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We are quite excited to see PHP 7.2 coming. It is expected to bring some considerable speed, security and efficiency improvement. As always, you can count on SiteGround to provide you with the hottest technologies as they come. The latest release candidate of PHP 7.2 has just been made available on our servers. To learn how to test it safely read below.
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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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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 find out what are the new options in our Let’s Encrypt interface.
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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 and legitimate activity by our users.
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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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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, in our Plus plan.
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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 for our success is the relationship with our affiliate partners. During the past year, we welcomed 63% more affiliates and witnessed a 60% increase in the number of affiliate sales. We have distributed nearly $6 million in commissions.
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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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 taken the next big step in this direction — we have started to automatically issue Let’s Encrypt certificates for every domain that is hosted on our shared servers.
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