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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure App Service

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AThe Microsoft Azure App Service is a PaaS that enables users to build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs, a fully managed service with built-in infrastructure maintenance, security patching, and scaling. Includes Azure Web Apps, Azure Mobile Apps, Azure API Apps, allowing developers to use popular frameworks including .NET, .NET Core, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, and Ruby.

    $9.49

    per month

    SiteGround

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/ASiteGround offers website hosting, as well as managed WordPress, managed Woo Commerce, fully managed cloud services available to support a variety of services, as well as reselling.

    $14.99

    per month

    Pricing
    Azure App ServiceSiteGround
    Editions & Modules
    Shared Environment for dev/test
    $9.49
    per month
    Basic Dedicated environment for dev/test
    $54.75
    per month
    Standard Run production workloads
    $73
    per month
    Premium Enhanced performance and scale
    $146
    per month
    StartUp 24 months
    $14.99
    per month
    StartUp 12 months
    $17.99
    per month
    StartUp 1 month
    $24.99
    per month
    GrowBig 24 months
    $24.99
    per month
    GrowBig 12 months
    $29.99
    per month
    GrowBig 1 month
    $34.99
    per month
    GoGeek 24 months
    $39.99
    per month
    GoGeek 12 months
    $44.99
    per month
    GoGeek 1 month
    $49.99
    per month
    GoGeek 3 months
    $49.99
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure App ServiceSiteGround
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFree and Shared (preview) plans are ideal for testing applications in a managed Azure environment. Basic, Standard and Premium plans are for production workloads and run on dedicated Virtual Machine instances. Each instance can support multiple applications and domains.—
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    Community Pulse
    Azure App ServiceSiteGround
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    SiteGround
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Azure App ServiceSiteGround
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Azure App Service and SiteGround
    Feature
    Azure App Service
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    0% above category average
    SiteGround
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    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead4.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability5.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes5.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Azure App ServiceSiteGround
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score6 out of 10
    AccuWebHosting.Com
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score7.3 out of 10
    AccuWebHosting.Com
    Score9.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure App ServiceSiteGround
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (8 ratings)
    9.5
    (15 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure App ServiceSiteGround
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    You may easily deploy your apps to Azure App Service if they were written in Visual Studio IDE (typically.NET applications). With a few clicks of the mouse, you may already deploy your application to a remote server using the Visual Studio IDE. As a result of the portal's bulk and complexity, I propose Heroku for less-experienced developers.
    Incentivized
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    SiteGround
    If you've got a WordPress site and are unhappy with the performance, support or price of your current hosting service, SiteGround is well worth checking out as it excels in all those areas. From a single one-off blog, to more robust hosting packages, they offer a range of options that are well-suited to any budget or service need. Everybody, from noobs to experienced developers needs support from time to time, and SiteGround's team is the best I've seen. Not only are they easy to communicate with and highly proficient to solve any issue I've thrown their way, they're also easy to reach with multiple access options with minimal wait times.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • It has options to deploy using CI/CD.
    • It has great integration with Azure Devops
    • It has all the common runtimes, so we don't need to install softwares.
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    SiteGround
    • You get a number of page views as a guide to your bandwidth, and a fixed amount of disk space on the server. So you know what you have to work with. No hazy promises of “unlimited” resources.
    • If you pay more, you’re allocated a server with fewer accounts, so there’s less chance you’ll be slowed down by your neighbors.
    • Its self-help material is pretty good — close to InMotion Hosting for knowledgebase quality.
    • SiteGround tackles slow speeds from all angles, using SSD storage, Nginx, SuperCacher, CloudFlare CDN, and HHVM.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • the learning curve can be tough (just like other azure services)
    • the UX/UI could be more intuitive (just like other azure services as well)
    • monitoring can be hard to understand
    • Microsoft's learning resources are hard to understand
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    SiteGround
    • Business model and clarity about prices after the second year
    • Server Performance when it's stressed or under a big volume of traffic
    • Upgrading model. Sometimes I felt like it was mandatory to update and pay more for basic needs, even with low traffic volumes
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    I enjoy the fact that Azure App Service can be managed by the Azure portal and a fully graphical user interface, as well as from two different flavors of command-line interface, i.e. Azure CLI and Azure Powershell. By utilizing the Azure Cloud Shell, we are able to switch between Azure Bash (CLI) and Powershell at any given moment and manage the Azure App Service settings from devices of any form-factor (Web based management).
    Incentivized
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    SiteGround
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    We had an issue where we deployed too large of a resource and didn't notice until the bill came through. They were very understanding and saw we weren't utilizing the resources so they issued a generous refund in about 4 hours. Very fast, friendly, and understanding support reps from my experience.
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    SiteGround
    I don't feel stress about the website and emails hosted with SiteGround. I like the customer/tech support, the agents are always polite and ready to find a solution. My websites are secure and has a free SSL certificate - I can get on with my business. The boost in speed to the webpage loads is a big bonus especially when designing and developing websites online. They also provide tips and how to videos on various topics which is valuable learning tool.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Azure has many data center, their services are more reliable. Azure has way more features than both Linode and DigitalOcean. If someone wants a complete reliable service, he/she must go to Azure instead of Linode and DigitalOcean because even though azure charges more, it is worth the money you pay there.
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    SiteGround
    I used Namescheap in the past. I believe Namescheap is a big company compared to SiteGround, as big as godaddy. I think because of that, you get what you expect. Good services, but maybe more costly and you have to pay for everything as extra. Email $5, SSL $10, CDN $10 etc In my opinion, SiteGround actually has packages that make sense for wordpress hosting. If my website gets a lot of traction in the future, I will need to upgrade from the current plan and maybe move away from SiteGround.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Reduced the deployment time of ASP .NET applications in the company.
    • Gave us an alternative to quickly deploy our applications without granting access to the version control system to a third platform.
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    SiteGround
    • All the sites I've set up at SiteGround are performing faster than they did at their previous hosting provider. This yields a superior customer experience and higher Google/SEO rankings.
    • Their service has been rock solid, necessitating little support (which is admittedly less than ideal for my support business, but a boon for my clients bottom line) and zero downtime.
    • Easy to get new sites up and running, which speeds creation of new businesses and rapid deployment of conceptual campaigns.
    Incentivized
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