This was one of the most eventful and amazing years in the history of SiteGround and not surprisingly, we had one of the best end-of-year celebrations to commemorate it.
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SiteGround Adds a Free Website Builder
As of January 2025, SiteGround has introduced the SiteGround Website Builder—our new, in-house website creation tool. Included for free with all hosting plans, it offers an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, professional templates, built-in SEO features, and AI-powered content generation.
As many of you know, we work with various CMS’s – WordPress, Joomla, Magento being some of the top favorites of our customers. No matter how straightforward we think these CMS’s are though, many customers have difficulties working with them. This is why we spent some time looking for the easiest website builder that we could integrate into our platform and offer to our customers as a solution to their hassles. We are happy to say that we found it in Weebly – a powerful yet simple drag & drop website building tool.
Critical Vulnerability in Joomla Fixed on Zero-day
Yesterday, a serious vulnerability that affects all major Joomla versions was disclosed. Using this security breach a hacker could do a full remote command execution on the targeted site. We have worked together with the Joomla Security teams and came up with a rule in our WAF (web application firewall) that would block hacking attempts using this vulnerability and we don’t have reports for hacked accounts through this exploit.
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Day Zero of PHP 7 – Give it a try!
PHP 8.4: Stay Updated! 🚀 Check out our latest blog post to explore the newest features and enhancements in PHP 8.4.
Today PHP 7 has reached its General Availability status. As you probably know it has been available on SiteGround servers for quite a while and you can refer to an earlier post of ours about its features. Now it has reached GA status which means PHP7 can be used on production sites.
Our Second European Datacenter is Now Live in London
Our first data center location in Amsterdam has been serving our European clients quite well over the last few years. However, our strategy to constantly enhance our service urged us to look for more datacenter locations throughout the continent. Each new location we add allows us to deliver better performance and localized service to a certain group of our clients.
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HTTP/2 Now Available on all shared/cloud servers at SiteGround
The Internet as we all know it today wouldn’t have existed without the HTTP protocol. It is the heart and soul that pumps content to all of us. It makes it possible for us to read the latest news, order stuff online, watch videos on YouTube and get to our favourite websites on all types of devices – workstations with 27-inch displays, laptops, mobile phones, tablets and even e-readers that offer browsing capabilities. Sadly, that protocol has not been changed since 1999 when version 1.1 was released so, when HTTP/2 was released earlier this year, it was a source of major excitement. Of course, the SiteGround team has immediately started working on it and we are now happy to announce that all our shared and cloud servers support HTTP/2.
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Core Joomla! Vulnerability Patched in Version 3.4.5 Security Release
A few days ago, a critical vulnerability in the Joomla! core was found. It comes from an unsanitized input in the Joomla! core, which makes an SQL injection possible. The result of such an attack can lead to totally compromised websites – stolen login details, hijacking website access, malicious file uploads, etc. It’s a serious threat, without a doubt, and one that applies to all Joomla! 3.2 versions and above.
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Widespread Connectivity Issue Across Europe May Be Affecting SiteGround Customers
Since approximately 2:00AM CET we started receiving multiple complaints from our European customers and site down reports. On some occasions clients were (and still are) unable to load SiteGround.com, but can access their own website or vice versa, or lose connection with any of our services.
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Affiliate Success Tips Part #4: An interview with Malte Helmhold
We’ve come to the end of yet another interesting and empowering project that we have undertaken for our affiliates. Today we feature the fourth and final interview from the Affiliate Success Tips series. One of our aims was to introduce affiliates with different profiles in order to show the variety of ways to promote and/or integrate hosting to a service. We chose Malte Helmhold because he has successfully mastered the video tutorials niche and we wanted him to share the benefits and opportunity he saw in it.
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JetPack XSS Security Issue – What We Did to Protect You
On October 1st, a security issue in JetPack, one of the most commonly used WordPress plugins, was disclosed by our partners from Sucuri. The vulnerability was severe because an attacker could exploit the contact form feature of the plugin to insert and execute JavaScript code as an admin of your site. Needless to say, that could lead to all sort of problems – injecting black SEO links, adding backdoors for full access to your account, accessing private information, etc. In this recap post, we would like to summarise what we did to protect SiteGround users with this plugin installed.