HostingSimple vs SiteGround.
Same renewal price. None of the cliff.
SiteGround's intro is $2.99. Their renewal is $14.99 — basically the same as us. Same price tag, different product: we don't throttle at the visit cap, your CPU isn't shared with 200 tenants, and staging isn't gated to a higher tier.
When SiteGround is genuinely
the right pick.
We want you on the right host — even if that's not us. This is when we'd tell you to stay.
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SiteGround is a defensible pick if you're hosting a small site on the lowest intro price and you're comfortable with the 2-5× renewal hike in year two. Their support is genuinely good. Beyond that, the trade-offs (shared CPU, capped visits, per-environment fees) start to bite — especially for agencies.
We cost less. Here's what's in the box.
Side-by-side, nothing hidden.
$2.99/mo less than SiteGround at renewal. And on top of being cheaper, you get the things SiteGround either gates, charges extra for, or doesn't ship.
- No renewal cliff
- Off-site backups, 30 days
- No CPU-second ceiling
- Unlimited free migrations
- Monthly billing, cancel any time
- White-label agency portal
- No renewal cliff $2.99 → $14.99 at month 13 (+400%). We're $15 from day one, year ten.
- Off-site backups, 30 days Daily backups with 30-day retention on every plan, stored off-site in a separate region. Restore the whole site or individual files and tables from the panel, without opening a ticket.
- No CPU-second ceiling SiteGround limits access when an account exceeds its CPU-seconds allowance. We size the plan to the workload and talk to you before anything is limited.
- Unlimited free migrations SiteGround charges $30 per extra site migrated. We don't, ever.
- Monthly billing, cancel any time No multi-year commitment to reach the headline price. $15 this month, $15 next, and nothing changes on the way out.
- White-label agency portal SiteGround has no agency tooling. Ours is included on every Agency plan.
Same workload, both hosts.
What it costs, what runs.
Three common workloads, run through the same calculator. Numbers are 3-year sticker cost — no estimates, no hand-waving.
Don't switch from SiteGround
if any of these are true.
We'd rather lose a sale than recommend a bad move. If one of these describes you, save your migration energy for a better moment.
You're 8 months into a 36-month prepay.
SiteGround's prepayments aren't refunded prorata. Finish the term, then switch.
Your sites rely on SG Optimizer cache rules.
If you've tuned around their cache plugin for a year, unwinding is a weekend. Plan for it before you migrate.
You're hosting one blog under 5k visits/mo.
The savings ($120/yr) genuinely don't beat the migration friction at that scale. Stay put.
The specific differences,
not the marketing.
Six rows. Concrete values. If something looks stale, tell us — we update within 24h.
Pre-migration questions,
answered by an engineer.
Real questions we get during pre-sales calls — answered the way we'd answer them on chat.
Can I keep my SiteGround email?
Yes. We import mailboxes during migration. If you'd rather use Google Workspace or Fastmail, we'll help set MX records.
How long does a SiteGround migration take?
Median 6 hours; SLA 24. WooCommerce stores sometimes take longer — we coordinate a cutover window with you.
Will I lose anything from Site Tools?
Site Tools maps cleanly to DirectAdmin + our client area. SG-specific bits (their cache UI, their staging) are replaced with our equivalents.
What about my SSL certificates?
Free Let's Encrypt auto-provisioned when you point DNS. Custom certs imported as part of migration.
Move off SiteGround. We do the heavy lifting.
Send us your SiteGround credentials. A human engineer migrates your site within 24 hours, with zero downtime. Free, every time.