Sami Niemi - Pilvia Blog

My Trip to New York: Part 3 - WordCamp NYC 2019

Sami's journey to New York, city where he is dreaming to live in one day. Read the sympathetic story on how the founder of Pilvia experienced the greatest City in the world!

My Trip to New York: Part 2 - Coney Island

Sami's journey to New York, city where he is dreaming to live in one day. Read the sympathetic story on how the founder of Pilvia experienced the greatest City in the world!

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My Trip to New York: Part 1 - Travelling to The Best City in The World

Sami's journey to New York, city where he is dreaming to live in one day. Read the sympathetic story on how the founder of Pilvia experienced the greatest City in the world!

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Ghost - Modern WordPress Alternative

If you are blogger, journalist or just love to write in public, you definitely should check this beautiful and lightning fast blog engine!

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It’s not only eating!

“Hey guys, are you eating all the time there in Pilvia?” That’s maybe the first question on your mind if you are following #Pilviafamily in social media. No way, it’s much more than that here in Pilvia! Almost every time when I’m walking to the Pilvia’s

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Hanging on the support-chat!

Days of Pilviafamilys server specialist Petri Karvinen are not only programming or ogling the codes. Every other week Petri works as a duty officer in Pilvia’s customer support. “Every other week is my turn and every other week is Sami’s turn. It’s me or Sami (Niemi) who

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First week just behind

The first week of my communications internship in Pilvia is behind and five more are still ahead. My first week has been very intresting because this intership is my first communications intership. It’s also intresting to see how communications works in a small and quite young company. New wind

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Communications internship experience at Pilvia

I applied for a communications internship to Pilvia last December. The internship was my third overall but my first communications internship during my studies. I was very intrigued by the opportunity to go way out of my comfort zone and to go work at a tech company. My job description

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Pilvia at marketing events, PING Studio & Mainostorstai

At Pilvia, we think that it’s good to switch up your normal workday and to get out of the office from time to time, so we decided to attend two interesting seminars in the last two weeks. PING Studio: Growth & Trends 2019 was held in Helsinki on Wednesday

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Pilvia working with Oulu University of Applied Sciences

Pilvia’s services have been used in education purposes at Oulu University of Applied Sciences (Oamk) for around two years. Pekka Ojala, a lecturer at the Information Technology department, heard about Pilvia from his colleague and decided to test it in his classes. He teaches students in the Business Information

Pilvia 2019: What users can expect from Pilvia this year?

The year 2018 brought many changes and achievements to Pilvia. It has set many goals for the ongoing year. One of which is to cater better to its broader customer base. One of the most biggest changes for Pilvia was moving its office to Logomo in Turku in the beginning

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Pricing changes!

We’re introducing some changes to our pricing plans, which will effect your website development at Pilvia. The current free plan will be replaced with a trial period for our new, Personal pricing plan. The trial is extended till the end of the year, giving you ample time to decide

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Introducing: Site Templates

We are pleased to tell our Developer Account Basic is getting better by adding new feature: Site TemplatesCreate a generic site with theme, plugins and best settings, then mark site as a Template. Next time you start a new project, you just create site from Templates and you are ready

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Pilvia at WordCamp NYC 2018

Pilvia is attending and sponsoring the WorldCamp NYC 2018 “Everything WordPress” Conference. We are very excited to bring you all the latest and greatest from the world of WordPress. Are you feeling hungry for all the freshest WordPress information? Please ask us if there is something particular you would like

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How to send email using your own domain

You may have noticed, that when using standard PHP mail send functions, you cannot use your own domain as the sender address. The reason for this is, that Domain ownership / management is in no way tied to our system. Without a way to properly validate domain ownership internally, we cannot

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Demo sites now secured with HTTPS

Last night we had an nasty issue where Google Chrome was warning almost all demo sites (http://yoursite.demo.site) falsely as a phishing pages. After sweat and several reports we got assured Google to clean issue and problem is mainly gone. Root cause is still mystery and we are

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Transfer files, Install Plugins and solve problems with FTP

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used for transferring files from your computer to a server and vice versa. If you want to edit wp-config.php or upload new themes/plugins to wp-content folder, you need an FTP client. If you’re going to make changes

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We reached our first milestone – 1000 sites at Pilvia

Happy New Year! We are well rested, excited and ready to work after the holiday season! 2016 was a great starting point and a proof of concept for our WP Hosting Platform. Currently we have 680 users from 236 cities around the world. We also reached our first milestone, 1000

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How to make Multilingual WordPress site: Better alternative for WPML or Polylang

You might have encountered problems if you’ve used WPML or Polylang for providing multilingual content in your WordPress site. Next time, try Weglot. It’s a SAAS translation service founded by Augustin Prot and Rémy Berda. It enables you to translate your WP site in minutes without doing any

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Who are we? Learn more about us

We believe that getting started with Cloud based WordPress hosting solutions should be easy and accessible for anyone. Customer satisfaction, the quality of our service, technical perfection and user-centricity are the values of which we will not compromise. We have a small, but extremely motivated and talented team at Turku,

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Choosing high quality WordPress Plugins + my favourites!

This article will help you to make better decisions and safes your time when you’re browsing through thousands of different plugins in WP Plugin Directory. I believe that industry-proven best practices should be used from the beginning, so I crafted a short list for you to get started. Before

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14 years of Hosting from Finland! Say hello to Pilvia’s CEO Sami Niemi

Hello, I'm Sami!About two weeks ago we published a little presentation post about our WordPress Cloud Hosting company Pilvia. Let's here what "Finns' own server dude" Sami Niemi has on his mind today and what made him what he is today: From self built servers to real data centerMy

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We changed our name - Kone.io is now Pilvia!

I’m very excited to share some important news with you. Few days ago we changed our name from Kone.io to Pilvia in order to better align with our long-term vision. Why PILVIA? Well… For a long time it has been the name of our company so it felt

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Child theme is the right way to customize WordPress themes

Want to customize a theme you downloaded? You should never make changes to the original theme files, because when you update the theme, your changes will be gone. Instead of that, you should use a child theme. Keep reading and we’ll tell you how. Skip the intro and follow

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Speeding the Web: HTTP/2 Now Available for all websites

We have a good news for you, all Pilvia sites now support a new HTTP/2 protocol, which gives a modern way to transfer data between clients browser and your site. HTTP/2 brings a number of new features, including: A binary protocol, making it more compact to ship over