Excellent foreign trade host recommended (2023), with server registration tutorial + advantages and disadvantages of in-depth comparison

The host is also called server, space, foreign called hosting, server, instance. server is the most important factor in the construction of foreign trade independent station, it directly determines the stability of the site, speed, user experience and even Google SEO rankings.

According to our experience, most of the website problems are caused by the server quality. Choosing a server of high quality and suitable for your business is the most important step in building a foreign trade website, which can save a lot of time and energy to enhance the website effect to a higher level.

Google speed test suggests that the server quality is not working ↓:

The Benefits Behind Referral Servers

As you know, when you buy a server through an invitation link, the merchant will give the referrer a commission. For every successful referral, the commission is as little as a few dozen or as much as hundreds of dollars! Diamo thinks 99% bloggers who refer servers are doing it to earn commissions, including us, haha.

Overseas hosting commission table, information from the network, if there is any error, please leave a message:

Tips: The commission amount is divided by grade, the more new users you successfully recommend each month, the higher the grade, the more commission, check out theSiteGround's Commission Tiers. Click to viewMore server commissions.

Referral commission is good, the webmaster will be sold to write excellent tutorials to help new users. No commission we will also recommend the right server, but may not be so active in writing tutorials, including detailed graphic steps, to provide users with Q&A, after-sales.

Sam recommends Linode, Sir Yan recommends Hostinger, Hunk recommends Siteground, and many other bloggers recommend it.Vultr.There are so many hosts on the market, a wide variety of them, each saying yes.

Some bloggers recommend servers purely on the basis of high or low commissions, blowing them out of proportion and not talking at all about the drawbacks or what type of website the server is suitable for. They probably haven't made a few websites, haven't used a few servers for a long/deep time, know half a thing or two, and don't offer after sales to the person they are recommending.

The purpose of writing this article is to help you choose the right server, keep it public and have your best interests at heart.DIIAMOLong-term use of major brands of servers to build foreign trade sites, familiar with their advantages and disadvantages, suitable for which sites.

Xiaomo I usually like to read, viewed a lot of foreign big V in this area of the articles and reviews and comparisons.It directly helps you to erase the information gap.Coupled with personal use comparisons, the servers we recommend are trustworthy.

Sign up for rebates, after sales through invitation links

When you buy a server through our invite link, we get a commission and in return we give it to you for free:

1. Rebate of 100 dollars, direct recharge to this site your account balance, you can buy all the products on this site. Charge 50 first, then 50 when we get the commission;
2. Free Lifetime Activation for One Site GenuineAstra Pro Theme or Premium Start Template Plugin. .;
3. Free 1 month WeChat one-on-one professional human consultation, all website building and server related questions will be given professional answers;
4. Free pagoda panel installation for Vultr servers and optimized setup;
5. Free speed audit to help you analyze what's slowing down your site and give you optimization advice;
6. Provide after-sales protection, if the purchase of recommended servers have problems, within 1 month we help you to deal with/optimize for free;

 Isn't it very conscientious! I dare say the whole network only we Diamo have such a large rebate activities, real feedback users. We provide these many services are actually to exercise, improve professional skills, while attracting traffic to promote, win-win.

Cooperative Extension:Send our invitation signup link (e.g. ChemiCloud: https://diiamo.cn/chemicloud ) to a friend. After successful registration and purchase, only you can get the above mentioned rebates and services for free. For more details, contact WeChat Customer Service (code in footer).

Excellent foreign trade hosting/server recommendation

First of all, the conclusion, if you can not judge, contact WeChat customer service one-on-one consultation, there is a QR code in the footer.

Make 1-2 foreign trade websites/personal blog mini-sites, especially e-commerce sites:

Limited budget:Recommend ChemiCloud Server of WordPress Hosting$106.2~$178.2 USD/3 years (it's 3 years). Customer service support is very good one second response and all kinds of questions are helped.

It gives the highest configuration of different brands of servers in the same price range, LiteSpeed servers.Cpanel panelsIt is optimized for WordPress with deep integration, fast and stable, better than SiteGround and Hostinger.

Adequate budget:Recommend ChemiCloud Server of Managed HostingQUIC.cloud CDN is available from $16.66/month for $, including paid version of QUIC.cloud CDN, which improves website speed, performance and security by at least one level.

 Click to go to ChemiCloud Service Organizer Website 

Make 3 or more websites:

Recommended Use Vultr ServerIt is the most cost-effective NVMe VPS server with the latest AMD CPU. It is the most cost-effective NVMe VPS server, using the latest AMD CPU. fast, good performance, stable. Renewal of the same price, do not have to worry about price increases to avoid the pain of relocating the site.

 Click to enter the Vultr server purchase tutorial 

Below are the results of Google testing for our client's website. Using Vultr service, Astra theme, Elementor editor. To borrow a phrase from MiClass Yan Sir: fast to the scalp.

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Let's start withFind out what shared/web hosting and VPS hosting are.

What is shared/web hosting (server)?

Shared hosting, also called virtual hosting, splits a standalone server into many shared servers. Many shared servers share a common IP address, CPU, memory, disk, etc. (so shared hosting generally does not list the parameters of the server configuration).Shared hosts can affect each other's websites, reducing performance, speed, security, and so on.

Shared hosting is similar to sharing a room, where each person has a bed and shares the living room, toilet, washing machine, etc. Therefore, shared hosting is the cheapest hosting on the market, and the performance is also the worst. In order to balance the performance and resources of each shared server, the hosting merchant will set various restrictions, such as limiting CPU usage, disk read/write rate, number of websites, monthly visits, etc. The excess will prompt an upgrade package.

Shared web hosting is usually slow because businesses try to maximize profits by cramming as many customer websites as possible onto the same server. This can lead to under-allocation of resources and websites grabbing each other's resources resulting in slower, lagging websites and increased risk of network security attacks.

Pros.

1. Good service, with online customer service, free website relocation and other services.
2. Free regular automatic backup function, so that problems can be restored with one click;
3. Generally there are free enterprise mailboxes, but the arrival rate of sending letters is low in general into the junk mailbox, it is not recommended to use;
4. Usually free domain names are given away, but the renewal price is much higher, and the overall calculation is better than going toNamesiloRegistration of your.
5. Pre-deployed server environment (LNMP, LAMP, etc.), out-of-the-box and suitable for novices.
6. Optimization of servers, which are generally good in terms of stability, speed, etc., such as Siteground;

Disadvantages.

1. Share ip address, CPU, memory, etc. with other websites. Speed and SEO results are difficult to optimize.
2. Limit CPU performance, disk read/write rate, monthly accesses, etc. Overage requires package upgrade.
3. Better service and more features, and therefore 1-3 times more expensive than VPS hosting of the same configuration.
4. Many restrictions in various aspects, unlike VPS, which can be tossed around and installed with various extensions and applications.
5. Deep schemes, various schemes for customers to upgrade their packages and more than 2 times the renewal price.
6. Generally charged on an annual basis, with high financial pressure and no refunds for midway withdrawals.

The main target customers of shared hosting are white people, because they do not have the skills to configure servers and so on and do not want to spend time and energy to get. Although shared hosting is a bit more expensive, but bought immediately available, there is a key recovery function with human customer service, the perfect cut in the white pain points.

Profit-seeking is the nature of capital, shared hosting can not avoid overselling, being limited performance, etc. It is not suitable for building Elementor, Woocommerce and other websites with high performance requirements, nor is it suitable for websites that require SEO optimization.

The vast majority of foreign trade people who do not know how to build a website will buy SiteGround or Hostinger server, reputation, publicity speed is good, the operation of the proposed automatic backup and so on. Foreign trade sites are not optimized generally not much access, so do not feel the effect of shared hosting CPU, disk limitations. Material God SAM also recommended SiteGround server.

In fact, a better choice is to buy a VPS server (independent host), install the Pagoda panel and WordPress, better performance and speed, lower prices! God of information SAM said VPS server is difficult to configure, the vast majority of white foreign trade people can not get, so he did not recommend much.

We wrote aVultr server handy build tutorialIn addition, each step is accompanied by a detailed graphic explanation, and a white person can configure and optimize a good VPS server + install WordPress in 30 minutes, the website effect is not worse than SiteGround, and through our invitation link to register to enjoy free technical guidance / Q&A.

What is VPS hosting?

VPS (Virtual Private Server)It is a dedicated hosting/server, where a merchant splits a server into many virtual private servers. Unlike shared servers, each VPS server is assigned a separate IP address, separate operating system, separate space, separate memory, separate CPU, separate bandwidth, etc. The servers are completely independent of each other and there are no limitations on CPU performance, disk read/write rates, etc.

VPS hosting vendors usually only give a bare metal machine, no management panel and environment installed, the buyer needs to build their own environment, setup, optimization, etc.. Customer service is only responsible for some basic maintenance, and does not provide technical support maintenance and other services, so most of the server problems encountered need to be handled by themselves.

If you do not know how to configure the server, you can go on Taobao and spend a few dozen dollars to find someone to get it and install WordPress.Vultr Purchase Tutorial》Purchase VPS server, we provide free guidance to configure the server environment, optimization settings, etc.

Pros.

1. independent ip, independent environment, so that search engines faster and more friendly crawl > index > included, SEO better;
2. Better performance, higher stability, faster speed. Independent CPU, memory, disk, no limitations like read/write rates;
3. Great price, half the price of Cloudways, less than Kinsta 1/4 Price;
4. Have more control, scalable and can build many features/applications;
5. Hourly billing, monthly deduction, same price for renewal, no financial pressure.

Disadvantages.

1. Need to deploy their own environment (LNMP, etc.), build features, optimize the server, and discourage small white people.
2. no online customer service (so the VPS price is lower), problems can only check their own documents or submit a work order to contact customer service;
3. Free enterprise email and automatic backup services are not provided and need to be installed by yourself;
4. If you don't know how to optimize or something like that, a low-configuration VPS may not run smoothly.

Hosted VPS Hosting

VPS is good for everything, but you need to know the technology to install the system, environment configuration parameters and so on by yourself, and is not suitable for white people. But if the site performance and speed requirements are high, do not want to use shared hosting, there is no technical optimization VPS how to do? This situation is suitable for the purchase ofHosted VPS Hosting.

Hosted VPS hosting is simply a third-party company that rents a dedicated VPS server, deploys its own environment to add features, optimize speed and security, and then rents out VPS hosting (not shared hosting) to provide comprehensive 7x24 service support.

The benefit of a hosted VPS is that it combines all the advantages of both a VPS server and a shared server, providing unparalleled speed, stability and manual service. It is especially suitable for cross-border e-commerce websites as well as high traffic websites, and is preferred by high-end users/large websites. The only disadvantage is that the price is double or more expensive than a regular VPS with the same configuration.

Kinsta, , , Cloudways etc. are among the first tier of quality managed VPS hosting merchants. Managed hosting is just too expensive, Kinsta to have a website that runs smoothly and fast a month(say the) leastCloudways' 2H4G option is also $54 a month. If you're a dirtbag, you'd be better off with a managed VPS hosting.We commoners just can't afford it.

LiteSpeed Hosting

LiteSpeed LiteSpeed is similar to Apache and Nginx, and is a server software name.

The LiteSpeed host that everyone is talking about is actually the host with LiteSpeed software installed, which is basicallyShared Hosting. You can also rent your own VPS host to install the open source version of LiteSpeed software into LiteSpeed hosting, but the speed and such is not as good as renting the genuine LiteSpeed host.

Apache, Nginx, compared to the least CPU, LiteSpeed, better performance, faster, better security, and deep optimization of WordPress. Apache, Nginx is the open source free version, you can use as you like. But LiteSpeed is a commercial software, you need to pay to buy, the price is more expensive than VPS server!

LiteSpeed has a free version called OpenLiteSpeed, which is less powerful and less performant than LiteSpeed, but still a little faster than Apache and Nginx. Because the price is very expensive, so the LiteSpeed servers sold on the market are basicallyShared Hosting.

. Because shared hosting can be installed on many sites, the cost is greatly reduced by sharing down, and the gimmick of LiteSpeed can also boost sales.

Vultr also hasOpenLiteSpeed WordPress hosting, interested in click to viewVultr Purchase Registration Tutorial.

Among the many LiteSpeed servers, the most "famous" one is Hostinger. "Famous" has two meanings, one is the most famous and well known, and the other is the reputation and hosting is not good to be scolded out of the flower. For more details, please refer to the following Hostinger hosting introduction.

Don't go overboard with LiteSpeed servers, which are theoretically faster and can handle more concurrency, but for the vast majority ofSmall and medium-sizedFor websites it's about as fast as Nginx. And LiteSpeed requires very specialized configuration, using specialized caching plug-ins and CDNs, with many limitations.

Nginx compatibility (such as firewalls) and stability is much better, more mature, is still the mainstream server system. It is recommended to build small and medium-sized websites using Nginx, build a website group someone feedback using Nginx server to open thefastcgi_cache cacheFaster than LiteSpeed.

Updated 2024.03.03:LiteSpeed servers need to use special caching plug-ins and specific CDN, speed optimization is limited. A customer rented LiteSpeed server, no matter how to optimize the speed is not ideal, change to Linux server using our regular optimization program immediately optimized to 0.7 seconds (computer side, Google test).

Conclusion: Shared hosting high price, poor performance, ease of use with human services, suitable for white users transitional use. Hosted VPS is good in all aspects, but the price is too high, the rich buy it, civilians bypass. liteSpeed host compatibility is not good enough, difficult to use, small and medium-sized sites can not play its speed advantage is very chicken.

For the vast majority of foreign trade people, independent VPS host is currently the most appropriate choice for foreign trade station building. Cost-effective, good performance and speed, build a station preferred, recommended to register U.S. Vultr high-performance VPS server. The following is a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of the major mainstream hosts / servers to help you further understand the situation of the major hosts.

Comparison of popular foreign trade hosting recommendations

The following comparison of servers are more well-known, cost-effective suitable for building foreign trade independent station, cross-border e-commerce site. Want to know other server comparison, in the following message server name.

Linode(semi-recommended)

VPS hosting, the oldest and largest manufacturer, used to be the number one server, running super stable, many technicians use it. It is one of the most conscientious server merchants, its servers have been playing stable for so many years, and it supports refunds within 7 days.

Linode is a very good host that is stable. It's just not as good as Vultr in terms of performance, speed and flexibility..

Then DigitalOcean was born with low-priced high-performance servers that knocked down server prices, and Linode prices came down. Then Vultr appeared with high-frequency servers to challenge DigitalOcean, and as a result, Linode prices were knocked down again.

Now Linode 1G1H VPS hosting price is only $5/month, while maintaining high performance.Linode is a very good host, and it is also recommended by the god of rice class material in his personal blog.Diamo also used Linode to build the site at the beginning, and had a good experience in all aspects of use, with no problems.The website data will be automatically backed up before the server is deleted in arrears, and the server can be restored by backup even if it is deleted, which is super considerate.

We build the site using the customer's own server, because it does not support payment methods such as Alipay, and binding credit cards can not be unbundled for many customers is very inconvenient; plus the connection SMTP to send mail to port 465 closed by default, you need to submit a work order + set rdns contact customer service to open a bit of trouble, so now we do not actively recommend customers to use.

Akamai's main business is CDN, mainly for large enterprise customers, so hopefully this acquisition will not have a bad impact on Linode's small and medium-sized user sites.

UPDATE: Akamai Linode has adjusted its product prices starting April 1, 2023, with all products except Nanode plans increasing in price by 201 TP3 T. Excluding these undesirable factors, Linode is still a very good server, and is worth checking out.

DigitalOcean(Not recommended)

The world's fourth largest VPS hosting business, hosting and Linode as good as the industry conscience, excellent performance, stability, support within 7 days refund. Performance and cost-effective and Linode, slightly worse than Vultr (from the well-known foreign blogger evaluation).Does not support WeChat, Alipay payment, no DDOS protection, and Linode the same not open ladder software access speed is not very good. Its affiliate marketing commissions can not be withdrawn so few domestic bloggers to publicize their machines.

In FY21, Premium HF NVME SSD hosting ($6/month) was launched to benchmark Vultr's HF NVME hosting ($6/month). Some speed bulls found that Vultr's performance and response time are better after comparison test. DOAcquisition of Cloudways removes Linode and Vultr servers, low price option only retains in-house VPS, scolded by many users.

DigitalOcean is a good host, just compared to the performance and speed is not as good as Vultr, choose the best choice so do not recommend DigitalOcean!.

Vultr(Recommended)

VPS server, by far the most cost-effective high main frequency NVME hosting. One of the most popular servers used by national people to build websites.Multiple awards for best VPS under $10. 1G1H SSD regular performance VPS hosting price $5/month, 1G1H NVME high performance VPS hosting $6/month. It has grown rapidly over the years, and its total number of servers has surpassed Linode and DigitalOcean combined.

 Click to enter the Vultr server purchase tutorial 

Vultr registration is recommended because of the following advantages compared to servers such as Linode.

1. Servers use ultra-fast NVMe hard drives that are faster than SSD drivesMany times faster;.
2. Numerous packages, with various configurations and software, systems;
3. Easy and inexpensive snapshot backup function.
4. Accepting payment by Alipay.
5. Support for refunds at any time (return of the machine), payment through Alipay is only supported within 90 days;
6. Good performance, speed, cost effectiveness and reputation.
7. Direct access speed without opening the ladder software mainland can be.
8. The SSL 465 port for sending mail is not closed.
9. Easy one-click configuration upgrade, with separate upgrades for hard disk space and bandwidth.

Vultr has also launched OpenLiteSpeed WordPress hosting in the picture below, which is faster than regular hosting.

Diamo now uses Vultr by default to build foreign trade websites, which is stable, high-speed and trouble-free. Many customers' websites run well in Vultr without any problems, so we strongly recommend you to use ☞.

The graph below shows the GTmetrix speed test results for one of our client sites, which is using Vultr 1G1H HF server + Astra ProTopics + Elementor ProBuild. After our speed optimization the home page is completely loaded in 0.6 seconds and the first screen content is displayed in 0.4 seconds, which is very fast.

Cloudways(semi-recommended)

Many years ago Xiaodi I shopped Taiwanese bloggersWebmastersI saw this server introduced on the website, Cloudways wasn't very hot at that time. It had really good speeds, gave good commissions and had a good reputation later on more and more bloggers recommended it.

You can see many users praising it in the Facebook hosting community, and many bloggers abroad recommend using it. It has one thing to praise, if you rent a long-term server at once you can temporarily return the machine, it will return the money for the remaining time, and the renewal fee maintains the original price. Only those who are confident enough in their hosting and services can dare to make such a promise.

Cloudways doesn't have its own servers, it rents the server rooms of other companies (below) and optimizes them before renting them out to the public, which is equivalent to a second-hand landlord. Although it is a second-hand landlord, the server's performance, memory and so on are exclusive and not limited. Moreover, the original server has been optimized by them.In performance, safety, speedThere is a significant improvement in the aspect. Coupled with quality services, it is very suitable for building cross-border e-commerce independent websites.

The same Vultr server built website after we optimize the site speed can go to about 0.7 seconds, if you use Cloudways server speed directly up to about 0.5 seconds, and Google speed test cell phone speed test score directly to about 95 points.

The development of things has a process, just like people and baby to the prime of life and then to the twilight of the server brand is the same. SiteGround has begun to step into the twilight of the development of Cloudways also began to go downhill. The quality of the servers and their reputation is not as good as before, and they are starting to be abandoned.

Cloudways isn't without its drawbacks.OverpricedIt's hard.Cloudways' Vultr 1H2GThe price of the server is $28/month, the same price can be rented on the Vultr website2H4Gof HF servers with double the configuration.

Cloudways Drawbacks ↓:

Cloudways add-ons (such as Cloudflare Enterprise) cost money, so the price is out of many people's budget, so few people in China can afford it. But it also gives high commissions, plus the machine is really good, so there are a lot of bloggers recommend.

Woocommerce and Elementor is very ate configuration, Cloudways server optimization again cattle can not basically reduce the plug-in occupation of server resources, the site will still be stuck, buy a higher configuration of the server can protect the site stable operation. If you have the money, the pursuit of smooth experience and do not want to maintain the server, Cloudways is a very good choice, at least buy 2H2G configuration (32 U.S. dollars a month).

Update 2023.11.12: Cloudways was acquired by DigitalOcean after the price increase, packages removed Linode and better performing Vultr servers (DigitalOcean competitor), and also removed 2H2G packages. It made it less competitive and was panned by many users.

1H2G can barely run Woocommerc+Elementor website, a little more plug-ins or more visits will be stuck. Upgrading the 2H4G package costs $54 a month, which only the rich can afford.

2023.12.07 Update: A customer to build 2C new website, not yet built without any traffic suddenly one day can not access the background, prompting the following picture. After restarting the server to recover, after a few seconds the same problem appeared again.

The database did not crash and was still enabled, and restarting the database alone did not restore it. After checking the monitor, I found that the CPU was fully loaded, and after eliminating it, I found that the YITH WooCommerce Ajax Product Filter Premium plugin caused the jamming. The server optimization is no longer good enough to solve the resource consumption of the plug-in, high configuration is the king.

Buy Cloudways must buy more than 1H2G configuration, if it is an e-commerce site is best to be more than 2H4G configuration. Low configuration optimization even more powerful can not run a complex website, the basic configuration should be up to standard. If you think Cloudways is too expensive, we recommend buying it!

Update 2023.12.10: Cloudways does not support IPV6 addresses.

2023.12.11 update: the site has been prompted to link failure, refresh recovery, the new site has not been submitted to Google included. The server is busy and can't handle it, upgrade the configuration to solve the problem.

Kinsta(Not recommended)

Kinsta used to be a marketing company and then transitioned to servers. It's doing a better job of marketingPlus the commission system is very attractive referrals can be lifelong commission, so many people recommend, the popularity of a sudden up.

I've met a few foreign trade companies who don't know how to build websites and have money to use it. A friend of mine who runs a website also asked us to use this server to build the website because he heard that this server is fast and famous and it's good to use this to deliver.

Kinsta is a typical low configuration and high price, look at the picture below $ $35/month package is only 10G hard disk space, limit 25,000 visitors a month.

Many of its add-ons require payment to use, and you have to spend extra money for your website to work well. To run a medium-sized Woocommerce site smoothly on Kinsta.You need to spend at least $100 or more per month, is simply too expensive. There are plenty of more cost effective alternatives, there is absolutely no need to use Kinsta, money is on the line when I don't say so.

Kinsta Extra Charge Program ↓:

These services mentioned above are standard and available for free at their counterparts in the same price range.

I had a client who was dead set on renting Kinsta. had to select a few types of questions beforehand before I could link to human customer service, and the person responded so slowly that it took 6 minutes after I sent the message to receive a response! It took me 6 minutes to get a reply after I sent the message! Add a gripe: it doesn't have an online file management system, you need to use FTP software to edit files.

SiteGround (Not recommended)

SiteGround (SG for short) hosting used to be the most popularShared HostingSiteGround is a good choice for hosting, cost-effective, fast, stable operation, good service and full functionality. SiteGround is a household name that is basically mentioned in articles recommending hosting on the web.

SiteGround is ranked #1 in the Facebook poll, uses Google Cloud Server, and is recommended by many bloggers. It can be said that it has the best price/performance ratio, speed and balance among shared hosting in the same price range, and it is not unreasonable to get the sales crown.

SiteGroundHost advantages.

1. Fast WordPress backend and good frontend speed.
2. Higher parameters than other brands of shared hosting for the same configuration.
3. Distributed cloud hosting with SSDs.
4. Deeply optimized WordPress with 3 levels of caching and good speed;
5. Moderate prices for the first rental (2.5 times the renewal fee), in line with the public budget.
6. Live Chat human service support.
7. High security, with professional firewalls and bot blockers, automatic backups.
8. 30-day money-back guarantee.

SG has many advantages and is a very good shared hosting, but it has the same obvious disadvantages. 19 years after the addition of investors to chase profits began to die, Facebook group search " SiteGround ", you may see a lot of complaints, even if SG has been removing bad reviews The company has been in the process of removing the bad reviews.

The screenshot below is from onlinemediamasters.com:

The server oversold severely leading to a great performance drop, excessive restrictions on CPU performance. Before also limit the number of bound sites, in order to reduce costs offline Live Chat function customer service quality decline, a look at cPanel price increase immediately switched to Site Tools ...

Then when they saw how big things were getting they loosened the limit on the number of sites a bit and reinstated Live Chat. search Facebook for SG polls and you'll see that a lot of SG users are turning to Cloudways.ChemiCloud etc.

In the past, SG CDN used Cloudflare CDN, which has both paid and free packages. Later on, in order to make more money, SG CDN canceled the cooperation with Cloudflare, and changed to use its own SiteGround CDN (free and paid packages), but the acceleration effect and function is not as good as that of Cloudflare, which is worse and worse in order to make money.

SiteGroundHost disadvantages.

1. About 2.5 times the price of renewal!Super expensive.
2. Finding people to falsely advertise, brush the number of votes, delete bad reviews, and turn bad reputation.
3. Various restrictions after the visit up, start card(To allow users to upgrade their packages);.
4. Limit the number of sites tied to it as well as the number of visits, and I've heard of serious CPU limitation issues;
5. Additional fees for changing rooms.
6. Site Tool has too few features and average customer support.
7. It requires the use of its domain name resolution service, which is much less flexible;
8. TTFBAs well as long server response times and severe overselling getting slower and slower.

Another point we feel SG Server is not so good is that there is not much room for optimization. It uses its own cache and plug-ins, which is great for the novice user. However, it is not suitable for tech-savvy people who love to tinker, because the guide cannot use other caching solutions.

There are 4 lengths of time available when you purchase the GrowBig package.Corresponding to 4 kinds of prices(Data as of April 10, 2022).

See the problem? $29.99 This monthly price can buy a higher-end dedicated hosting with N times higher configuration, this price isReferenceThe price is to set off the other packages. Renting 24 months and 36 months monthly rent instead is more expensive than renting 12 months, this is SG's scheme! Deliberately let people choose the 12-month length package.

Why? BecauseMany times the price of SG renewal feeFor example, at the beginning of the 12-month GrowBig package price is $6.99/month, renewal 1 year price is $24.99/month ↓, renewal 2 years price is $19.99/month ↓.

(The above chart shows the renewal price of GrowBig package on May 20, 2023↑)

Some people think about changing their account after expiration to continue to buy new servers at a discounted price, but SG's wool is not that good. The new account can't bind the domain name of the previous account, and you can't use the credit card of the previous account to pay. In contrast, the Vultr 1H1G HF server is only $6 a month, paid monthly, and the renewal price remains the same. You get what you pay for.

The SG backend speed is good, after all, the use of Google Cloud Server, but the frontend speed is not as fast as advertised, the test results are not as good as Vultr. if your business just started, you can first rent SG server temporary use, the package expires and then move the site to other servers. Diamo recommends renting a better VPS server directly in one step, recommending Register Vultr Server.

Note: Woocommerce built cross-border e-commerce standalone site has high hosting requirements, it is not recommended to use SG server to build, because after the visit up SG will limit the CPU, read and write rate, etc.. If you are rich and capricious, when I did not say.

One of our users bought a copy of ourAdvanced Advanced Speed Optimization TutorialThe 99 points were loaded in about 1 second on the computer and 51 points were recorded in 4.4 seconds on the cell phone, using the SiteGround server.

Google test tool suggests long server response time ↓:SG servers are only half as fast, not very fast.

By the way, SG'sRobot InterceptorThere is a bug. there was an accident that blocked the Google ad program, resulting in the Google ad prompt landing page URL is invalid. I sometimes open the ladder software to visit some foreign SG built website, will also be blocked as a robot, turn off the ladder access normal. If the customer access is blocked, most likely turn around and go away.

2023-05-20 Update: SG is now abandoning Cloudflare CDN in order to make money and using its own CDN (free and paid versions), but the number of nodes, speed, and features are not as good as theCloudflare.Recently, I've been using several clients' SG servers (GrowBig packages) to build websites, and I've noticed that the backend as well as the frontend are slower than before, it's getting really bad. A friend purchased SG's paid CDN with full page caching, but the results are not as good as the free Cloudflare CDN.

To sum up SiteGround hosting has a lot of disadvantages, there is a ceiling limit to his speed that cannot be optimized. But at the same time it has a lot of advantages, high ease of use, and is still a good choice for beginners. The reason why I don't recommend it is because there are better choices, and Diamo recommends it!Chemicloud Hosting.

Hostinger(Not recommended)

It's famous for the past few years and is known as the cheapest LiteSpeed hosting that only accepts refunds within 30 days. The server usesliteSpeed Technology, with LiteSpeed cache plug-in site speed, m classYan SirRecommend it says fast to the scalp.

We actually received a lot of feedback and saw a lot of bloggers' comments about Hostinger. The general feeling is that Hostinger servers are not of good quality and often have problems. For the same price, Hostinger has less CPU and memory, slower SATA SSD disks, and serious overselling.

We have used Hostinger server, the backend function is very little, far from cPanel. Below is a picture of a customer's website Google speed test suggests the problem, Hostinger server response time is too long.

Hostinger was exposed to painting fake sales inTrustPilotWriting fake comments, voting for myself in Facebook polls, being boycotted by a large group of foreign bloggers writing articles, and having a bad reputation.

The following is a quote from a well-known American speed blogger TOM article, clickView original article.

Tom also said Hostinger faked his blog to write articles to promote his own server.

Here is a screenshot from Johnny's own blog post, a well-known overseas blogger.

Several clients have rented Hostinger hosting for their own websites.Regular package server feels a bit stuck in the background speed. The build process prompted high disk usage, with 97 times over the peak asking us to rectify.

The entire server is only a brand new half-baked website with no content and no visitors will actually be over-utilized? Contact customer service and say it is a false alarm, in fact, is to scare the white upgrade package.

If you rent a package of $20 / month or more speed is more secure, running a small traffic website is no problem. But the price is so high, or annual rent, it is better to rent Vultr and other better servers, better performance, much cheaper.

Updated 2024.09.05 with real feedback from site VIP members and slow customer service response.

Hostinger's pricing strategy is entirely learned from SiteGround, and the monthly payment price is extremely high. The longer you pay, the bigger the discount, and the renewal price goes up by about 2.1 times (pit). This is one of the reasons why we do not recommend it.

The picture below is a text published by Sam, the material god, on the material network, clickView original article.

The following is a screenshot of the original website of another website builder

In short Hostinger hosting quality is not good, the price is not high, and there are many restrictions, customer service is not good, morality is not good, dirty tactics. Will such a company always do a good job with its products and serve its customers well? We don't think so, so we don't recommend using its servers.

Hostgator & BlueHost & Godaddy & Namesilo & Elementor Cloud (not recommended)

The 2 servers are owned by the same owner, so there are not many people who would disagree with calling them the slowest servers, right? A lot of people on the internet recommend BlueHost, basically because of old articles from years ago, basically for the commission, and BlueHost made it to the list of recommended servers for WordPress because of their ability to pay money, not their strengths.

Note: cn.bluehost.com and bluehost.com are not the same company, cn.bluehost.com is made by nationals with authorization and is very slow.

Godaddy(DNS is slow).Namesilo The server can't install the free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate you need to upload your own certificate or buy their paid certificate, and there is no customer service.

Elementor introduces theElementor Cloud The actual performance of Google servers is terrible, the price is high but the storage space, bandwidth, access are all limited and slow.

It is the nature of capital to seek profit, and servers are worth every penny. Those who blow up the price and cost-effective server also has a lot of hidden pits, buy a balanced in all respects, theChoose a stable and user-first server with a conscience.

Ali cloud, Tencent cloud overseas servers (not recommended)

Optimize the speed of the site when encountered a few customers using Ali Cloud, Tencent Cloud Singapore / U.S. host, mainly the leadership does not understand that it is more convenient to buy a domestic brand overseas servers, good operation. Do foreign trade website is not recommended to buy Ali cloud and Tencent cloud overseas servers.

1- Restriction of bandwidth, network and speed is not good: these 2 limit the bandwidth, for example, Tencent cloud limit 200MB/s, while the overseas brand server 99% bandwidth are from 1T, or not limited. These 2 network construction is not as good as overseas brands, website speed is almost;

2- Expensive and expensive to renew: the combined cost is more than the cost of buying aChemicloudand other offshore servers are much more expensive;

3- Poor customer service support: support is not timely, the answer is not what it should be + can't solve the problem, often answering that it's still in the process of troubleshooting, users need to do it by themselves, etc. AndChemicloudOverseas servers such as customer service seconds back, can be very detailed answer, solve the problem. Overseas in the server this convenient support and technology is better, better management;

4- Use / interface complexity is also a disadvantage: Aliyun, Tencent cloud has too many features, the interface is very complex, but not many practical functions. On the contrary, overseas brand servers have a much simpler interface and a full range of functions.

From the speed, stability, cost-effective and other convenient considerations, do foreign trade website is recommended to buy an overseas server;

5- Flexibility and customizability almost: foreign brand servers can be billed by the hour, first used after deductions, and with free mailboxes, free automatic backups and other features, PHP version and parameters and so on can be adjusted. Ali, Tencent can not do;

Aliyun and Tencent cloud servers also have advantages:

1- IP blocked can contact customer service to replace, overseas servers can not be replaced, you need to spend money or rent a new server to replace the IP address;

2- Payment methods etc. are more convenient and invoicing is also possible;

3- Provide CN2 high-speed network or BGP access to the domestic network, the domestic not open ladder access speed is okay. Overseas servers are generally not specifically optimized to return to the network, and even if they are, the price is higher;

Contabo(Not recommended)

Contabo is a Germany-based virtual private server (VPS) and cloud hosting provider that offers several types of hosting solutions, including VPS, dedicated servers, cloud servers, and more. The advantage is that the price/performance ratio is great! VPS servers are actually sold cheaper than shared hosting.

Cost-effective, and VPS, a lot of their own station know a little bit of technology and not very knowledgeable people like to use it. Not recommended becauseprecarious1- Configuration is heavily inflated with lagging; 2- Bad network with dropouts as well as speed limitations; also no refund support.

ContaboSpeedLimitations:If the server uplink speed exceeds 100M/sec and the average traffic consumption consistently exceeds 100M/sec for a period of at least 10 consecutive days, the connection speed will be limited to 100M/sec.

Amazon servers

This server is very expensive and requires you to install your own panels (pagodas, etc.) and optimize them yourself. Generally, companies that have many websites, know their own technology and have high performance requirements use Amazon hosting. For example, the company that we cooperated with before, Yihai Chuangteng, uses Amazon server.

If you are doing 1-2 foreign trade websites or small e-commerce websites, there is no need to use such an expensive server. You don't know how to configure and optimize it yourself, and you can't make use of its performance. Directly buy a managed VPS hosting is better, there is no need to fool around.