96% of them give five stars. Somente 3.50% dê uma estrela.
The split shows up when you sort by who prompted the review. Do 200 comentários mais recentes, postado entre 25 Setembro e 7 Outubro 2026, 196 came through SiteGround’s invitation links, and those averaged 4.98. Somente 4 of the newest 200 were unprompted. The low ratings come mostly from that second group, as the next section shows. Ambos os grupos são clientes reais, então o 4.9 depends heavily on who SiteGround asks to write.
Why People Stay
Long-time agency users on Reddit are the most convincing fans. One has hosted client sites on SiteGround since 2014 and is still satisfied. Outro, six years in, names GrowBig’s staging and the migrator plugin as the tools that keep them there. A reseller running about 60 client sites on SiteGround Cloud wrote that they’re “very happy” with the support, even while shopping for cheaper options.
Onde isso dá errado
We pulled every one- and two-star Trustpilot review from the 12 months to 7 Outubro 2026. There were 180 deles, 2.85% do 6,312 reviews posted in that time, e 66% were unprompted. A keyword count across those 180 shows the pattern:
- Cobrança, renewals and cancelling (71 avaliações, 39%): choque de renovação, double charges, renewals taken before the due date and trouble switching off auto-renewal.
- Reaching a person (30, 17%): support now starts with an AI assistant, and many reviewers describe loops before they reach staff.
- Tempo de inatividade, malware and spam (29, 16%): hacked sites, suspended mailboxes and outages.
- The AI plugin (14, 8%): an AI agent appearing on WordPress sites unasked.
- Coderick AI and AI Studio (8, 4%): complaints about the paid AI products themselves.

Billing problems outnumber every other complaint in the past year’s low ratings. Fonte: Trustpilot, ler 8 Outubro 2026; our keyword count.
Every full month brought between 10 e 19 deles. So the AI rollout didn’t trigger a flood of low ratings; it added a new reason to an existing stream.
O maio 2026 AI Plugin Rollout
In late May 2026 SiteGround added its “AI Agent by SiteGround” plugin to customers’ Sites WordPress, activated and connected. SiteGround’s own 1 Junho 2026 post confirms that on its hosting the connector “comes pre-installed and pre-connected as the default”. Its staff say customers got an email first and that the plugin can be removed at any time.
Customers saw it differently. Review titles repeat “installed without consent” de novo e de novo. When SiteGround’s staff quoted the notice email in reply, one reviewer answered that it never said a plugin would be installed. The plugin’s WordPress.org page now shows 1.6 fora de 5 estrelas de 97 avaliações, com 81 of them one star.

The one-star bar dwarfs the rest, and most review titles object to the May 2026 auto-install. WordPress.org plugin directory, AI Agent by SiteGround, capturado 8 Outubro 2026.
Some reports go further. A business on Reddit said the activated plugin broke forms that its Google Ads pointed to. SiteGround says a security flaw in version 1.2.0, lançado 28 Maio 2026, was fixed in 1.2.1 em 4 Junho. It adds that hosted sites updated automatically. SiteGround also told customers it can remove the plugin in bulk for anyone with many sites. If you host with SiteGround, check your plugin list.
Suporte em 2026
Ofertas SiteGround 24/7 bate-papo, telefone e ingressos, with an in-house team. Existe suporte por telefone, but finding it takes effort. A Reddit user in August 2026 posted the route: eight clicks after logging in, through the billing menus, to reveal the number and access code. SiteGround replied that its AI assistant guides people to the right channel.
When staff are reached, reviews are usually warm. The friction is getting there, plus queue times during incidents. Em 17 setembro 2026 one Reddit user reported several sites down and chat waits of up to 55 minutos.
When to Use SiteGround
SiteGround fits buyers who value tools and support more than storage, and who will pay the full rate after year one.
Buyers It Serves Well
Agências e freelancers: GrowBig and GoGeek host unlimited sites with staging, collaborators and white-label access on GoGeek. Splitting a USD 44.99 renewal across ten clients turns an expensive plan into a cheap one per site. Nosso comparação de revenda de alojamento sets it against hosts built around WHM.
WordPress owners in North America, Europa ou Austrália: our probes reached a nearby SiteGround location in under 30 ms from eight of ten countries. Daily backups kept 30 days deep cover most disasters a small site meets.
Small shops that want help on call: a WooCommerce owner who can’t fix PHP errors alone gets 24/7 staff who know WordPress well. That’s worth more than extra gigabytes.
Needs It Meets Well
- Restoring a site from any day in the past month without a paid add-on
- Testing changes on a staging copy before going live (Crescer grande e acima)
- Moving a WordPress site in for free
- Choosing a European data center for EU data storage
When NOT to Use SiteGround
Some buyers will regret the second invoice more than they enjoy the first year.
Signs It Is the Wrong Host for You
You’re on a tight long-term budget: StartUp’s renewal is 6.02 vezes o preço de entrada. A single blog paying USD 215.88 um ano para 10 GB is overpaying.
Your visitors are in India or South America: SiteGround has no data center there. Our Brazilian probe’s best round trip was 128.4 em, to Virginia.
You want your hosting left alone: o maio 2026 AI plugin showed SiteGround will add software to your WordPress sites by default. If you manage client sites under strict change control, that’s a real risk.
You need to talk to a human fast: support starts with an AI assistant, and phone access is buried in the help menus.
Your site stores lots of small files: inode caps of 200,000 para 600,000 can force an upgrade before you run out of disk space.
Check Before You Commit
Read the renewal line under each plan, not the big number. Pick the 24-month term if you’ll stay two years; in the EUR storefront’s cart it saved EUR 60. Count your files before you migrate a large site. For flat pricing, veja Cloudways; for data centers in India and Brazil, Hostinger covers both.
- Revisões do SiteGround dos Estados Unidos
| Pontuação média | 4.87 |
| Número de avaliações | 8482 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround Do Reino Unido
| Pontuação média | 4.64 |
| Número de avaliações | 3133 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround da Australia
| Pontuação média | 4.82 |
| Número de avaliações | 1529 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround do Canadá
| Pontuação média | 4.89 |
| Número de avaliações | 1352 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround da Itália
| Pontuação média | 4.24 |
| Número de avaliações | 1326 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround da Espanha
| Pontuação média | 4.67 |
| Número de avaliações | 1188 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround da Alemanha
| Pontuação média | 4.85 |
| Número de avaliações | 858 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround da India
| Pontuação média | 4.84 |
| Número de avaliações | 730 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround da França
| Pontuação média | 4.73 |
| Número de avaliações | 345 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround do México
| Pontuação média | 4.95 |
| Número de avaliações | 309 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround do Paquistão
| Pontuação média | 4.87 |
| Número de avaliações | 274 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround das Filipinas
| Pontuação média | 4.91 |
| Número de avaliações | 260 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround da Holanda
| Pontuação média | 4.42 |
| Número de avaliações | 238 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround Da Irlanda
| Pontuação média | 4.80 |
| Número de avaliações | 212 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround De israel
| Pontuação média | 4.88 |
| Número de avaliações | 202 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround de Singapura
| Pontuação média | 4.79 |
| Número de avaliações | 184 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround da Tailândia
| Pontuação média | 4.74 |
| Número de avaliações | 172 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround da Grécia
| Pontuação média | 4.92 |
| Número de avaliações | 160 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround da Áustria
| Pontuação média | 4.84 |
| Número de avaliações | 157 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround dos Emirados Árabes Unidos
| Pontuação média | 4.74 |
| Número de avaliações | 157 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround Da Bélgica
| Pontuação média | 4.83 |
| Número de avaliações | 142 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround da Bulgária
| Pontuação média | 4.82 |
| Número de avaliações | 133 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround da Argentina
| Pontuação média | 4.81 |
| Número de avaliações | 132 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround de Bangladesh
| Pontuação média | 4.80 |
| Número de avaliações | 129 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround da Colômbia
| Pontuação média | 4.70 |
| Número de avaliações | 129 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround da África do Sul
| Pontuação média | 4.83 |
| Número de avaliações | 128 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround da Nova Zelândia
| Pontuação média | 4.77 |
| Número de avaliações | 125 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround de portugal
| Pontuação média | 4.74 |
| Número de avaliações | 125 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround do Brasil
| Pontuação média | 4.78 |
| Número de avaliações | 122 avaliações |
- Revisões do SiteGround De Hong Kong
| Pontuação média | 4.92 |
| Número de avaliações | 121 avaliações |
SiteGround Plans and Pricing
All three shared plans renew at roughly six times their first-year price. Prices below come from SiteGround’s international USD storefront, as listed, sem nenhuma linha de imposto mostrada. Visitors in other regions see local prices; the EUR storefront, por exemplo, lists StartUp at EUR 2.99, renovação em EUR 15.99 excluindo IVA. On the USD storefront, Custos iniciais em USD 2.99 a month for the first 12 meses, então USD 17.99.

Look below the button: the renewal price sits in small type under the large USD 2.99. SiteGround web hosting page, international USD storefront, capturado 8 Outubro 2026.
Compartilhado, WordPress and WooCommerce Plans
| Plano | Primeiro 12 meses | Renova em | Multiplier | Websites | Armazenamento |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comece | US$ 2,99/mês | US$ 17,99/mês | 6.02x | 1 | 10 GB |
| GrowBig | US$ 4,99/mês | US$ 29,99/mês | 6.01x | Ilimitado | 50 GB |
| GoGeek | US$ 7,99/mês | US$ 44,99/mês | 5.63x | Ilimitado | 100 GB |
Aviso de renovação: StartUp goes from USD 2.99 para USD 17.99 um mês, uma 502% aumentar. Your first year costs USD 35.88; the second costs USD 215.88. The cart’s small print says the discount applies “to the first invoice only”.
The renewal prices themselves aren’t new. Archived copies of the pricing page show USD 17.99, 29.99 e 44.99 as regular prices back to January 2024. Any review quoting USD 14.99 for StartUp is using figures from before then.
Billing Terms in the Cart
SiteGround’s cart sends visitors from our location to its EUR storefront (eu.siteground.com), whatever region the site is set to. So we couldn’t check USD terms, and the figures below are the EUR storefront’s, excluindo IVA. Its cart offers three terms: 1, 12 ou 24 meses, sem opção de 36 meses.
- 12 meses: StartUp EUR 2.99 um mês, EUR 35.88 adiantado. This is the only term with the full discount.
- 24 meses: StartUp EUR 6.99 um mês, EUR 167.76 adiantado. That beats two separate years (EUR 227.76) by EUR 60.
- Por mês: StartUp EUR 22.99 a month with no discount at all. Isso é 44% more than the EUR 15.99 taxa de renovação.
Free trials of Site Scanner, Premium Backup and Email Marketing appear in the cart, but none is ticked by default. If you do start one, it bills 5 days before the trial ends, para 12 meses.
Armazenamento em nuvem
Cloud plans are billed monthly with no intro discount, então não há choque de renovação. Jump Start costs USD 100 um mês para 4 Núcleos da CPU, 8 GB de RAM e 40 GB de armazenamento SSD. O negócio (8 núcleos, 12 GB) custa USD 200, Negócios Mais USD 300 e Super Power USD 400. Refunds on cloud last 14 dias, não 30.
Costs That Show Up Later
- Renovação de domínio: the free .com is free for year one only; the EUR storefront’s cart then lists EUR 20.99 um ano.
- o “livre” domain on a refund: SiteGround may deduct the standard domain fee from your refund.
- Suporte pago: the terms allow some technical help to be sold as paid support credits. Diversos 2026 reviewers say they were offered paid help to fix site problems.
- Standalone builder: the website builder now has its own plans from USD 10 um mês (prepaid yearly, renovação plana) if you don’t buy hosting.
What You Pay For
Year one at USD 2.99 is a fair price for what’s included. Year two at USD 17.99 para um site e 10 GB is expensive by any measure. You’re paying for the support team, the backups and the tooling, not for raw resources. If you can’t justify USD 215.88 a year for a small site, plan your exit before month 12.
- Largura de banda ilimitada
- Painel cPanel
- Número de sites 1
- Largura de banda ilimitada
- Painel cPanel
- Número de sites ilimitados
- Largura de banda ilimitada
- Painel cPanel
- Número de sites ilimitados
- CPU 4 núcleos
- RAM 8 GB
- Largura de banda 5 tb
- CPU 8 núcleos
- RAM 12 GB
- Largura de banda 5 tb
- CPU 12 núcleos
- RAM 16 GB
- Largura de banda 5 tb
SiteGround Transparency Score
Company information: Boa. The terms name the contracting company, SiteGround Spain S.L., with its Madrid address and tax number. The About page describes a privately owned group registered in five countries. It does so only in general terms, so you need the terms to find the legal entity.
Transparência de preços: Boa. Every plan card prints the renewal price and the 12-month prepay term. Monthly and 24-month prices appear only in the cart, and the cart is locked to your region’s storefront.
Technical documentation: Boa. Tudo 11 locations are listed at checkout, and the fair-use limits are published. But the limits sit in a knowledge base article last updated in 2021, not on the plan page.
Terms and policies: Excelente. The terms are versioned, dated and link to the previous version. The problem lies in their content. The uptime guarantee promises 99.9% um mês, and the remedy is 5% da taxa daquele mês, paid only as extra hosting time. On StartUp’s USD 17.99 avaliar, that’s just under USD 0.90. Falhas “remedied under 1 hora” don’t count, and neither does downtime when you hit your plan’s resource limits. SiteGround measures uptime with its own records and won’t accept third-party monitoring as proof.
SiteGround’s terms revision dated 18 agosto 2026 also widened the refund exclusions. Services can now be marked non-refundable “on any portion of our website”, e “digital Services that are delivered in full” are excluded. The 30-day window for shared hosting is unchanged.
Transparência geral: Boa. SiteGround publishes more than most hosts, including dated terms. What it publishes is often less generous than the marketing suggests, so read the terms before you rely on the uptime promise.
Alternatives to SiteGround
These three fix the two biggest gaps above, the renewal jump and the missing regions, at three different price levels.
For a Price That Stays the Same: Cloudways
Cloudways bills hourly with no intro rate, de USD 14 a month for its default 1 Servidor GB. You get your own server for less than SiteGround’s GrowBig renewal, though you’ll manage more yourself. Nosso Revisão da Cloudways covers the trade-offs.
Para a Índia, Brazil and a Lower Bill: Hostinger
Hostinger runs data centers in India and Brazil. Premium needs a 48-month prepay at USD 2.99 um mês, depois renova em USD 10.99. Expect less hand-holding from support, como nosso Crítica da Hostinger explica.
Para WordPress gerenciado premium: Kinsta
Kinsta’s cheapest plan, Único 20 GB, custa USD 35 um mês, ou dólares americanos 30 um mês cobrado anualmente. There’s no first-year discount to lose. It suits a business that wants managed WordPress without a renewal surprise; veja nosso Revisão de Kinsta.
SiteGround deserves its 4.8 de 29,176 reviews for one reason: when you reach its staff, they fix things. The hosting is fast where its data centers are, and the backups and staging are better than most rivals include.
O resultado final
Buy SiteGround if you run several WordPress sites in North America, Europe or Australia and can live with a renewal six times the entry price. Agencies get the best value, because GrowBig or GoGeek costs spread across clients. Skip it for a single budget site, or for visitors in India or South America. Hostinger costs less over time and reaches both regions, e nosso comparação de hospedagem compartilhada ranks the cheaper long-term options. After you sign up, check your WordPress plugin list and set a reminder for month 11.
perguntas frequentes
Is SiteGround a good choice for a first WordPress site?
sim, para o primeiro ano. Custos iniciais em USD 2.99 a month and includes daily backups, free migration and 24/7 Apoio, suporte. From month 13 custa USD 17.99, so budget for that or plan a move.
What does SiteGround StartUp cost once the discount ends?
Renova em USD 17.99 a month on the international USD storefront, cobrado por 12 meses de cada vez. Isso é USD 215.88 um ano, contra USD 35.88 para o primeiro ano.
What do customers complain about most in 2026?
Billing comes first: preços de renovação, double charges and cancelling auto-renewal. After that come AI-first support and the AI plugin SiteGround installed on WordPress sites in May 2026.
Is SiteGround cheaper than Hostinger over time?
Não. Hostinger Premium custa USD 143.52 for four years upfront, depois renova em USD 10.99 um mês. SiteGround StartUp already costs USD 251.76 over its first two years.
What are SiteGround’s inode limits?
StartUp allows 200,000 inodes, GrowBig 400,000 e GoGeek 600,000. Every file, folder and email counts. Image-heavy WordPress sites can hit this limit before they fill their storage.
Can I get my money back from SiteGround?
sim, dentro 30 days of activation for shared hosting and 14 days for cloud. Domain fees aren’t refunded, and SiteGround may deduct the standard price of a free domain from your refund.
