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About Andrew Gladio

Andrew Gladio is a guy that can answer virtually any question about GlowHost.

Block Bad Bots and Speed Up Your Site with CloudFlare!

Introducing Cloudflare: Website Protection & Acceleration

The two major concerns you have as a website owner are:
1. Keeping the website safe and running
2. Providing the best possible user experience for your visitors.

But you also know that dealing with security and performance issues can take a lot of your time and effort. While web-attacks become more and more sophisticated, you might not always win the battle.

A new solution GlowHost offers for free solves these exact issues for our hosted websites. We’re glad to announce that we have partnered with Cloudflare, a cloud-based website protection and acceleration service. This service provides enterprise-grade website security for the biggest websites in the world including banks, government institutions, trading companies, and some of the biggest eCommerce websites.

Using a new integration into your GlowHost control panel, you can activate Cloudflare on your sites with a simple click. As a result, you don’t need to configure anything or make any changes to your website. Any shared package will work! Simply click the Cloudflare icon in your cPanel, then follow the instructions on-screen to enable Cloudflare on your sites.

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PHP 7 Web Hosting

We are happy to announce that PHP 7 is now available on all (without exception) packages GlowHost offers, including shared, reseller, cloud, semi-dedicated, and dedicated servers!

PHP 7

This is great news because the GlowHost team has been looking forward to the release of the newest PHP version for quite some time. The key to PHP 7’s success here is performance! Zend Technologies claims that this new version is the most important change since 2004, when PHP 5 appeared. For those who think that was a few years ago – guess again. 12 years have passed already!

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