UPDATE NOV 19, 2011 - I've finally shifted all my SiteGround sites over to my HostGator Reseller account!  The last straw was not being able to do simple Joomla component installs (the indespensible Akeeba Backup), without getting timed out by SiteGround's slow ass, blocking my functions servers.  Endless tickets back and forth as SiteGround pretends it's not an issue with their slow-ass servers. No More!  Final sites have been moved to dependable Host Gator server hosting. Done and Done!

Oh, and I installed Akeeba Backup on the sites, without a burp or hitch or time out from HostGator. Thanks HostGator Reseller Hosting!

OK, so about 6 months ago all my sites on SiteGround started getting SLOOOW. No amount of tweeking cache or gzipping could fix them. Now, I admit, I have this site on a SiteGround reseller account, so god knows that's gonna get slow, when they load that server to the max and beyond.

I know the saying is, "You get what you pay for."  I understand that. I really do now.  Except that SiteGround isn't really that cheap. Especially when it comes to renewing a site, when they ask for over $90 a year, for slow servers and pathetic customer support. Yeah right.

When I was searching about for a new hosting platform for my employer's site, an online community for women of all faiths, as well as a publishing venture, called Prayables.com. I knew that I had to get their beta site away from SiteGround, where it was already bogging down in Reseller Hosting Purgatory (RHP).

For about 3 seconds I was tempted by SiteGround's Cloud Hosting, but since I found them such an ongoing pain in the ass when it came to simple customer support, I quickly came to my senses.