SiteGround

And I see a lot of people going down this pathway.

I had a meeting with a client just today who didn't remember a subscription that she had with SiteGround.

You know,

and we were, we were talking, she had stuff in GoDaddy and then she, she went to find what she was looking for in GoDaddy.

It wasn't there.

And then she goes, oh, I think it begins with an S, you know, so I haven't signed into it in years.

And sure enough, it was in SiteGround, but she had completely forgotten she had that account and obviously paying for it every year.

Yeah.

It's completely free and open source at wordpress.org. Wordpress.com is the paid version of WordPress where they host and manage WordPress for you, but wordpress.org is where you can download it.

And if you use something like Bluehost or SiteGround or one of these hosting providers, and they install WordPress but you're still managing it yourself, that is still the free version of WordPress.

The code is free, but having a WordPress website can actually get expensive.

Just the hosting itself, web hosting has gotten really expensive lately, even on these budget providers that advertise things like two ninety-five per month for the first year, and then after that, $20 a month just for hosting the website.

Their host runs this bot protection.

They're running on SiteGround.

It's one of the biggest managed WordPress hosts out there.

Our tool pulled it up.

So because the check reads what the customer told us, It never walked into the yard, essentially.

So this is just, it just generalizes.

So if you're on SiteGround or WP Engine or any managed host with bot protection, that could be you.

Right.

And then they find your website in the process because it's hosted on a domain.

So if you have a hosted website, if you're hosting on Bluehost, GoDaddy, Hostinger, SiteGround, whatever it is that you're using.

These are the pages that people are going to access you from first.

So these are the very same things that if you don't do, your competitor is doing it.

I'm like, hey, we can roll you into just a hosting plan and you're going to pay the exact same rate that you're going to, you know.

SiteGround is my host.

I'm in their cloud hosting.

In fact, I'm talking with Jake of Artillery Media right now of like, hey, here's a thing I'm dealing with.

Like I know some folks like artillery and others will do like a 69 or 79 bucks a month plan.

But for me, it's easier to have a clean, harsh break of if you want me to just host it on the exact same.

So I'm like, you'd be paying SiteGround 30 bucks a month anyways.

But that's just a fact.

And you don't have to use the stuff that I recommend.

If you're like, I don't like Bluehost, I want to use SiteGround.

Or I don't like Divi, I want to use Elementor.

The course will still work.