Is iPage Sitelock Essentials Worth It? Do You Need It? (Review)

In this video, I’m going to be doing  an iPage Sitelock Essentials Review.   I’ll be going over what iPage Sitelock Essentials  is along with answering the popular questions is   Sitelock Essentials worth it? Do You Really Need  iPage Sitelock Essentials? I’ll also be covering   the iPage Sitelock pricing and if there are any  free options for security for your site and if so   what they are. By the end of this video,  you should
have a clear understanding of   iPage Sitelock and whether or not  it’s worth having for your needs. I’ll also be providing you with an iPage discount  so you can save some money on your iPage domain   name and web hosting purchase. You will get up  to 75% off iPage hosting plus a free domain name. To take advantage of the iPage discount just  click the link in the description below.   A little disclosure. The  link is an affiliate
link,   meaning I’ll receive a commission from iPage  at no extra cost to you. Plus you’ll get an   awesome iPage discount. Let’s get started  with the iPage Sitelock Essentials Review. So what is iPage Sitelock Essentials? Sitelock  Essentials is an iPage add-on that is offered   by iPage when signing up with them or within your  iPage dashboard once you have created your account   with iPage. Sitelock Essentials is security for 
your website. It protects your site from hackers,   malware, and viruses being placed on it.  Sitelock provides you with daily malware scans,   malware removal, blacklist  monitoring, a security dashboard,   web application scanning, and a  verified security badge for your site. Sitelock Essentials works in the background  checking your site daily for malware. The way   it works is Sitelock automatically downloads your  site data,
will screen it, to make sure malware   isn’t added to your site. If malware is added to  your site it will remove the malware automatically   and upload the clean version of your site. You  are immediately notified if malware is found.   Blacklist monitoring is a monitoring service that  monitors if your site ever gets blacklisted due   to malware being placed on your site. If your site  gets blacklisted you will be immediately
notified. This iPage add-on can be beneficial as you  never know when your site might get hacked into   and if your site goes down or gets malware and you  don’t catch it fast enough you can not only lose   sales but can be blacklisted by search engines.  Also, if you don’t have much tech knowledge about   code and finding and removing malware this could  lead to a lot of frustration and trouble for you. Now let’s go over the iPage
Sitelock pricing. When  signing up with iPage once you get to the add-ons   section you’ll see Sitelock. Sitelock Essentials  will cost you $1.99 per month and can be billed   for one month, one year two years, or 3 years.  The $1.99 price is for the first term so if you   choose the 1-month term the next month it’ll renew  at a higher price of $3.99 per month. When it goes   to renew you can only choose a 1 year, 2-year,  or
3-year term. So something to keep in mind.   The 1 year term will cost you $23.88 for the  first year. After the first year, it’ll renew   at a higher cost of $3.99 per month and is billed  annually at $47.88. The 2 year term, will cost you   $47.76 for the first year. After the first year,  it’ll renew at $3.99 per month costing $95.76.   The 3-year term will cost you $71.64 for the first  year. After the first year, it’ll
renew at $3.99   per month costing $143.64. I recommend going with  any of the annual plans if you are wanting to get   Sitelock Essentials as you’ll save the most  money by doing this over the 1-month option. If you have already signed up with iPage you can  add Sitelock Essentials in the iPage dashboard.   You won’t get it for the discounted price of  $1.99 per month when first signing up with   iPage web hosting. It’ll cost
the full price  of $3.99 per month and is billed annually.   It’ll cost you $47.88 for the year term.   $95.76 for a two-year term, and $143.64 for  a 3-year term. So something to keep in mind. Next, let’s go over if there are any iPage  Sitelock Essentials alternatives. If you   are going to be using WordPress for your site  there are free security plugins you can use.   Two popular free security plugins you can use  and I
recommend if you want a free option to   download to protect your WordPress site are  Sucuri and All In One Security and Firewall. These plugins can help protect your site  and make it really hard for a hacker to   get into it to place malware on it.  Some things to keep in mind is with   the free WordPress plugins it won’t  automatically remove malware for you.   I know Sucuri for example you can pay a fee  which starts at $199.99
to remove the malware. Free security plugins also won’t notify you if  your site has been blacklisted by search engines.   Another thing about the free Security WordPress  plugins is they could slow down your site.   This can vary from site to site. But  something I want to point out to keep in mind. Something you could do to amp up the  security for your site is to utilize   Cloudflare which is a free CDN service that has  free
plans and does offer some options you can   utilize for security for your website. This can  add a layer of protection for your site as well. Utilizing the free WordPress security plugins,  utilizing the free Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate   provided by iPage, having a CDN and utilizing  their security features, and making sure your   username and password aren’t easy all can help  to protect your site from malicious attacks.   I would
definitely recommend having backups of  your site as well. Cloudflare for example is a   CDN with free plans and also comes with a bunch of  free security options to help protect your site. So in my opinion, is iPage  Sitelock Essentials Worth It?   I would say it can be worth it as it protects  your site daily from malicious attacks and malware   along with removing malware automatically  and monitoring your site to see if it has  
been blacklisted due to malware added on  your site. I don’t believe that this is an   easy yes or no answer to this as everyone’s  needs are different and some might have more   knowledge than others if having to correct  the site if malware is placed into it. Having peace of mind in case something happens   could be reassuring for  having Sitelock Essentials. I hope this iPage Sitelock Essentials Review video   helped you answer the
question of whether  you really need iPage Sitelock or not. If you haven’t already be sure to give  this video a thumbs up and subscribe to   our channel for more hosting video tutorials.  Leave us a comment we love hearing from you.