{"id":1688,"date":"2025-01-03T13:52:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T19:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2025-07-30T13:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:06:22","slug":"2024-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/2024-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2024\u00a0Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Happy New Year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for being part of our family and selecting Varial Hosting as your independent hosting provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Cara\u2019s return from maternity leave, we\u2019re once again operating as a family-owned mom and pop shop!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024 was a very busy year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entire first half of the year was spent meticulously planning and executing our recent server migrations and upgrades<\/a> which saw the majority of our customers moved to brand new server hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this work now complete, our servers are faster and more reliable than ever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024 introduced our new Sitejet website builder<\/a>, PHP 8.3 support, team management in cPanel, faster backups and restores, email compression, as well as outgoing email spam scanning to protect our server\u2019s email sending reputations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This summer we launched a new line of hosting plans<\/a> with a huge introductory 67% discount offer which led to us breaking our record for new orders in a single day when back to school season started. In fact, we broke this record two days in a row at the start of September!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We strive to provide the best support for our services as possible. With that said, I\u2019m pleased to announce that our 24\/7 support ticket response time average for all 366 days of 2024 was just 19 minutes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a final project for 2024 we launched a new knowledgeable<\/a> on our website for those looking to quickly find answers to common questions. We\u2019ll be spending much of 2025 rewriting all of our support articles to be as up to date and helpful as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for an amazing year. Your business and support is much appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wishing you all the best in the new year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryan Smith, CEO
Varial Hosting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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