{"id":607,"date":"2017-11-17T11:30:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2017-11-17T11:30:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T17:30:51","slug":"varial-featured-on-hostingadvice-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/varial-featured-on-hostingadvice-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Varial Featured on HostingAdvice.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

HostingAdvice.com<\/a> recently chatted with our CEO Ryan Smith on the origins of our company and the development of our optimized WordPress hosting platform.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to learn a bit more about our company and our quest to make web hosting easier for all, click here to read the article!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HostingAdvice.com recently chatted with our CEO Ryan Smith on the origins of our company and the development of our optimized WordPress hosting platform. If you’d like to learn a bit more about our company and our quest to make web hosting easier for all, click here to read the article!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[177,178,179],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-hosting-advice","tag-hostingadvice-com","tag-interview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-17-at-11.23.00-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7kThA-9N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":672,"url":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/varial-featured-on-top-10-website-hosting\/","url_meta":{"origin":607,"position":0},"title":"Varial Featured on Top 10 Website Hosting","author":"Varial","date":"April 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"UK review site,\u00a0Top 10 Website Hosting\u00a0recently caught up with our CEO Ryan Smith for an interview and review of our services. Learn more about our optimized Wordpress hosting service and origins of our company by clicking here to read the article!","rel":"","context":"In "Announcements"","block_context":{"text":"Announcements","link":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/category\/announcements\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/assets\/img\/facebook-square.png?ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":737,"url":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/varial-celebrates-15-years-of-business\/","url_meta":{"origin":607,"position":1},"title":"Varial Celebrates 15 Years of Business","author":"Varial","date":"June 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Today we celebrate a major milestone. 15 years ago I began selling web hosting and design services as a way to subsidize the cost of running a music discussion forum I had created that was exploding in popularity. Our first customers were the bands that frequented the forums and other\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Announcements"","block_context":{"text":"Announcements","link":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/category\/announcements\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/varialparty.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/varialparty.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/varialparty.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/varialparty.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1755,"url":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/2025-year-in-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":607,"position":2},"title":"2025 Year in Review","author":"Varial","date":"January 5, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy New Year! Thank you for being part of our family and selecting Varial Hosting as your independent hosting provider. If you are new to our company or have been a customer with us from the start, we value you and greatly appreciate your support of our business, your phone\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Announcements"","block_context":{"text":"Announcements","link":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/category\/announcements\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"2025 Year in Review","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/087A5337-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/087A5337-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/087A5337-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/087A5337-1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/087A5337-1.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/087A5337-1.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1541,"url":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/varial-celebrates-20-years-of-business\/","url_meta":{"origin":607,"position":3},"title":"Varial Celebrates 20 Years of Business","author":"Varial","date":"June 1, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Twenty years ago today we opened our doors to the public and sold our first web hosting plans. I was a university student studying Sociology who had created a wildly popular online discussion forum for local musicians. As the site grew to exceed 1 million hits\/month, I began learning more\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Announcements"","block_context":{"text":"Announcements","link":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/category\/announcements\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/varial20.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/varial20.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/varial20.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/varial20.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1660,"url":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/varial-introduces-new-line-of-hosting-plans\/","url_meta":{"origin":607,"position":4},"title":"Varial Introduces New Line of Hosting Plans","author":"Varial","date":"August 1, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been eight years since we last revised our hosting plans, and with the recent completion of our operating system and server hardware upgrades, we thought it would be a great time to shake things up a bit. Introducing our new Startup, Plus, Turbo and Max hosting plans. All plans\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Announcements"","block_context":{"text":"Announcements","link":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/category\/announcements\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/newhostingplans.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/newhostingplans.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/newhostingplans.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/newhostingplans.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/newhostingplans.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/newhostingplans.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":842,"url":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/black-friday-50-off-wordpress-hosting-sale\/","url_meta":{"origin":607,"position":5},"title":"Black Friday 50% Off WordPress Hosting Sale","author":"Varial","date":"November 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Our annual Black Friday sale is back! Save 50% on your first year of WordPress hosting when ordering our Small Hosting plan using the coupon code BLACKFRIDAY at varialhosting.com\/wordpress. This offer is available through to Cyber Monday and is valid for new orders of our Small Hosting plan on annual\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Promotions"","block_context":{"text":"Promotions","link":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/category\/promotions\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/varial-blackfriday2018.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/varial-blackfriday2018.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/varial-blackfriday2018.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/varial-blackfriday2018.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varialhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}