SITEGROUND
2016 IN REVIEW2016 marked another great year for us – our 12th in the hosting business. See what we were up to, share our story with the world, and win some cool SiteGround prizes!
We Kept Growing Our Team
117
Teammates Promoted15 000 +
Hours of Trainings2700 sq m
Office Space AddedWe Became a Distributed Company
Teammates in 14 countries
30 languages spoken by our team
32 remote employees
6.5 M messages Exchanged over Slack
We Threw an Open-air Festival
Even though we’re scattered across countries, spending time together and having fun is what’s always mattered. So we got everyone together for an open-air music festival!
We Cherished the Love of Our Employees
We Kept Upgrading Our Platform for More Security and Stability
Working with the best hardware and software is at the heart of our philosophy. Developing smart in-house solutions is our passion.
We kept renewing our hardware and added 201 new machines.
Our new in-house backup system created millions of backups.
Our support for Let's Encrypt grew even stronger. Free SSL for all!
PHP 7.0 is the default, but we already support PHP 7.1 as well.
Our Latest Craft?
Artificial Intelligence!
Our AI team is gonna help make
our clients’ lives much easier.
We Mastered the Art of Enterprise Hosting
We started building custom hosting infrastructure for high-traffic websites and so far we’ve worked on pretty exciting projects! The best is yet to come on our website, but for now we can proudly say we’ve provided 19 hours of consulting per client before onboarding them and managed to handle 500 hits/second per enterprise site!
If you want to learn more about how we achieved that or have an interesting large-scale project for which you need reliable hosting infrastructure, drop us a line.
We Got To Love And Support WordPress Even More
We sponsored 40 WordCamps and local meetups worldwide.
We helped organize WordCamp
Sofia
We got officially recommended on WordPress.org
We Kept Standing For What We Believe In!
Giving Back to Communities
Empowering Creative People
We fell in love with CreativeMornings! We helped 15 local CreativeMornings breakfasts happen and gathered over 2800 entries in one month for our #CMCreativeTravels campaign.
Supporting Independent Publishing
We got to support one of our favorite magazines for people on the web - Offscreen (and like real fanboys were stoked to interview its founder Kai Brach).
Sharing Knowledge
By Producing Valuable Free Content
Expert Tips to an Ultra-Fast WordPress Site
Download
Starting an Online Business with a WooCommerce Store
DownloadBy Organizing High-quality Conferences
We made Bulgaria PHP conference happen for the 2nd time, and gathered 600+ attendees from 24 countries.
We Kept Our Suitcases Packed
120 Events
sponsored worldwide278,560 Mi.
travelled36k Swag Items
given awayWe Got the Biggest Award
Like every year, we asked our clients about their satisfaction with the 4 pillars of our service: speed, security, support and uptime and 96% of them rated their experience as outstanding. We’re proud!
WE ACHIEVED
96%
SATISFACTION RATE
Share Our Recap And Win An Exclusive Branded Hat and Scarf Set & more!
To wave our hats goodbye to another great year (and keep warm for the new one) we designed a special SiteGround scarf and hat set for our entire team. Sharing these gifts with you is our best way to thank you for spreading the word and your love for us! So if you'd like to get yourself a brand new knitted SiteGround set, share this recap with the #sgrecap hashtag before Monday, January 23rd, 2017 and you might win one!
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