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    What is Phishing and How to Protect Yourself from It

    What is Phishing and How to Protect Yourself from It Table of Contents What is Phishing? Types of phishing techniques Spear phishing Microsoft 365 phishing Whaling phishing Voice phishing Business email compromise (BEC) Social media phishing How Can You Prevent Phishing? 1. Pay Attention To The Sender and The URL in Your Emails 2. Avoid Downloading Email Attachments You Don’t Expect 3. Always Check The Site You’ve Landed On 4. Ignore Money Requests What should you do if you receive a phishing email? How to report phishing emails? How to report phishing emails to your email provider  How to report…

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    Build in Security from Day 1 to Prevent Website Hacks

    Build in Security from Day 1 to Prevent Website Hacks Table of Contents Choosing A Secure Web Host Check their support Check their security features Check their blog Check their price Build Your Site Securely From The Beginning Install an SSL certificate as soon as you get the website set up Set a strong password policy before you start adding users Require Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for any user that will have admin level rights in the system. Set up a backup system that will regularly backup your entire website and store those backups securely. Adhere To The Principle Of Least…

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    95% Less Bad Traffic with Enhanced Brute-force Prevention

    95% Less Bad Traffic with Enhanced Brute-force Prevention We have been talking about brute-force attacks in the past, but the truth is that many of our clients don’t even realize how real and how common the threat of these attacks is for anyone with a website. Based on our experience of hosting millions domains, we fully understand the destructive potential of brute-force and we have set defence mechanisms to prevent and mitigate such attempts directed at the websites we host. For years our AI brute-force prevention system has been successfully blocking millions of attacks every day. Now, we are happy…

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    You Can Now Block Country Traffic to Protect your Website

    You Can Now Block Country Traffic to Protect your Website The security of our clients’ websites has always been one of our top priorities and something that we continuously improve on. The latest tool in our website protection arsenal, available for FREE on all hosting plans, is the option to easily block the traffic coming to your site from specific countries. This will not only increase your website security, but can also help website performance by decreasing resource usage when blocking the traffic coming from locations you would rather not get traffic from. When to consider blocking the traffic from…

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    Sell Digital Products and Grow Your Online Business with Managed EDD Hosting

    Sell Digital Products and Grow Your Online Business with Managed EDD Hosting At SiteGround we’re constantly working to add even more value to our services and respond to our customers’ growing business needs. Now, we’ve made it easier than ever to sell digital products online by partnering with Easy Digital Downloads – the leading WordPress-based eCommerce platform for selling digital products. You can now take advantage of a powerful managed eCommerce hosting platform for EDD to launch a ready-to-go eCommerce WordPress website in minutes and grow your online business even further! Selling Digital Products Online Is a Growing Trend Digital…

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    How to Keep Your Site Safe with Site Scanner Security Service (Webinar Video + Q&A)

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    Raising WordPress Default Memory Limit for SiteGround Clients

    Raising WordPress Default Memory Limit for SiteGround Clients At SiteGround we always strive to go the extra mile for our clients and make website management on our platform as easy and hassle-free as possible. This is especially true for WordPress websites, us being one of the first web hosts to start offering managed WordPress services to spare you tons of manual work and hassle. The extra effort we put into it goes steadily throughout the years, complemented by a strong involvement from our team in the WordPress dev and hosting projects.  As of recently, we have been receiving a growing…

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    Content Delivery Networks and SiteGround CDN Explained (Webinar Q&A + Video)

    Content Delivery Networks and SiteGround CDN Explained (Webinar Q&A + Video) Table of Contents What is a CDN? What are the benefits of using a CDN for your website? Websites with international visitors Websites with users in remote areas Websites that change content frequently CDN Benefits for websites with no international traffic How does SiteGround CDN compare to third-party services? Easy-to-use Blazingly-fast In-house built Do you need to first disable other CDNs? Can you use SiteGround CDN with our SiteGround Optimizer plugin for WordPress? Website Caching and SiteGround CDN Is it best to use several of your options or is…

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    How to Leverage Browser Caching in WordPress to Optimize Page Load Time

    How to Leverage Browser Caching in WordPress to Optimize Page Load Time Table of Contents Differences Between Browser Caching And Server Caching What Is Browser Caching? How Browser Caching Works In WordPress Controlling The Browser Cache How To Leverage Browser Caching In WordPress? The Hard Way: Leveraging Browser Caching By Setting Caching Headers Manually The Easy Way: Leveraging Browser Caching Using A WordPress Plugin Cache Busting Speed Results After Leveraging Browser Caching 🚀 Get SiteGround Optimizer for FREE Optimizing a website for speed is a never ending quest. There is always something you can tweak to shame milliseconds off each…

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    New Data Center and CDN Location in Madrid

    New Data Center and CDN Location in Madrid We’re expanding our data center and CDN network with a new location in Madrid, Spain. As soon as Google Cloud, on which our platform is built, announced the launch of their new region Madrid, we started the process of adding this location to our network too. Now all customers, whose websites receive traffic from Spain, may further increase the loading speed of their websites for Spanish visitors by using this new data center and CDN point. Data Center in Madrid, Spain Throughout the years, we’ve been growing our data center network by…

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    SiteGround Launches New Site Scanner Plans

    SiteGround Launches New Site Scanner Plans Table of Contents What Is Site Scanner What’s Included in our Site Scanner Basic Plan NEW FEATURE: Site protect URLs scan Domain blacklist check On-demand manual scan (URLs, domain, and files) Email Reporting 30-day scan history NEW: Premium Plan With Awesome Additional Features Daily automatic files scan File upload scan File upload quarantine Activate or Upgrade Site Scanner for Your Site Now Since its launch in 2011, our Site Scanner website security service has helped hundreds of thousands of website owners protect their sites from destructive hacks, data theft and reputation damages via early…

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    How And When To Use Coupons On Your Site For An Effective Marketing Strategy

    How And When To Use Coupons On Your Site For An Effective Marketing Strategy Table of Contents What Are Coupons? Physical Coupons Digital Coupons 3 Key Ecommerce Coupon Marketing Tips 1. Set the behavior you want to change 2. Personalized coupons 3. Create a sense of urgency How To Create Coupon Codes For An Online Store 5 Innovative And Effective Ways to Use Digital Coupons For Your E-commerce 1. Add coupons to your mailing list landing page 2. Create single-use coupons 3. Run social ads offering coupons to audiences that frequent or follow your competitors 4. Create coupons for influencers…

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    How To Accept Payments Online: 5 Steps And Best Payment Processing Providers

    How To Accept Payments Online: 5 Steps And Best Payment Processing Providers Table of Contents Online Payments Related Terms You Should Know What is a Payment Processing Software What is Payment Gateway What Is An Online Storefront Why Should You Use Payment Processing Software? STEP 1: Setting Up Secure Payment Processing Make Sure You Have A Secure Certificate 💡 TIP: About storing payment information locally STEP 2: Facilitate Credit And Debit Cards STEP 3: Set Up Recurring Billing STEP 4: Accept Mobile Payments STEP 5: Accept Cryptocurrency Payments How To Choose A Payment Processing Solution? Best Online Payment Processing Providers…

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    SiteGround CDN Is Now Officially Here

    SiteGround CDN Is Now Officially Here Table of Contents UPDATE What are the benefits of the SiteGround CDN Blazing-fast websites loading speed No configuration and easy management SiteGround CDN plans and features Features in the Free CDN plan Features in the Premium CDN plan How to get started UPDATE We’ve already launched a newer, even faster version of our CDN service – SiteGround CDN 2.0! It increases the website loading speed by 20% on average, going up to 100% for visitors located in some specific parts of the world, by utilizing the power of anycast routing and Google network edge locations.…

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    Building an eCommerce Website: You’re 8 Steps Away From a Successful Online Store

    Building an eCommerce Website: You’re 8 Steps Away From a Successful Online Store Table of Contents STEP 1: Choose your eCommerce Platform  WordPress + WooCommerce PrestaShop OpenCart Weebly Drupal Magento (Now Adobe Commerce) Factors to consider when selecting an eCommerce platform STEP 2: Get A Domain Name STEP 3: Select Your Hosting Provider STEP 4: How to Install Your eCommerce platform Step 5: Choosing the Perfect Design for Your eCommerce Website Understand Your Brand and Target Audience Prioritize User Experience (UX) Customization and Flexibility Responsiveness and Performance Integration with eCommerce Features Read Reviews and Seek Inspiration STEP 6: Set Up…

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    Creating a Carbon Literate Society with Our Client Clever Carbon

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    New Private DNS Service for Enhanced Online Privacy and Completely White-Label Hosting

    New Private DNS Service for Enhanced Online Privacy and Completely White-Label Hosting Table of Contents Introducing our Private DNS service What are the benefits of our new Private DNS service? Enhanced online privacy Completely white-label hosting How to activate and manage the Private DNS service? We are now introducing our own Private DNS service, which allows you to customize the default name servers on our platform for enhanced online privacy and completely white-label hosting. It takes full advantage of our centralized DNS service, which was built to ensure faster domain name resolving for a faster website loading, enhanced reliability, and…

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    Rise Above with Alisha Kumar: Women-Owned Online Businesses on SiteGround

    Rise Above with Alisha Kumar: Women-Owned Online Businesses on SiteGround Table of Contents The Start of The Social Project Your Website is Your Storefront Tips for Social Media Engagement On Being a Good Leader Create Your Agency Website We dedicated the month of March to inspiring women entrepreneurs who turned their ideas and passions into full-time businesses. Our Women-owned series features amazing women from various industries, including hand-made pottery, web development and design, and tour photography. And all those powerful females trusted SiteGround to host, build, and grow their websites. We’re excited to share the story of another one of…

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    Expert Tips for Optimizing Your WordPress Website

    Expert Tips for Optimizing Your WordPress Website You can benefit from having a blazing fast WordPress website in many ways. Among other things, speeding up your site will help for better conversion rates, higher SEO ranking positions and positive user experience. To help you speed up your website, we invited competent WordPress experts on the topic and organized a #WPSpeedChat on Twitter along with Felix Arntz (@felixarntz), Developer Relations Engineer at Google and WordPress Core Committer, David Bisset (@dimensionmedia), PHP Expert and WordPress Developer, Francesca Marano (@FrancescaMarano), Associate Director of Engineering at XWP, and Hristo Pandjarov (@pandjarov), WordPress Initiatives Manager…

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    Why and How To Eliminate Render-blocking Resources Easily

    Why and How To Eliminate Render-blocking Resources Easily Table of Contents What Does Eliminating Rendering-blocking Resources Mean? Types Of Render Blocking Resources How Can I Test If My Website Has Rendering-blocking Resources? The “Inspect Element” option from the browser: WebPageTest: How To Eliminate Render-Blocking Resources How To Eliminate Render-Blocking JavaScript How To Eliminate Render-Blocking CSS How to Reduce Render-Blocking Resources In WordPress With The SiteGround Optimizer Plugin 1) Enable Memcached 2) Optimize your CSS 3) Optimize your Javascript Wrap Up In the early days of the web, the first web pages were built in a simplified version of XML called…

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    Through the Lens of Anna Lee: Women-Owned Online Businesses on SiteGround

    Through the Lens of Anna Lee: Women-Owned Online Businesses on SiteGround Table of Contents Entering the Tour Photography World Building An Online Portfolio Being an Early Adopter of Full-time Tour Photography Word of Advice For Young Photographers Build Your Own Portfolio Website In our Women-Owned series, we partnered with four female entrepreneurs who host, build, and grow their websites on SiteGround platform. This is the story of Anna Lee, a music, tour and brand photographer living in Los Angeles and the webmaster behind annaleemedia.com. If you’re a photographer, aspiring to be one, or interested in how to build your online…

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    SiteGround Stands with Ukraine

    SiteGround Stands with Ukraine We are heartbroken by the events unfolding in Ukraine and the toll it takes on civilians. We’ve received many concerned thoughtful notes from clients, and while we do not have offices or employees in Ukraine, we stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people, because a stand for Ukraine is a stand for peace.  Here are some of the actions we’re taking within our scope to show our support in these extremely difficult times for all. Helping Ukrainian Customers with Free Hosting * Free renewal of hosting accounts of clients from Ukraine – we are extending all…

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    Laurel Brown Media: Women-Owned Online Businesses on SiteGround

    Laurel Brown Media: Women-Owned Online Businesses on SiteGround Table of Contents One Failure Can Lead To a New Opportunity Selling Services Online Setting Up Your Clients to Success Seeking Change in the Web Development Industry Owning a Successful Business We kicked off our Women-Owned series celebrating women entrepreneurs who host their businesses on our platform with the ceramic artist Raquel Acosta.  Now, we introduce you to Laurel Brown – the self-taught web designer and developer behind laurelbrownmedia.com. Laurel started her web design and development agency dedicated to helping small businesses prosper online. Laurel has helpful advice for others who want…

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    Introducing SiteGround Cloud CDN in Beta

    Introducing SiteGround Cloud CDN in Beta Table of Contents Why did we develop SiteGround CDN? What are the benefits of SiteGround CDN compared to a third-party service? Cloud-native Performance Client-specific Locations with Premium Networking No Configuration and Simple Management SiteGround CDN Beta Features How to take advantage of the SiteGround CDN Beta? Not so long ago we launched a Centralized Anycast DNS service which made DNS management on SiteGround really easy and significantly boosted domain name resolving speed and redundancy for SiteGround clients compared to using local DNS servers. Our Centralized DNS also laid the foundation for another feature that…

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    Glazed with Love: Women-Owned Online Businesses on SiteGround

    Glazed with Love: Women-Owned Online Businesses on SiteGround Table of Contents Finding a Creative Outlet Offline & Online Turning Your Passion Into an Online Business Translating Your Brand Identity Into Your Website The Challenges of a Maker Business Finding Purpose in What You Do This March, we’re turning International Women’s day into a whole month and shining a light on incredible women creators who built their own small businesses from scratch. We highlight some of the amazing women who host and grow their online presence with SiteGround in our  “Women-Owned” series. We’re starting off with Raquel Acosta – the self-taught…

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    New Critical Linux Kernel Vulnerability (Dirty Pipe) Patched Hours After Detection

    New Critical Linux Kernel Vulnerability (Dirty Pipe) Patched Hours After Detection Earlier today our security team received confirmation about a critical vulnerability in Linux affecting all kernels since 5.8 (CVE-2022-0847). Dubbed The Dirty Pipe, the vulnerability poses an extremely high-security risk, allowing attackers to overwrite key website files and gain full access to servers. Needless to say, that is a huge security threat with a very large scope that allows unprivileged access to root processes and configuration files. Our security team started working on it immediately after the initial reports. Even though the Linux kernel is a third-party software, at SiteGround…

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    The Difference Between Brotli And Gzip Compression Algorithms To Speed Up Your Site

    The Difference Between Brotli And Gzip Compression Algorithms To Speed Up Your Site Table of Contents What is Compression? What is Gzip Compression? What is Brotli Compression? What’s The Difference Between Brotli and Gzip Compression? Benchmarking Brotli And Gzip How Can I Enable Compression On My Website? If I Use Apache If I Use Nginx If I Am Not A Server Administrator How Can I Test Brotli and Gzip Compression? The Hard Way The Easy Way Wrap Up Are you looking for free ways to make your website faster? One way that every website owner can get a little free…

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    Speed Optimizer (formerly SG Optimizer) is Now Available аnd Free for All WordPress Sites

    Speed Optimizer (formerly SG Optimizer) is Now Available аnd Free for All WordPress Sites Table of Contents Features Available on Any Hosting Platform File-based Caching (NEW FEATURE) Environment Optimizations Frontend Optimizations Media Optimizations SiteGround Exclusive Features Dynamic Caching and Object Caching  Image compression and WebP When we started developing the SiteGround Optimizer plugin back in 2012 we wanted it to be a bridge between our services and our clients’ WordPress sites. During the years we introduced more and more features and the SiteGround Optimizer (now named Speed Optimizer) became one of the best performance optimization plugins for WordPress, based on…

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    5 Simple Steps to Achieve Better WordPress Security

    5 Simple Steps to Achieve Better WordPress Security Table of Contents Most Common WordPress Security Issues and Vulnerabilities Improve Your WordPress Security in Five Easy Steps 1. Change the Admin Username 2. Enforce Strong Passwords 3. Implement Two-factor Authentication 4. Enforce HTTPS 5. Keep Your Plugins up to Date Extra Steps to Make Your WordPress Site More Secure Final Thoughts Hackers attack websites every 39 seconds on average, a Clark School study at the University of Maryland shows. Since more than 40% of the web uses WordPress, it is one of the popular targets in danger of hacker attacks. What…

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    The Best WordPress Themes – Default, Free and Paid

    The Best WordPress Themes – Default, Free and Paid Table of Contents The Default WordPress Theme Twenty Twenty-One The Best Free WordPress Theme Neve Other Great Free WordPress Themes Storefront  Simple  Screenr Biscuit Lite Hestia The Best Paid WordPress Theme Astra Other Great Paid WordPress Themes Inspiro Divi Avada BeTheme The Easy Way To Choose A Theme Wrap Up Themes have come a long way in WordPress. For those new to WordPress, a WordPress theme is a template which defines how your WordPress site displays to your users.  When I installed WordPress for the first time, K2 was the default…

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