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    Meet Saleh Bucay: “During the 8 year I was with SiteGround, they changed only for better”

    Meet Saleh Bucay: “During the 8 year I was with SiteGround, they changed only for better” It’s time for the second interview from our new blog series – “Meet our very special customers”. Today we introduce to you Saleh Bucay from Saudi Arabia. He has more than 10 websites hosted with us, and his first website al-nisa.net was uploaded on our servers only 2 months after launching SiteGround.com. What fascinates us most though are the projects he’s involved in. Read through the interview with him to learn who the Maranao people are and what the organization he’s involved in does…

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    Meet Michel Smekens: “SiteGround hosting is the oil that makes our website engines run smoothly”

    Meet Michel Smekens: “SiteGround hosting is the oil that makes our website engines run smoothly” This is the first interview from our new blog series where we introduce some of the SiteGround customers that have stood out during the years. We start with presenting the CEO of a Belgian web design studio webnology.be SiteGround: Tell us a little more about your company webnology.be? Michel Smekens: Webnology is a web design bureau in Belgium. We started designing websites in 2004, and are still alive and kicking. We are now 2 full-time partners, and 3 more freelancers, depending on projects. We develop…

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    SiteGround involves customers in a “Stop Censorship” Campaign

    SiteGround involves customers in a “Stop Censorship” Campaign SiteGround web hosting company has launched a campaign to encourage its customers to voice their opinion about the soon-to-be-voted in the House of Parliament PIPA bill. The goal of the campaign is to raise the awareness about the controversial legislation and to attract even more people to oppose the bill. The SiteGround clients are invited to embed a special stamp on their websites created by the company for the needs of the campaign and to spread the word against SOPA and PIPA in their social media channels. The company has even created…

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    UPDATED: Join our “Stop Censorship” Campaign – Let’s Oppose SOPA and PIPA together

    UPDATED: Join our “Stop Censorship” Campaign – Let’s Oppose SOPA and PIPA together UPDATE: Following the massive blackout last Wednesday at least 18 senators withdrew their support for PIPA and SOPA. The big news though came on Friday Jan 20, 2012 when the scheduled PIPA voting has been postponed: Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) pulled his planned cloture vote on the bill, agreeing to go back to the drawing table. This shows HUGE positive progress on both PIPA & SOPA and we’d like to say big thank you to everyone who joined the campaign.   However, the fight isn’t over yet.…

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    Meet our very special customers – a new blog series

    Meet our very special customers – a new blog series I work for SiteGround since the company was founded and I still remember well these hard and romantic times in the beginning, when each of us knew the name and the website of almost all our customers. Now, seven years and thousands of customers later, as a head of the Marketing Department, I seldom have the chance to get to know in such details anyone using our services. However, at the end of the last year I got a new opportunity to learn more about some of our most outstanding…

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    Secret Santa Fun in SiteGround Sales Department

    Secret Santa Fun in SiteGround Sales Department It was a beautiful Monday morning, 26th of December, when we gathered around the office Christmas tree. Under it there were gifts for each of us, all wrapped and pretty, all with carefully written name tags on them. But let us start from the beginning, so that we can better explain the scene described above. The holiday season reminds us of many things. Among them are family, friends and sometimes pure, good old fun. At SiteGround we know that all work and no fun can make a rep a dull boy/girl, and that’s…

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    Why Softaculous became more than Fantastic(o) to us…

    Why Softaculous became more than Fantastic(o) to us… Fantastico has been on our servers for a long time now, and it is quite possible that you know and like the smiley face in your cPanel, and have used it to install or update a software on your hosting account. However, we have started to get the impression that the guys behind the auto-installer have become a little spoiled by the fact that many people use Fantastico just because it is integrated in the cPanel and are sometimes a little negligent about the quality of their service. Just a few examples…

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    A memorable goodbye to 2011!

    A memorable goodbye to 2011! Last Friday was a long day. Really, really long, but it was totally worth it. We’ve been preparing for the Christmas party – which by the way has become a tradition in SiteGround – for a month and the day had finally come. Every year we gather our whole team around Christmas on something like a mini-Conference event. On that day the Goals of the Company for the past year are evaluated, future targets are set and all is presented by the Management team before all SG employees. Well when I say all, It’s not…

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    Thank you for thanking SiteGround!

    Thank you for thanking SiteGround! On behalf of the whole SiteGround team we would like to say a big “Thank you!” to all customers, who took part in our Thanksgiving initiative! The true stories you shared on your websites about your SiteGround experience were absolutely amazing, sincere and inspired. It is great to see that our team and service are appreciated for the things we believe are important and put special effort on. So it is our turn to say: Thank you for the high evaluation of our support and for appreciating the special efforts we put to be experts…

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    WordCamps in December: we sponsor and give some free tickets away

    WordCamps in December: we sponsor and give some free tickets away SiteGround is a proud sponsor of two WordCamps that will take place during December 2011. As part of our sponsorship we had a few free tickets to give away and the following WordPress users, who host a website with SiteGround and have expressed interest in one of the events have won the tickets: WordCamp Orlando on December 3rd, 2011 1. David Leith 2. Andrew Haughn 3. William Smith WordCamp Las Vegas on December 17th, 2011 1. Glen Winfield 2. Jake Taylor 3. Issaga Kane 4. Celeste Brown We wish…

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    Stop the Stop Online Piracy Act

    Stop the Stop Online Piracy Act I don’t know if you have heard about it, but yesterday was the first hearing in the US Congress about the so called “Stop Online Piracy Act”. And it was a messy day. It was all over the Internet. People cried out about it in all social networks and as a matter of fact they still do. All day long today I’ve been monitoring the word “SOPA” on twitter, and frankly I did not even imagine so many people and companies cared… I won’t go into details as to what SOPA actually is, you…

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    SiteGround Internal Conference Fall 2011 – you can now explain your granny what you really work!

    SiteGround Internal Conference Fall 2011 – you can now explain your granny what you really work! I recently overheard my mother telling one of her neighbors that I work as a computer programmer. You can imagine my surprise, as I am a marketing person, and I have never written a single line of anything even remotely resembling a source code. But it was definitely not my mother’s fault, it was me, apparently not being able to explain to her what web hosting is and what I do in a web hosting company. The thought that the situation can be similar…

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    Has your WordPress site been hacked recently?

    Has your WordPress site been hacked recently? If you’re using WordPress as your favorite open source blogging platform, chances are pretty high you’ve already heard about the recent security flaw found in the TimThumb plugin fow WP. If you haven’t – you should, cause it’s pretty severe. Here is more info on that: http://www.websitedefender.com/wordpress-security/timthumb-vulnerability-wordpress-plugins-themes/ The security flaw isn’t a core WordPress vulnerability, so you won’t be vulnerable for just using WordPress. However, the bad news is that a pretty big number of themes out there use the TimThumb plugin in order to operate correctly and therefore TimThumb is included in…

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    Free HackAlert as a special bonus for all upgrades to Hosting PLUS

    Free HackAlert as a special bonus for all upgrades to Hosting PLUS SiteGround has announced the following promotion for its existing customers: for the next one week each standard shared account that is upgraded to the PLUS version of the hosting plan will receive one year free use of the latest malware monitoring service HackAlert. Both services (Hosting PLUS and HackAlert), are relatively new in the SiteGround portfolio. They have been introduced during the summer and the current promotion aims to make more of the customers aware of these services benefits. The Hosting PLUS plan allows hosting multiple domains on…

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    The new “home” of SiteGround customer service

    The new “home” of SiteGround customer service Hey, I am writing this blog post to let you know we’ve moved our Customer Service to a new, better, and significantly larger office! We are so excited about it, because we believe that it is important how people feel about their job and that the efficient, comfortable and cozy work environment influences positively the quality of our Customers Service. Here’s the short story of our Customer Service offices: The first customer service office we established apart from our head office was in the romantic initial years of SiteGround, when we, less than…

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    SiteGround Security Ins and Outs

    SiteGround Security Ins and Outs I’ve always wanted to express how I feel about security in the shared web space, where dozens of users divide the same resources and at the same time require dramatically different technologies to be enabled on a single host server (such as different PHP engines with different options enabled, Perl, Python, an FTP service, an email service, a Database service, etc;). In case you’re an admin, you’ll know how difficult it is to provide all of that on a shared hosting server while allowing access to practically everybody on the Internet and at the same…

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    A new Malware Protection Service Now Available

    A new Malware Protection Service Now Available We’re excited to announce our new service – HackAlert.  HackAlert is the latest malware detection and early warning system available out there, powered by our partner GlobalSign-one of the longest established Certification Authorities and specialists in SSL security. Malware is developed and improved every day to compromise PCs and spread viruses, hijack computers or steal personal information.  One of the biggest fears of website owners is for their site to be infected with hidden malicious code and then used as a vehicle to distribute it to the website visitors.  Unless remedied quickly, an…

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    How SiteGround Decided and Moved to a new Data Center

    How SiteGround Decided and Moved to a new Data Center At some point last year, SingleHop, whose data centers hosted part of our business, informed me about a brand new facility they had just started to use in Chicago. What they were saying about it was so impressive that I decided to go and personally check the place. At that point SiteGround was using several data centers, operated by different providers and had no plans to change the situation, but my visit to the facility laid the foundations for some new plans. The building of the new Data Center is…

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    Free 2Checkout account for each SiteGround customer

    Free 2Checkout account for each SiteGround customer UPDATE: We no longer have a partner relationship with 2checkout and the stated special terms do not apply anymore. SiteGround is happy to announce a new partnership with 2Checkout – a company for online payment processing services.  As a result of this partnership each of our customers will have the initial setup fee for a 2Checkout account completely waived. The discount code is available in the Free Resources section of the SiteGround customer area. With this new free addition we provide a very convenient way to all e-commerce website owners to start selling…

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    SiteGround Offers Free SSL

    SiteGround Offers Free SSL SiteGround web hosting company announced the launch of a special promotion: hosting package including a free SSL certificate. The company aims to increase the number of users who protect sensitive data transfer over the web with the help of an SSL encryption. SiteGround, one of the largest providers of shared hosting services, launched a special promotion where the SSL certificate plus a dedicated IP address come free of charge for the first year. The company says security has always been its top priority and that is why it now gives away free SSL certificates, so that…

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    SiteGround 2010 Recap

    SiteGround 2010 Recap 2010 was quite an eventful year for SiteGround. We have added many new services and applied a lot of technology innovations to improve the customer experience. In this post we will summarize the most important things that happened during 2010. New Server Technologies In 2010 we have incorporated numerous important server technologies. We continue to optimize the shared hosting servers performance by using the innovative server management software of 1H.com. With the help of their unique server monitoring system we significantly minimized server downtime during 2010. 1H intrusion prevention systems also made our customer websites more secure…

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    More Than a Customer

    More Than a Customer Essential part of the hosting service is the communication with clients. It allows us to meet interesting people, to discuss and solve problems together. That is how we become closer with some of the people and they join our large community – facebook group, twitter followers… In this article we introduce to you one of the most active and helpful members of our community – Alin. He is extraordinary in many ways – smart, helpful, good-natured, honest and always eager to reach the bottom of the problem. You should know his life has not been easy,…

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    Good Bye Old SiteBuilder, Hello New Website Wizard!

    Good Bye Old SiteBuilder, Hello New Website Wizard! Table of Contents Our New Website Wizard Rich Template Gallery WYSIWYG Editor Drag-n-drop Modules Variety of Page Types The Make Website Package During the last few months, SiteGround has gone through a serious reformation related to the SiteBuilder solution we provide to our customers. The changes were triggered by some copyright issues, which our primary SiteBuilder provider SiteMagix was unable to handle professionally. This situation forced us to take decisive actions and find an alternative solution, despite the high costs of changing such a vital part of our service. The end result…

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    New Free WordPress Theme by SiteGround – Universe

    New Free WordPress Theme by SiteGround – Universe Table of Contents Widget Ready Sidebar 125×125 banners ready (using WP125) prettyPhoto lightbox (jQuery based) Custom 404 Not Found page Dropdown Menu Support CSS3 Enhanced SEO Optimized We are proud to present the latest release to our WordPress free themes gallery. Our brand new WordPress theme Universe is finally here ready to be downloaded and used. It is optimized for a great performance with WordPress 3.0 and provides a unique set of features that you would hardly find in another freely distributed theme. One of the greatest advantages of the themes is…

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    SiteGround.com Launches New Cloud Hosting Service

    SiteGround.com Launches New Cloud Hosting Service SiteGround.com, the leading web hosting company, today announced the launch of a new cloud hosting service. The new product uses the best virtualization technology to deliver a service with outstanding reliability, redundancy and flexibility, suitable for business websites of various sizes. The cloud hosting service includes number of free extras, which makes it the most affordable offer on the market. The new cloud hosting service is the ideal solution for business websites, thanks to its platform of multiple servers that operate as one. It provides unmatched reliability and redundant storage. Every website hosted on…

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    SiteGround starts a new “Make website” package

    SiteGround starts a new “Make website” package SiteGround web hosting company launched a new Make website package that accommodates the needs of users without any experience in creating a website. The new service is a bundle of conveniently integrated services and products that allows any user to start and manage their own website. The Make website package includes everything a customer needs to create their first website without any previous design or development knowledge. It covers all the basic elements for establishing an online presence such as free domain registration, professional hosting with 24/7 support, powerful sitebuilder for easy website…

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    SiteGround Goes Green

    SiteGround Goes Green A lot has been said about global warming and “going green”. Our team has always been enthusiastic about reducing pollution, saving energy and water, but we always felt that’s not enough. So, we decided to try a more effective, down-to-earth, hands-on approach to doing something good for our planet. This weekend the SiteGround team planted over 400 trees and cleaned the surrounding area. There were more than 50 of us – SiteGround employees, friends, kids and a dog. Our task was to plant willows along a riverbank. Willows help both the local eco balance and prevents collapsing…

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    osCommerce Vulnerability Fixed on All SiteGround Servers

    osCommerce Vulnerability Fixed on All SiteGround Servers As probably most of you know, osCommerce is a shopping cart application for creating and managing online stores. It is very widely used and has many implementations and variations. Many popular shopping cart applications like OscMax, ZenCart, CreLoaded, etc. are actually based on osCommerce and use its code. Unfortunately, for quite a while now, there has been a known vulnerability in the osCommerce code and the code of the applications based on it through which a hacker can exploit the admin area and take malicious actions. Although on the osCommerce official website there…

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    More Great Extra Services from SiteGround

    More Great Extra Services from SiteGround Last month I gave you a hint about the more extra services to come this season. Here is a quick write up to get your attention at two of our latest additions. We’re launching premium versions of two of our services that traditionally rank us among the best in the industry: our reliable email spam protection and first-class technical support. SiteGround Premium Support We know that some clients need things to move faster than other. The idea behind our Premium Support service was to top up the customer support that we currently offer to…

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    SiteGround sponsors OpenFest conference

    SiteGround sponsors OpenFest conference SiteGround was a proud sponsor for a second consecutive year of the largest Conference for open-source software on the Balkans – the OpenFest. The event was held last weekend in Sofia, Bulgaria. This was the 7th consecutive annual gathering of open-source developers and fans from the region and it attracted more than 30 speakers and 700 participants. Among the most interesting speakers at the conference were Cornel Creanga from Adobe Romania, two of the Bulgarian developers, working on the Samba4 project, Philip Paeps – a prominent FreeBSD contributor from Belgium, and many more. SiteGround Head System…

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