Squarespace on TV!!

About a month ago, our friend David Prager introduced us to Kevin Pereira, host of the AOS on the G4 network. 

After viewing a Squarespace demo, Kevin decided to move his blog over to Squarespace, and with a little help from Senior Designer Krystyn Heide, Kevin created quite an impressive blog.  In fact, Kevin was such a fan of the Squarespace experience that we were featured on his show as an accessible and optimal alternative to coding or hiring a designer. 

The spot premiered last Friday at 7:21pm on G4 network's Attack Of The Show!

As Squarespace powers so many sites from behind the scenes, it was awesome to see the system fully displayed up on the medium screen.

Big screen here we come…

Squarespace Offices : Demo Shots

We have started the gutting of our new offices. So with that, we bring you the very rough looking interior shots of the space, think potential :)

Squarespace at the Next Web Meetup Tonight in NYC

Squarespace is presenting Version 5 at the Web 2 meetup in New York City tonight at Webster Hall. If you’re around, stop in!

• NextWeb New York

A Big Welcome to Stephen Parker and Shaun Horine

We’d like to extend a huge welcome to two members of our community, Stephen Parker (designed the Messier template) and Shaune Horne — who have recently joined our team. Stephen and Shawn are easily recognizable to anyone who has spent any time on our forums, and represent a huge jump forward for our support team.

Our internal goal is to get every question responded to within 15 minutes at every single point in the day. We’re not there yet, but we’re close.

Kevin Rose Comes to Squarespace

About a month ago now our friend Kevin Rose, host of Diggnation and founder of digg.com, moved his blog to Squarespace. We were of course thrilled, but didn’t think to mention it until we noticed some pretty big stories in Digg linking back to his Squarespace site.

Posts like the one on the left, through the magic of Digg, were the #1 story in the technology section for a few hours, receiving over 3,000 diggs.  That position translates into 100,000 unique visitors to his Squarespace site in about 12 hours, with some hours reaching 10,000 hits alone.  That’s not an estimated number — it actually generates that much traffic.

Kevin’s site is using a package equivalent to the $8/month one we offer, and it stayed up and serving traffic 100% of the time.  That’s something that wouldn’t happen on a shared host running custom software without an immense amount of effort. Why?  Because we’ve already done things like implement load balancing, redundant clustered web servers, server side caching at multiple levels, proper content expiration headers, and more.  If you don’t understand what any of that means, that’s great — because we think you shouldn’t have to.