DreamHost Vs SiteGround 2024: 7 Test To Decide “Who’s Best”?

Confusing to choose between DreamHost vs Siteground or SiteGround Vs Dreamhost?

In today’s article, we have compared Dreamhost VS Siteground hosting comparison with an in-depth history of both of the top hosting providers.

Both web hosting providers are officially recommended by wordpress.org and both are one of the biggest web hosting companies on the market having millions of active customers database.

Both hosting provider are optimized for wordpress specific features, as well as for other hostings server plans for other types of platforms.

However the notable difference to note when it comes to factors such as pricing, performance, support, they have far distance and deserver for better comparison.

This is why I decided to signup for both hosting providers to help you choose the right web hosting company, in this comparison article we will fully go with the test and find out the Dreamhost Vs Siteground.

Just in case, you’re in a hurry – here’s the comparison table:

	SITEGROUND	DREAMHOST
Price from	$6.99 /mo	$2.59 /mo
Traffic (mo)	10000 visits (25000 to 100000 in higher plans)	Unmetered
Disk space	10GB (10-40 GB in higher plans)	50GB in Starter, no limit in Unlimited
Free domain	No	Free one-year domain registration for specific TLDs (only with annual plans)
Email accounts	Unlimited	To be purchased in Starter, included in Unlimited
Site transfers	Free using plugin (one free professional migration on higher plans)	Free using the plugin
Support	24/7 ticketing, live chat, and phone callback. Priority support for GoGeek users	24/7 ticketing, live chat, and phone callback
Support rating	4.7	4.0
No. of sites	1 (unlimited in higher plans)	1 (unlimited in higher plans)

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Back in 1996, three students from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California launched DreamHost, it was officially registered in 1997 officially by Michael Rodriguez.

Still, the Current CEO is the same Michael Rodriguez who founded Dreamhost and registered the company in the back days.

What is DreamHost?

“Dreamhost is a web hosting provider and domain name registrar, this host provider is also widely famous for its affordable pricing plans with top features with the tag “Cost-effective wordpress Endorsed hosting provider”.” Dreamhost is one of the most recommended WordPress hosting companies

Overall more than 1.1 million active domains are hosted on their servers and I am proud to say ” I was also a customer of Dreamhost provider for almost eight months“.

They offer to host plans such as: shared, wordpress, managed, VPS, dedicated, and cloud servers with an affordable pricing model.

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Siteground is a web hosting company founded back in 2004, in Sofia, Bulgaria by few university friends. In 2015, they have officially partnered with Joomla to offer free website host.

The founder of SiteGround is Ivo tenor and today the CEO is Tenko Nikolov, the same guy who was the founding member of SiteGround, he has over more than 16years in the hosting industry.

Siteground is one of the most recommended web hosting providers and officially recommended by wordpress itself. They are widely know famous for their better support system, with fast hosting services with reliable uptime.

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Both web hosting providers are officially recommended by wordpress, have millions of customer database, affordable pricing models with better features.

lets us find out which company offers the best features either siteground or Dreamhost:

Note: More than 48% of the web internet is powered by WordPress which is easy to use best CMS platform for all online ownes, so I decided to give brief data on both Dreamhost and siteground wordpress plans.

Dreamhost is quite good in hosting features and the good part with Dreamhost wordpress server plans is you get to choose three different servers for one single platform wordpress.

Dreamhost offers dedicated optimized wordpress hosting servers that are fully managed, shared, and VPS.

Dreamhost wordpress plans come with three different servers, WordPress basic/ Managed WordPress which is mostly known by “DreamPress” and VPS wordpress.

Managed WordPress Host	Shared Normal Hosting
Automatic updates	Manually updates
Daily backups 24/7	Backup with third-party plugins
WordPress Optimized	General optimizations
In-Built caching and CDN	Available through third-party plugins.
Built-in wordpress databases	No database optimization.

Dreamhost wordpress basic plans come with the pricing of $2.59 which is their wordpress basic plans and the cheapest affordable hosting plans in their platform for wordpress useres.

Features 💡

Here’s what you get with Dreamhost Basic Plans:

• Automatic WordPress Updates
• One-Click Staging
• ree SSL certificate
• In-Built security and malware scanning tool
• malware tool
• Unlimited bandwidth
• Premium Jet pack plugin with license
• Free domain name
• WordPress Pre-Installed
• 3 Year, 1 Year & Monthly Plans
• Free SSL Certificat
• SSD Storage
• Unlimited storage and bandwidth
• Free web builder
• Daily backup
• 24/7 Dedicated WordPress Support

With all server plans, you do not have to worry about site downtime, technical issue,s and so on because they offer managed WordPress hosts where almost many things such as updates, systems downtime, performance are optimized by their self-healing servers and take cate their staffs.

Dreamhost: Speed Testing Results

This speed testing data has been taken from our recent in-depth Dreamhost review after using it for more than 8 long months.

To get more information about Dreamhost in-depth then you can read our honest DreamHost review.

• Minimum Loading Speed: 0.32 seconds
• Maximum Loading Speed: 0.40 seconds

Dreamhost: Pricing Plans

In this section of our Dreamhost vs siteground we will compare its pricing plans. Dreamhost offers five different web hosting server plans for all business needs.

• Shared Hosting: ($2.59/mo)
• Managed/ Shared/ Vps | WordPress hosting: ($12.00/per month for managed WP hosting)
• VPS Hosting: ($10/per month)
• Dedicated Hosting: ($149/per month)
• Cloud Hosting: ($4.50/per month)

Click here to learn about each detailed hosting plan explained in words in our DreamHost review.

With their all plans you can get flat 97 days money-back promise and the more upper plans you commit to choosing you will more discount. Just like if you go with three years contract then you will get with 67% live discount.

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SiteGround is widely used by bloggers, digital marketers, and other online business owners, but last year siteground increased their pricing in the heavy model which made them lost thousands of customers from South Asia.

Because they are not operating in these countries and due to their increment in pricing, many people have shifted their hosting provider from siteground to other hosting companies know such as WPX hosting, Dreamhost, hostgator, greengeeks and so son.

Siteground is no more budget-friendly hosting provider, let me explain why and you will agree with me.

Siteground wordpress basic plans come with the pricing of $6.99/per month with very few limitations of features such as storage, bandwidth overall they are good to go hosting provider with top speed performance.

Features 💡

Here’s what you get with SiteGround WordPress Basic Plans:

• 1 Website
• 10 GB Web Space
• ~ 10,000 Visits Monthly
• Unmetered Traffic
• Free SSL
• Daily Backup
• Free CDN
• Free Email
• Managed WordPress
• Out-of-the-box Caching
• Unlimited Databases
• 100% renewable energy match
• 30-Days Money-Back
• 24/7 dedicated WordPress support from experts
• Easy Site Management
• Reliable Email Service
• Top-notch Security with Customer satisfaction

SiteGround: Speed Testing Results

Minimum Loading Speed: 0.46 seconds
Maximum Loading Speed: 0.12 seconds

SiteGround: Pricing Plans

Siteground offers optimized web hosting/ wordpress hosting/ woocommerce hosting and cloud hosting server plans.

The basic plans come with the pricing of $6.99/per month where you can host one website as share above in the table comparison.

• Web hosting ($6.99/per month)
• WordPress Hosting ($6.99/per month)
• Woocommerce hosting ($6.99/per month)
• Cloud Hosting ($100/per month)

With all plans, you can get flat 30 days money-back promise with 24/7 dedicated support.

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DreamHost VS SiteGround Performance (Uptime & Speed Testing)

The question who wins in Dreamhost vs siteground performance tests?
Who is faster- Dreamhost or siteground? I just shared with both hosting companies speed testing, To take your back we have installed wordpress on both platforms to conduct real testing.

In May 2019, little data, Littledata surveyed over 3,560 websites found that the average server response for most the site was 553ms, which is common but take in mind if your website is having less than 302ms then it would be 20% off Best sites on the web and worst ben998ms for 20% worst placement

Dreamhost Uptime:

Duration	% of Uptime
24 Hours	100%
7 Days	100%
30Days	100%

Dreamhost has promised to offer 100% uptime with their plans and the good news is if they fail to claim 100% uptime then your account will be credited for each hour of downtime to your hosting account so next time you can redeem it.

SiteGround Uptime:

Duration	% of Uptime
24 Hours	100%
7 Days	100%
30 Days	100%

Like DreamHost, Siteground also comes with 100% uptime but has not committed yet to offer 100% uptime always as Dreamhost does.

SiteGround VS DreamHost performance tests

For this speed testing, I have used the tool Pingdom and loadimpact which are my favorite tool to test web hosting provider plans.

LOC	SITEGROUND	DREAMHOST
USA (Seattle)	1.45s	0.63s
Toronto, Canada	1.8s	0.79s
Germany	0.83s	1.06s
Sydney, Australia	2.19s	2.06s

The performance, response time for both hosting companies are great when the tests are made close to geographic locations host servers.

With long-distance locations, the speed was not quite impressive.

The load time of Dreamhost was faster than siteground, which I found on the test. Dreamhost hosting surprisingly was faster than the SiteGround hosting platform.

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Dreamhost and SiteGround offer matching features and both providers are recommended by wordpress itself, so I decided to give basic features with pricing tags attached to them.

We can call basic features as best matching features such as recommended by WordPress, free SSL, and so on.

Basic Features	DreamHost	SiteGround
Shared Hosting Prices (monthly)	$2.59 – $3.95	$6.99– $14.99
WordPress Servers	✔️	✔️
Dedicated Servers	✔️	✔️
Free SSL Certificate	✔️	✔️
Free domain name	✔️	❌
Website Builder	✔️	❌
Money-back Guarantee	97 Days	30 Days
Uptime Guarantee	100%	99.9%

You can see clearly DreamHost wins the game when both hosting providers offers same features their basic plans.

Dreamhost basic plans start under $2.59 offer a free domain with a web builder which is worth of paid, while siteground comes with the pricing of $6.99/per month with limitations.

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Both hosting providers offer best dedicated support directly from experts offer sing 24/7 clock supports via live chat,phone and call back.

Siteground also offers priority support with their higher plans go geeks users, the good part both hosting providers offers a wide range of tutorials knowledge base.

Dreamhost and SiteGround Support

	Dreamhost	SiteGround
Live Chat support	5/5	4.5/5
WordPress specific support	5/5	5/5

TO get a live chat feature in siteground, you will have to create an account and then you can get support from their staff, Still, you can reach siteground but will take a long minute which is definitely not good.

Overall, with the live chat feature, Dreamhost clearly offers better support with dedicated support.

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While Dreamhost offers budget-friendly shared and wordpress hosting plans, the siteground is somehow Lil bit expensive that was not supposed to be with the feature model.

Before I share the pricing comparison you must know both hosting providers has almost low renewal rates.

Still, most of the web hosting provider offers plans in cheaper but you have to understand when your hosting gets expire the renewal prices gets higher than your exception that is what we call higher renewal rates.

SiteGround pricing per month

Plans Tiers	STARTUP	GROWING	GEEK
Monthly Promotional	$3.95	$5.95	$11.95
Monthly Standard	$11.95	$19.95	$34.9

DreamHost Pricing per month

Plans Tiers	SHARED STARTER	SHARED UNLIMITED
Monthly Promotional	$4.95	$10.95
Monthly Regular (after 3 months)	$6.99	$11.99
Annual Promotional		$4.95
Annual Regular	$3.95	$9.95
3 Year Promotional		$4.95
3 Year Regular	$2.59	$7.95

Final Verdict: SiteGround VS DreamHost Pricing

Compared to Dreamhost pricing with siteground:

Dreamhost offers monthly/yearly and three years plans contracts, if you dont want to be on a contract for the year then you can simply go with monthly plans.

If you are looking for an affordable hosting provider, then no doubt! DreamHost shared, wordpress starter plans at $2.59/per month with three years contract are rock bottom to go with.

I do not recommend you to go with Dreamhost if you are going for monthly plans because if you want to pay on monthly basis, Siteground starter at $3.95/per month beats Dreamhost shared plans at $4.95/per month.

Siteground has a 30days money-back policy while Dreamhost offers 97days money-back promise.

The overall final verdict!

Dreamhost wins the game and is surely the more affordable hosting provider with great features packed value to offer.

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Not every web hosting provider is good, like anything in life, both siteground and HostGator both have their weakness and strength that you must know.

I have collected some pros and cons of both web hosting providers:

DreamHost Pros & Cons

Pros

• Affordable pricing
• Free domain name/ website builder/ SSL
• Unlimited storage/ bandwidth
• Easy to use
• Recommended by wordpress.org
• Monthly/yearly/ three years contract
• 100% Uptime promise
• SSD storage
• 24/7 dedicated support
• 97 days money-back promise

Cons

• Entity plan do-not offer free email account hosting
• Don’t offer cPanel instead they have built their own custom dashboard
• No phone support 24/7

SiteGround Pros & Cons

Pros

• 30 days money back guarantee
• Free wordpress website migration
• Daily backups
• WordPress recommended host provider
• Free SSL

Cons

• Limited storage/bandwidth
• High renewal rates
• No free domain name/ web builder

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So who wins the best? Dreamhost or siteground Summary – The Winner Of WPX Hosting vs Kinsta?

It depends on you, if you have $6.99/per month to spend on siteground then you can go with limited features but you will end up paying for domain name also which costs $10/year.

While with Dreamhost the game is unique and different, you only have to spend $2.59/per month to get a free domain/ web builder with unlimited features.

I would recommend you to go with Dreamhost company because it has everything an online business owner must need with less pricing model offering valued packed features that no other can offers.

If you have any questions about Dreamhost Or SiteGround? Let us know in the comment sections below.

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