Siteground never provides any coupon code to anyone. I had a chat with one of the SG support team members. She confirmed they don’t have any coupon system. Have a look at the reply I got from her.

So, if anyone is claiming they have a coupon code, don’t fall for it. Coz it’s not true.

Siteground Coupon Code 2020: well you don’t need one

Since there’s no coupon code available, how do you get a discount then?

Glad you asked.

The good news is you can still get up to 70% off on your web hosting plans without applying promo code.

Just Click this link >> Siteground Promo Link

It will take you to the discount page where you can get the 70% off on your first purchase. In a way, you can say the coupon code is already applied to the link by the provider.

So far many of my readers have used this promo link and availed the discount without using any coupon. It’s 100% working in 2020, and it will work in the years to come. Just follow the steps below to avail the offer without an offer code and get an instant 70% discount on any Siteground hosting plan you pick.

How to Get a discount without any Siteground Coupon Code?

1. Click here to open the Siteground discount page. (again, you don’t any coupon code; it will be applied automatically)
2. Select the Plan you want to buy.
3. Select “I already have a domain”.
4. Enter your domain name and “Proceed”.
5. Sign up and fill out your billing details.
6. Make your payment and complete your purchase.

Pro tip: Before buying the Hosting Plan, first buy a domain name. And don’t buy the domain name from Siteground itself, it will cost you a lot. Instead, buy it from Namecheap.com or Godaddy.

I have been using Siteground for quite some time now, I can blindly recommend it to anyone. It is by far the best hosting provider I have ever used.

SiteGround is well-known for its innovation & they are one of the best companies that are officially recommended by WordPress itself. The other two companies that had made it to the list are Bluehost and Dreamhost.

Just in case you decide not to go with Siteground, I would recommend Bluehost to go with.

Get a 60% discount on Bluehost hosting; again you don’t need any coupon code here as well.

Siteground’s cutting-edge support team and truly amazing features will surely make you fall in love with them.

Some of those amazing features are:

• Full SSD storage (Improve web-hosting performance by 3X)
• Free SSL Certificate
• SuperCacher for great speed. (with this, even the starter plans can also handle up to 2.5 lac hits per month)
• WP-CLI and SSH enabled (Good for developers)
• Staging for WordPress & Joomla Websites (Only on GoGeek plan)
• Daily backups
• Free Cloudflare CDN

Apart from these, they have a pretty responsive & friendly technical customer support. If you want to migrate from another web host to Siteground then they have their own dedicated migration tool.

And if you don’t want to do it yourself, you can get it done for FREE as a Professional transfer service (available for free on GrowBig and GoGeek plans only).

If you have a high traffic website, they also offer Cloud hosting & dedicated hosting.

Three things I liked most about Siteground:

1. Customer Support: There’s one recent incident, I was working with a new plugin, and accidentally I flushed all the cache. Next thing I know my whole site is broken. And unfortunately, I didn’t have any backups.

I deleted the plugin, deactivated all the plugins and reactivated one by one, disabled Cloudflare and literally tried everything I could. But no luck.

For a moment, I thought I lost the site and I would have to recreate the whole site.

My last hope was the Siteground’s support, I initiated a live chat and after trying for one hour the guy on the other side finally brought my site back to normal.

In such situations, an excellent support system is the best thing money can get you.

2. Transparent Pricing: They have three plans, StartUp, GrowBig and GoGeek. The best thing is all are discounted with 70% if you buy from this link. You can pick any plan you want for 1 year, 2 years or even 3 years you will get the same percentage of the discount.

They don’t play any trick here, where other hosting providers will give you a discount, only if you buy it for more than one year.

3. Speed: It’s been months now. I haven’t experienced any downtime yet. The speed is really awesome. And “Speed”, being one of the ranking factors in search engines, you definitely don’t want to ignore it.

So, from my side, it’s a 5 star to Siteground.

Siteground Renewal Coupon Code [again not available]

Like I said earlier, Siteground Coupon Code doesn’t exist. So, that means there is no renewal code as well.

HOWEVER, if are looking for a discount on your renewals then, you will have to renew for at least 2 years. Just follow this link and renew your plan. If you renew for 2 years you’ll get a 20% discount and for 3 years 30% discount.

Note: Sometimes this link might not work. in such cases, you can just raise a chat and ask the support team member to help you with the discount.

Still not convinced? Read the Full Siteground Review

Or Just go to Siteground.com and check out all the features they have and then make your decision.

And if you’re convinced, then, below I have added a few screenshots and tips to help you avail the offer;

Need more help to avail the discount?

Step 1: Click here to apply the Siteground Discount and open the Offer page.

Step 2: Select the Plan you want to buy (GrowBig is recommended, as you can host multiple sites)

*you can compare the plans here >> Siteground Plans Compare

Step 3: Select “I already have a domain”. Enter your domain name and click on “Proceed”.

Step 4: Sign up and fill out the billing details. Make your payment. That’s it!

For this step, you will need a credit card or an international payment-enabled VISA debit card. If you don’t have one then, signup for a zero balance Kotak 811 account (it’s FREE).

It hardly takes 5 minutes to open the account. Just go to the above-mentioned link, fill out your details. Your account will be opened instantly. It is valid for one year and if you do your full KYC you can use this forever.

Now download the app from the link they would provide, sign in, add some money from your other bank account and use the virtual debit card that you’ll get with the account, to make the payment on Siteground.

How to Install WordPress on Siteground?

Once you have availed the offer and purchased your hosting plan, it’s now time you start your WordPress blog.

So, here’s a video to show you how you can install your WordPress site on your newly bought Siteground hosting.

If you need more help with blogging then Instagram me @bloggingventure

Over To You:

I don’t see any reason why you would not take advantage of this offer and start your dream project already.

But by any chance, if you’re having any second thought because of the pricing then you can check out the other best WordPress hosting in India.

Alternatively, you can also go with Namecheap.com for now and later when you start to make some money you can always move to Siteground.

Just remember though, Hosting performance is correlated to its pricing. The more you pay the better performance you’ll get.

So, just go ahead and take advantage of the already applied Siteground coupon code link and start your online brand today!

Because that’s what matters.

Buh-bye!

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Today, I will show you how to migrate a self-hosted WordPress site from Godaddy to Siteground.

Not using Siteground or Godaddy? it’s OK; this guide works for any host to any host.

So, the proper title would have been “How to migrate a WordPress site to another hosting server?” But as I am using Siteground and Godaddy, I will stick to the title I have used.

When you’re starting a blog or any website, the loading speed of your site matters a lot; especially when it’s a blog. where you are supposed to get a lot of traffic.

Speed is also one of the ranking factors in SERP.

Now, the speed depends on many things, but the most important one out of all is the hosting space, where you’ve hosted your blog.

I started my first blog (not honingbird.com) on shared hosting from GoDaddy. The speed was not that bad initially, but over the time it got from “not that bad” to “worst” when I installed 2 more blogs (one of them was honingbird.com).

I thought upgrading the plan would help, but nope! … it didn’t. I mean it improved a bit but not as expected.

So, I had decided to move my main blog (honingbird.com) to a different host.

In the past, I had used HostGator for a few of my clients. It was good, but, the problem is, in a normal scenario, most company websites are just to showcase the company’s profile, their products or services, there are not many changes you see on the website.

So, the traffic doesn’t increase that much, unless you add a blog to it.

But none of my clients were interested in SEO, so, no blogs. They wanted quick results, so we suggested paid ads and they were happy with it.

So, it means, I can not be sure about Hostgator either.

So, I did some research and found out Siteground and Bluehost are the only two best hosts that many well-known bloggers are talking about, and also claimed to be using them for their own blogs.

I finally decided to go with Siteground over Bluehost.

There are several factors that influenced my decision to go with Siteground eventually. But Bluehost is also good if you’re just getting starting, their pricing is also affordable.

You can read my full Siteground Review to know more about its amazing features.

Although, I would still like to mention three things I liked most about Siteground; their customer support, the transparent pricing and the speed (I had heard it’s very good and it’s true).

So, coming back to my main topic for today’s post, How to migrate or transfer your existing WordPress site or blog to SiteGround (or any host)

While I was doing the process myself, I thought why not document it; It might come handy for someone like you.

So, let’s get right into it:

How to Migrate Your Existing WordPress Site from Godaddy to SiteGround?

The plugin I have used for the whole migration is All in One Migration Tool by ServMask.

Before I start the tutorial here’s one Warning

Moving on…

If you have read my other posts then you’ de know I like to keep things as simple as it can be.

So, I am going to classify the whole process into 5 parts:

1. Exporting the WordPress Blog.
2. Creating an addon domain.
3. Installing WordPress on Siteground.
4. Redirecting your Domain to Siteground from Godaddy.
5. Importing your WordPress Site or Blog to the new installation.

First thing first, go ahead and install the All in One Migration Tool plugin on your site/blog.

Step 1: Exporting the WordPress Blog or Downloading it.

Once the All in One plugin is installed, you will see a new tab appeared on the sidebar, inside your WP dashboard.

Just hover over it and a side menu will pop in, click on Export.

A new screen will show up, inside that you will see an option that says, EXPORT TO.

Click on that and select the first option you have, and that would be FILE.

As soon as you click it, a lightbox pop up will pop out and will do a thorough checkup of your blog’s current settings and configurations and finally will create a full back up for you to download.

So, it might take a few minutes depending on your site’s total file size.

Once the download file is ready a green button will appear which says, DOWNLOAD WWW.YOURSITENAME.COM

Click that green button and it will start downloading the backup to your computer. The exporting is complete.

Step 2: Create an addon domain

Before you can start the importing you’ll first have to create an addon domain on SiteGround (your new host) and install WordPress on it.

Don’t know how to create an addon domain? refer to the video below, skip to the part where I have shown you the steps.

However, I didn’t have to create one for myself coz I have registered my Siteground hosting plan with honingbird.com. So, by default, my domain is assigned to the features.

But if you haven’t purchased a brand new Siteground account and don’t have it registered with your main domain, then you will have to create an addon domain.

Why add an addon domain?

I won’t get technical.

Quite simply, by adding an addon domain you’re just telling your host (in my case that is Siteground) that you want to host a site or blog on this domain which is registered with another vendor.

And doing so will automatically give you the option to install the WordPress blog on the addon domain when you run the installation on Siteground,

Step 3: How to Install WordPress on Siteground?

Log in to your Cpanel and navigate to AUTOINSTALLERS inside the cPanel dashboard.

You should see a few other applications alongside WordPress.

Locate the WordPress icon and click it.

Inside you’ll find an Install tab, click it, a new section will appear.

Please refer to the video below, skip to 4:55 minute and fill out the details accordingly and click on the Install button found at the bottom.

If you see the congratulation message, then it means your WordPress site is successfully installed.

However, your site is still being hosted on your existing host; if you try to access, it will not take you to the newly installed WordPress site, it will take you to the old site only as we haven’t yet mapped the domain to the new hosting.

Step 4: How to Redirect your Godaddy Domain to Siteground?

So, to redirect your domain to the new hosting, head over to Godaddy (or wherever you have the domain name registered currently).

In my case, I have my domain name registered with Godaddy.

So, I will log in to GoDaddy.

Once you’re inside, click on the manage button found against the domain that you want to redirect, then go to DNS Management.

Inside DNS Management you’ll see and bunch of information under a heading called Records.

Don’t get terrified, if you can’t figure out what those are; I don’t even understand most of them.

Just scroll down and locate the Nameservers. Here you’ll find the already exist Godaddy’s nameservers.

Now since we are redirecting the domain to our hosting in Siteground we will have to replace the existing Godaddy’s nameservers with the new Siteground’s nameservers.

Again head back to Siteground, log in to cPanel, if logged out, and locate the nameservers on the top left. Copy them, go back to Godaddy and change the existing nameservers with these two.

Once you saved the nameservers, it will take some time for it to get activated. So, your site might go down for a few minutes.

Anyways, when your site is successfully mapped to Siteground you’ll see a default page from Siteground.

It might look something similar to this:

If you’re seeing this page, then it means your domain is now hosted with Siteground.

Next step, upload your backup to your new server.

Step 5: Importing Your WordPress Blog and Uploading it

Log in to the new WordPress installation and install and activate the All in One Migration plugin.

Now go to its import option;

Click on IMPORT FROM and select FILE. Locate the backup we downloaded in step 1 and upload it.

The process would automatically start, it might take a while depending upon your server and internet speed. Just give it some time.

Wait until the uploading is done. Once it’s finished you will see a warning message that will ask your permission to overwrite the database and files. Click on PROCEED and next you should see a success message.

Now, check if the permalink structure is change. If needed make the required changes and save it. Even if you don’t make any changes still hit the save button.

Once the whole process is done and you’ve verified the content and everything you can now uninstall the old WordPress from GoDaddy.

That’s it! you’ve successfully migrated your site to Siteground.

And since SIteground provides a free SSL, you can now enable it to load your site in HTTPS by following the steps below:

How to enable SSL in Siteground?

Check your inactive plugins, if you see a plugin called SG Optimizer then great, activate it. If you find no such plugin in the inactive plugins then go ahead and install it.

Once installed and activated, locate the plugin settings from the sidebar.

Inside you’ll see three options to configure, the Siteground’s in house SuperCacher feature, HTTPS and option to upgrade to the latest PHP version.

Click on each configure button and enable the options from inside and your site is ready to rock again.

The whole process of migration and activation of SSL is recorded in the video below. In case if the video is not playing or you’re not able to see it; here is the direct link to the video on Youtube:

Wrapping Up:

The process of migrating or moving a WordPress site from one host to another is a bit overwhelming, but if you’re not happy with the current hosting provider then it’s an absolute necessity.

Coz, if you’re being the content creator is not happy with the site’s performance in terms of hosting, then how can you expect your readers would be happy anyways?

Don’t stay stuck to your old host just because it’s a long process. Change is a necessity in every aspect. So, change it if required.

Since your audience will grow with time it is important that you find a reliable hosting provider. And so far in my experience, I have found Siteground to be a great service provider.

You can read the review here > Siteground Review 2020

So, are you planning to change your hosting provider; if yes which one you’re gonna go with?

P.S. If you found the guide helpful, please share it with your circle. 

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Mainly because of 2 reasons SG have stopped operations in India:

1. Poor performance indicators
2. Regulatory and tax complexities

Unfortunately, as per Siteground, due to a combination of poor performance indicators and the growing regulatory complexities in some regions including India, it has become ineffective to continue doing business there.

1. Poor performance indicators

Siteground closely monitors KPIs such as an accounts’ lifetime span, account value, and renewal rates, which determine the ROIs from their services in a particular region.

Unfortunately, the latest analysis indicates that overall, the sales coming from India have deteriorating KPIs, including among others alarmingly low renewal rates, higher cancellation rate, and short life span of the accounts.

2. Regulatory and tax complexities

Another negative trend that Siteground has been monitoring in India and several others is the heavier regulations and growing tax complexities that impose an additional financial and bureaucratic burden on them.

All these factors impose a growing financial risk for them and they can no longer guarantee the sustainability of the hosting services in the long run.

That is why they have taken the hard decision to discontinue operations in India and several others.

Looking for the best WordPress hosting in India in 2024?

Well, look no more. Siteground is sure one of the best web hosting service providers in India. And I am not just saying, it is the best I have used for my WordPress blogs and websites that are targeted to India.

Read this Siteground India review and decide for yourself.

However, if you’re looking for a budget-friendly hosting provider then read these reviews instead: A2 Hosting India Review or Bluehost Review. 

Anyways, below I have also shared a list of the best WordPress hosting providers in India for a blogger:

The Best WordPress Hosting in India:

1. A2hosting – Another company that accepts payment in INR, and has servers in Asia; that makes them a very good choice for an Indian blogger. I have been using their services, and trust me it is very good. Checkout A2hosting Plans
2. Bluehost – This is one of the WordPress recommended web hosting providers. I haven’t personally tried them yet, but I have heard great reviews about them. Checkout Bluehost Plans
3. Hostgator – Very good for new bloggers. If you’re looking for cheap WordPress hosting in India then look no further. it is affordable, you get unlimited disk space, they have servers in India, and charges are comparatively less and the best thing is you can pay in INR. Checkout Hostgator Plans
4. Inmotion Hosting – A little expensive for a newbie. But their services are great. So, if you can shake your budget a little higher then you can surely go with this one. I had bought Inmotion Hosting for a client, and I haven’t got any complaints ever. Checkout InMotion Plans
5. Dreamhost – Another WordPress recommended hosting. One of my niche sites is hosted on this hosting. So, my personal recommendation after Siteground, go for it without thinking much. Checkout Dreamhost Plans
6. Siteground – SG used to be my first recommendation, even WordPress itself recommends it, along with Bluehost and Dreamhost. With their dedicated WordPress hosting and amazing support, it’s a great pick for anyone.  The only reason I don’t recommend it anymore that’s coz it’s very costly now for a newbie. Checkout Siteground Plans
7. WPengine – this one is a high-end hosting provider which comes with Genesis Framework & 35+ StudioPress Themes. Their services are top-notch. But not recommended for small sites. This is great for a heavy site, maybe an eCommerce site. However, on the second thought, if you have a big budget just go for it, you won’t regret it. Checkout WPengine Plans

Depending on your budget you can pick any of those web hostings, they all are good to my knowledge. But If you want my personal recommendation, then go with A2hosting. This blog is hosted on A2hosting itself; so I am not just saying.

And if you’re a beginner, very tight in budget, you can try any of these hostings as well Bluehost, Hostgator, DreamHost,  or Inmotion Hosting;  they are comparatively cheaper than the Siteground and WPengine.

Okay, now check out the best WordPress hosting plans in India that I recommend from each of the service providers; if you find them expensive then check out their other (starter) plans by visiting the links below.

If you still can’t decide, Instagram me @bloggingventure. I will surely help you out.

Now that you have seen the other hosting providers in India, let’s look at the best-recommended hosting:

Siteground India Review 2024

So, you’re planning to start a WordPress blog or website?

Maybe it’s a blog you want to start or maybe you run a service in your city and now want to take it to the world by using the internet, increase your reach to everyone out there.

But do you know what the basic needs for starting it are?

The first step in starting an online presence is finding a suitable domain name and reliable hosting. A domain is the address of your online website and hosting is a place where all of your data stores and then deliver to your readers or customers.

Finding a domain name is very easy, goto to Namecheap.com, type in the domain name you want to register; if it is available then just follow the on-screen instructions and buy it. That’s it. You don’t need to know anything more.

But while buying hosting, there are a lot of factors that you have to keep in mind. You also have to know about the type of hostings like shared, VPS, Dedicated, cloud, etc.

So, if you’re from India (or anywhere else in the world) and looking for the best WordPress hosting provider for your blog or website then this post is for you.

There are so many hosting providers you will find out there. But not all are good. There are a few dominating the whole website hosting industry for a reason; Performance !!

I hosted my first site on Bigrock.com. After experiencing it, I would never recommend that to anyone.

I have used many of the local hosts as well; mainly for the clients at my job. But never had a good experience with any of those.

Last year when I started this blog I had hosted it on Godaddy.com. I didn’t get what I was expecting.

That’s why after reading so many reviews I decided to move to Siteground. Fast forward to 7 months from then, I am in love with their services.

The best decision ever made. It’s giving me exactly the kind of performance and support I was expecting and needed.

Anyways, today I am going to review by far the best WordPress hosting provider that I have used in my career.

It’s none other than SiteGround. And in this review, I will provide all the required information you want while choosing the right WordPress host.

Well, SiteGround is one of the most famous web hosting companies. SiteGround is known for its always uptime servers, fastest loading time, and 24/7 customer support.

No wonder why WordPress itself officially recommends SiteGround Hosting.

I don’t just say for no reason it’s the best WordPress host for your upcoming project. SiteGround has almost everything that you want from a web host.

Before moving to its features, let’s talk a little about SiteGround.

A brief About Siteground India

SiteGround is a Bulgarian-based hosting company which was founded in 2004 has employed more than 400+ employees.

It has so far hosted almost 800,000 domains worldwide on their servers.

SiteGround has its offices situated in 6 places in Bulgaria, but it has served globally, including India, and has data centers in three continents across Europe, United States, and Asia.

SiteGround provides different types of hosting services such as Shared, Cloud, Dedicated, WordPress, and even reseller hosting. So, you can buy the hosting as per your needs.

Okay, let’s move to the pros and cons of this hosting, and after that, We will talk about if it is worth investing?

Pros and Cons of SiteGround WordPress Hosting India-

Like every other hosting, SiteGround also has some plus and minuses, and today I am going to introduce you to every single one of them.

Let’s start with the pros first.

Pros of SiteGround Hostings-

Uptime-

SiteGround Hosting promises that its servers are 99.79% uptime while many reviews say that it is much better than that. Last year, its hosting had only nine outages, and, it was resolved very quickly as well.

Also, SiteGround doesn’t use any readymade software as they have created their own which checks its hosting every 0.5 seconds.

honingbird.com uptime status since hosting:

uptime status recorded by Siteground uptime status recorded by Uptimerobot.com

Speed –

When someone tries to visit your website, it goes to your host and asks for the files. Now it’s your web host’s duty how fast it sends that files to your viewers.

The thing that works here is the Time to First Byte. It means that what is the quickest time that server takes to send its first byte.

In my test SiteGround performs well for this. The Fastest Time to First Bytes(TTFB) was just 0.390 seconds while accessed honingbird.com from India.

Apart from that, it offers a SuperCacher technology made by SiteGround itself which adds several layers of caching which helps in loading sites faster.

The great part of SiteGround is, it is the only hosting provider that is currently providing this service for shared hostings.

24/7 Top-Notch Customer Support-

Customer support is the thing where SiteGround pays so much attention. It is the reason why they have hired more than 230 people for customer support only.

They offer 24/7 phone, ticket-based, and live chat support. Also, they usually manage more than 1500+ tickets, 800+ phone calls, and 2000+ live chat support daily.

After creating a ticket, in just 15-20 seconds their knowledgeable customer support will connect with you and assist almost every possible question.

Unlike other companies, Siteground doesn’t have any wait time, your calls get picked up right away.

One of the recent incidents that made me love Siteground even more:

I was trying a new plugin, and accidentally I flushed all the cache. Next thing I know my whole site was broken. And unfortunately, I didn’t have any backups.

I deleted the plugin, deactivated all the plugins and reactivated one by one, disabled Cloudflare, and literally tried everything I could. But no luck.

For a moment, I thought I have lost my website and I would have to recreate the whole site again.

My last hope was the Siteground’s support, I initiated a live chat and after trying for one hour the guy on the other side finally brought my site back to normal.

In such situations, an excellent support system is the best thing money can get you; especially, if you’re not technically strong.

High-Performance WordPress Hosting-

Since WordPress is one of the most used content management systems for bloggers, SiteGround has added all the required features for WordPress CMS.

SiteGround has all of the features integrated into its well-managed hosting. That can be the term of speed, optimization, security, customer support, or almost anything that you want.

The great part of SiteGround hosting is they have moved their infrastructure to Google Cloud, which is supported by their own built caching tool SG Optimizer, Cloudflare CDN, and other software that checks their servers regularly to give the best performance at your side.

If I know anything about Google Cloud, is that they are fast, some might say superfast.

With Google Cloud, Siteground is now able to processor all server queries with 40% faster speed. Script executions on all plans have become even more efficient and this results in faster website load and less resource usage for all customers.

Siteground regularly checks for vulnerability and the security of your WordPress site. That’s why they make daily backups of your site for free, so if you face any issue, you can restore that backup and instantly make your site live again.

Free SSL Certificates-

As you know Google is very strict about its user’s security, that is why it is very important to run your site on HTTPS.

So, an SSL certificate is definitely one of the must-have features in any WordPress or Shared hosting.

And here, SiteGround offers a free SSL certificate from LetsEncrypt. Almost every new user will receive it pre-installed. You just have to enable it from the settings, and that’s it.

Free Site Migration Tool for Existing websites-

Siteground used to provide one free professional site migration done by their experts for each GrowBig and GoGeek hosting plan purchased.

But as of May 20, 2024, all manual migrations have become a paid service of $30USD per site.

Although, in place of the paid service they have now introduced a free automated WordPress transfer tool, called WordPress Migrator. It is available on all plans for free.

I know transferring a site sounds a little bit risky because with a single mistake, you will drop your rankings from SERPs. But with SiteGround, you don’t need to worry at all.

The site migration plugin is very simple to use, and it is being successfully used by hundreds of their customers to move their WordPress sites to SiteGround with just a few clicks.

If you still find it difficult to use the tool, just raise a ticket with their customer support and their smart support team will help you transfer the site.

Free CDN: 

Siteground has partnered with Cloudflare to provide a free Content Delivery Network (CDN) service to its customers. A CDN helps speed up your blog’s load time for visitors from different geographical locations.

The most important tasks of a CDN are it speeds up the delivery of the pages or posts of your blog, caches the content, auto-minifies images, exploits RailGun to speed up uncacheable dynamic content, blocks malicious traffic, and even reduces SPAM.

And the most basic way a CDN can help you is – it stores a cached version of your blog/site on many of its servers all across the world. So, whenever a reader visits your blog from anywhere in the world, the CDN loads the site from the closest server to the reader.

For example, if a user tries to access your blog from let’s say, the US, what the CDN will do is it will show the user a fresh cached version of your blog from the US itself, given they have servers in the US. which will tremendously increase the load time of your blog.

The Cloudflare CDN network has 152 locations and is growing.

So, it’s a no-brainer to use a CDN. But it usually costs a lot to signup for a CDN separately and also you’ll need some technical understanding of the tool.

With Siteground you can minimize both, the price and technical hassles.

Free Security Add-On-

SiteGround offers some free security add-ons for their customers. Some of them are IP Address Blocklists, Leech protects, SpamAssassin, SpamExpert, and Hotlink Protection.

Almost every plan offered by SiteGround comes with free LetsEncrypt SSL included. Also, you can add HackAlert monitoring which checks if your site has been hacked or compromised.

Although The HackAlert is not free it charges around $1 per month but it’s worth the buck.

Easy E-commerce Installation-

If you are buying hosting for your e-commerce business, then SiteGround can be the perfect choice for you. Installing e-commerce software is a little bit difficult for those who don’t have enough knowledge of it.

But SiteGround offers you more than 18 e-commerce applications and that too with just one click install feature. Isn’t that sound great?

Also, they provide servers in many locations, free CDN, and advanced caching solutions, and for security purposes, their client accounts are isolated by a custom solution.

This means even if, let’s hypothetically presume, one of your sites gets hacked despite Siteground’s strict security; your other sites will still be secured.

Transparent Pricing-

The plans for SiteGround are not very cheap, but if we talk about its features, investing in SiteGround worths every penny.

The plans of SiteGround start at just $6.99 and vary according to your need. Investing in a good hosting like SiteGround makes total sense because you can make $$$ from its cheapest plans itself.

30 Days Money Back Guarantee-

Like other hosting companies, SiteGround doesn’t offer any free trial, but they offer a 30-day money-back guarantee.

So you can test their services, and if you like them you can keep on using them or else, you can simply raise your hand and get your money back.

But, you have to follow a few conditions before applying for your money back. Below I have mentioned a few of them, but  I will suggest you visit their website to find the full detailed conditions.

• You must have to post a service termination request through the User Area of your hosting.
• Initial orders for the hosting services are going to cover only within thirty days from the day you have started your plan.
• The renewal orders will not cover the money-back policy.
• If you bought a domain from SiteGround, you can’t apply for the amount of domain or the WhoIs protection. This refund policy is only applicable for hostings.
• If you bought any dedicated or cloud hosting service or any paid support, then you can’t apply for money back. Also, other third-party services will not be covered by the money-back guarantee.
• Your Reseller packages will only be covered if you will cancel the whole hosting package. This guarantee does not apply to the termination of a single account in a reseller package, either.

So, those were some of the terms and conditions that you have to consider before buying hosting from SiteGround or before applying for their money-back policies.

PHP7 Supports-

If you are a blogger, then you must have to know that WordPress needs MYSQL and PHP to run blogs. But many of the web hostings are still using PHP 5.6 whereas PHP 7.1 is the latest one.

If you upgrade from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.1, you can boost your website performance by almost double. You can upgrade it in SiteGround using its free plugin, SG Optimiser.

Global Oriented-

The last professional advantage with SiteGround is they contain their global orientation.

SiteGround is mainly based in Bulgaria, but they have their clients worldwide. Also, they accept almost all international currencies such as USD, AUD, GBP, EUR, etc. Also, they have multiple toll-free lines for their customer support with no wait time.

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Cons of SiteGround Hosting

Like any other web hosting company, SiteGround also has its downsides too. So, here are the cons that I have faced while using SiteGround Hosting.

Overall pricing-

If you compare SiteGround with other hostings, you will see that it is a little bit costly. Well, I am not talking about its introductory prices.

I am talking about its renewal prices, as it costs around $24.99 per month for the Startup plan (a Hosting plan offered by SiteGround) which is limited to 10000 visitors/month and supports only a single domain.

Although, you can still get a discount by initiating a support call and ask the team for a discount on your renewal.

The intro price is pretty impressive, but the renewal is a little bit costly compared to other hosting companies out there.

I know that you are paying for the quality, but still in my opinion, if you consider other reputed hosting providers like A2Hosting or Bluehost, SiteGround is obviously costly.

Plan Limitations-

If you look at their plans, you will consider the fact that their plans are not managed properly. for instance, if you look at its StartUp plan, you’ll see that they are providing 10GB of Storage and 10000 visits per month; which is not managed well.

If you are a newbie blogger, probably a 5 GB web space would be enough, given you use fewer images and compress them properly, but you need a server that can handle around 30-50k visitors per month.

And on the other hand, if you have a media-rich blog then it is not that good as you might need more web space to store images, audios, and probably videos.

However, the good thing about SG hosting is the number of visits per month can be increased by enabling the SuperCacher that comes with the higher Siteground plans.

According to Siteground, with the SuperCacher enabled, the server can handle up to 230000 visits per month. Which is huge at this price.

I know that no host can provide you with unlimited web space or unlimited bandwidth, but they can manage it according to the needs of the customers.

That’s a downside I believe Siteground needs to work on. Otherwise, it’s always my first recommendation.

Setup fee for Monthly Billing-

If you are thinking to choose the billing cycle to be monthly, then there is a setup fee that you have to pay. This setup fee starts from $14.95 depending on the plan you pick.

But if you buy their hosting for a long period, like for a year then you don’t need to pay the setup fee. Which is in any case recommended.

And besides, you get the one-month money-back guarantee; so if you’re not happy with their services you can leave within 30 days.

So, my point is, I recommend you to buy its annual plan and if you don’t like it, simply raise for money return. But make sure that you have read the terms and conditions of their 30 days return policy carefully.

Again, going for a long period is anytime a good idea.

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SiteGround Hosting Plans, Pricing, and Other Facts

SiteGround offers many types of web hosting such as dedicated servers, shared hostings (WordPress hosting), cloud web hosting, and reseller hostings.

Since I have only used shared hosting or the so-called WordPress hosting, I am going to talk about those plans only.

Before we go any farther, here’s a thing – Siteground doesn’t support Indian Rupee (INR). So, you will have to pay them in USD; which is not an issue nowadays.

However, that could be an issue if you don’t have a credit card or international payments enabled debit card.

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Just download the app from the Google play store or Apple app store and sign up with your details.

Once signed up, you will get a virtual debit card instantly which could be used to purchase not only Siteground hosting but anything you wish to buy online (including Facebook ads).

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SiteGround offers three different types of Shared or WordPress hosting plans.

Let me get you through all of those:

You can also check out the detailed comparison of Siteground Plans Here >>

StartUp Plan- 

It is the first, and the cheapest plan of SiteGround shared hosting which costs around $14.99 per month. Good for beginners but before you make any decision check out the other plans as well.

Although for the first time, you can get it for the introductory price, which is around $6.99 per month.

You might still manage to get a 20% bargain on your renewals if you talk to the support team.

This plan comes with 10GB of web space and it’s perfect to start a blog or website with around 10,000 visitors per month.

Apart from that, It comes with all the basic features included such as 24/7 customer support, Free LetsEncrypt SSL, Unlimited Emails and Database, Free CDN, Free Daily Backups, and Free Site Migration Tool.

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GrowBig Plan –

The GrowBig plan comes with 20 GB of web space and can easily handle more than 25000 visitors per month.

It is good for a single more heavily trafficked website or multiple average-size websites.

The great thing about this plan is that in addition to the essential features you get a few premium features that the StartUp plan lacks.

The pricing is $9.99 for new customers while for renewal, you will be charged $24.99 per month. Just like the above plan you can get a 20% to 30% discount by getting in touch with the support team.

Also, the SuperCacher comes in three layers which means the loading time of a website will be faster than most websites on the internet. Apart from that, the other features are the same as StartUp plans.

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GoGeek Plans-

If you’re planning to host a high-trafficked or resource-intensive website or average-sized e-commerce website then this is the plan for you.

Also if you’re planning to sell hosting to your clients, you can use this plan from Siteground which comes with white label rights.

GoGeek plans cost $14.99 per month for new users while the renewal will charge $39.99 per month. Again, you can get a 20% to 30% discount by initiating a chat with the support team.

This plan also comes with unlimited domain hosts. This plan provides 40 GB of web space and can easily manage more than 1,00,000 visits per month.

The plan comes with almost the same packed-up services listed above in the other hosting plans, plus few more productive features.

So, those were the shared hosting plans offered by SiteGround, and they are good though.

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My Recommendation: Go with the GrowBig or GoGeek plan, especially if you’re planning multiple sites & thinking long term.

Why?

Siteground Startup vs Grow Big and GoGeek

Opportunity to host multiple websites – the StartUp plan allows you to host only one website, whereas if you’re interested in hosting more than one website under the same account, the higher hosting platforms would be a better choice.

SuperCacher – Only level 1 cache available with the Startup Plan – this is an in-house tool developed by Siteground that manages to trigger the website speed several times, and also increase the Google ranking and helps you with the SEO optimization. With the Growbig or GoGeek plan, you get the level 3 SuperCacher.

Priority Support – even though Siteground has an amazing response time on each channel – Phone, Live Chat, Ticketing System, their GrowBig and GoGeek clients are handled with a priority which might be something you should consider before making the buying decision.

So, my best suggestion is, buy any of the higher plans and buy them for at least 2 or 3 years (at the same rate as the first year).

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Now, if you’re still confused between Siteground and the other popular hosts out there then let me ease some pain for you.

So, which hosting provider should you pick?

As you know that SiteGround is not the o

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