Hosting Plan Features

Free shopping cart software is included in the SiteGround hosting plan. We will install OsCommerce (or CRELoaded - the upgraded osCommerce version), ZenCart or CubeCart for FREE on your account. This is a perfect opportunity to start your e-business.

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A Free Shared SSL certificate is included in the SiteGround hosting plan. You can also add a private SSL certificate to your account from your user's area.

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With SiteGround E-commerce pack you will be able to easily accept PayPal payments with any of the Shopping cart tool we support.

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With SiteGround E-commerce pack you will easily choose the best merchant solution for your needs among the 4 most favorite merchant accounts providers 2CheckOut, PayPal, MerchantLogic and Worldpay!

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SiteGround provides you with three different website statistics: Awstats, Webalizer and Analog stats. All of them include charts and graphs revealing useful information about the traffic your site generates. For example the number of hits, most visited pages, referral URLs and many more.

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Great security feature for your email communication! You may use it to send important Business information encrypted via email and to be sure that only people that are authorized will be able to read it.

You will be able to manage your hosting account with the help of the most popular web-based control panel: the CPanel. With the help of its easy interface you will upload files, manage your email accounts, view your website statistics, park domains, manage FTP accounts, subdomains, databases, etc..

Softaculous auto-installer is included in the SiteGround hosting package! With its help you will be able to install many useful scripts on your account with only a few mouse clicks. The most popular installs included in Softaculous are WordPress, Joomla, Magento, phpBB, Coppermine Gallery and many more.

With the help of a user-friendly interface you can easily manage all the files uploaded on your account from your CPanel

This feature allows you to limit the access to certain directories for specified users only. For example you can easily create a members' area.

You can easily change the password of your Customer Area.

MIME types tell browsers how to handle specific extensions. You can alter or add new MIME types. MIME types are often used to handle new technologies as they appear. When WAP technology first appeared for example, we did not have these extensions set up on our servers. With the MIME types, however, each of our customers could set it up and begin serving WAP pages immediately.

Apache handlers tell the server how to deal with web files that need to be processed on the server. For example, Apache is set up to process files with .pl extensions using Perl. However, if for some reason you also want to process files with .script extension using Perl, then you will have to set up a custom Apache handler for your site.

Cron jobs allow you to automate repetitive tasks on the server that hosts your web site. This is a powerful tool that allows you to take a hands-free approach to repetitive tasks. For example, you could add a cron job that automatically copies a MySQL database to a separate location on your site as a backup.

The IP manager in the CPanel allows you to ban and filter IPs.

The Redirect URL manager in the CPanel allows you to redirect any URL hosted on your account to opens another URL.

SSI enables you to include parts of other sites in your site

The CPanel allows you to protect your website content from HotLinking. HotLinking is when someone links a content from your website in a way that consumes your bandwidth.

At SiteGround your website will be accessible, no matter if your visitors type its domain with or without WWW

With SiteGround hosting package you can use UNLIMITED MySQL and Postgres databases. You can manage your databases in a few mouse clicks via the web-based control panel. You are able to add and remove DBs, change passwords, manage permissions and more.

The easiest systems for managing your MySQL and postGre Databases.

With SiteGround.com you get a FREE domain name for your website. The domain name is YOUR property.

You can have multiple domain names pointing to your site. This is a great way to increase your online visibility.

Our hosting plan includes unlimited free subdomains to allow more freedom for the organization of your site.

The unlimited addon feature is included in the Shared PLUS hosting plan, to which you can always upgrade a standard shared plan for just $5.00/month.

All your subdomains or directories can redirect the visitor to a URL of your choice.

You can create mailboxes under your subdomains. For example mail@sub.domain.com

The most innovative quad-core processor technology of the Kentsfield servers guarantee the speed and the flawless functioning of your website.

SiteGround system administrators continuously optimize the servers' performance to achieve the highest levels of speed and security. We use one of the most stable operating systems - CentOS. Our servers are also equipped with all your website needs to operate properly - Apache, MySQL, PHP, mail server,etc.

SiteGround system administrators have customized the Apache Web Server in order to achieve the highest levels of speed and security.

The MySQL is the most widely used Database system on Linux Servers.

For maximum security of your web hosting accounts we use redundant firewall system.

Our servers are located at the best data-centers in USA (Dallas and Houston, Texas). To provide your website with the fastest possible data transfers we have a 100 Mbps internet connection to the most powerful backbone Internet providers in the USA

The UPS power Back-ups insure that your data will not be damaged in case of emergency power shortages.

SiteGround System Administrator team is constantly monitoring the network devices and infrastructure to protects it from various attacks.

SiteGround System Administrators has created a State -of-art system for 24/7 server performance monitoring to ensure extra security for your website.

Your account information is backed up once a week on a different server from the one that hosts your primary account. This provides extra security for your data.