Bluehost
Compared on our own monthly crawl of 29.9M live business domains, both vendors' pricing pages read on Oct 3, 2026 and 590 G2 reviews.
Published Oct 3, 2026Updated Oct 3, 2026October 2026 crawl
Bluehost
46
domains gained from SiteGround in 90 days
SiteGround
118
domains gained from Bluehost in 90 days
Choose Bluehost if…
- The three-year bill decides it, since Starter costs $143.64 at $3.99 a month on a 36-month term and SiteGround StartUp costs $467.64 over the same 36 months once its 12-month introductory rate renews at $17.99
- You run several small sites; Starter allows 10 websites and SiteGround StartUp only 1
- You need an uptime SLA: Bluehost's is 99.99% on shared hosting with a single 5% monthly credit if missed, and SiteGround's page cites 99.9% uptime without SLA terms
Choose SiteGround if…
- You go by reviews: SiteGround scores 4.2 on G2 from 308 reviews to Bluehost's 3.4 from 282 and leads every criterion, most of all product direction (7.4 to 4.7)
- Backups and email should come with the entry plan; SiteGround keeps up to 30 days of daily backups and includes email addresses on every plan, while Bluehost backs up weekly and sells Pro Email at $2.99 a month after a one-month trial
- Phone support should not need an upgrade; SiteGround lists 24/7 chat, tickets and phone, while Bluehost Starter lists 24/7 chat and adds phone from Business
How we collect this data
Every number names its source and the date it was read.
118 domains moved from Bluehost to SiteGround in the 90 days to October 3, 2026, according to TechnologyChecker's October 2026 crawl. 46 went the other way, a 2.6 to 1 flow toward SiteGround. By size, the order flips. Bluehost is detected on 349,922 domains (3.6% of web hosting, #5) and SiteGround on 123,341 (1.27%, #14) in the August 2026 crawl, analysed September 6, 2026. 215 domains carry both. Bluehost is detected from DNS at Bluehost or a Bluehost shared-server header, SiteGround from its nameservers, SOA record or server header, so one domain can carry both. Of 40 domains sampled on October 3, 2026, 9 had a Bluehost server header with SiteGround nameservers. Bluehost's entry plan is cheaper over 36 months at the listed rates. Starter costs $3.99 a month on a 36-month term, $143.64 in all. SiteGround StartUp is $2.99 a month prepaid for 12 months, then renews at $17.99: $467.64 over the same period. Pick SiteGround for better reviews (G2 4.2 to 3.4), daily backups and email on every plan. Pick Bluehost for the lower three-year cost, 10 websites on the entry plan instead of 1, and a 99.99% uptime SLA.
At a glance
October 2026 crawlBluehostBluehost349,922SiteGround123,341BluehostBluehost3.6%SiteGround1.3%BluehostBluehost#5SiteGround#14SiteGroundBluehost46SiteGround118BluehostNot publishedSiteGroundNot publishedBluehostNoSiteGroundNoWho is switching between Bluehost and SiteGround?
Analysed Oct 3, 2026118domains moved from Bluehost to SiteGround in the 90 days to Oct 3, 2026 · 46 went the other way
Switched = dropped Bluehost on every host we track since Jun 11, 2026 and currently runs SiteGround. A drop is a tag disappearing from our crawl, not a confirmed cancellation. 215 domains run both today. Counts are domains, not accounts.
“118 domains switched from Bluehost to SiteGround in the 90 days to Oct 3, 2026 (TechnologyChecker, https://technologychecker.io/compare/bluehost-vs-siteground)”
118 domains switched from Bluehost to SiteGround in the last 90 days → See the list
11,047 domains have dropped Bluehost since we began tracking it in March 2026. Most go to Hostinger.
Hostinger1,036
DreamHost68Neither host publishes a month-to-month price on these pages. So the Annual (per mo) column shows each plan's introductory monthly rate on the term named under it: 36 months at Bluehost, 12 months prepaid at SiteGround. Over the same 36 months at the listed rates, Bluehost Starter costs $143.64 and SiteGround StartUp $467.64, which is 12 months at $2.99, then 24 at its $17.99 renewal. Bluehost's page notes that VAT and GST are not included. (checked Oct 3, 2026)
Bluehost plans
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per mo) | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Not published | $3.99/mo | 10 websites, 10 GB NVMe storage, about 40k monthly visits, free domain for the first year, weekly website backup, free SSL, 24/7 chat support36-month term · Renews at $9.99 a month |
| Business | Not published | $6.99/mo | 50 websites, 50 GB NVMe storage, about 200k monthly visits, free domain, SSL and CDN, malware scan and removal, domain privacy for 1 year, staging site, 24/7 chat support and phone support from 7am to 12am EST36-month term · Renews at $13.99 a month |
| eCommerce Essentials | Not published | $14.99/mo | 100 websites, 100 GB NVMe storage, WooCommerce, free domain, SSL and CDN, malware scan and removal, domain privacy for 1 year, Pro Email free trial, 24/7 chat support and phone support from 7am to 12am EST36-month term · Renews at $21.99 a month |
SiteGround plans
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per mo) | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| StartUp | Not published | $2.99/mo | 1 website, 10 GB storage, unmetered traffic, free domain for 1 year, free SSL and CDN, free daily backups (up to 30 days back), free email addresses, 20,000 free monthly AI tokens, free WordPress migratorPrepaid for 12 months: $35.88 (regular price $17.99 a month) · Renews at $17.99 a month |
| GrowBig | Not published | $4.99/mo | Unlimited websites, 50 GB storage, everything in StartUp, on-demand backups, staging for WordPress, faster PHPPrepaid for 12 months: $59.88 · Renews at $29.99 a month |
| GoGeek | Not published | $7.99/mo | Unlimited websites, 100 GB storage, everything in GrowBig, staging plus Git, private DNS, white-label client access, priority supportPrepaid for 12 months: $95.88 · Renews at $44.99 a month |
| Feature | Bluehost | SiteGround |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan, introductory rate | Starter, $3.99 a month on a 36-month term | StartUp, $2.99 a month prepaid for 12 months |
| Entry plan, renewal rate | $9.99 a month | $17.99 a month |
| Websites | 10 on Starter, 50 on Business, 100 on eCommerce Essentials | 1 on StartUp; unlimited on GrowBig and GoGeek |
| Storage on the entry plan | 10 GB NVMe (50 GB on Business) | 10 GB (50 GB on GrowBig) |
| Traffic | About 40k monthly visits on Starter and about 200k on Business, as guidance; Bluehost says it does not limit or throttle bandwidth | Around 10,000 monthly visits on StartUp, about 100,000 on GrowBig and 400,000+ on GoGeek |
| Backups | Weekly website backup on every plan | Daily backups up to 30 days back on every plan; on-demand from GrowBig |
| Pro Email one-month free trial, then $2.99 a month | Free email addresses on every plan | |
| Free domain | Free for the first year | Free for 1 year |
| CDN | Free CDN on every plan | Free CDN on every plan |
| Staging | The pricing page lists staging on every plan in one table and leaves Starter blank in another; unverified for Starter | From GrowBig (WordPress); staging plus Git on GoGeek |
| Support | 24/7 chat on every plan; phone support from 7am to 12am EST, listed from Business | 24/7 chat, tickets and phone; priority support on GoGeek |
| Uptime promise | 99.99% SLA on shared hosting; one 5% monthly credit if missed | The page cites 99.9% uptime; no SLA terms on the page |
| Site migration | Free WordPress migration tool | Free WordPress Migrator plugin |
| AI tools | AI Site Creation on every plan | AI Studio with 20,000 free monthly tokens on every plan |
| Money-back guarantee | 30 days; a free domain's fee is deducted from the refund | 30 days |
Bluehost11,047SiteGround6,337Bluehost190,139SiteGround103,654Bluehost-329SiteGround+8,345Top countries for BluehostTop countries for SiteGround- The Telvista Co.Outsourcing and Offshoring Consulting
- Artech Information Systems LLC.Staffing and Recruiting
- Masood Textile Mills Ltd.Textile Manufacturing
- Rungta Mines LimitedMining
- Alameda Health SystemHospitals and Health Care
- Hinduja Global Solutions LimitedIT Services and IT Consulting
- eClerx LLCIT Services and IT Consulting
- Old Dominion UniversityHigher Education
- VistaprintSoftware Development
- Cal Poly PomonaHigher Education
Share of each vendor's enriched companies in the segment. A gap is a lean, not a verdict; rows under 30 companies a side or under 5 pp are marked.
By company size
Bluehost69.9%SiteGround68.5%Bluehost19.2%SiteGround18.6%Bluehost4.8%SiteGround5.4%Bluehost1.8%SiteGround1.8%Bluehost0.4%SiteGround0.4%By industry
Bluehost3.6%SiteGround4.3%Bluehost3.0%SiteGround3.8%Bluehost3.4%SiteGround2.9%Bluehost2.6%SiteGround2.0%Bluehost2.4%SiteGround2.3%Bluehost2.1%SiteGround2.2%How buyers rate Bluehost and SiteGround
G2, read Oct 3, 2026- Largest segment
- Not published
- Entry price on G2
- $3.95/mo · Basic Shared Hosting
- Free trial
- G2 has no trial information
- Plans listed
- Not published
- Largest segment
- Not published
- Entry price on G2
- $2.99 Per Month · StartUp
- Free trial
- G2 has no trial information
- Plans listed
- Not published
SiteGround +0.9· 231 / 232 answeredBluehost7.6SiteGround8.5SiteGround +1.2· 236 / 238 answeredBluehost7.4SiteGround8.6SiteGround +1.3· 130 / 161 answeredBluehost7.3SiteGround8.6SiteGround +1.5· 122 / 138 answeredBluehost7.1SiteGround8.6SiteGround +1.8· 221 / 228 answeredBluehost6.8SiteGround8.6SiteGround +1.4· 120 / 137 answeredBluehost7.1SiteGround8.5SiteGround +2.7· 222 / 219 answeredBluehost4.7SiteGround7.4What else G2 puts on this comparison
| Product | Rating | Reviews | Largest segment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hostinger | 4.4 / 5 | 831 | Small-Business |
| FastComet | 4.3 / 5 | 64 | Small-Business |
| A2 Hosting | 4.4 / 5 | 206 | Small-Business |
1 of 3 shortlisted alternatives is where domains actually go. G2 puts Hostinger, FastComet and A2 Hosting beside this pair. Of those, Hostinger also appears among the technologies Bluehost leavers move to. The destinations we measure — Hostinger and DreamHost — include DreamHost, absent from G2's shortlist.
G2 scores features by category only when both products are rated on a shared feature set, and it publishes none for Bluehost and SiteGround. The feature table above is ours, read off each vendor's own pages.
G2 also publishes an AI-generated summary and a set of generated FAQs for this pair. We link rather than reproduce them — they are machine-written, we cannot verify the claims in them, and the verdict and FAQs on this page are the editor's. Read G2's own comparison →
Bluehost
What people like about Bluehost. Reviewers tag Bluehost Affordable (5 mentions) and Customer Support (4 mentions) on G2, small counts for 282 reviews. G2's comparison summary credits it with affordable introductory pricing. Bluehost's buyer is very small and domestic. In the profile data, analysed September 6, 2026, 72.71% of the 182,856 companies with a known size have 1 to 10 people. The United States leads with 119,658, far ahead of Canada (10,606) and the United Kingdom (7,587).
What people do not like. Bluehost's G2 complaints are Poor Customer Support (7 mentions) and Poor Communication (4 mentions). The scores agree: 6.8 on quality of support to SiteGround's 8.6, and 4.7 on product direction, the lowest G2 score on either side. G2's comparison summary also notes reviewers' frustration with high renewal costs and upsells.
G2 has not published a summary for Bluehost; we do not paraphrase individual reviews.
SiteGround
What people like about SiteGround. Customer Support (9 mentions) and User-Friendly (7 mentions) lead SiteGround's G2 topics across 308 reviews. SiteGround scores 8.6 on ease of use, ease of setup, ease of admin and quality of support. Its buyer is also small, but more spread out. In the profile data, analysed September 6, 2026, 72.32% of the 98,125 companies with a known size have 1 to 10 people. The United States leads with 41,561, then the United Kingdom (13,700), Australia (7,240) and Italy (6,510).
What people do not like. SiteGround's top G2 complaint is Expensive (5 mentions). G2's comparison summary counts 4 mentions of poor customer support and says renewal pricing rises significantly after the first year. SiteGround's pricing page agrees: StartUp's $2.99 a month is prepaid for 12 months, then renews at $17.99.
G2 has not published a summary for SiteGround; we do not paraphrase individual reviews.
The reviews and the switching data point the same way. SiteGround leads every G2 criterion. The widest gap is product direction (7.4 to 4.7), then quality of support (8.6 to 6.8), and the other five sit between 0.9 and 1.5 points. In the 90 days to October 3, 2026, 118 domains dropped Bluehost for SiteGround while 46 went back, a 2.6 to 1 balance. 215 domains carry both.
The switching flow runs toward SiteGround, the smaller host, and it is more than churn. 118 domains left Bluehost for SiteGround in the 90 days to October 3, 2026, and 46 went the other way. Since tracking began on March 16, 2026, 404 domains have carried both signals or moved between the two. Applied to those 404 and measured against each host's own corpus-wide loss rate since that date, the move to SiteGround runs about 9 times what Bluehost's ordinary churn predicts. The move back runs about 3 times what SiteGround's predicts. Both directions sit well above the base rate, so this is a two-way exchange that leans toward SiteGround.
On price, Bluehost wins; on reviews, SiteGround does. Over 36 months at the listed rates, Bluehost Starter costs $143.64 and SiteGround StartUp $467.64, and Starter allows 10 websites to StartUp's 1. SiteGround leads every G2 criterion, most of all product direction (7.4 to 4.7) and quality of support (8.6 to 6.8). The switching data cannot show whether either is why these sites moved.
Scaled to size, Bluehost and SiteGround lose domains to each other at almost the same rate. The 118 domains that left Bluehost are 0.034% of its 349,922. The 46 that left SiteGround are 0.037% of its 123,341.
Most of the 215 domains that carry both Bluehost and SiteGround are not running two hosts. Bluehost is detected from DNS at Bluehost or a Bluehost server header, SiteGround from its nameservers, SOA record or server header. In a 40-domain sample checked on October 3, 2026, 22 showed only Bluehost DNS by then and 7 only SiteGround's. Another 9 had a Bluehost server header with SiteGround nameservers, and 2 the reverse. The count measures overlapping signals, not sites hosted twice.
How we compared · TechnologyChecker sells access to the switching lists behind this page; the numbers do not change with that.
Where this data comes from
October 2026 crawlOur detection dataFirst-party
The switching corridor, adoption curves, market shares and customer lists come from our own monthly crawl of 29.9M live business domains, detected across the full signal stack: HTTP headers, rendered DOM, JS globals, DNS, TLS and certificate transparency.
A switch is an observed change, not a survey answer: a domain dropped Bluehost on every host we track and now runs SiteGround. Counts are domains, not accounts. Company attributes (industry, employee band, country) come from the enriched samples named in each caption (190,139 companies for Bluehost, 103,654 for SiteGround).
Full detection methodology →The vendors' own pages
Pricing tables and the feature matrix are read from bluehost.com and siteground.com, entered by hand and checked cell by cell by an editor. Every table names its source URL and the date it was verified.
A verification older than 90 days withdraws the page from search until an editor re-checks it, so a stale price cannot outrank a current one.
G2's published numbers
Star ratings, review counts, the seven satisfaction scores with respondent counts, segment shares and topic mention counts, as read on Oct 3, 2026. Numbers only: no review prose is reproduced, and every figure links back to G2's own comparison.
G2's comparison of this pair →Only the first column is ours alone: no other tracker publishes who is switching between Bluehost and SiteGround. Where the sources disagree, the page says so next to the numbers rather than averaging them.
How many sites moved from Bluehost to SiteGround?
118 domains moved from Bluehost to SiteGround in the 90 days to October 3, 2026, and 46 moved the other way. Since tracking began on March 16, 2026, the totals are 137 and 52. These are domains, not companies. A domain counts as leaving Bluehost only when every Bluehost signal has gone from every hostname we track for it. 215 domains carry both signals.
Which is more widely used, Bluehost or SiteGround?
Bluehost, by 2.8x: 349,922 detected domains, 3.6% of web hosting (#5), against SiteGround's 123,341 and 1.27% (#14). Both figures are from the August 2026 crawl, analysed September 6, 2026.
Is SiteGround more expensive than Bluehost?
Yes, over three years at the listed rates. SiteGround StartUp is $2.99 a month prepaid for 12 months and renews at $17.99, which comes to $467.64 over 36 months. Bluehost Starter is $3.99 a month on a 36-month term, $143.64 in all, and renews at $9.99. Starter also allows 10 websites to StartUp's 1. Neither host publishes a month-to-month price. Both pricing pages were read on October 3, 2026.
Why are sites moving from Bluehost to SiteGround?
Our switching data shows the move, not the motive. Over the last 90 days the flow runs 2.6 to 1 toward SiteGround. SiteGround also leads every G2 criterion, most of all product direction (7.4 against 4.7) and quality of support (8.6 against 6.8). Price alone does not explain it: Bluehost's entry plan is the cheaper one over 36 months at the listed rates, $143.64 against $467.64.
Can a domain use both Bluehost and SiteGround?
Yes. 215 domains carry both in the October 2026 crawl. Bluehost is detected from a domain's DNS or a Bluehost shared-server header, SiteGround from its nameservers, SOA record or server header, so one domain can carry both signals without running two hosts. In a 40-domain sample checked on October 3, 2026, 9 had a Bluehost server header with SiteGround nameservers and 2 had the reverse. By then, 22 showed only Bluehost DNS and 7 only SiteGround's.
What are the disadvantages of Bluehost?
Reviews and renewal cost. Bluehost scores 3.4 on G2 across 282 reviews, against SiteGround's 4.2. Bluehost trails on every criterion, most of all product direction (4.7 against 7.4) and quality of support (6.8 against 8.6). Its $3.99 Starter rate needs a 36-month term and renews at $9.99. In our data, 118 domains left Bluehost for SiteGround in the 90 days to October 3, 2026, and 46 went the other way.
Who is better than Bluehost?
Four hosts are larger than Bluehost by detected domains: GoDaddy (4,378,121), Hostinger (1,192,207), IONOS (637,254) and OVH (426,618). Bluehost has 349,922. Counts are from the August 2026 crawl, analysed September 6, 2026. GoDaddy's count includes domains that only use its default DNS or its email, so domains registered at GoDaddy but hosted elsewhere are in it. Head to head, SiteGround scores higher on G2 (4.2 against 3.4) and gains more domains from Bluehost than it loses: 118 against 46 in the 90 days to October 3, 2026.
Is SiteGround better than GoDaddy?
This page does not compare SiteGround with GoDaddy directly. On detected domains in web hosting, GoDaddy is far larger: 4,378,121 (45.04%) against SiteGround's 123,341 (1.27%) in the August 2026 crawl, analysed September 6, 2026. GoDaddy's count includes domains that only use its default DNS or its email. Against Bluehost, SiteGround scores 4.2 on G2 across 308 reviews and gains more domains than it loses: 118 against 46 in the 90 days to October 3, 2026.
Is GoDaddy better than Bluehost?
GoDaddy is larger by reach: 4,378,121 detected domains, 45.04% of web hosting, against Bluehost's 349,922 (3.6%) in the August 2026 crawl, analysed September 6, 2026. GoDaddy's count includes domains that only use its default DNS or its email, so domains registered at GoDaddy but hosted elsewhere are counted. Reach is not quality, and this page does not measure GoDaddy's reviews or switching. Against SiteGround, Bluehost trails on G2, 3.4 against 4.2.
How much does SiteGround cost per year?
SiteGround's first year costs $35.88 on StartUp, $59.88 on GrowBig and $95.88 on GoGeek, at the rates on its pricing page read on October 3, 2026. That is $2.99, $4.99 and $7.99 a month, with StartUp prepaid for 12 months. Renewal then rises to $17.99, $29.99 and $44.99 a month respectively. StartUp hosts 1 website; GrowBig and GoGeek host unlimited websites.
Includes questions people also ask on Google for this comparison, quoted as Google shows them; the answers are ours, from the data on this page.