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    Serious Joomla Vulnerability found but we’ve got you Covered!

    Serious Joomla Vulnerability found but we’ve got you Covered! It is mid-summer now but security issues take no vacation. Actually they find the most inappropriate time to appear and make our lives more interesting, to say the least. On Thursday, 25 July the Joomla! Project announced the availability of Joomla 3.1.4/2.5.13 and many users upgraded their websites because the new releases provide tons of useful new features and bug fixes. One will think: job well done, it is time to hit the beach! But… On Thursday, 01 August, the Joomla! Project surprisingly  announced the immediate availability of Joomla! 3.1.5/2.5.14. Apparently…

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    WordPress 3.6 “Oscar” is Live and Kicking!

    WordPress 3.6 “Oscar” is Live and Kicking! Table of Contents New Default Theme – Twenty Thirteen Autosave Post Locking Improved Version Control In-line Login For Expired Sessions Improved Media Embedding Should You Upgrade Right Now? It’s Jazz Friday again. Happy new WordPress release everybody! WordPress 3.6 is live and the list of improvements, new features and bug fixes seems to be endless. Since you may have already looked over the official post at WordPress.org I’ll try to highlight only the most important changes and skip those 700+ fixes and minor UI changes. SiteGround uses WordPress to power up this blog and…

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    Why WordCamp San Francisco rocked my socks!

    Why WordCamp San Francisco rocked my socks! We just got back from a long and utterly exciting journey to San Francisco for the biggest WordCamp of the year – WordCamp San Francisco. We proudly sponsored the conference for a second consecutive year and to say that we had a blast will be an understatement! There were more than 600 people attending, and I had the feeling we spoke to almost all of them, amazing line-up of speakers and sessions, including Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word, and the Contribute day that made this event especially valuable for me personally. Our…

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    The new SiteGround.com is now super fast!

    The new SiteGround.com is now super fast! A lot has been said about our new website design: how it looks, what values it communicates and how it changes our hosting plans structure. However, I would like to turn your attention to another aspect of our new website – its amazing loading speed. During the last year I have worked consistently on implementing a lot of speed-related innovations to our hosting service (multiple server locations, Cloudflare CDN, the SuperCacher). I have also talked about speed optimizations on many events, but mainly in the context of our customers’ websites. Now it is…

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    Our Dedicated Servers just got more awesome!

    Our Dedicated Servers just got more awesome! As far as the hardware is concerned, our dedicated offer has always been awesome. However, during the last few years we have added so many innovations to our shared hosting that our dedicated servers started to lag behind a little. Some of the options you loved so much, like the data center choice, the Joomla and WordPress Autoupdaters, the CDN service, etc.,  were not available for our dedicated server users.  The good news is that this is no longer  the case!  From now on all innovations implemented by SiteGround will be available for…

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    WP-CLI now coming preinstalled on all SiteGround Servers!

    WP-CLI now coming preinstalled on all SiteGround Servers! We’re excited to announce that a new WordPress tool has been added to our servers. WordPress users who love command line will be happy to find WP-CLI pre-installed on all SiteGround accounts. WP-CLI allows you to do multiple things like updating your WordPress, installing themes and plugins, setting up multiple sites, etc., and all that without using a web browser. To take advantage of the tool you don’t need to install anything yourself. Simply login to your account via SSH, navigate to the folder of your WordPress installation and start typing management commands –…

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    Lily on the Joomlabe.at Podcast – the new SiteGround.com behind the scenes

    Lily on the Joomlabe.at Podcast – the new SiteGround.com behind the scenes Our rebranded website got the grounds moving and already generated quite a lot of traction and positive feedback. Thank you all! It’s reported that it even made some people cry. 🙂 Peter Bui, host of the super cool Joomlabe.at podcast, didn’t cry, but got super excited about the redesign and invited us again to share some insights behind the redesign. Lily – our very own marketing master and visionary of the rebranding project reveals why we chose the handcrafted idea and leaves some pretty cool marketing and rebranding takeaways.…

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    SiteGround Launches a New Brand Identity and a New Website

    SiteGround Launches a New Brand Identity and a New Website SiteGround web hosting company has reinvented its brand identity and launched a complete redesign of its website, company logo, and hosting plans structure in line with the new brand concept.  The brand message communicates now more clearly that SiteGround delivers a high-quality, superior service thanks to its “handcraft” approach to hosting as opposed to the “mass-production” one chosen by the majority of web hosts. Lilyana Yakimova, the Marketing Manager of SiteGround explains why the rebranding was needed: “SiteGround has a unique approach to web hosting. In an industry where most providers…

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    Our new videos reveal the handmade magic!

    Our new videos reveal the handmade magic! We are in a full-blown testing mode in the office. Our new website will be here very, very soon. While waiting, take a look at the three videos that will be part of the new SiteGround home page. They will explain a lot about SiteGround approach to web hosting and how we make your website safer, faster and better supported. But what is even more important, they will make you feel the real magic of our handmade philosophy. The making of… Our main challenge with the new website was to tell some highly…

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    The CLI for Drupal – Drush is now preinstalled on SiteGround servers!

    The CLI for Drupal – Drush is now preinstalled on SiteGround servers! Lately, we have added some fancy new features for Joomla and WordPress users and you might be wondering what’s next in our queue. We intend to add such features for other popular applications on our servers as well. So the good news this week is that our Drupal users can enjoy Drush 6.0 preinstalled on our servers! What is Drush? Drush is a command line interface that allows you to manage your Drupal website directly from a SSH console. You can use Drush to accomplish almost every task…

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    SiteGround.com reloaded, coming soon to your browsers!

    SiteGround.com reloaded, coming soon to your browsers! During the last few months we have been working on an epic production, which will soon be released. The world premiere of our new website design will heat up the summer season. And this time it is not about impressing the audience with visual effects only. This time our website will tell a great story. The story is about how we do things that others never considered possible, and how we create a new and better shared hosting world for your website. The Plot: SiteGround’s hand-made philosophy rules over the bad-ass mass production…

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    SiteGround Staging – Don’t be a cowboy coder!

    SiteGround Staging – Don’t be a cowboy coder! UPDATE: The staging feature is available on our GoGeek Shared Hosting plan, which was previously called Semi-dedicated Hosting. Ever heard of „cowboy coding“? More or less, we’ve all done it – no time for planning, let alone test website changes, each new upload messing up your CSS, installing an incompatible plugin, doing everything „live“ and visible immediately for all your website visitors to see. After all this, you end up hoping you had a backup. How about if you could create a development copy of your website for testing purposes with a…

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    Meet Web-Pepper: “I’m a one-man company, whenever I have a question I use Google and SiteGround Support”

    Meet Web-Pepper: “I’m a one-man company, whenever I have a question I use Google and SiteGround Support” It’s been a while since we presented a customer in our blog! I am happy to introduce now Web Pepper, one of our big resellers and active FaceBook fans. He has shared some cool stories about how he got inspired by the Computer world, how he has chosen to work with WordPress and what was his experience with SiteGround. SiteGround: Please introduce yourself and your online projects hosted by SiteGround? Web-Pepper: My name is Ralph de Groot, Web-Pepper is a nick related with my one-man…

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    Joomla Speed Webinars: Video, Slides & Questions

    Joomla Speed Webinars: Video, Slides & Questions I am extremely happy to report that our first webinar about Joomla speed was a great success – we had a very big crowd of people showing up, loads of questions in the end, and excellent feedback from our attendees! Daniel shared so many speed optimization tips and of course as it’s practically impossible to process all this at a time, we received numerous requests to record the webinar and share the slides. So here they are: Joomla Speed Video Replay Joomla Speed Slides There were many meaningful questions in the end, so make sure to watch the webinar…

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    Joomlabe.at podcast hosts Tenko Nikolov

    Joomlabe.at podcast hosts Tenko Nikolov In the light of the recent botnet brute force attack, yesterday our very own Tenko was invited by the quickly rising Joomlabe.at podcast of our friendly host and passionate SG ambassador Peter Bui. Tenko tells us how old he was when he got his first computer, why our philosophy about technology and innovation is different, and goes into the depths of the brute force attacks and what’s their target – you’ll be surprised – it’s not your website. Make sure to listen until the very end of the episode; Tenko shares some quite useful tips…

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    SiteGround Webinar Series

    SiteGround Webinar Series We’ve been thinking for quite some time now what will be a cool way to extend our resources and help you get your websites and business up and running, and here we are – starting a fresh educational initiative through webinars. We’ve got some of our partners excited about this idea too and will cooperate with them to bring you first hand experience and knowledge on the nitty-gritty of setting up and running an online business. The first webinars will be in the next 2 weeks and we will be covering the topics of Joomla speed and…

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    Recent WordPress Brute Force Attempts and More – Solved!

    Recent WordPress Brute Force Attempts and More – Solved! Table of Contents Update: How our approach to the Global WordPress Brute force attack is better than what we see other hosts now do. Issue 1: Brute Force attack to Joomla and WordPress login pages We made our customers’ passwords stronger Things got even more serious Issue 2: WordPress plugin Social Media Widget – gone bad! Update: How our approach to the Global WordPress Brute force attack is better than what we see other hosts now do. At the time we post this there were not many official statements made by…

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    It’s training season at SiteGround

    It’s training season at SiteGround Photo from brotherhoodofiron.com If we had to sum up web hosting in a simple formula, it would be: servers + people. The first part is easy – anyone could get servers. Maybe not the best ones out there, but essentially, servers are relatively easy to find. But what makes the big difference, are the people. Combine good hardware with the unique approach of skilled professionals and the attitude of great people and you get a unique product. That’s our company’s philosophy and in order to achieve it, we need unique HR practices. We recently had…

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    SiteGround – 9 years later!

    SiteGround – 9 years later! Yes, we turned 9 last week! So many things have happened since we initially registered our domain name (on 22nd of March, 2004, which date we have chosen to celebrate as our birthday), that I feel like we have started it all in another lifetime! But what is SiteGround now, nine years after it was founded? As part of the birthday event there were lightning talks given by different people from the company, who felt like sharing some thoughts and ideas with the others. There were no rules who will talk and what will be…

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    SiteGround extends its partnership with Cloudflare

    SiteGround extends its partnership with Cloudflare SiteGround, a leading web hosting provider, has recently extended its partnership with Cloudflare, a web performance optimization company. Besides providing the general Cloudflare CDN, optimization and security features for free to its customers SiteGround has now also developed several unique tools to improve user experience with the services and has added Railgun – one of the most advanced Cloudflare speed options. Cloudflare can be used as part of any regular hosting plan provided by SiteGround. The hosting company has developed its own cPanel plugin to help the customer activate and manage the multiple speed…

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    JCE/Image Manager vulnerability? NOT on SiteGround servers anymore!

    JCE/Image Manager vulnerability? NOT on SiteGround servers anymore! Few days ago our security team has come across a JCE related vulnerability that has the potential to affect many Joomla 1.5.x based websites. The problem is that an old version of one of the JCE addons called ImageManager has turned out to be vulnerable to attacks. The number of the affected websites is big, because many templates  providers include the JCE editor together with ImageManager as part of their template bundle installations. So many Joomla users have these extensions without having installed them themselves. After we noticed that few of our…

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    Keeping The SiteGround Herd Safe

    Keeping The SiteGround Herd Safe In 2012 we started the SiteGround How Cool Is That challenge to help our clients learn about the cool technologies that only we provide. Every week of the challenge we posted a new infographic explaining one of our unique features. In the final stage of the competition, our clients were invited to vote for the coolest technology by sharing their feedback in a comment. Our unique security technology gathered most of the votes and was chosen as the coolest Siteground feature among all others. Read the comments to see the feedback from the clients who…

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    SiteGround Automatic Updates

    SiteGround Automatic Updates In 2012 we started the SiteGround How Cool Is That challenge to help our clients learn about the cool technologies that only we provide. Every week of the challenge we posted a new infographic explaining one of our unique features. In the final stage of the competition, our clients were invited to vote for the coolest technology by sharing their feedback in a comment. Over 100 people voted for our Auto-updates technology for Joomla and WordPress as the coolest SiteGround feature. Read the comments to see the feedback from the clients who voted for it!

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    Siteground Backups

    Siteground Backups In 2012 we started the SiteGround How Cool Is That challenge to help our clients learn about the cool technologies that only we provide. Every week of the challenge we posted a new infographic explaining one of our unique features. In the final stage of the competition, our clients were invited to vote for the coolest technology by sharing their feedback in a comment. Our Daily backup features received great support. 

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    SiteGround Free Cloudflare CDN Service

    SiteGround Free Cloudflare CDN Service In 2012 we started the SiteGround How Cool Is That challenge to help our clients learn about the cool technologies that only we provide. Every week of the challenge we posted a new infographic explaining one of our unique features. In the final stage of the competition, our clients were invited to vote for the coolest technology by sharing their feedback in a comment. The SiteGround partnership with Cloudflare received lots of shout-outs from the clients who used it. Read our clients’ feedback in the comments!

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    SiteGround SuperCacher

    SiteGround SuperCacher In 2012 we started the SiteGround How Cool Is That challenge to help our clients learn about the cool technologies that only we provide. Every week of the challenge we posted a new infographic explaining one of our unique features. In the final stage of the competition, our clients were invited to vote for the coolest technology by sharing their feedback in a comment. Our unique caching technology was chosen as first runner-up with only 3 votes behind the winner. Read the comments to see the feedback from the clients who voted for it or check a short…

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    WordPress with W3 Total Cache plugin? Should you worry?

    WordPress with W3 Total Cache plugin? Should you worry? On this year’s Christmas day, many WordPress users were quite unpleasantly surprised by a vulnerability in the popular W3 Total Cache plugin. The issue was a serious one, allowing the attacker to get access to sensible information from the WordPress database including password hashtags, usernames and much more. This meant that an experienced hacker could get full access to your site, download your personal information from it, change its looks, include malicious code, add backdoors for future access and much more bad things, you wouldn’t want to experience. Sounds scary? Not if you host…

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    An amazing 2012 recap event

    An amazing 2012 recap event When you hear “end of year recap”, you probably imagine a big hall full of bored people that cannot wait for the managers to finish their polished presentations. Well, not when the recap event is happening at SiteGround! What we had instead, was a totally transformed office with one half of it looking like a gambling room with Roulette, Black Jack, Texas Hold’em and hot hostesses and the other half reminding of the Olympic Games and holding sport tournaments. These gaming activities were followed by the real yearly recap presentation that I bet was more…

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    WordPress 3.5 – The good and the bad

    WordPress 3.5 – The good and the bad The latest stable WordPress version, named after the famous jazzman Elvin Jones is finally available for download. The star of the show is named “Media Manager” – the completely revamped tool for adding multimedia and organising it into galleries is both the best and the worst thing in the latest WordPress release. The bright side of life The admin backend of WordPress has received some polishing – buttons look shinier than ever and all the icons are now Retina display ready, which means they have a lot more pixels stuck into them.…

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    Go CDN fast and secure with Cloudflare!

    Go CDN fast and secure with Cloudflare! Have you noticed the shiny new banner in the your cPanel and the gold cloud in front of a sunburst icon that we have added at some point last month? If not, it is time to take a good look at them, because they link to a service that can make your website faster and safer. During the last few months we have been working on the implementation of the Cloudflare CDN into our web hosting service and now it is completely ready! Why did we bother and why should you care? Because…

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