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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, founder and CEO of Yoast. He is a developer, SEO specialist, and online marketer, actively involved in the WordPress community. For the start of our interview series, there’s no better person than Joost. We’re talking with him about SEO, his interesting story, and other different topics, so read on for what turned out to be an amazing interview!

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

There’s a lot of work involved in crafting a 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 our team at SiteGround. We thought it would be interesting to tell you more about their work and how it helps your sites work better and safer- from our StartUp solutions to the Enterprise level. Meet Angel Shtilianov, our high-level specialist, responsible for Linux kernel development on our servers.

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

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 organized regular WordPress meetups and a WordCamp in my hometown – Torino, Italy. I have also participated in the organization of WordCamp Europe. Now I will continue to be part of these and even more WordPress events. I will keep sharing my experience and volunteering with my time for the WordPress community. What is new is that I will also be part of one of the most amazing teams I have previously only met at WordCamps — the people of SiteGround. Read below to see how I’ve ended up here and what is coming.

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How the Vary HTTP Header Can Be Bad

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 post, I want to shed some light on how the Vary header affects your SiteGround hosted site and specifically our caching system, and to show you what’s the recommended use of Vary header for your site.

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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!

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We welcome 32 Site5 support stars!

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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.
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SiteGround x CreativeMornings/SOF

“Everyone is creative. Everyone is welcome.” This is part of the manifesto of CreativeMornings–a global monthly breakfast lecture series for the creative community. Their motto in the spirit of our Community Series is just part of the reason why we love and support our local CM chapter. It is also what inspired our joint #CMCreativeTravels campaign that will take one person from our community to a CreativeMornings event of their choice anywhere in the world. But first, a little background.

CreativeMornings originated in NYC and is now happening in over 150 cities around the world. Ever since we stumbled upon our first CM talk years ago, we’ve been great fans of the series and the values it promotes, since they resonate very deeply with our own: creativity, inclusivity, connection and collaboration. That’s why when we found out that Sofia, the city of our headquarters, is about to become part of the global CreativeMornings family, we could not wait to get involved. We reached out to the organizing team and said we wanted to help out. Ever since we cannot imagine spending every last Friday morning of the month any other way – and it’s been almost a year now.

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More Value for Customers with SSL Certificates at SiteGround

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UPDATE: Our SSL offers have evolved since the publication of this post. For up-to-date information, please go to What types of SSL certificates does SiteGround offer.

Following the introduction of Let’s Encrypt free SSL certificates on our hosting platform, we are now launching more major upgrades in our SSL offerings. We will no longer provide Standard SSL certificates and all our customers that already bought Standard SSL will be upgraded for free to the premium Wildcard SSL. We are also dropping the price of Wildcard SSLs more than half. The range of SSL certificates offered at SiteGround will now consist of Let’s Encrypt, Wildcard and Extended Validation (EV).

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Supporting Indie Publishing Through Offscreen Magazine

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Four years ago we stumbled on the following somewhere on the web: “Offscreen – a print-only magazine about the people behind the internet and technology.” Naturally, our first thought was “Why make a print magazine for people who spend most of their time online?” It certainly piqued our curiosity, and that’s how we came to order our first issue of Offscreen. It was also issue No1 – a brand new magazine. Today, we happily received Issue No14 at the SiteGround office.

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