The signup price is the renewal price
SiteGround's biggest complaint is renewal shock, $2.99/month turning into $17.99/month after year one. Our price never changes. What you sign up at is what you keep paying.
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Looking at SiteGround? No teaser prices. No renewal shock.
SiteGround's intro price is great. Their renewal price is the problem. WP Tango charges the same on day one as on day 1,000, with backups every 4 hours, real US engineers and faster servers.
In short
WP Tango is a managed WordPress hosting alternative to SiteGround. Plans start at $8/month on 12-month billing, with the renewal price matching the signup price for that term, and every plan includes LiteSpeed Enterprise, Redis object caching, unlimited PHP workers, unmetered visitors, staging, SSH and WP-CLI, backups every 4 hours kept 30 days, and free engineer-led migration from SiteGround, with US engineers in Phoenix, Arizona.
Last updated September 2026
Head to head
WP Tango vs SiteGround
The features that matter, side by side. Based on each host's published plans and pricing as of 2026.
| Feature | WP Tango | SiteGround |
|---|---|---|
Starting price SiteGround's $2.99/month StartUp rate requires a 12-month prepayment. Month-to-month StartUp is $24.99/month. | $4/month (12-month billing) | $2.99/month (12-month prepay) |
Renewal price SiteGround renews StartUp at $17.99/month, prepaid for 12 months. | $4/month (no change, ever) | $17.99/month and up |
Month-to-month price SiteGround's own rate table, StartUp: $24.99 for a 1-month term. | $5/month | $24.99/month |
Money-back guarantee | 30 days | 30 days |
Free site migrations Engineers do the move for you with zero downtime. | Every plan | Migrator plugin (self-serve) |
Backups every 4 hours SiteGround runs daily backups; hourly is a paid add-on there too. | ||
Backup retention | 30 days | Up to 30 days |
Staging on every plan | Higher tiers only | |
LiteSpeed + Redis caching | ||
Web Application Firewall (WAF) | Included | Included |
Visitor limits per plan SiteGround caps monthly visits on every plan. We don't. | Unmetered | Capped per plan |
WP-CLI, SSH & SFTP on every plan | Higher tiers only | |
Support | US engineers, 24/7 | 24/7 chat & tickets |
Average TTFB (US) SiteGround figure: hostingstep.com 2025 full-year benchmark (Pingdom, 19 US locations, 525,600 tests). | ~124 ms | 632 ms |
Sourced from SiteGround's public pricing and documentation. Spot a mistake? Let us know.
The SiteGround alternative
The reasons people leave SiteGround for us.
Most of it comes down to honest pricing, real speed, and not having to pay extra for the basics.
Backups every 4 hours, no add-on
SiteGround runs daily backups; hourly costs extra. We snapshot every 4 hours on every plan, kept for 30 days, restorable with one click. Hourly snapshots are $10/month, $8/month on 12 months.
Staging and dev tools on every plan
SiteGround locks staging, SSH and WP-CLI behind their higher tiers. We include all of them on every plan, even the entry plan.
No monthly visitor caps
SiteGround caps monthly visits per plan. Ours are unmetered, so a traffic spike doesn't suspend your site or trigger an upgrade nudge.
Faster server response
Top-tier AMD Ryzen 9950X / Intel 14900K CPUs with LiteSpeed and Redis pre-tuned, low-density servers. SiteGround's 2025 full-year average TTFB was 632 ms across 19 US Pingdom locations (hostingstep.com) - one of the slowest they tested. Our own TTFB on wptango.com sits around 124 ms.
Engineers do the migration for you
SiteGround gives you a migrator plugin. We assign an engineer who moves your site, tests it on staging, and coordinates the DNS cutover with you.
Managed WordPress hosting
Plans. Everything included.
Same fast platform, same US engineers, no server work. Pick the size that fits; the renewal price is the signup price.
A bigger pool keeps sites fast as traffic and plugins grow.
Included with Lite
No surprise limits
Unlimited visitors, no bandwidth overage
A busy week does not add a fee to the bill.
No caps on files or inodes
The disk figure is the only storage number to watch.
Free SSL
HTTPS is issued and renewed for every domain you add.
Emails from the site are delivered
Form and order mail goes out through SMTP2GO, free up to 2,000 a month.
Add teammates without sharing your password
Scoped logins for developers, designers and clients.
The price you start at is the price you renew at
Renewal uses the same rate, not a first-term teaser.
Automatic WordPress updates
Core updates are applied and checked for you.
Stays fast
LiteSpeed Enterprise and page cache
Built pages are cached and delivered quickly, tuned for WordPress.
Redis, so the store and logged-in pages stay quick
In-memory caching for carts, dashboards and dynamic queries.
Switch PHP versions with one click
Run a different PHP version per site, changed from the panel.
FlyingPress is included
The performance plugin is licensed and set up, at no extra cost.
Store ready
WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads run without special settings.
One click into wp-admin
Open the dashboard from the panel, without a second password.
A tuned database, so queries stay quick
The database is set up for WordPress workloads, not a generic default.
Safe to change
Try changes on a copy of the site first
Staging mirrors the live site, so you can test before pushing.
SSH, SFTP, and WP-CLI for your developer
Full command line access on every plan.
Your site is isolated from other sites
Your files and database sit in their own account space.
See errors as they happen
Site and PHP errors surface in the panel as they occur.
Locked down
Login attacks are blocked
Repeated bad sign-in attempts are stopped automatically.
Two-factor login on your account
Add a second step to your own sign-in.
DDoS protection is included
Volumetric traffic is filtered before it reaches your site.
Switching from SiteGround, made simple.
What our migrations team gets asked most often.