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SiteGround to drop all WordPress-related Support
Siteground to drop all WordPress-related support completly.
Oh, well. I was with them a couple of years back and it was quite snappy. I used to justify their sometimes a bit more pricy plans with their support quality that often went the extra mile. But now it seems they dropped that completly.
I mean, they must have ended up becoming like LE Support Desk getting inquiries for buggy third party plugins they can't do or known much about. Still, dropping wp support entirely will make justifying their higher pricing a bit more difficult. They could have instead limited support to core wp or similar. But then again, there'd be many customers who wouldn't known where to draw the line.
Tl;dr: If you relied on Siteground to deal with your or your client's WP issues look elsewhere.
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Mmm they just dropping support for third party plugins and themes for Wordpress. I guess they still will run WP optimized servers. This still matters.
It's likely that. Honestly, I cannot imagine all the third party plugin requests they may have gotten. They still offer great performance
Is siteground owned by EIG?
Why they should support 3rd party applications or someone else corrupted code? I personally don’t get why they supported in first place? I understand the server optimised servers/shared hosting for WP like all other providers do.
They sure had a reputation for going the extra mile. Understood they dropped it but somehow, as a provider, you have to differ from the masses. Support was one of their perks.
Nope
Don't think anyone would be praising their support if they were owned by EIG
I have seen complaints about SG recently and Their ‘new’ panel
this is sensationalist marketing material and anyone providing a wp service should be doing it themselves anyways.
The link is for WPX trying to make money off the decision. Compare prices though- site ground 10 bucks a month fr unlimited sites and wpx 25 a month for 5 sites. Yep, easier to provide more support with higher margins
I support Jeff Bittner on this one. The article looks more like a hit piece since at the end it's more like, why choose use over the one we're dissing.
It's not that simple. WPX is similar to Pressable, Kinsta, WP Engine, etc., proper managed WordPress hosts, whereas SiteGround is just another Shared host like InMotion, A2, InterServer, etc.
SiteGround's cheapest plan costing $15/month (not 10) provides almost nothing (talking about not-discounted prices). Only their $40/month plan is similar to what WPX or other managed WordPress hosts offer.
But, I also agree that this blog post is an attempt to get SiteGround's dissatisfied customers.
Uhhhh, where are you looking? I'm looking at SG's WP Hosting and Shared Hosting and the cheapest plan that I can see is 6.99/month, 14.99/month the highest.
6.99 is the discounted price (first payment only if I am not wrong), the regular price is 14.99.
I've looked into it further, it seems the discounted price doesn't kick in if you do monthly payments but if you do yearly then it kicks in.
... like they have been acing it like a champ with their Wordpress support till now
. They are, even otherwise, just a 'level 1' support good enough for an average Doe, the moment your demand and traffic increases, you have to look into better, more experienced Admin / Devs to take care.
And not to mention the horrible tracking/caching plugin they install in the name of 'optimisation' which adds shitload of telemetry and bloat beyond the scope.
Siteground support was my first job in life. Definitely going the extra mile in helping customers was their market differentiator.
SiteGround realized the high liability of those auto-updates just prior to WP 5.0 rolling out with the new Gutenberg editor. On the other hand, lack of updates is the number one way sites get hacked. And that puts the server and all other sites on the server at risk
so finally siteground decide to drop all support on wordpress