Connect to Siteground

Feature requests Connect Hosts
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This would be great!

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Any update on this? :slight_smile:

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I feel its time for a bump to this issue but the issue of Connect at large. Connect is a closed aspect of Local and we donā€™t seem to have any sort of mechanism or ability to add to or modify it ourselves, meaning we canā€™t even write our own extensions to Connect for other hosts and feel this needs to be addressed in totality not just adding a new connection to appease just a handful of users.

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SADLY - Iā€™m not sure this will happen, everyone. Siteground is increasingly upping its game and is a serious threat to WP Engine/Flywheel now, due to its fantastic (almost enterprise-worthy) platform, tools and services. It also wins hands-down on price. Iā€™ve been paying upwards of Ā£2000 a month to WP Engine for a long time and the value for money is seriously in question due to SGā€™s cloud server platform. If you havenā€™t tried it yet - itā€™s well worth the money!

So - back to my point; why would WPE/FW make their technology available to customers whoo host elsewhere. It makes absolutely no sense as they would be giving customers another really good reason to move to SG.

Itā€™s a shame because Local is a fantastic product (not without its limitations) and a match made in heaven for SG in my opinion.

Happy to be proven wrong though! :slight_smile:

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If anyone is still looking for a workaround, I was able to take a site from LocalWP to SiteGround with the All-in-One plugin. Hopefully, this will be the only time migration is needed as I plan to build, test and deploy from SiteGround.

These 2 tutorial helped in the process:

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Publish to bluehost.in too.

Its way cheaper hosting

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We have a separate Feature Request for Bluehost here:

We have been considering alternative solutions to ā€œbakeā€ into Local to help make moving sites to other hosts easier. Iā€™ll also mention that Local has an open add on concept. So technically other hosts or devs are free to make a Connect add on if they so choose but to date none have reached out to our teams about this. Some related comments from us here on a similar request for Cloudways.