Move From SiteGround To Liberation
When you move from SiteGround, a person handles this website migration for your WordPress site off SiteGround's Site Tools, tests everything before it goes live, and schedules the cutover around your schedule, not ours.
How the move from SiteGround works
We handle each step so you can keep working.
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The short answer
Moving off SiteGround means two things: the website (files, database, DNS) and, if you use it, SiteGround email — both move together as part of one free migration handled by a person on our team.
When you move from SiteGround to Liberation, the goal is a SiteGround migration you never have to think about twice: the same pages, the same design, the same functionality, just running on infrastructure you own instead of SiteGround’s steep 12-month renewal price jump. A move from SiteGround is handled by a person, not an automated plugin — every page is copied over, tested against the live SiteGround site, and verified before your domain is switched.
Business owners who move from SiteGround often ask how long the migration takes and whether anything will break in the process. In most cases a single-site SiteGround migration wraps up within a few business days of approving the plan, and because your original SiteGround site stays live and untouched throughout, there’s no window where visitors see a broken or half-finished site. If you’re weighing whether to move from SiteGround now, the practical answer is that waiting only risks another renewal cycle at SiteGround’s higher rate before the migration happens.
What actually happens
We copy, we don't cut over yet
We test on our servers first
We schedule the cutover with you
DNS changes happen at a time you choose, and we monitor for propagation issues after the switch.
- Free migration no setup fee, no migration fee, no surprise line on the first invoice.
- No downtime cutover DNS changes are scheduled and monitored, not left to chance.
- U.S.-owned infrastructure and support, not outsourced overseas.
Why teams leave SiteGround
What moves, what doesn't have to
WordPress sites
SiteGround email
Domain registration
- WordPress Hosting from $29/month.
- Liberation Email $1.95/user/month.
- Free migration included with any plan switch.
Priced the way a business buys
Starting prices, billed monthly. Migration itself is free regardless of which plan you choose.
- WordPress Hosting from $29/month.
- Liberation Email $1.95/user/month.
- Hub for Teams $7.49/user/month.
What It Costs
Starting prices, billed monthly unless noted. Anything larger gets a written quote.
Step-by-step: access SiteGround, export your records, and switch DNS
We copy, we don't cut over yet
We test on our servers first
We schedule the cutover with you
See the full SiteGround vs. Liberation comparison → SiteGround Alternative
See a migrated site in action
Scroll through a real site hosted on our platform.
Open the live demo siteLeaving SiteGround: your export steps
What the vendor documents for getting your data out, in order.
Common questions
Will my site go down during the move?
No — your SiteGround site stays live while we build and test the copy, and the DNS cutover is scheduled and monitored.
Do I have to move my domain registration too?
No. You can keep your domain registered at SiteGround and simply point it at Liberation’s servers.
What if I'm on SiteGround's GrowBig or GoGeek plan with multiple sites?
Tell us how many sites and their total size when you book a call — multi-site migrations are still free, we just batch them so nothing gets missed. For reference, SiteGround’s own website migration guide covers the same multi-site considerations we handle for you as part of this website migration.
Is the migration really free?
Yes, for a standard site and mailbox migration, regardless of which plan you choose.
Do I need technical skills to move from SiteGround?
Yes. When you move from SiteGround to Liberation, our team handles the entire migration for you — you don’t need any technical experience, and your current site stays live and untouched until the new one is tested and ready to go.
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What actually makes leaving SiteGround hard
SiteGround sites usually carry SiteGround’s own plugins, and those are the reason a copied site looks broken. Their caching and optimization plugin is built for their infrastructure; on any other host it has nothing to talk to. Copy the site as-is and you get white screens, missing styling, or a dashboard full of errors — not because the migration failed, but because a plugin is looking for a server that is not there.
So the sequence matters: copy the site, remove the host-specific plugins, install an equivalent caching layer for the new environment, then test. Skipping that middle step is the single most common reason a migration from SiteGround appears to go wrong. It is a known step rather than a surprise, provided whoever is doing the work has done it before.
Check your renewal as well. As with most shared hosts the headline price is a first-term rate and the renewal is higher, and plans here are commonly prepaid annually. If you have months of paid term remaining there is usually no reason to rush: migrate when it suits you and let the term run out rather than cancelling mid-period and arguing about a refund.
The rest is familiar — files, a MySQL database, mailboxes over IMAP, and a DNS zone that often holds records for services unrelated to the website. We export the whole zone rather than reconstructing the obvious records from memory, because the forgotten TXT record is the one that breaks something a month after everyone has stopped paying attention.
How we handle it: we copy the site, strip the host-specific plugins and replace their function properly, migrate mailboxes while the old server still accepts mail, and test everything on a temporary address before DNS moves. Website Migration is included with hosting, email and Hub plans. If you are not on a plan, or you want a one-off move, it is $250. Book a call and we will check which of their plugins your site is currently relying on.
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