SiteGround

SiteGround

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Bonus Notes

SiteGround is a popular choice among bloggers.

Pricing

SiteGround has three tiers of plans starting at $3.95 / month which is a great entry point. Similar to Bluehost they do not offer month to month and only offer this price at a commitment of a year, two years or three years. They do offer a one month trial where it is the $3.95 + $14.95 setup fee.

After the initial period, whether a year, two years or three years, the plans do go up to $11.95 for the lowest tier. It is a high jump that has caused frustration for many.

Features

WordPress

Extras

They offer excellent customer service and unlimited emails on your domain. Higher plans also offer perks like staging and multiple sites.

Bonus Materials

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Next up is SiteGround. Siteground has
become super, super popular in the last,

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I would say, year,
they've been popular for a long time,

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but they've become a lot more popular in
the past year and they're super reliable.

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They do have managed WordPress hosting,

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so they do a lot to help your WordPress
site stay updated and so forth.

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And they focus a lot on WordPress.

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They don't do exclusively WordPress,
but they do focus a lot on WordPress.

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So their introductory price
is $3.95 a month

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again, that's going
to be if you get a year.

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So that's actually just
a dollar more than the host.

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Their regular pricing though jumps
up to $11.95 a month.

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So that's something to think about.

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You do get one website with this,

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10 gigs of webspace and lots of visitors
monthly. GrowBig and GoGeek jump up

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and price, but they offer
some great benefits.

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One thing that I've noticed with clients
that have SiteGround is they get

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to the point where they have too many
processes running and this can happen if

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you have a lot of scripts
running and so forth.

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So jumping up to those higher
plans have helped that.

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And one really cool thing about the Go

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Geek, I believe, is just
the one click maybe.

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Yeah.
So these two options have a staging site

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and I'll talk about staging
sites more in the future.

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But a staging site allows you to make

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a carbon copy of your current
site and then go play with it.

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So if you want to switch themes,
if you want to test out plug in,

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if you want to test out a new
look for your front page.

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Staging site is a great way
to kind of help do this.

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And a lot of these hosts will
help you make a staging site.

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And then if you like those changes
that you've made, they'll make it really

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easy, like a one click to move those
changes back to your real site.

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So this is a great way
to kind of test things out.

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If you want to kind of build on new

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features like e-commerce or a core site or
a membership site, you could kind of test

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it out and make sure
that everything is set up right.

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And then you can move it
over to your live site.

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So great,
great way to do that.

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Alright.

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Let's go and take a look at how we
would get started with this one.

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So we're going to register
a new domain or have a domain.

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And the domain registration is $50.95 a year.

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Sorry, they don't give you a free
domain like we host for the first year.

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Something to think about if you're trying

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to save money, blue hosts
may be the best way to go.

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Let's see.
Let's do something like that.

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Alright,
so the domain was available and we have

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our billing information
and period is 12 months.

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So 12 months is a period.


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$3.95 is the charge.

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So they're going to bill you for $47.40,

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under $50,
which is a great price.

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And then your domain registration
is $50.95.

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So that bumps it up a little bit,

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but still $63
for a whole year of hosting,

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and your domain

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is really a great domain.

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Privacy is something that you
want to think about.

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It keeps your personal information private
when someone looks up your domain.

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So a domain is public information
and your address and your name and your

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contact information is registered with the
domain if you want to keep that private.

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And it usually puts just the information

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of the host or just some
private somewhere to contact,

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but then they will contact you, which
helps a lot with the spam and so forth.

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Then you can add the domain privacy here.
All right.

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So take a look.

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When you're looking at this,
what the regular prices are.

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So the regular price for domain privacy is
twenty four dollars a year and the regular

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price for the basic hosting plan
is $11.95 per month.

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And then the SG scanner again,
hopefully with the scores you'll have some

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tools to keep your site safe
and protected from being hacked.

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But if you want the additional security
of SiteGround taking care of that and have

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the support from SiteGround to
work with that,

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then you can add that almost $20
 a year for the SG site scanner.

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Alright,

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so you would just click on pay
now and you're off to go.