Introducing Coderick AI: Build Apps and Websites Without Writing a Single Line of Code

Coderick AI, SiteGround's AI-powered platform, which creates websites and apps

Whether you’re a business owner who’s been putting off that internal tool because “it’s too technical and expensive” or an agency juggling client projects and wishing you could deliver twice as much without doubling your team, there’s never been a better time to build. The way we create apps and websites is fundamentally changing, and we want you to be part of it.

We’re thrilled to introduce Coderick AI – SiteGround’s brand-new AI-powered platform that lets you build fully functional web apps and websites simply by describing what you want. No coding skills required. No technical headaches. Just you, your ideas, and a simple chat interface.

What Is Coderick AI?

Coderick belongs to a new category of AI tools known as “vibe coding.” And if you haven’t heard the term yet, you will soon. Vibe coding is not just a buzzword. It’s a fundamental shift in how software gets built.

Instead of wrestling with programming languages, frameworks, and deployment configurations, you simply describe what you want – just with your words. Coderick AI interprets your intent, generates the user interface, creates the backend logic, and handles the technical complexity behind the scenes. You focus on what you want to build, Coderick figures out how.

For small business owners, this means finally being able to build that client portal you’ve been dreaming about – in an afternoon, at the cost of two coffees. For agencies and freelancers, it means delivering more projects in less time without expanding your team. For anyone with an idea, it means removing the biggest barrier between concept and reality: the technical know-how.

Build, Launch, and Host – All in One Place

Abstract of bringing an idea to life with Coderick AI

The AI app-builder space has exploded recently, and we’ve been watching closely. We saw tools that were fast but fragile. Powerful but fragmented. Impressive demos that fell apart when it was time to actually go live. So we didn’t just build another option – we built something better.

Most AI builders create a new problem while solving an old one. They help you build the app but then you’re left scrambling to figure out hosting, deployment, and security. You end up paying separately for your builder, your database, your hosting, and your domain. Costs pile up. Complexity creeps in.

Coderick takes a different approach.

Everything Included

SiteGround offerings including enterprise security, premium hosting, ultrafast performance, custom domains, and an integrated database

When you hit “Publish” in Coderick, your app or website goes live instantly on SiteGround’s rock-solid hosting infrastructure. No additional database setup needed. No domain configurations to manage. No wondering if your hosting can handle traffic spikes.

Every Coderick plan includes:

  • Premium hosting built directly into the platform
  • Automatic database setup and configuration
  • Ultrafast performance backed by SiteGround’s infrastructure
  • Custom domain support on all paid plans

This isn’t added-on hosting as an afterthought or a free trial you’ll be forced to pay for later. It’s hosting built into the DNA of the product – by a company that’s been perfecting web hosting for over two decades.

Secure by Default

When you’re building with AI, security isn’t optional; it’s essential. Coderick protects your work at every level: your conversations with the AI, your data, and your code are all processed securely and stay protected.

Every app or website you launch benefits from SiteGround’s enterprise-grade security infrastructure – the same systems that protect millions of websites worldwide. Build with confidence, knowing your projects and your users are safe.

Built for Real Work, Not Just Prototypes

Many AI builders are fantastic for creating demos and prototypes. But when it’s time to go live with real users and real traffic, cracks start to show.

Coderick AI is built for production from day one:

It comes with built-in version control so you can experiment freely and roll back anytime. 

User authentication is ready out of the box, letting you build apps that serve real customers from day one. 

Every project is responsive by default, looking sharp on any device. 

And the backend? Auto-generated, so you never have to touch server-side logic unless you want to.

What Can You Build with Coderick AI?

The short answer: almost anything you can imagine.

Portfolio sites, startup landing pages, restaurant websites, event pages, booking platforms, client portals, invoice trackers, CRM systems, internal dashboards, inventory tools, project management apps, fitness logs, recipe managers, budget planners, movie trackers – these are just a few examples. 

If you can describe it, Coderick can build it.

See It in Action

The prompt:

“Build a client invoice tracker with a dashboard that shows paid vs. unpaid invoices, lets me add new clients, and sends email reminders for overdue payments.”

The result:

Coderick AI, SiteGround's AI-powered platform in action creating an app

A fully functional invoice management app, complete with database, authentication, and a clean dashboard, built in under five minutes.

We’ve included ready-made prompts and templates to help you get started quickly, but the real magic happens when you describe exactly what you need. Want a portfolio site with a modern, dark aesthetic? Ask for it. Need a task planner that integrates with your team’s workflow? Describe it. The AI adapts to your vision, not the other way around.

Built on Two Decades of Hosting Expertise

Here’s something no other vibe coding app can offer: Coderick AI is built by SiteGround.

That means every app and website you create is backed by the same infrastructure that powers millions of websites worldwide. The same security systems. The same support team. The same commitment to performance that’s earned us a 4.8-star rating from over 25,000 clients on Trustpilot.

When you build with Coderick, you’re not gambling on a startup’s servers. You’re deploying to a platform that’s been battle-tested for over 20 years.

Ready to Start Building?

The barrier between your ideas and a live, working application has never been lower. Whether you’re a business owner looking to automate operations, an agency seeking to deliver more value to clients, or someone with a side project waiting to come to life—now is your time to start.

With plans starting from just $10/mo and a no-credit-card free trial, Coderick is ready when you are.

No code. No complexity. Just your ideas, brought to life.

Meet SiteGround AI Studio: your AI workspace for business success

AI Studio introduction

For over twenty years, we’ve stayed ahead of every major shift on the web, so you don’t have to. We’ve built solutions that solved real website and business problems, and adopted the latest and smartest technologies to give you an edge. Now AI is reshaping how businesses work, and we’re approaching this new shift the same way – by building tools that solve real problems and give you a competitive advantage, not just chasing trends.

We are happy to introduce our latest service – SiteGround AI Studio – your in-built AI workspace to chat with leading AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more; create AI images with Imagen and Nano Bananna; use an AI agent for WordPress management and access 15 more specialized agents, trained to perform real business tasks.

What is AI Studio by SiteGround?

SiteGround AI Studio gives small business owners access to full-scale AI capabilities, intelligently enhanced to solve diverse challenges in one convenient AI workspace. It integrates several services in one platform and gives you access to:

The best AI models in one place

Access the leading AI models from one workspace without hopping platforms, or paying multiple subscriptions. You want to try Imagen, ChatGPT, Claude, Nano Banana, or Gemini? We’ve got you! Go to SiteGround AI Studio and choose the model you want to chat with. 

You can even compare how different models handle the same task. Does Claude Sonnet 4.5 or GPT 5.1 create better marketing copy? What about Gemini Pro versus Claude for technical documentation? Are the images generated with Imagen better suited for your needs than the Nano Banana ones? In AI Studio you can check for yourself – all in the same interface.

Multiple AI agents, trained to perform real business tasks

AI Studio's agents helping businesses grow

Access 15+ powerful agents, smartly trained by our AI engineers to help you maintain your WordPress, do marketing, create polished images, and more. Treat them as your new team members that help you scale work with high quality and efficiency.

  • AI Agent for WordPress: It handles WordPress maintenance, content creation, troubleshooting, WooCommerce product updates, plugin and theme updates (for a single or multiple sites at once!), user management, and more through simple chat prompts. When Power mode is enabled, it can manage core settings and critical actions as well.
  • Email Marketing Agent: It builds email campaigns from a single prompt, including subject line, body copy, and related images. You can export the ready HTML, or import it in a click into SiteGround Email Marketing, ready for send out.
  • Ads Experts for Google and Meta: The Meta Ads Expert and Google Ads Expert generate multiple ad variations around the same offer and follow the ad structure guidelines of each platform, giving you different hooks and messages to test without writing each one manually.
  • Social Managers for Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram: The Social Media Managers for Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn turn your main message into channel-ready posts and publish them straight to your connected social pages.
  • SEO Expert, Copywriter, Reputation Manager, Image Designer, Logo Designer, Signature Creator, Web Researcher, Translator – specialized agents that can support various business needs small business owners and individuals may have, with more agents coming soon!

Ready prompts that make AI usage easier and more efficient

SiteGround AI Studio also includes a library with smart prompts that can save you time, tokens, and brainwork, but most importantly – produce great results. Because we’ve all been there at some point – testing AI and wondering why everyone else is so hyped when we just can’t make it work. And many of us have figured it out the hard way – the key to using AI successfully is in the prompt. The more specific and elaborate your prompt is, the better the AI’s response will be. Use our ready prompts and get to the next level right away.

What can SiteGround AI Studio do for small and medium-sized businesses?

SiteGround AI Studio helps small and medium-sized businesses and individuals by streamlining workflows, amplifying productivity, and cutting time and costs. 

Do your daily tasks better and faster using the simple AI Studio chat

AI Studio models - ChatGPT, Claude,  Gemini, Nano Banana and more

Now you can use AI Studio’s multi-model AI chat to significantly improve your everyday work. AI enhances both the quality and efficiency of your work by combining speed with intelligent assistance that catches errors, suggests improvements, and provides expert-level insights instantly. It acts as a collaborative partner that helps refine your thinking – offering alternative perspectives, identifying gaps in logic, checking for inconsistencies, and drawing on vast knowledge to strengthen your output. 

This means you can iterate faster through multiple drafts, test different approaches in seconds, and arrive at polished, well-considered results in a fraction of the time traditional methods require. The technology handles the heavy lifting of research, data analysis, and initial content generation while you focus on strategy, creativity, and final refinement – ultimately producing higher quality work in less time. 

Here are some ideas to try out and see how you can up your game in no time:

  • Struggling with handling customer complaints? Give AI an email from a customer and ask it to write a response. 
  • Writing a blog post that typically takes hours? Sketch a rough draft and ask AI to turn into an engaging content piece.
  • The first time writing a job ad? Tell AI what role (and company) you’re hiring for and it will get you a solid one.
  • Not having time to read a lengthy industry report? Just attach the report to the chat and get a meaningful summary of the most important takeaways in no time. 
  • Need strategic advice? Ask AI to act as your co-founder and help you make a decision, or give you arguments against and in favor.

Manage your WordPress website more efficiently with SiteGround’s AI agent

AI Studio's chat for creating a blog post about a specific topic

WordPress maintenance tasks have a way of piling up, and the more sites you run, the longer the list gets. Product information needs adjusting, service pages need refreshing, plugins need updating, WooCommerce orders need attention, blog posts need to go out regularly to serve your content strategy, etc. Every maintenance task pulls you away from work that actually grows your business. With AI Studio and the AI agent for WordPress, you can connect multiple WordPress sites and manage them all from a single AI-powered workspace. It can take much of that ongoing work out of your hands.

Go ahead and ask the AI agent to do some of the following for a start to see how easy it gets:

  • Refresh an outdated services page with the latest information
  • Create a new blog post from a brief outline
  • Update multiple WooCommerce product descriptions for clarity and consistency
  • Apply 10% discount to all products in a category
  • Add Alt text to all images in your blog posts
  • Update plugins across several WordPress instances
  • Add new categories and tags and assign them to existing posts
  • Review last week’s comments and mark suspicious as spam
  • Run an SEO audit on your site and suggest improvements

Instead of clicking through menus and editing fields one by one, you give instructions and the AI agent turns them into real changes on your site. Updates that used to take days now get done in minutes.

Scale capacity and do more with AI agents

AI Studio's Facebook Agent showing instructions on creating and publishing a Facebook post

Growing your business calls for more marketing experts and tasks in the pipeline. Then effective marketing means regular campaigns, testing different messages, and staying consistent across channels. But even a “simple” campaign quickly turns into updating a landing page, writing at least one email, creating several social posts, and drafting multiple ad variations. You may know exactly what would work, but creating all those assets fast enough is where most small teams get stuck.

That’s where the AI Studio agents come in – many of them trained to do marketing like real experts and save you hiring, onboarding and then managing new people in the team.

  • Treat the Image Designer like your in-house web designer and ask it to create images for your social campaigns, banners, emails, blog posts, and website. 
  • Give your new copywriter – the AI Copywriter Agent – a short brief and see how it turns it into a complete campaign copy with clear headlines, benefits, and CTAs.
  • Your email marketer – the Email Marketer Agent will take over your email campaigns from the subject line, body and visuals, to sending them directly into your SiteGround Email Marketing Service. All you’ll need to do is press SEND.
  • Let your Social Media Managers for Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn turn your main message into channel-ready posts and publish them straight to your connected profiles.
  • Work with the Meta Ads Expert and Google Ads Expert to create new ads and update existing ones without writing anything manually.

Beyond these examples, SiteGround AI Studio includes more agents that support different parts of your work. Together, they help you do more work, test more ideas, and scale without hiring. And as AI Studio grows, we’ll continue adding new agents to cover even more of your everyday business tasks.

How to start using AI Studio by SiteGround?

SiteGround AI Studio is already available for all existing customers, regardless of what service they’re currently using. It is conveniently linked on your Client Area dashboard.

The service will soon be available to new customers as well from our website.

Free AI Studio Essential plan for all SiteGround customers

SiteGround AI Studio comes in two plans – Essential and Plus. All SiteGround customers now get an exclusive, completely free AI Studio Essential plan. No setup, no extra subscription – it’s already available in your Client Area.

  • The AI Studio Essential Plan includes 20,000 monthly tokens and access to chat with multiple AI models and the AI Agent for WordPress. 
  • The AI Studio Plus plan includes 100,000 tokens and access to chat with multiple AI models and the AI agent for WordPress, and unlocks access to the 15+ powerful AI agents and the prompt library. You can easily switch to the Plus plan from your Client Area.

AI Studio is also integrated with SiteGround Email Marketing, Website Builder and Ecommerce services. Clients who use AI to write content and generate images from the interfaces of these services will now be spending tokens of the AI Studio Essential when performing those tasks.

Try SiteGround AI Studio Today

Ready to try it out? Go to your SiteGround Client Area dashboard and look for the blue banner ”AI Studio” to start your AI journey.

The Pros and Cons of AI Bot Crawling & How SiteGround Helps

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AI technology has been developing for decades, but it was only within the past few years that we began to truly feel its impact – affecting our daily lives from handling basic chores to solving and automating whole business processes. 

When AI technology exploded 2-3 years ago, the tech world witnessed an unprecedented surge in automated crawling activity. AI companies were racing to collect as much web content as possible to train their large language models (LLMs), often without website owners’ knowledge or consent. This led to the rapid evolution of AI models, forging more usage and breaking changes in search behavior by diminishing the importance of traditional search engines and SEO practices to that of new generative engine optimization (GEO).

Understanding AI technology’s complex effects on client websites, we proactively balance mitigating potential risks while helping our customers embrace new opportunities. Let’s explore the downsides and upsides of AI bots crawling your site before diving to our actions to help you navigate this rapidly changing environment.  

The Pros and Cons Of AI Bot Crawling

In our experience, technology is rarely all good and all bad – and AI is no exception. While AI algorithms and bot behavior have matured significantly, several key issues require careful consideration.

Lack of Privacy and Intellectual Property Regulation

AI bots are systematically crawling and using original content – blog posts, product descriptions, creative writing, proprietary information – without explicit permission. This content is then used to train LLMs with no attribution to the original creators. Imagine discovering that your carefully crafted articles, unique business insights, or creative work had been incorporated into an AI system that could then generate similar content, potentially competing with your original work while providing you with no recognition or compensation. 

While major AI providers have become less aggressive in their crawling behavior and are trying to develop more respectful crawling practices, the problem is still very much open to debate and regulation, and it will surely take a few more years of work until we manage to resolve it.

Lack Of Transparency And Control 

Unlike established search engines that provided clear guidelines, robots.txt compliance, and webmaster tools, early AI crawlers operated with little transparency. Website owners had no way to understand what content was being collected, how it would be used, or how to opt out of this data collection. This lack of control over your own digital assets is fundamentally problematic, adding to the more complex ethical dilemma along with the point above.

Admittedly, things are moving in the right direction, with AI companies implementing proper user agent identification, which helps in distinguishing between training crawlers and user-session crawlers.

Spike In Server Resource Consumption 

AI bots operate with an intensity that is unlike traditional search engine crawlers. Where Google’s bot might visit your site periodically and respectfully, AI training bots would often make hundreds or even thousands of requests in rapid succession. This aggressive crawling pattern can impact server performance, leading to slower loading times for real visitors, and increased resource usage and costs. For businesses relying on their websites for sales, customer service, or lead generation, any performance impact translates directly into lost revenue.

Generative Search Is The New Must

As the LLMs are getting better and smarter, the search behavior of the users is changing. We are less frequently using standard search engines to collect information, and more frequently asking AI to gather and analyze the information for us. Consequently, online businesses and websites now look for ways to be listed in AI overviews and chat responses. And in order to be there, the website must be crawled for a start.

SiteGround’s Policy On AI Bot Crawling

In the early years of AI bots development, we witnessed first-hand how almost all of their traffic was for training purposes. It was often so aggressive that we had to kill the requests in order to not let them overload our servers. To protect our customers’ websites from unauthorized content harvesting while maintaining optimal server performance for legitimate visitors, we had to block the majority of aggressive AI crawlers.

Fast-forward a few years, we now observe a different situation. The profile of the AI crawlers has changed and we see much less training, and a lot more chat-initiated visits, which indicate that AI is checking your site for the purpose of a conversation with a legitimate user, potentially interested in your service. That is why we’ve changed our approach to AI crawler management. Instead of blocking the majority of AI crawlers, we’re now making a distinction between different types of AI traffic. 

Allowed: AI Chat Session Crawlers 

AI crawlers that are used when real users interact with AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or else are allowed by default. This means when someone asks these AI assistants to visit or analyze your website, they’ll be able to access it successfully.

❌ Blocked: AI Training Bots 

We block AI crawlers that are specifically designed to scrape content for AI model training purposes, protecting your intellectual property and original content from unauthorized use. Blocking these crawlers means your content will be protected from AI models being trained on it, but people should be able to use platforms such as ChatGPT, etc – and AI will be able to crawl your site when providing an answer. The full technical details on which specific AI crawlers are allowed by default and which you can enable on request is available in our Knowledge Base

What This Means for You

Here are the immediate benefits of this policy:

  • Your website is accessible when users ask AI platforms to visit or analyze it
  • You have increased discoverability through AI-powered searches and recommendations
  • Your visitors have a better experience when using AI tools to research your content

At the same time, we continue to ensure the following protection:

  • Your content remains protected from unauthorized training data collection
  • Your website’s performance is protected through continued blocking of aggressive crawlers
  • Ongoing monitoring and rate limiting of all bot traffic

Looking Ahead

The digital landscape will keep evolving, and so will we. At SiteGround, we believe in empowering you to embrace technological progress while maintaining the security and performance standards your business depends on. As the relationship between AI technology and web content continues to evolve, what remains constant is SiteGround’s commitment to helping you navigate this landscape with both protection and flexibility. 

Your success in this AI-driven future starts with having a website and hosting partner who understands both the opportunities and the risks—and knows how to help you capitalize on one while avoiding the other.

Introducing Custom Fields: Unlock Better Targeting And Higher Email Conversions

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Struggling with low open and engagement rates? It’s not your writing, it’s relevance. When emails don’t match what your audience cares about, they get ignored. Even experienced marketers face this challenge.

But when your emails are relevant, you can:

  • Boost open rates by 29% and click-throughs by 41% (Experian)
  • Convert up to 6× better (Experian)

Your subscribers aren’t all the same. So why send them the same email?

Meet Custom Fields: Your Key To Better Performing Emails 

We added the option to create Custom Fields in your email marketing to help you send better, more targeted emails.

Think of Custom Fields as a way to learn more about your subscribers than just their name and email. Custom fields allow you to record and use extra information about your subscribers beyond the default fields like name and email. This enables you to create more targeted and relevant email campaigns, leading to higher engagement and conversions.

You can add Custom Fields in your signup forms using the SiteGround Lead Generation plugin. Or, manually update someone’s profile whenever you learn something new about them.

They work seamlessly with your existing forms and campaigns, so you can start personalizing right away. 

A good first step? Pick just one thing you’d like to know like your subscriber’s location or content interest and add it to your forms and see how easy and useful it is. You can always add more fields later.

What Can You Do With Custom Fields?

You can start personalizing your emails in a few clicks.

Imagine you run a cooking blog and you’re sending out a newsletter. Instead of sending the same recipes to everyone, you can ask subscribers about their culinary preferences when they sign up. Just add a custom field to your form with the question: “What recipes do you want to receive?” Then offer options like Vegan, Quick meals, Gourmet cooking, etc.

Now when you write your newsletter, you can adapt your content to the different interests of the groups that follow you. Creating a vegan recipe? Send it only to subscribers who chose “Vegan.” Have a quick 15-minute meal idea? Send it just to the “Quick meals” group. Your latest fine dining dish?  Share it with the subscribers who crave restaurant-level meals at home.

Or say you own a local training studio and you wish to keep subscribers informed about your schedule updates. Add a custom field to your signup form asking “What’s your workout preference?” with options like Yoga, Strength Training, or Cardio. Instead of one generic announcement about your new class schedule, you can send more engaging updates to each group: yoga fans hear about the new morning yoga sessions, weightlifters get news on strength-training workouts, and everyone gets something that feels relevant to their goals.

That’s what Custom Fields do: they give your emails context, so every message is written for the person reading it.

Start Using Custom Fields Today

Log into your Email Marketing Dashboard → Contacts → Custom Fields, create your first custom field (takes about 2 minutes), and start collecting the information that will make your emails more relevant. Need help getting started? See our full Custom Fields guide here.

Custom Fields let you treat your email subscribers with personalized content. When you know what your audience cares about, your emails become more relevant. More relevant emails get opened, clicked, and convert better. Try it with your next campaign and see how your email performance improves!

More Styling Controls And Email Marketing Integration: Website Builder Updates

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Your website is where your business starts. But turning it into a tool for growth means helping visitors take action and giving them a reason to stay connected.

The latest Website Builder release brings updates that help you do both. With new styling controls and a seamless integration with SiteGround Email Marketing, it’s easier to guide attention and build lasting relationships right from your site.

So, here’s what’s new.

New Text Styling Options To Make Key Messages Stand Out

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Not every part of your website content carries the same weight. Some words highlight a feature, others call attention to a price or a key message. Now, you have the tools to make those key parts pop.

Click on any word or sentence and from the floating toolbar, change fonts for a single word, shift capitalization, or add color to key phrases, all while keeping your focus on the section you’re editing. This precise control helps you emphasize what matters most without disrupting your editing flow.

Because when the right words stand out, people understand faster and are more likely to take action.

New Button Controls to Drive More Clicks

Website Builder interface showing a text formatting toolbar with bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough options. Below is a coral-colored button element with a color picker dropdown displaying navy blue and coral color options for customization.

Beyond styling your words, you need buttons that drive action. They’re one of your website’s most important elements since they turn visitors into customers and readers into subscribers.

Until now, your buttons followed your global site styles, sharing the same colors as your text. Now, you can style buttons independently, giving them their own colors and alignment right where you edit.

Just click on a button, open the contextual toolbar, and adjust its color and position without leaving your canvas.

This makes your most important actions stand out on the page helping visitors know exactly where to click and driving more results for your business.

Unified Color Picker To Keep Design Consistent

Website Builder interface with a color palette selector on the left showing light green, blue, purple, coral, and white theme options. The center displays a modal with text and background color settings, while the right shows an advanced color picker with a red-to-black gradient, color wheel, hex value input (#FFFFFF), and color swatch options.

Now that you can style buttons, text, and sections individually, we’ve made the color picker work the same everywhere. Your global palette and recently used colors are always on hand, making it easy to highlight what matters to your business.

You get more creative freedom to draw attention where it counts without losing the consistency that makes your website feel professional.

SiteGround Email Marketing Integration That Helps You Turn Visitors Into Subscribers

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Your website might still be a work in progress, but sooner or later, someone’s going to land on it. A curious visitor or a future customer. When that happens, will you be ready to keep the conversation going?

With our new SiteGround Email Marketing integration, you don’t need to figure it all out today. Just add a signup form to your site, and we’ll take care of the rest. We’ll collect subscribers, save them to your list, and help you send your first email with ready-made templates and built-in AI writing assistant.

It’s the easiest, most cost-effective way to start email marketing and grow your business directly from your website. The SiteGround Email Marketing is available as a paid plan and fully integrated into your SiteGround account, making setup seamless.

Simple Changes That Make A Big Difference

All of these updates follow the same idea: making your Website Builder more powerful without making it more complicated. Whether you’re customizing your first page or refining a bigger website, you’ll find it easier to build, edit, and connect with your audience.

Stay tuned for even more helpful improvements coming your way!

Human Care + AI Efficiency: Enhancing The Quality of SiteGround Customer Service

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You either love or hate AI by now. Most of us are stoked by its capacity to resolve problems and cut our workload. Yet, we often hate it when we need actual assistance from an empathetic human being, but instead we are stuck with… a chat bot. 

For us at SiteGround, adopting AI in our Customer service is an exciting and ongoing journey that started back in 2017 and evolves with the natural evolution of AI itself. 

Our team loves AI and is convinced in its capacity to efficiently resolve complex challenges of all sorts. It already hugely contributes to improving our customers’ experience in many different ways and we are about to share with you how we have integrated it so far and some of the exciting new applications we’ve initiated. In case you, as a customer, have not yet experienced any of those, we would love you to give it a try and see for yourself. 

At the same time, despite all our passion for AI, we believe that for more years to come the true value of any service business like ours will be defined by the expertise and experience of the humans behind it. That is why, as much as we invest in AI integrations, we also invest in growing the expertise and capacity of our Customer service team. 

Our philosophy is that smart AI applications paired with human support is the key to maximizing customer care quality. By letting AI handle routine tasks and allowing human agents to focus on complex issues, we’ve elevated our service efficiency while maintaining the personal touch.

Pioneering AI at SiteGround

Our adventure with AI began back in 2017, when we introduced our groundbreaking AI-powered anti-bot system — the first of its kind in our industry! Today, this very system blocks a whopping 95% of malicious traffic before it even reaches our customers’ sites. Fast forward to 2019, when we integrated custom AI-powered real-time translation into our customer care systems, enabling us to serve clients in multiple languages and scale like never before. These early AI innovations worked their magic behind the scenes, dramatically boosting customer experience without direct interaction from clients.

With AI technology advancing at lightning speed, we took a bolder step into client-facing AI integration with the launch of our AI HelpDesk Assistant in 2023. It is designed to slash support response times for our most common inquiries, providing direct responses and how-to instructions from our extensive internal documentation, Knowledge Base and Tutorials. The results? Our instant AI Assistant nails the correct answer in 96% of responses, with 85% meeting our rather high customer service standards. Naturally, we couldn’t wait to build on that and take our AI applications to new heights!

Exciting Agentic AI Applications at SiteGround

In 2025, we added a brand new task-focused element to our AI assistant in our website control panel, Site Tools. On a daily basis, our clients perform a variety of website management tasks, some of which we’ve trained our AI assistant on. Now it analyzes our users’ intent in Site Tools and suggests performing certain actions on your behalf. 

If, for example, you’re looking to clear the cache on your website, you can ask our AI assistant in Site Tools to help you do that. It will describe the steps you need to follow in detail, but will also conveniently suggest doing it for you. Just a simple confirmation on your part, and voilà! The task is completed in seconds, with a confirmation to boot!

A screenshot of a chat with SiteGround's instant AI assistant.

At this stage, our AI task-oriented agent handles only carefully curated low-risk operations like website cache purge, country blocking, enabling CDN services, fixing WordPress permissions, checking SSL validity, and resetting DNS SPF records. Since these are all website-specific, it works only when engaged in SiteTools. But we’re already working on expanding its capabilities to tackle more tasks, including backup restores, and integrating AI agents into other areas like the SiteGround Customer Area, Email Marketing, and Website Builder interfaces.

Enhanced Efficiency

The biggest strength of our AI technology lies in its ability to tackle repetitive tasks and massive inquiries with speed and precision. Our AI-powered systems swiftly process and respond to customer queries, cutting response times even further and boosting our support availability. This efficiency frees up SiteGround’s human agents to tackle more complex issues, supercharging overall productivity.

Since its launch, our instant AI assistant has tackled over 1,500,000 questions and requests! By handling straightforward inquiries, it ensures that complex technical questions reach our support crew faster, resulting in quicker resolutions of higher-level inquiries as well. 

In just the first month of operation, 15% of all chats with our assistant involved operations performed on behalf of customers. While this may seem modest, it’s a testament to our careful selection of risk-free processes, ensuring nothing goes awry.

Even Higher Availability

Having said all that SiteGround’s human support isn’t going anywhere! Available 24/7, our average resolution time is just 15 minutes. But for those small requests, our instant AI chat assistant spares even that! It’s available round-the-clock, unaffected by occasional load peaks on our support channels.

But beyond mere stats and numbers, our focus is on enhancing customer experiences. That’s why we have a built-in grading system for every AI assistant chat and closely monitor feedback from clients across all channels, both internally and via trusted third-party review systems like Trustpilot.

A screenshot of a SiteGround user's review on TrustPilot, highlighting the exceptional quality of support SiteGround offers.

Trusted Privacy 

We also understand that AI in customer service can raise data privacy concerns. This is especially true if you’re giving away sensitive information to AI models yourself. But SiteGround’s AI assistant, powered by GPT-4o by OpenAI and customized by our in-house AI engineering team, works under our strict data protection, encryption, and security policies. Your privacy remains intact, with no sensitive information disclosed to OpenAI. Even if you enter sensitive data in our AI chat engine, our system ensures it remains obfuscated, safeguarding your privacy.

Handling Complex Queries with Care

While our AI assistant shines in managing simple inquiries, we recognize its limitations with complex or unique customer issues for now. In these cases SiteGround’s human judgment and expertise is irreplaceable, highlighting the indispensable role of our human support. But even in some of these intricate cases, our AI assists by narrowing down problems and gathering data, streamlining the work for our operators.

A screenshot of a SiteGround user's review on TrustPilot, highlighting the exceptional quality of support SiteGround offers.

Where SiteGround Humans are Irreplaceable

By automating routine tasks, SiteGround’s AI assistant optimizes operational times and allows us to allocate human resources more effectively. Given our high volumes of customer interactions, our human support remains irreplaceable. AI handles simple tasks effortlessly, but nothing beats human expertise, connection, and empathy.

In fact, while developing our AI technology, we’ve not only retained but expanded our nearly 200-person in-house support team. We’re actively onboarding new members and upskilling experienced ones, ensuring top-notch service.

Striking the Perfect Balance

We’re firm believers that integrating smart AI with human support is the key to maximizing customer care quality. By letting AI handle routine tasks and allowing human agents to focus on complex issues, we’ve elevated our service efficiency while maintaining a personal touch. Our staff is trained to work seamlessly alongside AI technologies, enhancing customer interactions, as our clients can attest.

A screenshot of a SiteGround user's review on TrustPilot, highlighting the exceptional quality of support SiteGround offers.

To sum up, for 8 incredible years and counting, AI technology at SiteGround has been creating exceptional customer experiences—with a human touch always at the ready. If we had to answer THAT question, AI did take our job — only to the next level!

A Hosting Infrastructure Ready for the AI Era

The AI era is here and already changing the way we live, work and do business – especially online. Businesses need infrastructure that can keep pace with the demands of advanced AI applications and adapt to the new ways that modern websites are built, optimized, and experienced. From real-time personalization to intelligent automation, these advancements demand hosting that’s faster, smarter, and built to scale.

At SiteGround, we are proud to offer a server infrastructure powered by Google Cloud Platform (GCP), designed to meet the needs of this transformative age. By combining Google’s innovative networking capabilities and global connectivity with SiteGround’s own in-house performance, security, and scalability enhancements, we’ve created a platform ready for the intelligent web — and whatever comes next.

Global Performance and Connectivity 

Over five years ago SiteGround switched to Google Cloud Platform as our infrastructure provider. One of the reasons for the switch was their networking capabilities and global availability, which dramatically improved the speed, uptime, and reliability of the websites we host.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) spans over 202 points-of-presence (PoPs), 2+ million miles of fiber, and is backed by a 99.99% SLA. This reduces the distance and the number of network hops between your site and your users, so your website load times improve — especially for international audiences who might otherwise face slower connections.

Thanks to smarter routing and Google’s expanded private backbone, SiteGround-hosted websites deliver content faster to visitors all over the world. This is the same network that powers services like Google Search and YouTube, so SiteGround clients are tapping into technology used by billions any second.

In practice, sites can load up to 5× faster after combining Google Cloud’s power with SiteGround’s own optimizations.

Google Cloud’s recent advancements in networking emphasize their enhanced performance and security, crucial for modern AI applications that require real-time data processing and low-latency communication. With software-defined networking (SDN) and edge computing, our infrastructure ensures fast and efficient data handling.

And we don’t stop there. By adding our own in-house performance enhancements on top — such as our own free built-in CDN, advanced multi-level website caching, our award-winning built-in performance plugin for WordPress and a fully managed hosting stack — we turn that solid foundation into a high-speed website hosting platform ready to grow with you.

For eCommerce businesses, bloggers, agencies, and anyone targeting a global market, this tremendously improves user experience, lowers bounce rates, and helps website conversion rates.

Security and Reliability

In the AI era, data security and reliability are paramount, as threats evolve and website users and restrictions become even more demanding. SiteGround’s infrastructure is built with a security-first mindset, incorporating multiple layers of protection to safeguard your data. 

From the bare minimum, like a free SSL certificate, through numerous application-level security optimizations for WordPress, to the most sophisticated, dynamically-updated server web application firewall and proactive server-level security measures.

Combining Google Cloud Platform’s advanced encryption settings and threat detection, along with SiteGround’s modern DDOS protection and state-of-art AI anti-bot system, which blocks over 90% of malicious traffic before it even reaches your site, you have peace of mind knowing your website data is secure.

SiteGround vs. Regular Hosting: What’s the Difference?
FeatureSiteGround Hosting (Google Cloud-Powered)Regular Hosting
Powered by Google Cloud✅ Fully integrated for superior speed, uptime, and scalability❌ Standard servers without Google Cloud integration
Global Infrastructure✅ 202+ PoPs (Points of Presence), 2+ million miles of fiber❌ Limited global presence, usually regional servers
Uptime Guarantee✅ 99.99% uptime SLA❌ Varies; often lower than 99.9% uptime
Speed Optimization✅ Built-in CDN, advanced caching, and network optimizations❌ Basic caching, no CDN, slower speeds
AI-Ready Hosting✅ Optimized for AI-driven features and applications❌ No specific AI optimizations
Security✅ Advanced security with isolated traffic, real-time upgrades❌ Basic security features, less frequent updates
Performance Enhancements✅ Continuous performance optimizations❌ No performance layer optimizations
Traffic Management✅ Real-time traffic surge management, automated failover❌ No automatic surge management
Support✅ 24/7 premium support with SiteGround expertise❌ Limited support, often only available via ticket
Server Management✅ Fully managed with automatic updates and optimizations❌ Typically unmanaged or requires user intervention
Backup and Redundancy✅ Automated daily backups, geo-distributed for extra redundancy❌ Limited or no automated backups

The SiteGround Advantage: More Than Just Hosting

We don’t just rely on a great foundation — we build on it. SiteGround adds custom layers on top of Google’s infrastructure, fine-tuned for performance, security, and scalability — with zero extra complexity for you.

We’re often among the first to adopt and implement new innovations that benefit your site. SiteGround’s Google Cloud Award for Performance and Innovation is just one example of our dedication to operational excellence.

Optimized for Smarter Websites and AI Tools

From smart search and content personalization to AI-generated designs, SEO, and support tools — websites are starting to rely on AI features that demand more from their hosting environments. Running these tools efficiently requires low latency, stable connectivity, and strong backend performance. 

The latest innovations from Google, such as their Cloud WAN and software-defined networking, for example, represent the future of intelligent, responsive infrastructure. While currently these technologies serve complex enterprise use cases, they reflect the sophistication already at play beneath SiteGround’s infrastructure. They showcase what’s possible with real-time, software-defined traffic management and signal that we’re investing in the kind of infrastructure where AI thrives

Ready for the Future

As AI continues to transform industries and redefine possibilities, SiteGround is ready to support your online journey. Our Google Cloud-powered infrastructure provides the robust foundation needed to explore and implement AI technologies, ensuring your online presence is future-proof and ready to capitalize on the opportunities that AI brings.

SiteGround’s server infrastructure, powered by the innovations of Google Cloud Platform, is perfectly positioned to support the demands of the AI era. We are excited to help our clients harness the power of AI, driving innovation and success in their digital endeavors. 

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SiteGround Website Builder Updates: Contextual Editing, Improved File Gallery, And More

Since launching the SiteGround Website Builder, we’ve been excited to see so many of you bringing your websites to life. We’ve also been listening closely to your feedback and making continuous improvements to support you even better. With that in mind, we’ve introduced a set of new updates to help you build faster, edit more easily, and enjoy the process even more.

From more intuitive editing tools to a cleaner, more organized workspace, here’s everything we’ve rolled out lately.

New Contextual Editing

We’ve made text editing faster and more intuitive. The formatting toolbar is no longer fixed at the top, it now floats and appears exactly where you’re working. Click on a text block or a button, and the toolbar shows up right above it. No more jumping your focus across the screen just to bold a line or add a link.

It follows your scroll and adjusts to your screen, staying right there while you work. This change keeps editing feeling natural and helps you stay focused, especially when making lots of small changes in one go.

By popular demand, the File Gallery is now accessible directly from the left menu in the builder. We’ve also added a simple file type filter, so you can quickly sort through images, videos, documents, or ZIP archives. Together, these updates make it faster to upload and organize your images and files even before you begin editing your pages.

Whether you’re planning out a full gallery or just want your brand visuals on hand, having direct access allows you to set up your media library in advance and streamline the content creation process once you’re ready to build.

Quickly Switch Pages With The New Page Selector

Switching between pages while editing just became incredibly easy. You can now jump to any published or draft page using the new page dropdown selector in the top bar of the builder, no need to return to the content tab.

This makes a big difference when you’re reviewing changes across your site. For example, if you update your color palette or font styles, you can quickly click through all your pages to make sure everything looks just right without breaking your editing flow.

Easier Access And More Control For Your Coming Soon Page

We’ve updated the Coming Soon functionality to give you faster access and more ways to make that page work for you. 

You can now add SEO and social sharing options to the Coming Soon page settings. That means your placeholder page can now be found in search results and look great when shared on social media — perfect for building anticipation and encouraging early engagement before the big launch.

Plus, we’ve added quick access for you to enable or disable your Coming Soon page from the new shortcut in the top bar, right under the globe icon. This gives you faster access and greater control while you’re still working on your site.

A Restructured Layout To Support What’s Next

To make the builder even easier to navigate we’ve updated the layout with a cleaner, more spacious design.

The left and top bars have been refined to help you move more smoothly between your content, navigation, style settings, and file management. Everything you already use is still right where you expect it, but now with more clarity and breathing room. These changes not only improve your current editing experience, they also lay the foundation for powerful new features we’ll be adding soon.

Continuously Improving To Help You Do More

All of these updates share one goal: making the SiteGround Website Builder more powerful without adding complexity. Whether you’re building your first site or fine-tuning a growing one, we want you to move faster, stay organized, and feel in control every step of the way.

And this is just the beginning, we’ve got even more exciting improvements on the way. Stay tuned!

Gemini AI: Now Included in All Google Workspace Plans Offered by SiteGround

Last year, we proudly announced our partnership with Google Workspace, bringing the ultimate collaboration and productivity toolkit to SiteGround customers. Today, we’re excited to share the next chapter in this journey: Gemini AI is now part of all Google Workspace plans offered by SiteGround, unlocking a new level of productivity, creativity, and efficiency for your business.

This major enhancement brings cutting-edge AI features to businesses of all sizes, making productivity, collaboration and communication easier than ever. Now, with Gemini AI woven into the very fabric of Workspace apps like Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Meet, and more, the way you work is about to transform dramatically.

What Is Gemini AI?

Gemini AI is Google’s next-generation artificial intelligence toolkit, designed to boost your productivity effortlessly. Whether you’re drafting emails, summarizing documents, analyzing data, or generating creative content and media, Gemini AI acts as your always-on productivity partner – built right into the tools you use every day.

AI Assistance Across All Your Favorite Apps

Empower Your Daily Workflow with Smart Automations 

At its core, Gemini AI transforms how you handle everyday tasks across Google Workspace. In Gmail, you’ll experience smarter email management that goes beyond basic automation.

Draft professional responses in seconds, get instant summaries of lengthy email threads, and quickly surface important information from your inbox. For busy professionals, this means less time managing emails and more time focusing on what matters.

Supercharge Creativity and Analysis with Built-in AI Assistant

The real power of Gemini AI lies in how it enhances your creative and analytical work.

  • In Google Docs, writer’s block becomes a thing of the past as the built-in AI Assistant helps you generate fresh content and media, develop ideas, and summarize complex documents with ease. 
  • When working with data in Google Sheets, Gemini AI becomes your personal data analyst – creating tables, generating formulas, and uncovering insights from large datasets without requiring advanced technical expertise.
  • And across all your work in Google Drive, Gemini AI’s intelligent search and quick document summaries ensure you can find exactly what you need, exactly when you need it – making collaboration seamless and efficient.

Elevate Collaboration with Easy Summarization

Gemini AI transforms how teams work together. 

  • During Google Meet sessions, it acts as your virtual assistant, capturing detailed notes and key points so you can focus entirely on the conversation. 
  • In Google Chat you can use Gemini to draft quick responses, set up meeting notes, or even create to-do lists.
  • When preparing presentations in Google Slides, it helps you create compelling content and suggests optimized layouts that capture your audience’s attention.

Security and Privacy First

Google has implemented robust security measures to protect the data you share with Gemini AI. All AI interactions are protected by Google Workspace’s enterprise-grade security, ensuring that your data remains confidential. This is specifically important for HIPPA-compliant businesses. Learn more about Gemini’s privacy measures here.

This integration marks a major leap forward in making AI accessible to businesses of all sizes. Whether you’re drafting emails, crunching numbers, or leading team meetings, Gemini AI is designed to help you achieve more with less effort. These capabilities could vary based on the user’s plan.

Ready To Experience The Future Of Productivity?

Start leveraging the power of Gemini AI today. Whether you’re running a small business, leading a growing team, or managing complex projects, Google Workspace with Gemini AI is designed to help you work smarter, not harder.

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Introducing SiteGround Website Builder: A Simpler, Faster Way to Build Websites

Introducing SiteGround Site Builder

For two decades, we’ve been privileged to be part of your online journey, providing fast, secure, best-in-class hosting for millions of websites built with your own code or using popular CMS like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and more. Through countless conversations with clients like you, we’ve learned about your challenges, celebrated your success, and understood your aspirations to create and manage your online presence.

Today, we’re excited to introduce something special – our very own SiteGround Website Builder, now included in all of our hosting plans. For us, this isn’t just a new project launch. It’s our response to all of those conversations we’ve had over the years, and our commitment to make your online presence an absolute success.

Why Launch A Website Builder

Every day, we witness the passion you bring to your businesses and projects. But we’ve also seen how technical complexities can stand in the way of your vision. We’ve heard from small business owners spending precious weekends configuring third-party themes for their CMS website, freelancers juggling multiple tools for different clients, and entrepreneurs delaying their dreams because website creation seemed too daunting.

Your stories inspired us to create something different. Something that would maintain the professional quality you deserve while removing the technical barriers that slow you down.

The Problems We’re Solving Together

We believe in products that solve real problems of real people, so we’ve focused on addressing the key challenges you’ve shared with us:

Complexity

Remember the last time you stared at a file manager or content management dashboard wondering where to start? Or spent hours trying to make a theme look like its demo? We believe creating a website should be intuitive and enjoyable. With our Website Builder, you’ll find familiar tools that work exactly as you’d expect – if you can use a doc file, you can build a beautiful website.

Time

We know you can’t afford to spend weeks learning new tools or fighting with technology. What used to be a multi-day project can now be accomplished in a single afternoon. Choose a template, customize it with your content, and launch your site – all before your coffee gets cold. Because your time is better spent growing your business, not building a website.

Technical Barriers

“But I’m not technical enough” – we’ve heard this too many times from talented entrepreneurs whose websites don’t reflect their expertise. SiteGround Website Builder handles all the complex details behind the scenes: mobile responsiveness, built-in SEO, performance optimization, and security considerations. You focus on your message and design, while we ensure everything works flawlessly behind the scenes.

Cost

Building a professional website traditionally means choosing between two costly options: hire a web developer to build and manage your site, or invest countless hours learning complex tools yourself. This should not be the case. Our Website Builder is available for free in every hosting plan, giving you the power to create professional websites without the professional price tag. If you have an unused site slot in any of your hosting packages, you can try it out right away.

Built For You, Growing For Everyone

The first version of the SiteGround Website Builder is built for our core users – business owners who want to create a simple, yet professional website without complexity. We have tons of features and functionalities in the pipeline to add to this experience and also cater to the needs of agencies, freelancers and professionals creating and managing websites for others. Every new item in our roadmap serves one goal – to help you create and manage a polished web presence that reflects your professionalism, while focusing on what matters most – running your business and serving your clients.

Everything You Need To Succeed

Our Website Builder comes packed with the essential tools that you’ve been asking for. Start with our professionally designed templates and customize them using our ultra-easy builder with premade sections. Access a free image gallery for stunning visuals, get help from our integrated AI content writer, and optimize your site with built-in SEO and analytics tools. Make it truly yours with extensive fonts and colors customization options – all without touching a line of code.

Just The Beginning

Today marks an exciting new chapter in our journey together. While we’re proud of what we’ve built, we know that this is just the beginning. We believe that the best products are built through collaboration with the people who use them every day. That’s why we’re starting with a simple, yet solid foundation, while keeping the flexibility to grow and evolve based on your feedback. Every new feature we add will be driven by your real experience and suggestions to make the SiteGround Website Builder even better for you.

Try It Yourself

Ready to create your website? The SiteGround Website Builder is available for free in any of our hosting plans. If you’re already our client, simply log in to your Client Area > Websites and start building your new website. New to our services? Choose any of our hosting plans and get access to the SiteGround Website Builder along with our award-winning hosting platform. Risk-free, with 30-day money back guarantee.

Let’s create something amazing together! 🚀