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    Our WordPress Autoupdate Just Got Better

    Our WordPress Autoupdate Just Got Better If you have a WordPress website and you’re a SiteGround customer, you’re most likely taking advantage of the SiteGround WordPress auto-update service. Having your WordPress installation up-to-date is crucial for a stable and secure website. To make auto-updates hassle-free, we have developed our own WordPress Autoupdate Tool, which is included in all SiteGround hosting plans. The tool just got upgraded with some new useful features: More control of your auto-update schedule The WordPress Autoupdate Tool now supports auto-update scheduling at different intervals after a new WordPress release is available. You can choose whether you…

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    SiteGround Optimizer for WordPress Multisite Setup

    SiteGround Optimizer for WordPress Multisite Setup Our WordPress plugin – the SiteGround Optimizer was launched more than five years ago. Initially, it just allowed our WordPress users to benefit from our unique dynamic caching option – the SuperCacher. We later added 2 more functionalities to the plugin: PHP version update and HTTPS-one-click setup. Now we’re launching a new plugin update that includes something many of our clients have asked for – multisite support. Read on to see what we’ve done and how this can benefit you and your network of WordPress sites. Caching made easy for multiple sites 1. Configure fast Cache…

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    Web Craft Masters: From Tech Businesses to Bootstrapping Happiness

    Web Craft Masters: From Tech Businesses to Bootstrapping Happiness Today, we are excited to share with you the next interview in our series, featuring David Henzel, ex-MaxCDN, and current entrepreneur consultant. He is one of those rare people who are not afraid of making big changes in their lives. With a huge entrepreneurial flair, he co-founded the popular tech company MaxCDN, moved from Europe to the US to develop and grow his business and after selling it in 2016, decided to make another significant move – to settle in Bodrum and start a radically new project. At Managing Happiness David teaches…

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    1,000,000 Domains and 97% Satisfaction

    1,000,000 Domains and 97% Satisfaction Table of Contents A Whopping 97% Satisfaction Rate 95% of Our Customers Would Recommend Us What Do You Like About SiteGround? What Do We Need to Improve? A Preferred Choice for Web Professionals Last year we reached a new, important and very exciting milestone! Over 1,000,000 domains are now hosted by SiteGround. With the big breakthrough though, comes big responsibility. So many talented people have entrusted their websites with us and we wanted to make sure that we continue to meet and exceed the expectations to every single one of you. To do that, in…

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    IMPORTANT: YITH WooCommerce Wishlist Protection Added

    IMPORTANT: YITH WooCommerce Wishlist Protection Added Тoday, a serious vulnerability issue with one of the vastly used Yith plugins – the WooCommerce Wishlist was discovered by Sucuri. The latest plugin version – 2.2.0 patches the vulnerability but all versions prior to it are at risk. To protect our customers, who haven’t updated their plugin, our security team started working immediately and a WAF rule was just applied on our servers. We’re very proud of our internal WAF (Web Application Firewall) system that protects all SiteGround shared and cloud servers. It allows us to dynamically add different rules across our network and…

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    Our 2017: An Amazing Year of Growth & Wins

    Our 2017: An Amazing Year of Growth & Wins 2017 was a wild year of tremendous growth for us. We expanded our team with 115 new talented members, we went local in Italy and even added Australia to our remote team map. And all the while we are proud to have nurtured the amazing team spirit that makes SiteGround what it is! We raised the bar on our customer service even higher and added new powerful solutions for more speed and security of your websites. But the biggest appreciation, again, came from you – our clients, who rated our services…

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    Web Craft Masters: How Yoast’s Founder Built a Product Used on Millions of Websites

    Web Craft Masters: How Yoast’s Founder Built a Product Used on Millions of Websites At SiteGround, we have the pleasure to host tens of thousands of businesses by remarkable entrepreneurs. They have great stories worth sharing and they’re all masters of their own craft. We are starting a series of interviews where we’ll feature how they got to where they are today. We hope their stories will inspire you to explore new ideas or methods in your own projects! If you are a WordPress user, you have most probably used the popular Yoast SEO plugin, created by Joost de Valk,…

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    The Mysterious Job of a Kernel Developer: An Interview with a SiteGrounder

    The Mysterious Job of a Kernel Developer: An Interview with a SiteGrounder There’s a lot of work involved in craftinga great hosting product. Part of our efforts to guarantee that our clients’ websites perform better in all circumstances, is our unique hosting infrastructure built entirely on Linux containers. The specifics of this custom setup require a special kind of talent and skill set to maintain it – that of a Linux Kernel developer. Since there aren’t that many people programming on such level, their job description sounds almost mysterious. That’s why we’re very happy to have such rare talent on…

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    Communities, WordPress, and now SiteGround too – that is what I do and love!

    Communities, WordPress, and now SiteGround too – that is what I do and love! Table of Contents Communities WordPress Joining SiteGround My first event as a SiteGrounder Let’s chat This September I joined the SiteGround team. This was a move from freelancing to working for a big company. I was a little anxious about such a serious change. However, it actually felt like quite a natural development. Now, as part of the SiteGround team, I will spend even more time doing what I truly love – being actively involved with the WordPress community. For the past few years, I have…

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    Our Top Technical Support Rep in September

    Our Top Technical Support Rep in September Maria can solve your website conundrums with the same ease that she can cook one of her cherry-picked recipes. It’s all a piece of cake. She likes a good dose of thriller and crime in her life, which she thankfully finds only in her favorite books and shows. Find out more about her!

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    Elementor for SiteGround Users

    Elementor for SiteGround Users Update: Te discount coupon code is valid until the end of 2019! WordPress is a huge part of the web nowadays and thousands of SiteGround customers use it for their projects of different scale. There are many different Page Builders out there that add on top of the default WordPress functionality and make it easier to structure the content on your site. Today, we want to introduce to you Elementor – an intuitive drag-and-drop site builder with powerful features, whose use results not only in nice layouts but in a clean and optimized website code too.…

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    How the Vary HTTP Header Can Be Bad

    How the Vary HTTP Header Can Be Bad Table of Contents How Does the Vary Header Work? Vary: User-Agent Bad, Bad Bots How to See Your Response Headers How to Configure the Vary Header Vary is а powerful HTTP header that plays a significant role in how your website cache is working. When this header is set correctly, it ensures that your site visitors see the right content, regardless of the caching applied. However, if this header is set up incorrectly, it can totally overrule even the benefits of the best caching system and cause resource overusage. In this blog…

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    14 Years of WordPress Playlist

    14 Years of WordPress Playlist It’s that time of the year when we’re getting ready to celebrate another WordPress anniversary. Tomorrow, May 27th, WordPress turns 14! To mark the occasion the SiteGround way, we made a playlist featuring a track by every musician that’s ever had a WordPress release named in their honor. The mix did wonders for our productivity in the office, so we decided to share it. We hope it makes your day better, whether you had to spend it working on your website or celebrating. Enjoy and a Happy 14th Birthday to the whole WordPress community!

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    Let’s Encrypt Interface New Options

    Let’s Encrypt Interface New Options Making SSL certificated accessible and used by everyone has been our ongoing effort for more than a year now. We were among the first to provide the free Let’s Encrypt certificates. Then, we automated the SSL issuing for all accounts. Later, we upgraded our WordPress plugin, SiteGround Optimizer, to allow 1-click WordPress SSL configuration. Now we’re making the next step – our latest upgrade to the Let’s Encrypt tool in cPanel allows you to force all your domain traffic through HTTPS with a single click regardless of the application you are using. Read below to…

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    How Our New Anti-Bot AI Prevents Millions of Brute-Force Attacks

    How Our New Anti-Bot AI Prevents Millions of Brute-Force Attacks For the last few days, we have been gradually launching a new AI-based bot prevention system on our servers developed by our own DevOps specialists. We are already seeing amazing results from the operation of the system. Each hour it blocks between 500 000 and 2 million brute-force attempts across all our servers. Thus, we have prevented an unknown number of potential unauthorized logins, but what is even more important — we have managed to save an enormous amount of server resources that can now be used for a meaningful…

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    SiteGround Optimizer – Our WordPress Plugin

    SiteGround Optimizer – Our WordPress Plugin In 2012 we released a SiteGround WordPress plugin. Its purpose was to connect the WordPress installations of our users with our caching service – the SuperCacher. For many years all updates we have made to the plugin were only related to the caching functionality. However, in the last few months, we have added two completely new functionalities (HTTPS switch and PHP 7.0 updater) and have changed the plugin name to SiteGround Optimizer. To learn more about what is now included in the SiteGround Optimizer read below. Make your site faster with our SuperCacher So,…

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    OptinMonster for SiteGround Users

    OptinMonster for SiteGround Users Email communication is one of the foundations of effective online marketing and a key to growing your business. But in order to start an email communication, you need to get those visitors’ emails first. One of the best ways to do this is to convert visitors into subscribers while they’re still on your website, using opt-in forms. And some of the most effective opt-in forms are the dynamic ones that grab your visitors’ attention instantly – the exit pop-ups or floating subscription bars for example. But how do you create and implement a beautiful and effective…

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    Get your WordPress on PHP 7.0 now!

    Get your WordPress on PHP 7.0 now! We have just released a new version of our WordPress plugin 3.2.1 the SiteGround Optimizer, which allows you to move to PHP 7.0 with a click.  We encourage all SiteGround customers to utilize this great option and make their WordPress installation run on PHP 7.0 now. PHP 7.0 has been available on our servers for over a year and it is high time that all of our customers take full advantage of the considerable performance boost it provides. How does it work? First, you need to install SiteGround Optimizer 3.2.1 or higher version to…

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    SG Site Scanner powered by Sucuri

    SG Site Scanner powered by Sucuri Having a website regularly scanned for security issues, is something we have always highly recommended to our customers. Our site scanning service (known as HackAlert until recently) has always been among the bestsellers and is used by thousands of our customers to check their websites and inform them in case of a malware. Today we are happy to announce that we have introduced a number of improvements to these services. It is now called SG Site Scanner, it is powered by one of the most prominent web security experts – Sucuri.net, and it is…

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    NextGEN Vulnerability Patched on SiteGround Hosting

    NextGEN Vulnerability Patched on SiteGround Hosting Yesterday, our partners from Sucuri discovered a serious SQL injection vulnerability in one of the most popular WordPress gallery plugins – NextGen Gallery. Our security team started working immediately on the issue and created a rule in our web application firewall (WAF) to block any potential attempts to exploit this vulnerability. However, we strongly recommend that all NextGen Gallery users update their plugin to version 2.1.79 which fixes the core of the issue in the plugin code.

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    Cloudflare HTTPS and WAF Update

    Cloudflare HTTPS and WAF Update UPDATE Since the launch of our own in-house built Content Delivery Network – SiteGround CDN, we are no longer providing Cloudflare services as part of our hosting plans. Since we launched our integration with Cloudflare in 2012 we have seen thousands of our customers benefit from its CDN and the site security functionalities. Today we are happy to announce two improvements in the Cloudflare packages we provide. First, the SSL is now supported in the free plan of the service. Second, we have included a very cool security feature – the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall,…

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    WordPress AutoUpdater Restarted

    WordPress AutoUpdater Restarted We first launched our WordPress AutoUpdater in 2012. Some tweaks were made to the system a year later when the original AutoUpdate feature was included in the WordPress core, but we continued to rely primarily on our own system for our customers. The SiteGround AutoUpdater has been used successfully for the last 5 years and has kept a lot of our customers up-to-date and safe from hacks. Thanks to it, more than 70% of the WordPress installations on our servers have been constantly using the latest software version. However, we have been thinking for a while how…

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    Are You Ready to Get Hacked?

    Are You Ready to Get Hacked? Table of Contents 1. Be the First to Know 2. Make a Backup 3. Get the Access Logs 4. Have Maintenance Mode Ready 5. Clean the Website and Vulnerability 6. Return to Live In the security world, the following advice seems to be gold: keep templates and plugins up to date; use secure passwords and captchas; be careful whom you give access and to what; use a security-conscious web host. While those are all great tips and we encourage them, your website is still (and always will be) hackable. We’ve seen and helped clients…

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    HTTPS for WordPress With a Click

    HTTPS for WordPress With a Click UPDATE: If you’re using CloudFlare with your website, make sure you set the SSL Option in our CloudFlare tool in cPanel to Flexible,  then configure WordPress to work through HTTPS and finally, switch the option in CloudFlare to Full Strict. This way, you will not have any downtime during the reconfiguration process. Check out our CloudFlare tutorial for additional information on that matter. A month ago we made the first step to increase the adoption rate of SSL certificates amongst our customers by starting to issue automatically Let’s Encrypt certificates for all domains hosted on…

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    Our Affiliate Program in 2016 – Founded on Product Quality and Trust

    Our Affiliate Program in 2016 – Founded on Product Quality and Trust Table of Contents The quality of our hosting is the top reason to join our affiliate program (again!) People are recommending our affiliate program Our affiliate program brings more sales than others More bloggers and content marketers join the program Satisfaction with the affiliate program features is over 96% 2016 was the most successful in the history of SiteGround. We kept growing in terms of clients and employees and we worked on many new projects that improved further the quality of our service. One of the key factors…

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    2016: See Our Recap of Another Great Year!

    2016: See Our Recap of Another Great Year! 2016 marked another great year for us – our 12th in the hosting business. We kept growing our team, became a distributed company, upgraded our platform for even more security and stability and did a bunch of other great things! We gathered it all in our annual recap to share our moments of hard work, achievement, and joy with all of you. Join us in celebrating our milestones of 2016! See our year in review

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    Happy HTTPS 2017 to you!

    Happy HTTPS 2017 to you! Last year we made a big step towards making the SSL certificates more widely used. We backed financially the super cool open SSL project Let’s Encrypt and we provided an easy cPanel interface, from where all our users can issue free Let’s Encrypt certificates with a single click. This has resulted in more than 40 thousand new SSL installations on our servers. However, there is still a long way to go before we see HTTPS protocol completely replace the insecure HTTP.  Now, in the very beginning of 2017, we are happy to announce that we have…

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    2016 Client Survey Results Are Out!

    2016 Client Survey Results Are Out! At the end of 2016, we ran our traditional client survey to take a snapshot of the current profile of our users and to measure their satisfaction levels with our service. When we received the first results we were quite excited, but at the same time, we opened them with little fear. After all, we doubled our client base in 2016 and we were eager to see if we have managed to keep the high satisfaction rates of the previous years. To our big surprise, the executive summary of the survey analyst read along…

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    PHP 7.0 is Now Default on SiteGround Servers

    PHP 7.0 is Now Default on SiteGround Servers Last December we were among the first hosting companies to make PHP 7.0 available on our entire infrastructure. Thanks to our system which allows multiple PHPs to be used on one server, anyone could have switched to PHP 7.0 since its zero-day release, while we still kept an older and well-tested PHP version as the global default setting. Now, an year later we believe it’s time for the next step – setting PHP 7.0 as default for all new accounts. Why make PHP 7.0 default? Reason number one is its amazing performance…

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    Linux kernel local root exploit (CVE-2016-8655) fixed

    Linux kernel local root exploit (CVE-2016-8655) fixed Yesterday a Linux kernel local root exploit was found and reported. One more time our dedicated Linux kernel team acted quickly and was able to apply the official vulnerability patch in less than 24 hours. All our shared and cloud servers are now protected and again we managed to do this with no reboots and downtime. Read below to find out more about the security problem and how we patched it. What is the exact security problem? The security hole allows attackers to gain root access to servers by taking advantage of a…

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