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Show Notes:
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Tenko Nikolov is the CEO at SiteGround, and founded GetClouder and 1H.com. He started in the murky depths of hacking early in the inception of the web, but since has moved over to the lighter side of WordPress hosting. Managing over 320,000 domains at SiteGround, Tenko has learned the tools of the trade surrounding WordPress hosting. He has worked tirelessly to set standards of customer service and reliability for his customers.
You can find him online at @tnikolov.
Sippin’ On
Brad – Glorious H2o
Dre – Diet Coke
Tenko – H2o
Interview
Starting with Hacking
Tenko started his career on the internet with hacking servers and delving into the “black hat” side of the web. He realized that might not be the best area to make a career out of it and decided to go another route. He started working technical support early on for SiteGround.
Growing a Business
During his early days at SiteGround, Tenko learned many lessons about how to successfully run a business. Working on innovative technology, security, and managing infrastructure proved to have many speed bumps along the way. Along the way, however, they learned how to grow a business and set standards in the hosting industry.
Pressing Topics
Matt Mullenweg looks at the contribution from companies surrounding WordPress in his recent blog post.
Referencing the post by Matt Mullenweg above, Post Status looks at contributing efforts of WordPress companies.
The popular resizing script plugin’s co-creator Ben Gillbanks announces the end of the project.
Stream 2.0 is essentially a “black box of a WordPress site that the NSA can’t access.”
Bar Tricks
Brad – WebDevStudios Blog
Dre – Co-Authors Plus, Cool plugin that allows you to have multiple authors on a single blog post
Tenko – JetPack
Upcoming Events
Prestige Conference – October 3-5
WordCamp San Francisco – October 23-25
PressNomics III – January 22-24
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