To thank all our customers for helping us reach the incredible milestone of 15 successful years in business, we’ve performed a massive upgrade to all our hosting plans. Now, each customer gets even more features, regardless of their hosting plan. The enhancements listed below have been provided automatically and for free to all SiteGround users. Enjoy!
The service has been gone through multiple upgrades since its launch and is no longer powered by SUCURI. Current information about it can be found on its sales page in Client Area: https://my.siteground.com/marketplace/hosting/sitescanner.
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 best sellers and is used by thousands of our customers to check their websites and inform them in case of 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 simply awesome!
There are several reasons to change our scan partner from Armorize to Sucuri. First, Sucuri is one of the most respected companies in the website security field. In addition, we have been working in partnership with them for several years. We have relied on their expertise for solving numerous complex security issues. And last, but not least, many of our clients’ websites have also been cleaned by Sucuri from malicious code over the years. That is why it was only natural that we extend this already successful partnership and make it cover the daily site scans too.
We now scan all the pages that are linked on your website homepage (or any other page of your choice) on a daily basis. This has proven to work more efficiently than the previous system of scanning a limited number of 10 random pages. If any issue is detected, the site owner immediately receives a notification email.
The SG Site Scanner report page is part of your SiteGround Customer Area now. It is no longer needed to log into another interface to access information on the security status of your site. In case of an issue all infected URLs and/or blacklists are conveniently listed in the interface. It also allows you to push an unscheduled scan with a click and you can easily switch on and off the weekly email status reports.
If you already have HackAlert, no action is required on your part — it has already been replaced with the SG Site Scanner. If you are still not using any regular scanning service, we strongly recommend that you start today. You can order the SG Site Scanner for any domain of your choice in your Customer Area.
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We introduced our new cloud platform built on Linux containers almost 2 years ago. Since then and especially during 2016, we have seen a very dynamic development in this service. There has been a sharp increase in the number of new cloud hosting accounts opened with SiteGround, as well as a threefold increase in the upgrade activity within existing cloud servers. So, we recently took time to analyze our users behavior and we have some interesting findings that we would like to share.
Continue reading “3 Things You Probably Don’t Know About SiteGround Clouds”
During the last few years SiteGround has been going through an impressive and steady growth. For the first three quarters of 2016 only, we have hired more than 100 new people and the number of our employees went well over 400. Among all these amazing new SiteGrounders there is one group, that is especially interesting. Their welcome packs were sent to 10 different countries, where we have never had employees before. They have tons of relevant experience: one of them has been doing web hosting for more than 14 years! And they all have been Site5 top performing customer service representatives. No doubt we are quite excited to have them with us, because the story how they joined our team is inspiring and also because what they bring to our company is of a special value.
Continue reading “We welcome 32 Site5 support stars!”
As a web hosting company, we move around tons of websites all the time. The most challenging migrations happen when physical data center locations are changed. On such occasions we transfer upwards of 300TB of data. It usually travels over the wire, but we have also physically moved server machines and literally transported websites by the truckload!
Continue reading “The Art of Website Migrations”
Remember when we announced our new infrastructure in October last year? Part of the innovation, which we were particularly proud of, was our in-house created backup/restore system. A few days ago this system was put to its first critical real-life test and the results were impressive. We were able to restore 3 times more data, 7 times faster, compared to the previous such event when we were still using the old backup solution. Here is how we did it.
Continue reading “How our new backup system saved 24+ hours of downtime”
We just launched an enhanced look of our website SiteGround.com. We have been working on it for a while and its launch date has been heavily influenced by Google’s announcement that mobile friendliness of a website is officially becoming an important factor for search engine placement as of tomorrow. And yes, you have guessed it right – the new site is fully responsive. However, what is even more important is that the new site is fully representative of who we are and how we do things around here.
Continue reading “SiteGround Now Looks Better, on All Devices!”
The second webinar of our Affiliate Series aims to help people who recommend SiteGround be well prepared for the question: what makes SiteGround different from all the rest? We have done detailed real-life tests with 12 hosting companies we consider close competitors and in the webinar we will show some real numbers about:
You will also learn how do we achieve such great results and how to use this information to convince easier your referees that SiteGround is the best choice.
Continue reading “How do we compare to other hosts? – video and slides from the affiliate webinar”
Few months ago our data center partner SingleHop has successfully completed their newest and most advanced facility in Chicago. With all the innovations introduced on the spot, we were excited by the great opportunity it gives us to further improve our hosting service. To make this happen we will transfer to it all our US-based accounts during the next few months. The new location is above the best industry standards and will encompass the currently used one with:
Continue reading “Upcoming Chicago Data Center Migration”
Kristina, or simply Krisi as most of us call her, is one of the most experienced members of the SiteGround sales team. In 2007 she was among the first employees in our just-established second office. Right from the start, her great dedication to her work and her outstanding talent to communicate efficiently, even with the most demanding customers, stood out. Now she is the inspiring team leader of the people, who take care of all pre-sale enquiries on our live chat.
