Bluehost VPS vs SiteGround: what's the best step up from shared hosting?
Ready to move up from shared hosting but don't know which host you should upgrade to? One of these might be the answer.
· TechRadarVersus By Christian Cawley published 27 February 2026
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SiteGround and Bluehost both have a strong reputation as two of the best web hosting providers, but most people use them for shared hosting. How do they compare if you need to upgrade your business website to VPS hosting? To find out, we judged them on hardware, price, features, ease of use, management options, and measured performance using benchmarking tools.
We found that Bluehost’s managed VPS offers a good progression from shared hosting. SiteGround's offerings are more powerful but do come with a steeper price tag.
Plans & pricing
Bluehost offers managed and unmanaged VPS plans while SiteGround offers 'managed cloud hosting' which is essentially VPS plans. For this comparison we've just looked at Bluehost's managed plans.
These plans – Standard NVMe 4, Enhanced NVMe 8, and Ultimate NVMe 16 – are available on a 36-month term, with 35-36% discounts depending on the plan. A standard monthly rolling plan (e.g., $59.99/mo for Standard NVMe 4, compared with $34.99/mo over 36 months) is also available, as are 12- and 24 month deals, each with discounts.
SiteGround has four similar plans – Jump Start, Business, Business Plus, and Super Power – are available. Jump Start is $100/mo, while Super Power is $400/mo. As with Bluehost, discounts are available with 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month plans, 5% on the 3 month plan and 10% on the longer options.
Both hosts offer a 30-day money back offer, should you decide to host your website elsewhere. Note that plans renew at the end of chosen terms without the discount applied.
Infrastructure
Bluehost’s VPS plan runs on hardware equipped with an AMD EPYC-Genoa CPUs. There are datacentres around the world
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