Our first data center location in Amsterdam has been serving our European clients quite well over the last few years. However, our strategy to constantly enhance our service urged us to look for more datacenter locations throughout the continent. Each new location we add allows us to deliver better performance and localized service to a certain group of our clients.
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Since approximately 2:00AM CET we started receiving multiple complaints from our European customers and site down reports. On some occasions clients were (and still are) unable to load SiteGround.com, but can access their own website or vice versa, or lose connection with any of our services.
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On October 1st, a security issue in JetPack, one of the most commonly used WordPress plugins, was disclosed by our partners from Sucuri. The vulnerability was severe because an attacker could exploit the contact form feature of the plugin to insert and execute JavaScript code as an admin of your site. Needless to say, that could lead to all sort of problems – injecting black SEO links, adding backdoors for full access to your account, accessing private information, etc. In this recap post, we would like to summarise what we did to protect SiteGround users with this plugin installed.
Our Customer Care department just had its biggest and longest team building event ever. We went to the sea side and spent 3 totally amazing days together. As always – we would like to share our experience with you. Continue reading “DreamBuilding With Care”
Those of you who are using our caching system, the SuperCacher, to boost the speed of their WordPress sites have probably already noticed that we’ve released an update for the plugin. Although we regularly maintain the extension and keep it up-to-date, this update adds some features with new and useful functionality. They can help you manage better your site.
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The latest WordPress update is live since yesterday. For those of you who have opted in to our AutoUpdater or have enabled the WordPress internal system for automatic updates it should be now ready to use! Check out the official release notes for detailed information about the update and read on to see what we’ve done to further protect our customers. Continue reading “WordPress 4.2.3 Security Update Applied”
Having access to detailed statistics about your account usage makes it way easier to troubleshoot any issues you may have, pinpoint parts of your website that slow it down, or check whether your site is getting popular instead of getting spammed. Until now, our clients could have obtained this information from a few different places, but never on one page organized in a convenient way. We now have deployed on our shared plans a new and more detailed version of our account statistics system for your convenience.
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Since we launched our SuperCacher system back in 2012 it has undergone many changes, but never as big as this one! Although the interface in your cPanel and WordPress/Joomla/Drupal extension looks and feels the same, under the hood we’ve practically replaced the engine of the service switching from Varnish to NGINX.
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Our SuperCacher has been around for several years now. It is an easy-to-use, yet powerful tool, which helps our customers improve the performance and loading speed of their websites. We are happy to announce that its most effective option – the dynamic cache, is now available for our Drupal users as well.
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A serious security issue in one of the world’s most popular machine emulator and virtualizer QEMU, used by the most popular virtualization systems – KVM, Xen and others has been discovered. The so-called Venom attack allows an user with root access to his/her virtual machine to gain root access to the entire host node under special circumstances. An official patch of for qemu-kvm has already been released and it fixes the vulnerability.
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