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If you freelance, run a startup or work remotely like me, we have some exciting news for you! SiteGround is partnering with WeWork, the world’s fastest-growing network of coworking spaces, to help web professionals in our community enjoy the productivity boost of an inspiring office space. We’re thrilled to announce that WeWork is offering SiteGround customers up to 15% off.
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Over a year ago, SiteGround began the important task of preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – a new law designed to protect the personal data and privacy of EU residents. While working on this implementation we have seen that the main principles behind the law are genuinely good for our users.
The regulation aims to make personal data processing more transparent and to give people more control over their data. Even though the GDPR only applies to EU citizens, we have decided to go beyond and adopt the same good policies for all of our users, regardless of their citizenship or location. The new rules are becoming effective on 25th of May 2018. The following two documents apply these rules to our service:
Last week we had a webinar with SiteGround’s Senior Legal Advisor – Maya Stoyanova talking about GDPR, what it is and what you need to do about it. We share the video from the webinar here so you can watch it and find out if and how that new European regulation concerns you.
*Please excuse us for the poor quality of the image.
As promised, we are posting the replies to the questions we couldn’t answer during the webinar here.
We are receiving more and more inquiries from clients asking if SiteGround will be GDPR-compliant. With this blog post, we would like to explain what we have been doing and share our experience with becoming GDPR-compliant, both as a way to inform you what you can expect from us in the next month, before May 25, 2018, and as a way to help you prepare for the GDPR yourselves.
The use of our personal data by big companies is indisputably the hottest topic right now and we don’t think anyone doubts the importance of regulations to prevent abuse and enhance the security of that data.
The European General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR, which will take effect on May 25, 2018 is aiming to do exactly that – regulate how personal data of individuals in EU territory gets collected and used. It defines what personal data is – being literally everything – name, email, username, address, phone number, financial data, age, behavioral data and more, and obliges everyone who collects and processes such data of EU individuals, no matter where that company or person is located around the world, to act in accordance with this regulation.
SiteGround started the process of becoming GDPR-compliant about a year ago and we wholeheartedly look forward to it being enforced. We believe the GDPR is good for users and good for the overall security of the Internet and we have always been acting in line with its main principles. Now our goal is to audit and make public these internal rules, and also make sure we apply the letter and the spirit of the GDPR to all our clients, no matter if you are an EU-resident or a resident of another country.
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Some time ago PHP 7.0 introduced some great performance gains for all web applications including WordPress. Our efforts to popularize it among our customers resulted in many sites becoming faster than before. However, since that time two newer PHP versions have been launched – 7.1 and 7.2. It is now time to move forward to one of the newer versions.
PHP 8.4: Stay Updated! 🚀 Check out our latest blog post to explore the newest features and enhancements in PHP 8.4.
Starting today, all SiteGround customers can get a free Let’s Encrypt Wildcard SSL. This will make the setup and maintenance of websites with subdomains much easier, as they can now be encrypted with a single certificate.
All it takes is a few clicks in our updated Let’s Encrypt interface in the cPanel. Ever since we heard that Let’s Encrypt plans to launch free Wildcard SSL, we’ve been eagerly waiting for this and we are proud to be among the first hosting companies to successfully integrate the new SSL into their platform. We strongly believe that global adoption of SSL certificates makes the Internet a more secure place.
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.
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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.
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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 our annual client satisfaction survey, we’ve asked you how we did last year and what is it that you wanted us to improve. And here is the valuable feedback we received from you.
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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.
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