How GO54 Used WP Squared to Streamline and Improve Their Hosting Services

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What is GO54? 

GO54, formerly known as Whogohost, is Nigeria’s leading provider of domains, web hosting, and digital services. Serving over 100,000 users across Africa, it has grown to become the largest domains and hosting provider on the continent. GO54 is committed to empowering individuals and businesses to thrive online by offering innovative, secure, and scalable solutions to drive success in the digital age.

The Challenge 

GO54’s existing management setup for sites built with WordPress software required manual updates and didn’t have the centralized control that both they and their end users required. This meant that it wasn’t just inefficient, but potentially vulnerable. 

They were seeking a reliable, scalable, and above all secure solution to manage their clients efficiently. Their portfolio of users building business on the WordPress platform was growing increasingly fast, and ensuring they kept up with demand while continuing to provide the high-quality service they were known for was paramount to their needs. Additionally, the solution needed to be automated, easy-to-use, and workable across multiple sectors. 

Enter WP Squared 

After evaluating several competing options, they found WP Squared to be the perfect fit for the needs of their users. The solution provided all of the elements of simplicity, security, and automation that they required to maintain and improve the standards their customers were used to. 

WP Squared’s scalability allowed GO54 to meet the diverse needs of their clients, from small businesses to larger enterprises, while overall streamlining operational efficiency. Seamlessly integrating with WHMCS, WP Squared simplifies the sale and provisioning of accounts. While it is built on a foundation similar to cPanel, providing a familiar interface for those accustomed to cPanel’s environment, WP Squared operates independently, delivering its own unique capabilities.

What Were The Results? 

The company used WP Squared across their entire server ecosystem. The integration was smooth with minimal support required. The automated updates and backups of the platform allowed GO54 to improve site management for all of their clients, both big and small. They were also able to ensure better uptime, faster loading speeds, and an increase in security. 

Try WP Squared 

Discover how WP Squared can empower your business today! Get in touch with one of our account managers today! 

As the world’s top internet infrastructure industry event, CloudFest helps set the tone for our industry. A who’s who of partners, leaders, consumers, end users, and executives gather in Europa Park, Germany, for presentations, discussions, product launches and demos, face-to-face meetings, and so much more.

We appreciate the opportunity that CloudFest provides us to not only showcase the flagship brands of our ecosystem (cPanel, Plesk, and WHMCS), but also connect with our partners and colleagues. We had an amazing time meeting one-on-one and attending the myriad of presentations, keynotes, and panels.

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Our very own CTO of Cloud Platform and Incubation Projects, Jan Loeffler, kicked things off with his keynote presentation “WordPress by the Numbers.”

This guide to the galaxy of WordPress revealed there are over two billion hostnames worldwide, over 717 million of which are active within the WebPros domain database, and over 80 million of those hostnames are running WordPress as its primary CMS.

Jan went on to reveal some of our research, including that 60% of websites are built by web age

ncies and web professionals, and that over 80% of agencies resell hosting. It was also shared that 1 out of every 3 WordPress websites on the internet are powered by a WebPros control panel, either cPanel or Plesk.

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WebPros Product Managers Adam Wien and Andrey Kugaevskiy presented “WordPress & WebPros: Elevating UX & Fortifying Security in the WordPress Universe.”

This served as the official launch of our two new WordPress-centric products: WP Guardian and WP Squared. Andrey and Adam led the audience through how to leverage these products to deliver top-notch management of WordPress site with WP Squared and industry-leading protection of WordPress websites with WP Guardian.

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“The Influence of AI in Hosting: Expanding Your Revenue Horizons” was also presented by Jan Loeffler.

By bridging the gap between his own grandfather’s local winery 30 years ago and today’s eCommerce-centric global storefront, Jan led the captive audience into the modern world of AI-driven solutions and how to leverage these solutions for smarter resource allocation, predictive maintenance, enhanced security, and overall pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the cloud and hosting market in general.

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Hendrik Koehler, Director of Product Management of Sitejet, presented a masterclass entitled “Sitejet Builder for cPanel and Plesk: Unlocking Profit Potential.” By framing the dramatically changing hosting market against the growth of SaaS providers alongside WordPress, Hendrick presented Sitejet Builder as the user-friendly, feature-packed, and overall powerful tool that it is.

With its inclusion within both cPanel and Plesk, Hendrick illustrated exactly how Sitejet Builder enables users to launch optimized websites and stay competitive in an increasingly aggressive and expanding space.

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CloudFest is always a whirlwind event, filled with fruitful meetings, interesting and compelling presentations, discussions, product demonstrations, as well as the spontaneous interactions and overall unexpectedness we’ve come to appreciate that all coalesce into CloudFest being the outstanding event that it is.

Of course we’ll be returning to Europa Park again in 2025, but first: June 5-8, 2024, is CloudFest USA in Austin, Texas; we’ll see you there, pard’ner!