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We move your site for free while your SiteGround site stays live. Run your own speed test on it here, then decide. Cancel before day 30 and you pay nothing.
Monthly plans. Card required, nothing charged today. Then from $89 a month per site unless you cancel before day 30.
What each plan includes
TopSyde
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SiteGround StartUp
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SiteGround StartUp is advertised at $1.99 a month and is $17.99 at its regular price. See all 13
Matched in full, with 1 more in part. From SiteGround's own plan page, 13 November 2026.
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Nothing to lose
Find out for yourself. Pay nothing for 30 days.
You do not have to take our word or anyone else's. Put your own site on it and look at the numbers.
Start the trial
It takes a card and charges nothing for 30 days. No contract, and you can bring every site you have.
We move your site for free
We copy it over while your SiteGround site stays live and untouched. You check the copy before anything changes, and SiteGround keeps its copy until you cancel there.
Test it yourself
Switch on the speed tools and run your own PageSpeed test. A tuned site typically scores 90 or more. The numbers are yours to check.
Keep it or walk away
Cancel before day 30 and you pay nothing. Going back is one DNS change, and we make it for you.
No storage or visit caps
Your email is never touched
Your domain stays where it is
A hacked site is cleaned free
Monthly plans. Card required, nothing charged today. Then from $89 a month per site unless you cancel before day 30.
Side by side
TopSyde has all 13. SiteGround StartUp matches 1 in full.
Fast hosting, the work done for you and nothing left to buy. Storage, visits and bandwidth are unlimited here for normal use. SiteGround StartUp lists 10 GB of storage.
| What you get | TopSyde13 of 13 | SiteGround1 of 131 in part |
|---|---|---|
| Fast hosting, no caps | ||
| Managed WordPress hostingGoogle Cloud, 12 CPUs per site, Cloudflare in front. NGINX page caching, HTTP/3 and a CDN in 37+ locations. Cached pages usually answer in under 200 ms. | ||
| Server power per site12 CPUs, 8 GB of memory, 24 or more PHP workers. Google Cloud C3D machines, with 512 MB of PHP memory per worker. | 12 CPUs, 8 GB | No figures listed |
| StorageNo cap for normal website use. No metering and no overage charges. | Unlimited | 10 GB |
| Monthly visitsNo cap, however busy it gets. A busy month costs nothing extra. | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Care, done for you | ||
| Every update, done for youBacked up first, checked after. Plugins, themes and WordPress. If an update breaks the site it rolls back on its own.On SiteGround, updates are automatic. No backup, check or rollback is listed. | In part | |
| Malware removalScanned every day, cleaned free. Sentinel removes backdoors, hidden admins and spam. No cleanup fee, and a hacked site is cleaned free when you switch. | ||
| SEO, AEO and GEO every weekFor Google and for AI answers. Auto SEO fixes titles, descriptions, alt text, structured data and the crawler rules for search engines and AI assistants, with a one-click undo. | ||
| Speed tuned by hand90 or more on PageSpeed is the norm. Caching, images and loading tuned by a person when you arrive, then by Auto Speed every week. | ||
| Built in, nothing to buy | ||
| 35+ premium plugin licencesElementor Pro, ACF Pro, Gravity Forms and more. The full Crocoblock suite too. Worth over $1,000 a year if you bought them yourself. | ||
| Cookie consent and a privacy policyGoogle Consent Mode banner, built in. With receipts, a cookie policy page and a privacy policy written from what the site uses. | ||
| Form spam protectionNo CAPTCHA. Spam held for review. Filtered from forms and comments and kept 30 days, with forms watched for failures. | ||
| People | ||
| A developer hour every monthFor the changes you want made. An hour of senior developer time on each site, from your first payment. | ||
| A developer on the phoneCall 720-803-4053 in business hours. You reach a senior developer. First reply to a ticket in under 2 hours in business hours. | ||
| Insight | ||
| An AI visibility scoreHow AI assistants describe your business. Every month we ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode and score the answers. | ||
| An accessibility checkYour homepage against WCAG 2.1 AA. Every month, at desktop and phone width, with what to fix. | ||
| A website focus group100 simulated customers read your site. They say why they would or would not act, with the fixes. One per site, from your first payment. | ||
| Price for one site, a monthOurs covers every row above. Free for the first 30 days. | $89 | $17.99 |
Monthly plans. Card required, nothing charged today. Then from $89 a month per site unless you cancel before day 30.
SiteGround's side is its StartUp plan, read from siteground.com/wordpress-hosting.htm on 12 November 2026, at its regular monthly price after any intro discount (read 11 November 2026). A cross means the plan page does not list it, not that SiteGround never offers it. In part means the page lists a version of it without what our row promises, in that page's own terms, and it is not counted in the score. Server figures are each page's own. Storage and visits are that page's own figures, read 13 November 2026. Ours are unlimited for normal website use, with no caps, no metering and no overage charges. Prices in USD.
The whole bill
Matching this plan on SiteGround is about $172 a month.
The plan price is not the whole bill. Add what it takes to get the same work done and one site costs more there than the $89 it costs here.
| SiteGround StartUpRegular monthly price | $17.99 |
|---|---|
| A care plan for checked updates and malware removalGoWP Pro, the cheapest published care plan with malware removal | + $39 |
| An SEO pluginYoast SEO Premium | + $10 |
| A speed pluginWP Rocket | On plan |
| A login security pluginWordfence Premium | On plan |
| A cookie consent bannerCookieYes Pro | + $21 |
| A form spam filterAkismet Pro | + $10 |
| A database cleanup pluginWP-Optimize Premium | + $4 |
| One hour of a developer a monthA typical freelance WordPress rate | + $70 |
| To match this plan | $172 |
| With TopSyde, nothing to add | $89 |
A line is added only where the StartUp plan page does not list it. The care plan is added on every host, because no entry plan lists updates with a backup and a rollback, or malware removal that closes the way in. Each line is the cheapest published way to buy it. Free versions of several of these plugins exist. Not counted are the premium plugin licences worth $1,000+ a year, AI edits, the accessibility check, the AI visibility score and the focus group. This is the list price of matching the plan, not a promised saving. How every figure was read
From the people we look after
Less worry. In their words.
5.0 out of 5 on Google
“TopSyde have been amazing! We were having quite a few problems with our website, and their team helped us get everything sorted out quickly. Their communication has been excellent from the very beginning. Originally, I only contacted them to fix a few issues, but I was so happy with their service that I've since moved our website hosting and ongoing support over to them as well. What really stands out is how responsive and helpful they are. They're happy to answer any questions I have, no matter how small, and I don't think I've ever had to wait more than a day for a response. If something is urgent, they're also easy to get hold of and quick to help. This has given me real peace of mind, especially compared to my previous hosting provider and developer, where I would sometimes wait days just to get a reply. It's great knowing there's a reliable team looking after our website. I couldn't be happier with the service and would highly recommend TopSyde!”
Krabi Sunset Cruises
Google review · Oct 2026
“TopSyde has been amazing to work with. Between building and managing our real estate website with stress free, quick response time and helping with the design, we couldn't be happier!”
J. Luco
Google review · Sep 2026
“TopSyde does a fantastic job of hosting the NursesInternational.org website! I never have to worry about uptime or outages.”
Miriam Chickering
Google review · Oct 2025
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Before you switch
Leaving SiteGround, answered.
TopSyde is $89 a month per site, and SiteGround StartUp is $17.99 a month at its regular price. The difference is what the price covers. Ours is the hosting plus the work, from updates, daily backups and malware removal to speed tuned by hand, eight built-in tools, premium plugin licences and a developer hour every month. Matching that on SiteGround StartUp means buying the rest at list price (care plan, SEO plugin, cookie consent, spam filter, database cleanup, developer hour), which brings one site to about $172 a month. You can run your own site here for 30 days before you pay anything.
There are no storage, bandwidth or visitor caps on any plan, no metering and no overage charges, so there is no number to show you. The only condition is normal website use. A website with pages, images, a blog and a store is normal use, however busy it gets. A site used as a file locker or a video host is not. If a site ever grows unusually we talk to you first. Nothing is throttled or billed without that conversation.
Yes, two ways. To look around first, open the demo portal at portal.topsyde.com/demo. It is the full portal filled with sample sites, and it needs no signup. To try it on your own site, start the 30-day free trial on a monthly plan, with as many sites as you like. We take a card up front and charge nothing until day 30. We move your site for free, you check the copy on a temporary address before anything goes live, and your old host keeps its copy until you cancel it. Cancel before day 30 and you pay nothing. Malware cleanup is included during the trial. Your developer hour and the included focus group start with your first payment.
Nothing. We move the website only and never touch your email. Your mailbox stays with whoever runs it today, whether that is Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 or your registrar, and we only change the records that point your website at us. The records that route your email are left exactly as they are. The one case to plan for is email that comes bundled with the host you are leaving. We check for that before anything moves and tell you, and if it applies we help you set up a standalone mailbox before the old host is cancelled, so there is never a gap. Email your site itself sends, like contact form notifications and order receipts, is routed through our delivery service and tested after the move.
Yes. Your domain stays where it is and stays yours. We only change the record that points your website at us. Give us access to where the domain is managed, or we send you the one record to change and you make it yourself.
Yes, free on every plan, for any WordPress site on any host. We copy the files and database, set up SSL and check whether your email is bundled with your old host before anything moves. You click through the copy on a temporary address while your live site keeps serving visitors, and when you say it looks right we point your domain at us with no downtime. The hands-on part is typically under two hours. Then we run a speed pass, switch on uptime checks, daily backups and daily malware scans, and hand you the portal. Your old host keeps its copy until you cancel it, so going back is one DNS change. Every step is at topsyde.com/migration.
30 days, no charge
Stop wondering. Run your site here and see.
If it is not faster and better looked after than it is on SiteGround, cancel and it cost you nothing.
Monthly plans. Card required, nothing charged today. Then from $89 a month per site unless you cancel before day 30.