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    Joomla World Conference: a story by different storytellers!

    Joomla World Conference: a story by different storytellers! Last week we returned from the inaugural Joomla World Conference – the first worldwide gathering for Joomla fans from all over the globe that was held in San Jose, California! As you probably know, we’ve supported and attended quite a lot of Joomla events this year, each of them absolutely fantastic and different in its own way, but this one turned out to be really special for us! Why? What really made a difference was the atmosphere and the feeling of the event – unlike the first Joomla events we attended when…

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    Hardware Upgrades 2012

    Hardware Upgrades 2012 If you are a SiteGround client and you have been one for more than a couple of years, you probably have noticed that we tend to change our hardware quite often. This has been mine and SiteGrounds’ philosophy for quite some time now. Most hosts will brag about high-tech brand new hardware configurations on their websites but what remains hidden is that they use this hardware only for the new servers they set up. Usually, they won’t replace a working machine for any reason. In fact they will keep it (even if 5 years old) until it’s…

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    What did the SiteGround survey reveal?

    What did the SiteGround survey reveal? Table of Contents Thank you for participating! You have chosen us with high expectations! We met your expectations and even more! Did we fail somewhere? We now promise to make you say: “How cool is that!” Waiting for the results of the first official customer survey to come out was one of the main thrills during the last few days in the SiteGround offices. Now that we have the results submitted and processed and the winner of the iPad selected, we are impatient to share all the survey news with you! Thank you for…

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    Update: AutoUpdate feature now available for WordPress and Joomla!

    Update: AutoUpdate feature now available for WordPress and Joomla! UPDATE: SiteGround has now launched auto-updates for Joomla applications as well! All our Joomla users can now enjoy the same benefits and subscribe for free auto-updates of their application from the SiteGround auto-update tool in their cPanel. For a detailed tutorial how to turn on auto-updates for Joomla, check out our tutorial. According to WordPress.com, there are about 56,4 million WP sites in the world right now. And that number is rapidly growing. Many big companies, such as CNN, NBC and UPS use WordPress for their company blogs, which makes the…

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    Team Building 2012 – another peak we’ve conquered together!

    Team Building 2012 – another peak we’ve conquered together! Having slept over the SiteGround team building that was held this weekend, I suddenly realized how symbolic the event was. It all started, when few of the key SiteGrounders decided that we should aim for the top of the highest mountain peak around (2,925m / 9,596ft high). At the hiking day the weather was far from friendly with strong chilly wind and occasional gusts of rain. At first many people were skeptical about reaching the top, as the track itself was not an easy one. However, at each obstacle there were…

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    SiteGround new Affiliate Program – did we sell our souls?

    SiteGround new Affiliate Program – did we sell our souls? The standard web hosting affiliate market was a place we had been reluctant to go to. It somehow seemed wrong to us to pay more than a whole year of income for a sale generated by someone, who chooses which hosting services to recommend not based on personal experience but only based on the commission rates offered. And now here we are: launching a new affiliate program that is extremely competitive with commission rates among the highest and withhold periods among the shortest in the industry (see affiliate program comparisson…

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    Our/Your New User Area

    Our/Your New User Area So it’s live! After a few weeks of testing it, we can now shout it out loud: we launched our new User Area. A six-month project that involved the deletion of thousands of lines of old code, a totally new file structure on the backend, and lots of work on a fancier front-end. The main concept behind the redesign was to create a working space for our customers, which is simple, easy-to-use, and personal. It reflects our belief that high quality of service should show even in the smallest interface details of the tools we give…

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    JoomlaDay Chicago – yet another amazing Joomla event!

    JoomlaDay Chicago – yet another amazing Joomla event! Hello, hello – your conference aficionado reporting again! Our support for open source project events continues and I’m eager to tell you about the last JoomlaDay we sponsored and attended – JoomlaDay Chicago 2012 – August 10-11. We must be very lucky, because just like all the conferences we’ve been attending this year, JoomlaDay Chicago made no exception and was a total blast – amazing talks on Joomla and hosting, passionate community members, friends and lots of beer fun! Read on, to feel the vibe! To speak or not to speak? The…

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    The SiteGround WordCamp San Francisco Experience

    The SiteGround WordCamp San Francisco Experience As you should already know, this year we’ve been actively supporting the Open Source communities by sponsoring and attending different community events like JoomlaDays and WordCamps all over the world. Last week, few SiteGround pals and me embarked on a journey to fly us to the beautiful San Francisco for the biggest WordPress community event – WordCamp San Francisco. The event was amazing and without any further ado I’ll try to share the highlights of our experience there! What’s so special about WCSF? Just to mention for those of you who have missed our…

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    Brian says…. or what did we learn from Mr. Teeman – one of the Joomla founders

    Brian says…. or what did we learn from Mr. Teeman – one of the Joomla founders Only few days after we moved to the new office we were happy to welcome our first very special guest: Brian Teeman. He is one of the Joomla founders and an amazingly interesting person to listen and talk to. He spent two days with the SiteGround team sharing with us his love for Joomla, his viewpoint what a good customer service is and his great sense of humor. It is just impossible to tell you everything we learned from him during the multiple sessions…

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    SiteGround HQ – bigger and more inspiring than ever!

    SiteGround HQ – bigger and more inspiring than ever! It’s been a while since I’ve written anything in the blog, actually 4 months… and oh my, those were some busy 4 months. But today I want to share the excitement of the successful completion of one of the big projects that kept me occupied recently – the move of the SiteGround HQ to a new office space. A little less than a year after we moved our customer service office, SiteGround HQ now has a new home too. And this is not just a new building – it is a…

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    SiteGround targets the Asia-Pacific market with new servers in Singapore

    SiteGround targets the Asia-Pacific market with new servers in Singapore After opening our first non-US server location in Amsterdam earlier this year, SiteGround web hosting company now announces the launch of new servers in Singapore too. The new location aims to provide high quality service for the shared hosting users both from Asia and from Australia. SiteGround defines the Asia-Pacific region as very important for our business. According to our information, India and Australia are even now among the 5 top countries, where most of the SiteGround customers reside. With the new servers the company aims at providing better website…

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    We are already in Singapore!

    We are already in Singapore! “Hey Lily, we’ve moved to Singapore!” I got this message few days ago on FaceBook from one of my college mates, who had just left Washington DC for a fresh start in Asia. Knowing what we were working on the last few weeks, I was tempted to answer: “We are already there too!”. I just imagined how she would read my reply several times, trying to figure out what was going on, knowing me as a person, who had never considered a relocation. The truth is that I haven’t packed for a new home, as…

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    SiteGround takes Manhattan – BlogWorld and WordCamp NYC Recap

    SiteGround takes Manhattan – BlogWorld and WordCamp NYC Recap The SiteGround events team is back after ten busy days in the city that never sleeps, two major events and loads of good time and Starbucks lattes. For the last two weeks we attended two major blog related events, talked a lot first about blogging in general and than about doing it with WordPress and got to know many inspiring new people. BlogWorld and New Media Expo NYC, 2012 We started off our Big Apple tour with BlogWorld – the world’s largest conference and trade show for new online media. Bloggers,…

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    J And Beyond: taking part in the most important Joomla! community gathering

    J And Beyond: taking part in the most important Joomla! community gathering The SiteGround conferences journey continues in full swing and after CMS Expo, we headed to Germany to attend J And Beyond. You would wonder what’s so special about this one – yet another conference that SiteGround sponsors, attends and then writes about in this blog. Well, for anyone who uses Joomla and cares about its future, J and Beyond is by far the most important event of the year for the community. As we dearly care about Joomla, given that we host more than 80,000 customers who use…

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    The new “World” WordPress theme

    The new “World” WordPress theme Table of Contents Five different color schemes Social networking widgets Custom logo Fully widgetized Breadcrumbs Fancybox Back to the top link Footer copyright text It has been a while since we added new themes to our WordPress gallery. That is why I am quite thrilled to announce the release of the “World” WordPress theme. Unusual for a free theme as it is, this is the first of a new generation of themes we launch with its own admin panel from where you can control a rich set of features. Once you install our WordPress theme,…

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    CMS Expo adventure: super heroes, thunderstorms and more!

    CMS Expo adventure: super heroes, thunderstorms and more! Just as you may know, SiteGround super heroic team headed for Chicago last week to attend the CMS Expo – the biggest conference for content management systems. Our challenge was to redefine what web hosting is and to prove that shared hosting, when done right, can be a great option for the CMS users. Nothing could stop us to accomplish this mission even the raging nature itself. 🙂 Scared by a thunderstorm – not us! Getting to Chicago was quite challenging itself. Tenko and Niki were supposed to arrive about 6 hours earlier than…

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    Joomla!Days Netherlands – an event to remember!

    Joomla!Days Netherlands – an event to remember! We just came back from The Dutch Joomla!Days held this past weekend in Zeist, Netherlands. If you missed our previous post, we were the main sponsor of the event and it was the first Joomla! conference that we attended in person (though we have already sponsored few others). In a nutshell – the conference was absolutely great and I wanted to share our experience with all of you! The location The two-day conference was held in Woudschoten Hotel & Conferentiecentrum in Zeist. Zeist is a small town near Utrecht, but incredibly beautiful and peaceful.…

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    SiteGround goes to Joomla!Days Netherlands!

    SiteGround goes to Joomla!Days Netherlands! Last week we announced the launch of our first server in the Netherlands, and this week we ourselves are heading to this amazing country to attend a very special event: Joomla!Days Netherlands, 2012. We are excited about the opportunity to meet in person the Dutch Joomla fans and to offer them our Joomla hosting services on servers located in their own country! And we are even more thrilled by the opportunity to share the Joomla hosting lessons we have learned with the community built around this amazing software. So save these dates: the 21st and…

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    Hello Europe! Our first server location outside the US is now a fact.

    Hello Europe! Our first server location outside the US is now a fact. We are happy to announce the launch of our first server location outside the USA. We would soon be welcoming our first accounts in Europe and this is the beginning of a bigger geographical expansion that will address the needs of our customers outside the USA. We aim to address better the needs of the thousands of international customers we host. Although till now we have operated only servers based in the USA, our hosting services have always been used by many people outside the States. Part…

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    SiteGround reports good results after a full quarter of Softaculous usage

    SiteGround reports good results after a full quarter of Softaculous usage SiteGround web hosting has started a massive switch of all its servers from Fantastico to Softaculous Auto-Installer in late December last year and has recently reported that the results after the three months usage of the software are quite positive. The main reason for the switch reported by the hosting company was the fact that updates of all applications are available faster in Softaculous. “We wanted to make it easier for our customers to update as this is critical for their website security and we believe is extremely important.”…

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    SiteGround turns 8 Years in Web Hosting!

    SiteGround turns 8 Years in Web Hosting! This week we celebrate our 8th year in business! When we look back after 8 years in the industry, we are so proud to say that not only most of our employees but a lot of our clients as well have been with us from the very beginning. We started in 2004 with very little experience, but multiple times as much enthusiasm. We were a group of tech geek friends committed to learn and improve – and so we did. We very soon managed to make a name for ourselves as a small…

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    The new, lightning fast Semi dedicated servers

    The new, lightning fast Semi dedicated servers As you may already know, in SiteGround we’ve always been in pursuit of server tweaks, hacks and optimizations with one primary goal – deliver the fastest possible (and secure at the same time) website loading speed. We know how important it is for a website to load fast,  how frustrating it is having to wait for 15 seconds just to see a header banner image and then 10 more seconds to load the body of the website. And nowadays even search engines like Google take into account website loading speed when it comes…

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    SiteGround Went Skiing

    SiteGround Went Skiing To be a part of the big SiteGround family is not only a constant challenge but also a great privilege. The energy and enthusiasm that we put in our every-day work is being ceaselessly revived by the numerous events and vacations that we take part in. Several months ago we were surprised with another such news – an upcoming ski vacation that will allow SiteGround winter sport lovers to spend some time together in the mountains. After all the hassle around the organization, we finally took off heavily equipped and ready for adventures. We were warmly welcomed…

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    [UPDATED: Winners announced] FREE tickets for Joomla! and WordPress conferences in March

    [UPDATED: Winners announced] FREE tickets for Joomla! and WordPress conferences in March UPDATE: It is again time to announce who got our free tickets for WordCamp San Diego and JoomlaDay New England this March. We received a great response from all our customers from San Diego and the New England region and a few of them even asked to bring their friends and partners there. We couldn’t say no to this. Sadly enough though, WordCamp Slovakia did not sound as much tempting to our customers from Slovakia and so far no one has claimed a free ticket for this event.…

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    SiteGround web hosting now offers goMobi service for its customers

    SiteGround web hosting now offers goMobi service for its customers SiteGround teamed up with domain name service giant OpenSRS to offer goMobi mobile website builder. All registered SiteGround clients can take advantage of the new extra and build a mobile-friendly version of their website. The mobile website building platforms are gaining popularity due to the high-demand for mobile-optimization services. GoMobi is one of the solutions known to provide easy setup and user-friendly management interface. It includes a number of features helping mobile users get a quick grasp of the most important information on a website. The goMobi setup assistant also…

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    The world is going mobile – don’t stay behind

    The world is going mobile – don’t stay behind Do you know that feeling when you’re not in front of your computer, but you need to find something online quickly – you thank God for your smart phone. It has everything you need in the palm of your hand. You start browsing on your phone, looking up what you need online. And then the frustration kicks in – even if it is a website that you use every day on your computer, if it is not optimized for mobile devices, opening it up on a smart phone and finding what…

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    SiteGround goes SPAM FREE

    SiteGround goes SPAM FREE When I say SPAM, you will most probably think of the annoying unwanted emails INCOMING to your own Inbox, and this is definitely one of the SPAM aspects we have been fighting for a long time and which I am proud we have already minimized very successfully. However, in this post I would like to address another aspect – the OUTGOING SPAM: how it affects you and what is the newest solution we have applied to it. Since I started dealing with hosting (and probably many years before that), outgoing SPAM has been one of the…

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    Meet Megan Valentine: “In SiteGround things get fixed in 10 minutes instead of taking 5 phone calls over 3 days!”

    Meet Megan Valentine: “In SiteGround things get fixed in 10 minutes instead of taking 5 phone calls over 3 days!” Megan is one of the people we often see mentioning SiteGround in Twitter. That is how she got this “word of mouth hero” t-shirt 🙂 She is a professional web designer with substantial experience with Joomla and we thank her for all the good feelings she has shared. SiteGround: You are a web designer in AdCo advertising agency, whose website we proudly host. Tell us more about the agency and your work there? Megan Valentine: AdCo Advertising Agency is a full-service…

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    [UPDATED: Winners announced] WordPress and Joomla conferences in February – free tickets!

    [UPDATED: Winners announced] WordPress and Joomla conferences in February – free tickets! It’s time to announce our lucky winners who are going to attend for free the conferences we’re sponsoring this month. We received great response and I’m really happy to know that there are many active Joomla and WordPress users among our customers willing to learn all-new Joomla & WordPress developments and acquire knowledge and insights on how to get the most of their websites. Without any further ado, here are our winners: WordCamp Miami – 17-18 Feb 2012Andrew PerezCindy Goodman WordCamp Phoenix – 24-26 Feb 2012Michael DavisTom Stokes…

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