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The shopping season is upon us, and screens worldwide are about to start glittering with attractive deals. But here’s the burning question: How does your business break through the clutter and make those sales?
Well, email marketing is your powerful ally and here at SiteGround you have the perfect tool to capture its potential. Designed for ease, our tool ensures even beginners can create and deliver professional emails that drive results. Even more, right on time for Black Friday, we are launching fresh-out-of-the oven features – from special, pre-made Black Friday and Cyber Monday email templates and an AI email writer to smart scheduling options and a sprinkle of playful emojis.
Black Friday & Cyber Monday Email Templates That Help You Sell
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are fast approaching! And with so many preparations to do in so little time, your email marketing could be up for a challenge. But don’t worry, we’ve got you! To make sure your email campaigns are a success, we’ve made a set of pre-designed templates, which empower you to launch impactful email campaigns with just a few clicks. Dive in, make a few finishing touches and send away with ease.
AI Email Assistant That Writes For You 🤖
Have you ever sat down to write an email and found that the words just won’t come? We’ve been there, staring at the black screen, the clock ticking away. But here’s the good news. With our powerful AI email writing assistant, those frustrating moments are a thing of the past. Just share a bit about what you want to say, set the mood, and watch the AI email writer craft the perfect message for you.
Scheduling Emails To Reach Your Audience At The Perfect Time ⏰
In the world of email marketing, timing can be the difference between engagement and being overlooked. That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce our new scheduling feature. Now, you can plan your email campaigns in advance, having the freedom of sending them whenever you want and ensuring they reach your audience at the perfect time. Whether you’re targeting early birds or night owls, different time zones or else, this feature ensures your emails land in the inboxes at just the right time.
Supporting Emojis, Supporting Your Freedom of Expression 😍
In the digital age, emojis are the new universal language. And guess what? SiteGround’s email tool is now fluent in it! We now support emojis, allowing you to add a bit more character and flair to your emails. Whether it’s a smiley face to brighten someone’s day or a thumbs up for a job well done, let your emails speak louder and more expressively.
We can’t wait to see how these new features transform your email campaigns and business results! As always, our mission is to make your online journey as delightful as possible, and we’re here to support you every step of the way.
As a leading provider of web hosting services, at SiteGround we continually strive to offer the most advanced and reliable solutions to our customers, with a strong focus on website security. In our latest Website Horror Stories series for #cybersecuritymonth, we even gathered real stories of webmasters who suffered some kind of website attack or hack, which could have easily been avoided with our suite of website security services. Now we’re excited to announce a new feature addition to our security features – ‘Under Attack Mode’, part of SiteGround in-house CDN.
Our hosting services already encompass robust network attack protection. Our Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection effectively blocks a significant percentage of malicious traffic, ensuring your websites remain accessible and secure. But despite the effectiveness of all our website protection systems and security features, some HTTP attacks are more sophisticated and can circumvent traditional solutions. To further fortify your website’s defenses against these advanced threats, we’ve developed the new ‘Under Attack Mode’ feature, now part of our SiteGround CDN service.
Understanding SiteGround’s ‘Under Attack Mode’
SiteGround CDN’s ‘Under Attack Mode’ adds an additional layer of protection against potentially malicious HTTP traffic. If your website is under an HTTP attack, it’s immediately overloaded with fake traffic requests, usually coming from malicious bots, which makes it inaccessible for real users.
When turned on, our Under Attack feature challenges website visits with an automatic CAPTCHA, verifying that they are humans and not bots. It leverages JavaScript to perform automated mathematical calculations in the visitor’s browser. While these calculations are being processed, the end visitors see a loading message for a few seconds. Once the challenge is solved, indicating the visitor is most likely a real human, the system automatically redirects them to the website. This means your website will remain accessible to your real users even if it’s under attack – legitimate traffic will be allowed to proceed to your site, while we block the fake bot traffic.
How to Enable Under Attack Mode
Our ‘Under Attack Mode’ is available as part of our Premium CDN plan. If you’re looking for a way to further enhance the security of your website against sophisticated HTTP attacks, our paid plan now offers this advanced feature, together with a myriad of speed and security enhancements.
Once you’re using SiteGround CDN’s Premium plan, enabling the ‘Under Attack Mode’ is simple. It can be activated per domain name from the Site Tools management interface. Once enabled, the ‘Under Attack’ mode feature operates for a period of 24 hours, after which it is automatically disabled by the system.
Please note that while ‘Under Attack Mode’ is enabled, some third-party website analytics tools may not function correctly, as they may not be able to pass the challenge. This is why the feature is automatically disabled after 24 hours – to prevent any prolonged disruption to your website analytics.
SiteGround CDN’s ‘Under Attack Mode’ applies to all website visitors and all traffic towards the domain. This means all requests – from real users, bots, to API requests from third-party systems – are challenged, ensuring comprehensive protection.
Conclusion
Our latest SiteGround CDN security feature, the ‘Under Attack Mode’ is a testament to SiteGround’s commitment to providing superior security for our users. We understand the evolving nature of web threats and continually innovate to offer features that keep your website safe and accessible. Stay ahead of the curve with SiteGround CDN’s ‘Under Attack Mode’.
In the relentless race to provide unparalleled client satisfaction, companies continually evolve. We, at SiteGround, have proven to be the front-runners when it comes to innovation and improvement. Yet again, we’re embarking on a groundbreaking venture that’s set to redefine your customer support experience – with our new integrated AI assistant in your HelpDesk.
The Game-Changer – Instant AI in your Help Desk!
Gone are the days when you would type in a query and be directed to countless articles to sort through until you find the most relevant one, leaving you even more overwhelmed. Say hello to our cutting-edge Instant AI HelpDesk! It is powered by ChatGPT but heavily trained by SiteGround’s AI engineers and backed by expert prompt engineering, to provide accurate answers and address our clients’ specific inquiries via a broad spectrum of frequently asked questions and manual grading of responses.
The Evolution of AI in SiteGround’s Support Journey
Our AI journey started years ago with an AI-powered search feature. A fantastic tool, it seamlessly directed you to relevant articles within our extensive Knowledge Base. But now, we’re elevating that experience with the integration of ChatGPT by OpenAI. Not only does our AI Assistant fetch all relevant articles, but it also comprehends and consolidates the information to give you a precise response, crafted just for you! Imagine a world where AI doesn’t just find the right answer, but understands and delivers it as if it’s directly responding to a question in conversation. That’s our new reality!
Staggering Accuracy, backed by Fine-tuning and Stellar Prompt Engineering
Our specialized AI team has been burning the midnight oil, ensuring that our AI Assistant is not just smart but ‘SiteGround Smart’. Using the power of both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.0, fine tuning AI models and taking advantage of expert prompt engineering, ensures swift, accurate, and tailored responses for our customers. Here are the facts:
85% of the answers from our AI Assistant hit the bullseye! To be more accurate: a total of 96% of the replies generated by our AI Assistant are correct, but needed a bit more polishing to match the high standards, tone of voice and level of helpfulness that we’re after.
These staggering numbers in just a few months of work are a testament to the significance of fine-tuning models, constant prompt engineering improvements and the enthusiasm our team has invested into creating one more trendsetting tool for our clients’ convenience.
Engage, Explore, & Elevate Your Experience
Available exclusively for our valued SiteGround customers, you can reach our AI Assistant anytime via Client Area > Help Center > Instant AI Help. Each answer is a goldmine of information, often laced with links for a deeper dive. And guess what? We’re counting on you to make it even better! At the end of each response, we’ve provided a quick rating system. Your feedback is our treasure, guiding us to refine and perfect.
Join the AI Evolution
The beauty of AI lies in its potential to learn and evolve. As you engage with it, our AI Assistant sharpens, ensuring you always get the right solution, in an instant. Based on your direct feedback, we’re also expanding and improving our extensive Knowledge Base even more – we’ve added over 60 new articles and topics after the introduction of our AI Assistant.
Dive into this futuristic experience now and be part of our AI revolution. We’re waiting for your feedback! With SiteGround, the future isn’t tomorrow; it’s today!
Crafting a successful online presence is an on-going process. From curating engaging content to showcasing your standout products or services, you’ve done it all. But despite all your efforts to engage users on your website, do you still find visitors leaving without taking any action? It’s time to transform those missed opportunities into meaningful connections.
At SiteGround, we totally get the ups and downs of building an online presence. So, here’s some good news: we’ve just improved our SiteGround Email Marketing tool with the new Lead Generation Plugin for WordPress. We crafted an easy way to encourage visitors to engage, subscribe to your email list, and become part of your brand’s journey. Even if you’re new to email marketing, we’re here to sprinkle a bit of magic on your journey.
Build your email list and generate high-quality leads with SiteGround
Lead generation is about connecting with real people who genuinely vibe with what you offer. Your website? That’s where you can find high-quality leads. And, with SiteGround’s new lead generation plugin and email marketing tool, you can attract them with sign-up forms, nurture your leads and clients, and ultimately, increase conversions.
Easy plugin setup and integration
If you’re new to building an email list, don’t worry! Just download and activate our new lead generation plugin for WordPress. Easily connect the plugin with your SiteGround email marketing account, so anyone who signs up will automatically land in your contacts as a “Subscriber”.
Create a form in minutes
Easily create your sign-up form and greet your new subscribers with a “successful subscription” message. Plus, you can assign Groups for each form you make for precise audience segmentation. This ensures that the right message always reaches the right person.
Add a form on your site with ease
SiteGround makes it easy to embed a form on your website, allowing you to connect with users and grow your mailing list. Once you create your form, we’ll provide a handy shortcode for you to place wherever you like on your website. Alternatively, you can seamlessly integrate the form using WordPress Blocks within your WordPress editor – just search for our plugin and pop it in.
Built to match your brand
Whether you use Gutenberg or Elementor for your website, our forms seamlessly adapt to your website’s style, ensuring a consistent brand look. Plus, you can tweak fonts and colors to suit your taste perfectly within your WordPress editor.
More ways to engage
Our plugin seamlessly integrates a sign-up checkbox into your WooCommerce checkout and standard WordPress forms. This gives visitors various and convenient ways to hop onto your mailing list.
Why embed a form on your website?
Putting a form on your website is a smart move. Here’s why:
Build your email list
Collecting email addresses to build your mailing list is the starting point for any email marketing campaign. It allows you to nurture relationships, share updates, and promote special offers directly to those who have shown interest in your brand.
Engage your audience
Adding a form to your website creates an opportunity for visitors to connect with your brand. This establishes a direct line of communication and helps engage your audience, turning casual visitors into loyal customers.
Market your brand with easy email marketing
Build and grow your email list with our new lead generation plugin for WordPress and start sending the right message to the right audience with our intuitive SiteGround Email Marketing tool. Craft compelling campaigns to engage your audience and drive growth, creating a full brand experience.
Ready to boost your email marketing? If you’re a SiteGround client, simply log into your Client Area -> Marketplace -> Email marketing. Once you’ve added the service, you can easily find and download our lead generation plugin in the SiteGround Email Marketing Dashboard under Contacts -> Connect WP Site.
We are excited to announce that PHP 8.3 (Beta 3) is now available for testing on all SiteGround servers. Yet, again thanks to our unique multiple-PHP server setup, we are able to provide the latest PHP versions safely to anyone who wants to test them, almost immediately upon their official beta release. This means we are once again among the first companies to offer PHP 8.3 (Beta 3) for testing on our hosting platform 🎉🎉🎉.
Continue reading this blog post to discover more about the new features of the latest PHP version.
PHP 8.4: Stay Updated! 🚀 Check out our latest blog post to explore the newest features and enhancements in PHP 8.4.
New Features
Let’s delve into some of the new features that PHP 8.3 Beta 3 brings to the table. This version may not be highlighted by sweeping changes or major upgrades, but it introduces a few key features that could significantly enhance the PHP development experience.
gc_status() Returns Additional GC Information
Long-running daemons and cron jobs have always been a weak part in PHP in general. However, with PHP 8.3, the gc_status() function now returns additional garbage collection (GC) information. This is a significant improvement for developers who need to manage memory usage in long-running scripts. More information about this feature can be found here.
Another exciting feature in PHP 8.3 is the ability to alias built-in PHP classes using the class_alias() function. This allows PHP developers to hook up into built-in classes and overwrite classes or declarations in them. This feature opens up a world of possibilities for extending and customizing the behavior of built-in PHP classes.
json_validate() Function
Another exciting addition in PHP 8.3 is the json_validate() function. This function validates if a string contains valid JSON, providing a more efficient alternative to userland implementations that use json_decode(). The json_decode() function generates a ZVAL (object/array/etc.) while parsing the string, using memory and processing that could be saved. The json_validate() function uses the same JSON parser that exists in the PHP core and is used by json_decode(), ensuring that what is valid in json_validate() is also valid in json_decode().
How to test PHP 8.3 (Beta 3) on SiteGround Servers
Now, with a one-button click in your SiteTools -> Devs section you’re able to replace the current PHP version used by your website with PHP 8.3 (Beta 3). It is important to emphasize on the fact that this is PHP 8.3 in its Beta 3 version. This means it is available for testing purposes mostly and as always we strongly advise you not to use it at your production site before the stable release date (November 23, 2023). If you want to test it with an existing site, set up a new site for testing, clone your production site into it, and play with that – our WordPress Staging tool is perfect for that purpose. When you are done, you can just delete it.
As you explore your new testing environment, check your log files after every test. Make sure nothing fails and see if any new warnings or errors pop up.
Wrap Up
PHP 8.3 Beta 3 may not be marked by major upgrades, but it introduces a set of key features that could significantly enhance the PHP development experience – improvements to readonly classes, the new gc_status(), class_alias() and json_validate() functions, additions to the recently added Randomizer class, stack overflow detection, and more. That is not it for sure but there is enough time to “play” with the new PHP 8.3 (Beta 3) version and explore all sidekicks it might bring on before the official release.
Last but not least – remember, at SiteGround, we are committed to providing our clients with the latest and greatest in PHP technology well ahead of the others. Stay tuned for more updates and happy coding with PHP 8.3 (Beta 3)!
We believe that customizing our services for the local markets is key to an accessible, convenient and high-quality experience for our customers. We have already done this for our Spanish, Italian and German-speaking clients and we’re now proud to say that we have just added French to the list of languages we provide service in.
In the past few years the support and love we have received from our French clients and partners has been overwhelming. We’ve always wanted to do more for them and just recently we have expanded our datacenter and CDN network with a new location in Paris, France to improve loading speed and user experience for local businesses and individuals. The logical next step was to offer service in French and what better time to do that than the week of Bastille Day – the French national holiday!
Apart from the local fr.siteground.com site now available to all French visitors, SiteGround customers can now switch their language and start using their Client Area, Site Tools, knowledge base and tutorials, blog and support communication in French.
Switch your language to French
You can now easily change your current language preferences for your SiteGround service to French. Just go to the Profile page in your Client Area and select French in the Language dropdown. Once you have done this, your Client Area and Site Tools interfaces will appear in French.
The change will also affect the rest of your SiteGround content – all tutorials, knowledge base articles, blog posts and support communication will now be in French. Changing back or switching to another language is just as easy.
For more complex technical issues, you’ll be able to post support questions on chat and/or ticket in your preferred language and receive replies from our representatives in French as well. Please note that for all service languages except English, support communication may be aided by custom implementation of Google translate.
Migrate to our Paris datacenter
If the majority of your site visitors are located in France, you may consider moving your site(s) to our datacenter in Paris. This will significantly improve your site loading speed and overall customer experience for French visitors. And in case you only have occasional or a smaller portion of your visitors coming from France, make sure that you have our in-house built SiteGround CDN enabled – with its new CDN node in Paris, your French visitors will get faster, close to local loading speed.
You can move any of your existing sites to our new datacenter in Paris by ordering their relocation in your Client Area > Marketplace > Hosting Services > Relocation. You can relocate individual sites, hosted on a shared web hosting service, or your entire Cloud hosting account, if you are using Cloud hosting service.
If you’re an existing SiteGround client from France, all new sites you create on StartUp, GrowBig and GoGeek plans will be hosted by default in the new Paris datacenter for your convenience. Paris will be your default location for newly ordered Cloud hosting plans as well.
Adapting the user experience of our French clients is just another step towards our continuous commitment to offering optimized experience for our diverse international clients. As we celebrate this milestone, we look forward to providing faster, smoother and more personalized experience to every SiteGround customer.
Since day one, SiteGround has been all about helping our customers create high-performing websites to achieve their goals. We’ve been in your corner, listening to your feedback and constantly improving our hosting services to give you lightning-fast loading times, rock-solid security, and a seamless user experience.
But here’s the thing: while absolutely essential, having a website is only the beginning of your online success journey. The full potential of your site lies in the ability to connect and engage with your audience. To help you achieve that, we’re excited to introduce the new SiteGround Email Marketing tool. Designed with simplicity and efficiency in mind, this powerful addition to our suite of services will help you talk directly to your audience, driving growth and success for your business.
The growth potential of email marketing
Email marketing delivers remarkable results for professionals and businesses of all shapes and sizes. It’s a proven and direct way to effectively reach your audience, build credibility, increase brand recognition, improve sales, and boost website traffic, to name a few. Take it from us; we’ve been using email marketing forever and have seen its tremendous effect first hand. It has stood the test of time and emerged as the most reliable form of online communication, surpassing even social media in effectiveness.
Affordable, yet super effective
Email marketing has proven to be a powerful and budget-friendly tool for driving sales and revenue. Let’s talk numbers. Litmus, one of the most widely-used email testing tools, reports that the average return on investment (ROI) for email marketing is a staggering 4,200%. With minimum upfront investment, you can reach a large audience and enjoy amazing results. All you need is your content and a powerful, yet easy email marketing tool – like the SiteGround Email Marketing.
Direct channel to your leads and clients
When it comes to reaching your target audience, email marketing takes the lead. To paint you the picture, 90% of emails land directly in the intended recipients’ inboxes. In contrast, a mere 2% of Facebook followers are likely to see your post in their feed, according to a Forrester research. Email paves a direct line of communication with the people who genuinely want to hear from you, resulting in better conversion rates than other marketing channels.
A perfect fit for any project
Email marketing may seem hard, but we promise – it’s easier than you think. You don’t have to be a pro in content creation – you just need to know your goals and that’s what you’re already great at! Planning to share news about a new product with your customers, drum up some buzz with a special deal, or send out a roundup of your best blog posts? Email marketing is one of the most effective tools to use. It’s a great fit for any project and makes connecting with your audience a breeze.
SiteGround Email Marketing – built for your success
The SiteGround email marketing tool is designed to be incredibly user-friendly, so even beginners can create and send professional emails with ease. The tool is available out-of-the box and integrated in the SiteGround Client Area so that SiteGround clients can seamlessly manage their website and email campaigns all in one place. This means less time spent juggling multiple platforms and more time focusing on what truly matters: growing your business.
Let’s take a closer look at what the SiteGround Email Marketing tool has to offer.
Easy builder to create stunning emails
Easily create professional emails with our intuitive builder. Choose from our best layouts or start from scratch, add your content, and make it yours. Plus, our built-in responsiveness ensures your emails look great on any device, from desktops to smartphones and tablets.
Campaign management built to drive growth
SiteGround Email Marketing makes managing email campaigns easy and efficient. Create campaigns with a click and use our intuitive email builder to craft the perfect message. Choose between reaching all your subscribers or targeting specific audience with customized Groups and add a personal touch with dynamic content variables. Preview and test your campaign before sending it to ensure everything works perfectly.
(NEW) Lead Generation plugin for WordPress to build and grow your email list
Want to grow your email list? Meet our Lead Generation plugin for WordPress, a new feature of our Email Marketing tool, designed to help you create and add sign-up forms to your website easily. With just a few clicks, you can integrate the plugin with your SiteGround Email Marketing account and watch as new subscribers grow your list. The best part? Every new sign-up will be automatically added to your contacts as a ‘Subscriber.’
Contact lists for optimized targeting
Effortlessly import subscribers with CSV files and create interest groups for targeted messaging. Have complete control over individual profiles and maintain GDPR compliance. On top, our system automatically suppresses hard bounce email addresses to keep your list healthy and improve open and click rates.
Built-in analytics to improve conversions
Understand your campaign’s effectiveness and boost your results through our built-in analytics. Gain insight into important metrics such as open rate, click rate, bounce rate, interactions, and more to determine the most effective approach for your audience and increase conversions.
Start today and experience the power of email marketing
Don’t miss out on the chance to boost your online success with SiteGround Email Marketing. Log in to your Client Area -> Marketplace -> Email Marketingand get advantage of a special introductory offer and test the tool’s incredible potential firsthand. It’s time to unlock the full potential of your online presence and achieve the growth you’ve been dreaming of.
Email services have always been an integral part of SiteGround’s hosting offerings, and our customers heavily rely on them. Every day, we process hundreds of thousands of emails. Many of them are sent out by forwarders set on our servers by our clients. Ensuring the successful delivery of these forwarded emails can be more challenging than you think, as sender verification is not as straightforward as with direct emails.
With the introduction of our own Spam Protection system, we now have more options to enhance the handling of our outgoing email traffic. It allowed us to become one of the few hosting companies to implement Sender Rewrite Scheme (or Mail SRS) and thus significantly improve email forwarding delivery rates for our clients. Here are the details of how this new functionality works and how it benefits our users.
Why are forwarded emails harder to deliver?
Usually, when there is an incoming email, the receiving server tries to identify if the sending server is legitimate and if the email should be accepted. The purpose of this check is to prevent malicious senders from reaching your inbox (for example, a scam email pretending to be coming from your bank’s domain name).
Domain names used for legitimate email sending need to have an SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record, that defines the IP addresses or hosts that are allowed (or not allowed) to send messages on behalf of this domain.
In the Email Forwarding scenario, we have a Sender, who is sending an email to a destination address and after that, the destination address forwards the mail to its end recipient. This means that the end recipient is receiving an email coming from a “mediator” server, which might not be allowed to send messages on behalf of the sending domain, according to its SPF record.
This, based on the receiving servers’s policies, can result in mails being rejected or sent to your Spam folder due to SPF (Sender Policy Framework) failure.
How does SRS make email forwarding more reliable?
Sender Rewrite Scheme (or Mail SRS) is a mechanism that provides a solution in cases of email forwarding so that SPF failures can be avoided. This way legitimate forwarded mails can be successfully accepted from the receiving mail server.
SRS works by rewriting some of the metadata in the email messages after it’s passed the mediator server, “instructing” the destination mail server to check the SPF against the forwarding server, not the original sender’s domain. That way, the SPF check would pass because the forwarding server’s IP would match the sender’s address. Here is a real-life example of how this works:
Imagine a service you use (your bank, for example), sends an email to your business email address webmaster@yourdomain.com, which is hosted with SiteGround. The mail comes from your bank’s IP and its “from” address is billing@yourbank.com, for example – as these two are matching the SPF check passes and the mail is delivered to webmaster@yourdomain.com.
Now imagine that you would like to have this email forwarded from your business email webmaster@yourdomain.com to your personal email name@gmail.com.
If there is no SRS, Gmail will see an email sent from billing@yourbank.com but coming from a SiteGround IP. As these two do not match, the SPF check will not pass and Gmail will probably deliver the mail to the Spam folder.
If SRS is configured correctly, the “from” address will be changed to webmaster@yourdomain.com to match the SiteGround IP as its host. As these are matching, the SPF check will pass and you will receive the important email from your bank in your personal mailbox as well.
This makes SRS an important part of each mail server configuration for maintaining the efficiency and reliability of email forwarding services, ensuring that important communications are not mistakenly marked as spam or rejected due to SPF checks.
SRS Implementation Results
We’re already observing a very positive impact on the deliverability of the forwarded mails after SRS was made available on our servers. Our data shows 0% SPF failures for all forwarded email messages going through our servers, proving incredible stability and reliability of our mail service and improving the reputation of our mail system addresses. Needless to say, all of this directly benefits the mail reputation of the domains of clients hosted on our servers as well.
We believe that the mail Sender Rewrite Scheme is the best way to ensure trustworthy and reliable email services when it comes to email forwarding. Although it’s popular mainly in mail-specific providers and not so much in the majority of hosting companies, we’ve gone the extra mile to add this super useful and efficient mechanism to enhance the email experience of our clients even further.
We’re happy to announce that we’re expanding our data center and CDN network with a new location in Paris, France. Our new data center and CDN point will further increase the loading speed for French visitors of our clients’ websites that receive traffic from France.
New data center in Paris, France
Our new data center in Paris, France, is part of our data center infrastructure, powered by the premium Google Cloud platform. It ensures high redundancy and availability, fast connectivity, multi-layered security, and green-friendly service. We believe that our new data center will improve the experience of our customers even further. Here’s how:
What are the benefits of our new data center
The main benefit of our new data center in Paris is that it will improve the website loading speed of websites whose main traffic is from France. Having your website(s) hosted on a server closer to your main website audience shortens the distance between your website and its visitors, and thus speeds up its loading times.
This has a positive impact not only on your website speed, but on your visitors’ user experience as well. People are more likely to stay on your website, if it loads faster, and they tend to visit it again, if they had a good user experience. This in turn will lead to higher conversion rates as well.
How to move your website(s) to our new data center
If you would like to move any of your existing sites to our new data center in Paris, you could order their relocation in your Client Area > Marketplace > Hosting Services > Relocation. You can relocate each of your sites, hosted on a shared web hosting service, or your entire Cloud hosting account, if you are using Cloud hosting service.
From now on, all new sites created on StartUp, GrowBig and GoGeek plans by our French customers will be hosted by default in the new Paris data center for your convenience. Paris will be your default location for newly ordered Cloud hosting plans as well.
CDN Location in Paris, France
Our in-house built SiteGround CDN service provides multiple geographical locations around the world in order to optimize our clients’ websites loading speed. We’re now launching yet another location – a CDN point in Paris, which will significantly increase the loading speed of websites with traffic from France, both there and all over the world.
If you still haven’t activated our CDN service for your website(s), go ahead and enable it completely free of charge from your Site Tools > Speed > CDN.
With the launch of our new data center and CDN location in Paris, we hope that our customers will enjoy an even better hosting experience.
We recently launched our Monthly Security Reports that give you valuable information about what we’re doing to secure your site and highlight measures you may have overlooked. As we have seen a great interest in the reports and given the fact that website speed is just as important as website security, we’ve decided to provide you with yet another useful feature – Monthly Performance Reports. These reports will inform you about different areas related to your website speed and will help you identify things that may be improved.
What you’ll find in the Monthly Performance Reports
Each month we’ll automatically check a number of performance categories for your site: cache ratio, CDN usage, data center and network speed, WordPress optimization, and others. Then, you’ll receive a report with the results which will include your total website performance score, a breakdown score for each category, and actionable recommendations if some areas need improvement – straight to your inbox.
What are the benefits of the Monthly Performance Reports
Easy and regular access to information
With our Monthly Performance Reports you will be receiving regular information about your site status, delivered by email. It will include important areas that may be hard for our clients to check themselves on a regular basis. For example, we will be monitoring what percentage of your traffic is served from the cache each month (the higher the percentage, the faster your site is) and will inform you if this ratio is not optimal.
Actionable tips
On top of all that, you’ll get actionable tips in case any of the performance categories need improvement. We’ll let you know how to make the most of each optimization option that is available on our platform with clear and easy instructions. Let’s say that we identify you’re not using our Dynamic cache option, or our CDN, or our WordPress Optimization plugin. In such a case, we’ll notify you about this and provide you with information on why to use it and how to switch it on.
User-friendly structure
You’ll be able to quickly scan through the results and spot the tips in an easy-to-follow, color-coded structure of the report. You’ll also get an overall score for the month both in points and percentages, as well as a comparison of how it has changed from the previous month.
How to receive your Monthly Performance Reports
You get this feature for free and it’ll be available for you if you are a site owner of at least 1 active website.
We will gradually begin to proactively send the reports to all our clients, but you may sign up yourself today to be among the first to receive their report.
