SiteGround, with over 11 years in the business, provides managed WordPress hosting that does not miss a thing! Their servers, available in 4 different datacentres across the world, are optimised for ultimate WordPress speed and security and they provide many goodies for the WordPress fans – automatic updates for the core WordPress and its plugins, WordPress SuperCacher for ultimate speed acceleration, staging tool for the coders and unique WordPress auto-installer for the starting users – all crafted in-house by the SiteGround team.

And still they do not forget the importance of the good old standard hosting features like the domain name registration, the email service, control panel and the reasonable pricing. They also have a support team that is not only available 24/7 by phone, chat and ticketing, but consists of WordPress enthusiasts who will help you with specific WordPress issues. SiteGround has been actively involved with the community speaking, supporting and attending various WordCamps around the world and by sponsoring WordCamp London, they want to further contribute to the amazing WordPress community.

We’re excited to introduce you to Timpani: the UK’s new WordPress platform. Built by a team with over two decades of experience in the technologies that power WordPress, Timpani has created a coherent platform that prioritises simplicity, security, and elegance. We ensure you can get your WordPress instances up and running at the press of a button, make sure they’re kept up to date and backed up, and then get out of your way.

Want SSL? No problem: just paste in your certificate and you have SSL. Want to synchronise your live sites to a free Timpani UAT staging area? One click. Git-push with your ssh keys to that staging site? Easy! Timpani comes with a blazingly fast cache. Want to clear it? Just press a button and it’s done. In the mood for some database surgery? Access phpmyadmin securely and directly from your Timpani panel, without having to remember your database password. Restore from yesterday’s backup? Or last week? Done, in seconds. Invite your favourite devs, colleagues, and clients to your Timpani instances, add them to your teams and give them permissions to do exactly what you want them to do. And talking about permissions: our platform doesn’t require that your WordPress files have a set of lax generic web-server permissions, nor be open up to the world just to allow uploads!

Timpani. No gimmicks. No fragile pseudo-features designed to look good in a brochure but compromise the live service. Just elegant, robust, clean managed WordPress, hosted in the UK by a team selected for not just their expertise but their humanity. We’re so proud of our new baby. We want to take this opportunity to introduce you to it at WordCamp London: say hello to Timpani!

Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that simplifies managing your sites by connecting to WordPress.com. This connection enables Photon (global CDN for images), uptime monitoring, brute force protection, traffic-boosting tools, single sign on, multiple site management, and automatic or bulk plugin updates. Additionally Jetpack includes several features that help you customise the look-and-feel of your site without needing extra plugins. More information can be found at jetpack.me

WooCommerce is the fastest growing eCommerce software/platform, powering over 30% of all eCommerce stores with over 1 million active installations. It is is built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, making it the obvious eCommerce choice for existing WordPress users and connects you to the fast-growing WordPress ecosystem which now powers over 25% of all websites on the internet.

With WooCommerce you can start with all the basic tools that any small business would need to start selling online, including product setup, payments, shipping options, and sales reports and as your business grows choose from over 300 premium add-ons available including additional payment processors, shipping methods, inventory systems and marketing tools anyone to sell anything, anywhere from real products and digital downloads to subscriptions, content and even your time.

In July 2015, WooCommerce was acquired by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com which serves more than 15.8 billion pages a month and also the creators of other popular WordPress services including Akismet, Jetpack, and VaultPress. We look forward to growing WooCommerce to achieve even greater things together with Automattic.