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Cheap year one, then renewal.

SiteGround alternative for PHP hosting

Q: Is fortrabbit cheaper than SiteGround?

After year one - SiteGround StartUp costs €2.99 a month in the first year, prepaid and without VAT, and renews at €15.99. A fortrabbit app with MySQL starts at about €5 a month, with no renewal step.

Q: Can WordPress move from SiteGround?

Yes - The migration guide covers files, the database, mail and DNS. A coding agent connected to fortrabbit can run it.

SiteGround runs tidy shared hosting on Google Cloud, with a cheap first year. The renewal costs five times as much, and Git deploys start at the third plan. Consider fortrabbit.

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About SiteGround

SiteGround is a privately owned hosting company, founded in 2004. It runs shared hosting, WordPress hosting and cloud hosting on Google Cloud, with data centers in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Site Tools is its own control panel.

Why not SiteGround?

The entry price holds for the first term only. StartUp costs €2.99 a month, prepaid for twelve months, and renews at €15.99. Git ships with GoGeek and higher plans only. SSH runs on port 18765, with keys only.

Shared hosting fits a WordPress site with a plugin stack. A Laravel app with a queue worker, a Composer build and a staging environment pushes it past what it was built for.

Why fortrabbit

fortrabbit hosts PHP apps, with Git push deploys, Composer and npm in the build, MySQL as a component, and cron jobs and workers as settings. An app has environments for staging and production. Pricing is per component, billed after use, with no renewal step.

We don't host mail or run a site builder. A site that depends on those stays better on SiteGround.

SiteGround and fortrabbit

Feature	SiteGround StartUp	fortrabbit
Price	€2.99, renews at €15.99	From about €5
Billing	12 months prepaid	Monthly, after use
Git deploy	GoGeek and higher	Every plan
Build step	None	Composer and npm
Workers	—	Jobs component
Mailboxes	Included	—

Different by design #

Pay in arrears

Daily prorated, post-paid billing. No upfront payment, no yearly commitment.

Modular pricing

Pay per component and scale each one from xs to 2xl on its own.

No dark patterns

No vendor lock-in, no upselling, no misleading messages.

Humans in support

Eye-level developer chat over the support bubble. No sales calls.

Developer-first

Git-push deploy, SSH access, bring your own code. No 1-click bloat.

Managed platform

A hardened, service-oriented PHP stack. Deploy code, skip the server admin.

Frequently asked #

Is fortrabbit cheaper than SiteGround?

After year one

After year one - SiteGround StartUp costs €2.99 a month in the first year, prepaid and without VAT, and renews at €15.99. A fortrabbit app with MySQL starts at about €5 a month, with no renewal step.

Does fortrabbit include email accounts?

No - fortrabbit hosts PHP apps, not mailboxes. Keep mail with a mail provider, and send app mail over SMTP or a transactional mail service.

Can WordPress move from SiteGround?

Yes

Yes - The migration guide covers files, the database, mail and DNS. A coding agent connected to fortrabbit can run it.

What customers say #

Having fortrabbit is like having a dedicated DevOps engineer on the team, taking care of the infrastructure so we can focus on writing code. We've used many PaaS providers, but none come close to fortrabbit's mix of features, reliability, predictable and fair pricing, and fast, genuinely helpful support. Their service has been rock solid, giving us the confidence that our apps are in good hands.

Len van Essen

CTO at Fitwinkel

2026 — Direct feedback

Unmatched performances and ease-of-configure. I really like what fortrabbit is doing for the modern PHP hosting ecosystem, and I'd suggest anyone to have a try with them.

Federico Magnani

CTO at glueglue