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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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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

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Does Intercom work as the master user database?

Can we replace Kone.io’s user database with Intercom? With almost all user data already there, this is an interesting idea. We are going to find it out! When we start to build Kone.io, our first user “database” was a simple JSON file. Having experienced the complexity of

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One click free SSL-certificate for HTTPS

We are happy to tell you about our latest improvement: Free SSL-certificate for your websites with one click! All sites, all domains, no hassle. After your site is "live", you will see Enable HTTPS-button in control panel. Just click it and your done! https://www.yoursite.com will work.Under