{"id":14230,"date":"2021-03-22T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newblog.siteground.com\/en\/?p=14230"},"modified":"2023-09-01T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T07:55:08","slug":"siteground-17-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siteground.com\/blog\/siteground-17-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Turning 17 And This Is How We Have Matured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Turning 17 is exciting for everyone, even for a hosting provider! And today, March 22, 2021 marks our 17th Birthday! During these years we managed to keep our enthusiasm and spirits just as high as that of a high school senior, but gain even more experience. In this past year alone we matured tremendously, having been through a lot of changes and facing challenging times that made us stronger and better than ever before, especially in terms of our service and commitment<\/a> to our communities and those who were in need during the COVID-19 crisis. What helps us celebrate and enjoy this anniversary is knowing that we have done a lot of good work and we want to invite you to join us on a short walk down memory lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Enhancing our interfaces for a smooth user experience<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Looking back at our beginnings, it is quite impressive how our increasing focus on delivering a top-notch user experience has been reflected in our interfaces. Those days in which website platform, dashboard or control panel were a synonym for complicated routes to follow only suitable for the most technical ones are gone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SiteGround User Area from 2012<\/em> to 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now with our renewed User Area and Site Tools interfaces<\/a>, which are already available for ALL clients on our shared hosting servers and almost all of our Cloud ones, the experience of managing a website has become easier than ever and accessible to all<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SiteGround User Area from 2019 onwards<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/span>Developing the fanciest, high-quality hosting platform<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our platform has evolved tremendously since when we started back in 2004. Moving from bare metal servers with a pretty standard LAMP setup (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) with cPanel (a control panel used by pretty much every other host out there) to a sophisticated cutting-edge platform with in-house developed technologies and a unique control panel is our pride and joy.  Our clients now enjoy one of the fastest and safest hosting services thanks to a unique configuration built over the years by some of the best IT experts. To remind you about a few of the more recent ones:<\/p>\n\n\n\n