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    All SiteGround Accounts are Now Using Site Tools

    All SiteGround Accounts are Now Using Site Tools Table of Contents Large Number of Accounts and over 3367.46 TB of Data Migrated  A Multitude of Use Cases and 44,000 Lines of Code Written for Migration Automations Our Best Record: 8985 Accounts Migrated in One Day  60,000 Hours Invested in Manual Post-migration Verification So many new features now available to all! Mission Accomplished! The last one of our cPanel servers was switched to Site Tools yesterday. We are so excited to see this long and complex migration come to an end as now each and everyone of our customers is safely…

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    We Are Turning 17 And This Is How We Have Matured

    We Are Turning 17 And This Is How We Have Matured Table of Contents Enhancing our interfaces for a smooth user experience Developing the fanciest, high-quality hosting platform Maturing as a socially responsible company Keeping high client satisfaction rate across the years Time for sharing… Turning 17 is exciting for everyone, even for a hosting provider! And today, March 22, 2021 marks our 17th Birthday! During these years we managed to keep our enthusiasm and spirits just as high as that of a high school senior, but gain even more experience. In this past year alone we matured tremendously, having…

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    Piping Email with PHP and SiteGround

    Piping Email with PHP and SiteGround One of the fun things to do with computers is to think outside the box, to use tools for things they aren’t exactly designed for. Email is one of my favorite toys with which to play with. Email is universal, and everyone has it. So when you create a new user for it, everyone can now do that. What can we make email do that it doesn’t do already? Well, email is a delivery system, so we can use it to not only deliver data of some kind, but also to trigger an event…

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    Harnessing the Power of Off-Page SEO: a Definitive Guide

    Harnessing the Power of Off-Page SEO: a Definitive Guide Table of Contents What is Off-Page SEO? Off-Page SEO Factors Off-Page SEO factors and traditional marketing efforts include: What About Backlinks Be the Peacock and Build Your E-A-T A Final Reminder of Off-Page SEO Successful SEO (search engine optimization) requires marketers to use both on-page and off-page SEO efforts. It is the combination of these two techniques that produce long-term, sustainable results in Google search. But don’t jump ahead and assume I’m just talking about backlinks because today’s off-page SEO is much more than acquiring a few links to your site. After…

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    SuperCacher and Up to 5 Times Faster Sites for All!

    SuperCacher and Up to 5 Times Faster Sites for All! Table of Contents Dynamic caching ON for everybody! Between 50% and 500% faster page loading WordPress cached out-of-the-box, other applications can also be configured Dynamic cache management options  Memcached available on all plans to opt-in Note: It was in the ancient 2012 when we announced our SuperCacher – the feature that allowed our clients to enable static cache, dynamic cache, and Memcached for their accounts. Since then, we have heavily enhanced the technology and fine-tuned its behavior and we believe it is one of the most powerful speed tools we…

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    The Hidden Cost of Free

    The Hidden Cost of Free I’ve been involved in the open-source software movement since there was an open-source software movement. Over time I’ve seen the perception of it change. In the beginning, there were a lot of people writing software and contributing because they could. It made them feel good to give to others. Users of open-source software recognized this gift they were being given and respected it and the talents of those doing the giving. Many users contributed back to their favorite projects by way of code, documentation, advocacy, and sometimes even money. Over time, things have changed. These…

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    What are Brute Force Attacks and Why YOU Don’t Have to Worry About Them

    What are Brute Force Attacks and Why YOU Don’t Have to Worry About Them Table of Contents What is a brute force attack? How do you mitigate a brute force attack? If your website is not hosting with SiteGround If your website is hosted with SiteGround Wrapup Exactly what is a “brute force” attack on a website? Just the name “brute force” conjures up a bad guy in a cheesy action movie. For most websites, a brute force attack can be very serious. What is a brute force attack? A brute force attack is exactly what the name sounds like.…

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    New MySQL Setup For Faster Query Processing

    New MySQL Setup For Faster Query Processing Update We’re currently migrating all our servers to MySQL 8. Learn more about the migration process in our blog post. Two of the most frequent reasons a site might be slow are unoptimized PHP processes and heavy MySQL queries. Website code optimization is always a crucial part of the constant battle for more website speed. However, webmasters hosting with SiteGround, have always had a reliable ally by their side in this quest. Recently we have announced the new Ultrafast PHP, which significantly speeds up the processing of PHP scripts and improve the website…

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    More Site Speed Gains with Brotli Compression Algorithm

    More Site Speed Gains with Brotli Compression Algorithm We are happy to announce that we have deployed and enabled by default the Brotli compression algorithm on our Site Tools servers so websites hosted there could get up to 15-20% speed gains from using it.  What is Brotli? Brotli is a next generation compression algorithm developed by Google as a successor to the popular gzip method that we’ve had running on our servers for ages. The idea is simple – once your application produces the HTML output of your website and the output is compressed together with all the resources it…

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    Wrapping Up 2020: Service Enhancements, 97.7% Client Satisfaction (& A Gift To You)

    Wrapping Up 2020: Service Enhancements, 97.7% Client Satisfaction (& A Gift To You) Table of Contents ⚙️ New Tools & Service Enhancements ❤️ Support for Communities in Need 🥇97.7% Customer Satisfaction Rate & Awards Received 🎁 Share Our Recap & Win Bose Headphones >> SHARE RECAP & WIN 2020 was unquestionably a memorable and overwhelming year for all of us. It was full of challenges, worries about staying safe, working, and living in isolation. Throughout a rough year, our team has found comfort and motivation in providing lots of service enhancements to YOU, our clients, and supporting different communities the…

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    What is On-Page Optimization in SEO and How to Easily Master it

    What is On-Page Optimization in SEO and How to Easily Master it Table of Contents Recent Pivots in On-Page Optimization Always Consider Semantic Wording Create an Outline to Guide Your Writing 10 Key On-Page SEO Elements to Watch Page Name or Title URL H1 Header H2-H6 Subheaders Paragraph Text Images Hyperlinks Bullets Meta Titles Meta Descriptions Everyone Can Master Content Optimization for Search When we think about optimizing content for search, many marketers will immediately get overwhelmed because they are used to hearing SEO consultants talk about formulas, Google algorithms, and phrases like keyword density. A lot has changed in…

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    What is CRON and What You Can Use It For?

    What is CRON and What You Can Use It For? “What the heck is a cron?” I field this question at least once a month from non-developers. It’s a great question. I’m going to break it into two questions though. “What is a CRON?” “What is WP-CRON?” What is a CRON? At its heart, a cron is a “time-based scheduler”. It handles tasks that need to be done on a regular basis and at a specific time. As an example, if you want your WordPress blog to display the weather forecast in the header, then each morning you need to…

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    Protecting Your Reputation by Protecting Your Email

    Protecting Your Reputation by Protecting Your Email Your online reputation is one of your most precious possessions. Because of this, you need to do everything in your power to protect it. The problem is that the more powerful your reputation becomes online, the more that people with bad intentions want to take control of it and use it for their own purposes. Nowhere is this easier online than email. Email started as a trust system. I trust the email server I used to send my email. It trusts any number of servers to help deliver the email along the way.…

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    PHP 8 Available on Our Servers (What’s New + Game)

    PHP 8 Available on Our Servers (What’s New + Game) Table of Contents What are the PHP 8 improvements and features Faster code execution Code with higher quality  Cleaner, shorter code The “type” trend How to take advantage of PHP 8 on our platform? Tell us what you think and win a PHP elephant We’re happy to announce that we have deployed the latest release candidate version of PHP 8 on all our servers. As always we are among the first companies to provide the new PHP on their hosting platform. PHP 8 is expected to facilitate developers to write…

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    What Is The Principle of Least Privilege in WordPress

    What Is The Principle of Least Privilege in WordPress Computer programmers like to give things big names. This is how we end up with something called the “Principle of Least Privilege” (POLP) to say something as simple as only let users do what they absolutely need to do. That’s all we are talking about here. Make sure that all the users in your site have exactly the permissions they need, and nothing more. But since that doesn’t sound impressive, we are going to call it POLP from now on. Application Users The easiest user to talk about is the WordPress…

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    Creating a Content Calendar: Content Audit and Mapping Keywords

    Creating a Content Calendar: Content Audit and Mapping Keywords Table of Contents What is Keyword Mapping? What is a Content Audit? How To Perform a Content Audit? 1. Obtain a List of Your URLs 2. Collect More Data 3. Look for Duplicate Keywords 4. Review Content Currently Ranking 5. Add Comments Some Food for Thought on Mapping Keywords Let’s recap what we’ve done so far: Now let’s review what we still have left to do: Some guidelines to keep in mind: And finally, a warning message and reminders: Creating a Content Calendar Editorial goals and objectives: Basic components of an…

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    New, Ultrafast PHP for up to 30% Faster Websites

    New, Ultrafast PHP for up to 30% Faster Websites Table of Contents Ultrafast, yet Super Secure PHP Setup Our Ultrafast PHP vs Our Standard PHP Our Ultrafast PHP – Recommended for Well-visited Sites  Our Standard PHP Allows Different PHP Settings for Each Subdomain  How to Switch to the Ultrafast PHP? Speed is one of the pillars of our hosting services and wе’re constantly working on making our infrastructure faster and more reliable. One of the essentials for a fast loading speed is the way the PHP is handled on the web server and now, with our new Site Tools platform…

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    How to Optimize Your Agency’s Workflow with WP-CLI Commands

    How to Optimize Your Agency’s Workflow with WP-CLI Commands Table of Contents Accelerating administrative efforts Using agency-wide defaults Automating recurring tasks Extending for custom use cases Executing tasks on remote sites Reaching for the black belt Getting started Is your agency spending a lot of time on busy work and repeating the same efforts time and time again, from one client to the next? Is the development team wasting a lot of their focus and mental energy on menial tasks and boilerplate work? What if you could free up some or all of these resources and invest them into the…

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    New Webmail App To Manage Email Settings

    New Webmail App To Manage Email Settings We have just released a stand-alone Webmail application for hosting plans using Site Tools, which allows all email users to change their password and set up different email automation like autoresponders, filters, and forwarders. Until now users could access their mail through a browser (yourdomain.com/webmail* or via the server name), but certain control features were a privilege of the hosting account owner through Site Tools only.  Users can change passwords and manage settings from their webmail interface Hosting account owners have had access to a number of tools through Site Tools that allowed…

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    What’s New in WordPress 5.5 (+ Screenshots and Tips)

    What’s New in WordPress 5.5 (+ Screenshots and Tips) Table of Contents Security Improvements Easy Control of Plugins and Themes Automatic updates Speed Improvements SEO Improvements Gutenberg UI and functionality New Block Editor UI New Block Patterns Inline Image Editing And much more Accessibility Changes Pro Tips For Developers Over to you It’s that time again! WordPress 5.5 will be out today if everything goes as planned. I feel quite excited about this new version. I had the chance to be part of the magic that happened behind the scenes of this WordPress release as a mentor and  I would…

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    Keyword Analysis and Selection – Master the Art of SEO

    Keyword Analysis and Selection – Master the Art of SEO Table of Contents Creating a Solid Keyword Strategy by Pulling Search Volumes for Your Keyword List Using KW Finder for Keyword Analysis and Selection Understanding Search Intent is Key when it Comes to Keyword Analysis The Different Types of Search Intent Does Search Intent Really Matter to Website Owners? Narrowing Your Keyword List Based on Relevance A Few Tips to Keep You Sane and Successful Vet Your Keyword Phrases in Search Finalize Your Keyword List Coming Up Next! In my last SEO article, we explored my favorite tools sources for…

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    What Is an Email Newsletter and How to Integrate It To Your Site

    What Is an Email Newsletter and How to Integrate It To Your Site Table of Contents So, what is an email newsletter (email blast) exactly? Why it’s essential to integrate a specific email subscription form on your website The basic steps of integrating an email signup form onto your website Sign up for an email marketing service Create a list Collect email addresses Set up a professional opt-in/subscription form Send emails to your subscribers Not enough subscribers? Use multiple signup forms Offer free content  Use social media to grow your email list In conclusion What’s the first thing that pops…

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    Securing User Passwords with “Have I Been Pwned”

    Securing User Passwords with “Have I Been Pwned” Most developers are familiar with the website “Have I Been Pwned?“. Most non-developer and non-techie people have probably never heard of it. That’s ok, that’s what this blog post is for – to not only tell you about it, but to show you how to use it to keep your WordPress site safer. First, the term “Pwned” originated in a game. It was a typo because the letters “P” and “O” are so close to the keyboard. Like many good mistakes in gaming, it was appropriated and now is common slang in…

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    Ask the Right Questions Before Diving Into SEO

    Ask the Right Questions Before Diving Into SEO Table of Contents SEO Isn’t Scary Ask the Right Questions Formulating SEO Strategies with Consumer Psychology Determine Your Goals Additional SEO Questions Website Persona Criteria The Human Element of SEO  The Next Steps for Your SEO Journey SEO is an extremely powerful tool for bloggers and website owners. SEO offers a constant stream of inbound marketing activity and qualified leads, it tends to bring in much higher conversion rates, and it lives on for a very long time.  In the following weeks, we will be taking an SEO journey together with Rebecca…

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    Free CPU and RAM Added to All our Cloud Accounts

    Free CPU and RAM Added to All our Cloud Accounts Starting today we are increasing the resources available to all our new and existing cloud plans with 1CPU Core and 2 GB RAM at no additional cost. The upgrade will make our cloud service faster and more reliable than ever. During the last few months, we have implemented multiple service improvements and the current cloud update is another enhancement made possible by our recent switch to Google Cloud Platform. More Value With Our Managed Cloud Service on GCP When we decided to move our infrastructure from bare metal servers to…

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    SiteGround Optimizer 5.6 – Heartbeat control, Automatic Database Optimization and More for Even Faster Websites!

    SiteGround Optimizer 5.6 – Heartbeat control, Automatic Database Optimization and More for Even Faster Websites! Table of Contents WordPress Heartbeat Control Automatic Database Maintenance DNS Pre-fetch  Improved Memcached Integration Deprecation of the PHP Switcher We have just launched the latest major update of the SiteGround Optimizer plugin. The new version greatly enhances what’s already the best performance solution for your website if you are hosted with SiteGround! If you follow the plugin’s changelog you will notice that for the last few years we’ve constantly improved and added more and more functionalities turning the plugin from a simple connector to our…

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    How to Start an Online Business on a Budget? Learn from the experts.

    How to Start an Online Business on a Budget? Learn from the experts. Table of Contents Start Your Online Business With Something You’re Good At Don’t hold back From Establishing Your Online Business! Free Ideas For Small Business Build a site on a budget with WordPress Good SEO is still the cheapest form of marketing Starting and maintaining a business online has always been a hot topic, but recently it’s become crucial, rather than a side income. In this business-critical moment, we reached out to five established online entrepreneurs for their advice on how to get started even if you…

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    Keyword Research Tips – How to Build a Keyword Universe Through Data

    Keyword Research Tips – How to Build a Keyword Universe Through Data Table of Contents What is Keyword Research? What is a Keyword Universe? Keyword Research & Universe examples Interesting Statistics About Search and Keywords Here are some of my favorite data points on keywords: 20 of the Best Keyword Research Tools and Resources Here are my go-to keyword research tools for SEO: Here’s my go-to list for alternate sources of SEO research: The Next Steps for Your SEO Journey In my last SEO article, we talked about SEO basics and how SEO works, including the initial steps of SEO…

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    Ecommerce Terms and Conditions Protect Your Online Store – Webinar

    Ecommerce Terms and Conditions Protect Your Online Store – Webinar Table of Contents What are Terms & Conditions? Who needs Terms & Conditions? What’s the legally required information that applies in regards to e-commerce? How Terms & Conditions protect you? How can I create legally valid Terms and Conditions to suit my specific business? Watch the Webinar Special Discount Webinar Questions Recap Does your online business have Terms and Conditions (“T&Cs”) document? If you haven’t established one for your store yet, it’s good to dedicate some time and specify your T&C because they are crucial for protecting you from potential…

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    Archive Your Instagram Photos on a WordPress Site

    Archive Your Instagram Photos on a WordPress Site Instagram has become one of the indispensable tools for marketers worldwide. Everything from hiring influencers to hawk their wares, to posting stories about how things get made or how they got where they are, if it can be expressed as a photo, Instagram is it’s home. Recent articles in marketing journals have flat out stated that Instagram is the social network.  But Instagram, like all other social media networks, is ephemeral. Content has a very short shelf life on social media and given the time that it takes to craft great Instagram…

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