ScalaHosting vs SiteGround: one ladder is built to a visible rule and the other is too short to tell
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The two pricing pages, side by side
These two are not quoted in the same currency. ScalaHosting is priced in USD and SiteGround in GBP, as each page showed it to us. Figures below are what each vendor charges, not a conversion — ranking them against each other depends on the rate your bank applies, and paying in a foreign currency usually adds a fee on top.
Prices as this vendor showed them to a visitor in the United States — USD. A reader elsewhere may be quoted a different figure — we publish what we were served, never a conversion.
Prices as this vendor showed them to a visitor in the United States — USD. A reader elsewhere may be quoted a different figure — we publish what we were served, never a conversion.
What this vendor quotes in each market, as its own page printed it — not one price converted three ways.
Plan
United States USD · 2026-10-13
United Kingdom GBP · 2026-10-13
EU USD · 2026-10-13
StartUp
$17.99
£13.99
$17.99
GrowBig
$29.99
£23.99
$29.99
GoGeek
$44.99
£34.99
$44.99
What the record says
Read ScalaHosting's four plans in order and something unusual shows up. $2.95 to $5.95 is $3. $5.95 to $9.95 is $4. $9.95 to $14.95 is $5. Three steps, each exactly one unit larger than the one before it.
That is a designed ladder rather than four prices that happened. Whether the design corresponds to anything in the product we cannot say — the pricing page does not explain it — but the regularity is a fact about the figures and it is rare. Most hosts we read publish steps of no particular shape.
SiteGround's ladder cannot be assessed the same way, and the reason is simply that it is shorter. Three plans give two steps: £13.99 to £23.99 is £10, and £23.99 to £34.99 is £11. The second is larger than the first, but two numbers are not a pattern, and we are not going to call them one.
The two ladders also do not meet. £13.99 sits $3.04 above the top of ScalaHosting's range in the United States, so a buyer choosing between them is choosing a spending level rather than a tier.
One reading note. ScalaHosting returned the same dollar figures from all five countries we read; SiteGround converts for British readers. So in Britain the two vendors are quoting different currencies and the gap between their ladders is not a number we can give — which is why the one figure above is pinned to the United States.
Beyond the price tag
Steps that grow by one
$3, then $4, then $5. Three consecutive steps, each a unit larger than the last, across $2.95 to $14.95.
A ladder too short to have a shape
SiteGround's two steps are £10 and £11. Larger second than first, which is ordinary; with only two of them there is nothing to call a pattern.
The ranges do not overlap
$14.95 is ScalaHosting's dearest plan and £13.99 is SiteGround's cheapest, $3.04 apart in the United States. Neither vendor publishes anything in the other's range.
Different price endings
Every ScalaHosting figure we read ends in .95 and every SiteGround figure ends in .99. It tells you nothing about the hosting, but it is the kind of detail that shows two pricing pages were written by different hands.
What we did not read
Renewal rates, contract terms, resources and what each plan includes. Shared hosting frequently advertises an introductory rate; where a page told us so we record it, and where it did not we do not assume one.
Questions people actually search
Which is cheaper, ScalaHosting or SiteGround?
ScalaHosting, at every level, because the two ranges do not overlap: its dearest plan is $14.95 and SiteGround's cheapest is £13.99, $3.04 apart in the United States.
What is the pattern in ScalaHosting's prices?
Its three steps are $3, $4 and $5 — each one unit larger than the one before. That is a fact about the figures; the pricing page does not say why.
Does SiteGround's ladder follow a rule too?
It has only two steps, £10 and £11, so there is no way to tell. Two increments can fit any number of rules and are evidence for none of them.
Do both charge in pounds in Britain?
No. SiteGround quotes British readers in pounds; ScalaHosting returned the same dollar figures to all five countries we read from. That is why the comparison between their ladders is stated for the United States.
THE VERDICT, ONE MORE TIME
It has four rungs from $2.95 to $14.95, all of them below SiteGround's cheapest plan at £13.99.
Four evenly graded steps give a buyer somewhere to go next at every level. SiteGround publishes three plans, none of them below £13.99, so there is no rung of its ladder in the range ScalaHosting occupies.
Both ladders were read from the vendors' own pricing pages, from five countries in turn, each table dated. ScalaHosting returned US dollars from all five; SiteGround returned pounds to Britain and dollars elsewhere. Differences within one vendor are computed in whatever currency that vendor quoted; the single cross-vendor figure is pinned to the United States, the market where both are in the same money. The regularity described here is a property of the published figures and not a claim about what the plans contain. The method →
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