In this tutorial I will show you how to buy and install WordPress on Siteground
Step by step. I will show you which hosting plan. You should use and the actual buying process
I will also show you how to correctly install
Wordpress on siteground to make sure that you don't click on the wrong things and make any mistakes at the end of this video
I will also give you a very special offer if you decide to pick up
Siteground through my link below and I will give you my six figure blogger course for free now. Let's get started
Step one is to click on the link in the description below or type this into your browser
It will take you to my special siteground discount page where you will get the best discount siteground is currently offering full transparency
This is an affiliate link. I will receive a small commission while you get a special discount and my six figure blogger course for free
So it can be a win-win situation for the both of us and if you want to know how to get the course
Stay tuned to the end of the video where I tell you how you can get this
So now we can see
Siteground offers three different plans the startup grow big and grow geek the startup plan only allows you to have one
Website with limited amount of space and also the visitors per month is only capped at around 10 000 visits
But if you choose the higher plan the grow big or grow geek you're going to get an unlimited number of websites
And your web space and visitors per month will increase accordingly
But the biggest difference that the grow big and grow geek plan can offer you over the startup plan is the speed
Boosting cashing. This is siteground special proprietary plug-in where they provide you with three different levels of caching
So if you buy the startup plan, you only get the first level
But if you buy the grow big or grow gee, you'll get all three levels
So unless you just have one local website, I would always suggest you start on the grow big plan
And once your business grows and gets enough visitors
Then you can easily upgrade to the go geek plan with siteground support
so I myself have been with siteground for a couple of years and bought their go geek plan to start with as I
Migrated over from another hosting provider and in this example, I will also purchase the go geek plan for you
But if you are stuck and not sure which hosting plan to choose with siteground or if they are the right hosting provider for you
Then check out this video where I do a full in-depth review of siteground and even test out their speed performance
Anyway, let's continue on our go geek plan and click get plan
This page will appear where you can choose your domain name and as I recommend in all my videos
That you should buy your domain name from namecheap as it will only cost you seven or eight dollars for a domain name
Which includes the whois guard for free which will protect you from marketing agencies?
Trying to spam you with their services or people trying to get leads
but if you choose to buy from siteground
It's gonna cost you sixteen dollars and you're gonna have to pay for your privacy protection
Separately so you can see it's less than half price and you can have all your domain name in the one convenient
Location with name g so overall if you want the cheapest go with namecheap, and I have a video tutorial for you here
But if you're going to stick around with siteground for the long run
And you just want the easiest and quickest option then just buy a domain name with siteground
Now and you would just type in your domain name here and check if it's available and click proceed
But in this case, I already have a domain name. So i'm going to click I already have a domain
And i'll click on proceed the next step is to fill out your email address
Your personal information
And now come down further to the purchase information section now, this is where it gets interesting
You can choose your data center from six different locations around the world
What I always recommend is to choose the location where most of your traffic comes from
So for example, if you have a local business in australia or new zealand, I would choose australia as my data center
However, if you have a global website or your visitors are mostly from the usa then I would pick usa and in this example
That's what i'm going to do and with the period in this case. I would choose 12 months as they charge
More for 24 months and for 36 months
Siteground recently went through a new pricing plan
Update where they increased their current price for all their hosting plans and now I would consider them to be more of a premium
Hosting provider but the benefit is they really are one of the best performing hosting provider out there in the market
But if you don't have a big budget to spend then I have a better
Recommendation for you at the end of the video. The next option you can choose is the sg site scanner
And this one we definitely don't need so i'm going to skip that and click on confirm and click on pay now
So now when you come to the home page it will look like this and to install our wordpress website
We would go to our websites tab
And we would choose new website
And you will be presented with three different options in most cases
You would choose an existing domain which you registered with siteground type it into this box and proceed to the next step
But i'm just going to select temporary domain for this example
And i'll click on continue and now you can decide whether you want to start a new website or migrate a website
In this example, we will be starting a new website
But if you are migrating a website I have another video
That i'll put in the description for you to help you migrate your website for free. Anyway, I will continue and just select this
And now i'm going to choose wordpress
Now you need to choose your email address and password that you want to be connected to this website. I will do that now
Now click on continue
Now you get the option to choose whether you want to upgrade to the sg site scanner
And if you want to give siteground free money
Then you can but for me, I would never do that and i'm not going to do it here
So I would just click on finish now. It's going to take a couple of minutes to create your website
So just give it some time. Okay. So now that our wordpress has been installed. The next step is to go to manage site
And you can see here their dashboard looks much much different siteground has updated their dashboard in
2019 and are no longer using cpanel personally. I really like this and I find it much easier to navigate through and this is
Especially great for new beginners trying to start a website
well
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Now what we need to do is install our ssl
Certificate to secure our website and this can be done with one click by going to security and click on ssl manager
Now we select the ssl just the standard. Let's encrypt and click on get
And now we can go down to actions click on this three dotted button and click enforce https
Click on this
And now our website should be secured and to check this
Let's go to wordpress click on install and manage scroll down and click on login to admin panel
This will take you to our wordpress backend
scroll down click on exit
And you can see here. Our site has a lock on it
This means that our ssl certificate has been installed successfully
And our site is secured and last check is you can click on here and visit the website
And once again, here's our bare bones website with our lock on it
Just a quick note on my bonus offer to you
If you decide to pick up siteground through my link just simply send me your full receipt to bonus
Dot com dollar dot com and i'll send you the free access to my course
Now that you have successfully installed wordpress to your barebones siteground hosting account
You are ready to build out your actual website
And this next video will help you do just that so check it out and i'll see you in the next tutorial