How To Create A SiteGround Account For WordPress
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SiteGround is a hosting provider that allows you to have a self-hosted WordPress website.
SiteGround offers free email accounts, SSL certificates, free CDN, automatic daily backups, SPAM protection, 24/7 support (I’ve used the live chat a couple of times, and the customer service is 10/10), and more.
If you’re wondering how you can create a SiteGround account to host your website on WordPress, then you’re in the right place.
In this blog post, I’ll show you how easy it is to register on SiteGround to start your blog on WordPress.
Grab your cup of your favorite beverage (I have my cup of coffee here ☕), and let’s start.
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Why you should get managed WordPress hosting on SiteGround
SiteGround offers free SSL certificates, a free domain name for the first year (for new domains only), free professional emails, unlimited databases, free CDN, automatic daily backups (up to 30 copies for each hosting account), and enhanced security on all their WordPress hosting plans.
All plans also include a free WordPress auto-install, WordPress auto-updates, their free Speed Optimizer WP Plugin, their free Security Optimizer WP Plugin, and WooCommerce enabled.
If you’re migrating your existing WordPress website from another host, SiteGround has a free email migrator tool and a free WordPress auto-migrator on all hosting plans.
Choose a managed WordPress hosting plan on SiteGround
Go to SiteGround and click on “start now”.
Scroll down to choose a WordPress hosting plan.
SiteGround monthly and yearly plans
There are three hosting plans available on SiteGround, and they are all available to pay monthly or yearly. The difference is that if you pay yearly, you can get a discount during your first year (there are plans available for two years with a discount too).
(Disclaimer: SiteGround may change their discounts from time to time, so take a look at their prices before purchasing.)
StartUp Plan
With the StartUp Plan, you can get huge savings when you pay yearly during the first year, which means that you’ll pay $2.99 instead of $17.99 per month (excluding VAT). Please note that once the year is up, you have to pay the renewal price, so take a look at both prices before purchasing.
You can host one website on this plan, with 10 GB web space, 10K visits monthly, and unmetered traffic.
GrowBig Plan
With the GrowBig Plan, you can get huge savings when you pay yearly during the first year, which means that you’ll pay $4.99 instead of $29.99 per month (excluding VAT). Please note that once the year is up, you have to pay the renewal price, so take a look at both prices before purchasing.
You can host unlimited websites on this plan, with 20 GB web space, 100K visits monthly, unmetered traffic, on-demand backup copies, 30% faster PHP, and a staging environment.
GoGeek Plan
With the GoGeek Plan, you can get huge savings when you pay yearly during the first year, which means that you’ll pay $7.99 instead of $44.99 per month (excluding VAT). Please note that once the year is up, you have to pay the renewal price, so take a look at both prices before purchasing.
You can host unlimited websites on this plan, with 40 GB web space, 400K visits monthly, unmetered traffic, on-demand backup copies, 30% faster PHP, a staging environment + Git, white-label clients, free private DNS, highest tier of resources, and priority support.
Choose a domain name on SiteGround
Once you click on “Get plan”, it’s time to choose a domain name.
If you don’t have a domain name yet, when you choose a hosting plan on SiteGround, the first year for your domain name is free. After that, you’ll have to pay the renewal fee.
If you’d rather manage your domain name on a different platform, you can get a domain name on Namecheap, where there are always promotions available.
Important
SiteGround doesn’t give you domain privacy for free with their free domain name offer, which means that you’ll have to pay for it as an extra service to protect your personal information in the Whois database.
This means that if anyone searches the public Whois database, and you don’t have domain privacy, they’ll be able to access your personal information that you entered when you registered your domain name.
But Namecheap offers domain privacy for free with most domain names (it depends on the domain extension due to registry restrictions, but if you choose a “.com” extension, then you can get domain privacy for free).
This blog post from Namecheap explains what is domain privacy, and which domain extensions are not allowed to be protected by domain privacy. So if you’re in doubt about which extension you should choose, give it a read.
Personally, I use:
- Lyrical Host for hosting my website nowadays. You can get 10% off any hosting plan on Lyrical Host with my coupon code SOULFULGIRLS10 at checkout.
- When I first migrated from Squarespace to WordPress, I hosted my website with SiteGround for one year.
- Namecheap to manage my domain name (they offer free domain privacy; on SiteGround you have to pay separately for this).
- Google Workspace for my business email (even though I could have free email accounts for hosting my website on Lyrical Host).
I prefer to keep all these services separately, but that’s just my opinion. So choose what you think is better for your business.
If you want to register your domain name on SiteGround, after you choose a hosting plan, click on “New domain” and type the name of the domain that you want, to check if it’s available.
You can also click on “.com” and choose a different domain extension, like “.net”, “.org”, “.biz”, “.info”, or “.blog”, instead of “.com”, but please make your domain name easy to type and remember.
Also, make sure that the domain extension that you select is available in the free domain name offer from SiteGround.
If you have a domain name, click on “Existing domain”, and type it in the box.
Then click on “Continue”.
Enter your account information on SiteGround
Fill the “Account Information” section with an email and password, and the “Client Information” section with your personal information.
Enter your payment and purchase information on SiteGround
In the Payment Information section, you should enter your credit card information.
Next, in the “Purchase Information” section, you can select a Data Center.
After that, you have to choose the plan details (monthly, 12 months, or 24 months). There are no discounts on the monthly plan, and different discounts depending if you choose 12 months or 24 months.
Please note: If you choose a hosting plan with a discount, once you have to renew the plan, SiteGround will charge the price of the plan without a discount.
(This is something that happens with many hosting companies. If you’d like a hosting company that keeps the same price on renewal, check Lyrical Host. You can get 10% off any hosting plan on Lyrical Host with my coupon code SOULFULGIRLS10 at checkout.)
There is an “Extra Services” section where you can select different addons like “Domain Privacy”, “Site Scanner” (a security plugin from SiteGround), “Premium Backup”, and “Email Marketing” at a discounted price during the first year.
Remember: If you’re getting a free domain name for a year on SiteGround, domain privacy is not included. I recommend that you get it.
Once you’re done entering your information, click on “Pay now”.
That’s it! You will get an email from SiteGround with information to login to your account, and instructions to create your new WordPress website.
More WordPress resources for your online business
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You can also try SendOwl for free to sell your online products easily.
I hope you found this SiteGround tutorial helpful!
Cheers to creating your new website! 😊
With all my love,
Giselle
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