More Value for Customers with SSL Certificates at SiteGround

SSL certificates

UPDATE: Our SSL offers have evolved since the publication of this post. For up-to-date information, please go to What types of SSL certificates does SiteGround offer.

Following the introduction of Let’s Encrypt free SSL certificates on our hosting platform, we are now launching more major upgrades in our SSL offerings. We will no longer provide Standard SSL certificates and all our customers that already bought Standard SSL will be upgraded for free to the premium Wildcard SSL. We are also dropping the price of Wildcard SSLs more than half. The range of SSL certificates offered at SiteGround will now consist of Let’s Encrypt, Wildcard and Extended Validation (EV).

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Let’s Encrypt is Here – Open Source Security Certificates Available at SiteGround

Let’s Encrypt

In December 2015 the new certificate authority Let’s Encrypt entered Public Beta and caused a wave of excitement. The groundbreaking news meant that website owners can obtain security certificates for their websites for free instead of paying for traditional SSL certificates and install them much easier. Naturally since then many of you have asked us when we would introduce the certificates on our hosting platform. For all of you who have been eagerly awaiting this moment, we are happy to say that Let’s Encrypt certificates are now available at SiteGround!

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SiteGround Adds a Free Website Builder

free website builder

As of January 2025, SiteGround has introduced the SiteGround Website Builder—our new, in-house website creation tool. Included for free with all hosting plans, it offers an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, professional templates, built-in SEO features, and AI-powered content generation.

As many of you know, we work with various CMS’s – WordPress, Joomla, Magento being some of the top favorites of our customers. No matter how straightforward we think these CMS’s are though, many customers have difficulties working with them. This is why we spent some time looking for the easiest website builder that we could integrate into our platform and offer to our customers as a solution to their hassles. We are happy to say that we found it in Weebly – a powerful yet simple drag & drop website building tool.

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Case Study: It Pays off to Focus on Core Business and Entrust Customers’ Hosting to Professionals

A few months ago the website design and development company IvyCat approached us with a serious problem. Their business suffered, team morale was low and customer happiness was at risk. They couldn’t handle their hosting business alone anymore and needed professional help. Today we are happy to share their success story and the path we walked together to reach it.
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