Company:SiteGround

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SiteGround Hosting Ltd.
TypePrivately held company
IndustryWeb hosting
FoundedMarch 22, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-03-22)[1]
FounderIvo Tzenov
HeadquartersSofia, Bulgaria
Number of employees
600+
Websitewww.siteground.com

SiteGround is a web hosting company, founded in 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria. As of April 2023, it provides hosting for about 2,800,000 domains worldwide.[2] It provides shared hosting, cloud hosting, enterprise solutions,[3] email hosting, and domain registration. In 2019, the company employed about 500 people.[4][better source needed] It has offices in Sofia, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora and Madrid.[5]

History

SiteGround was founded in 2004 in Sofia by a few university friends.[5] In January 2015, Joomla partnered with SiteGround to offer free websites hosted on Joomla.com.[6]

Server infrastructure and setup

According to the company's website, in May 2023, it had 11 data centers in 8 countries: the United States , the Netherlands, United Kingdom , Germany , France , Spain , Australia and Singapore.[7] SiteGround runs CentOS, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, PHP, WHM and its in-house developed control panel – Site Tools on its servers.[8][9] In 2020, SiteGround migrated all of its domains to Google Cloud, and all data is stored on Google's SSD persistent storage.[10]

Products and services

SiteGround provides web hosting services for WordPress, Joomla, Magento, Drupal, PrestaShop and WooCommerce websites.[11][12][13] It also has a Weebly connector.[14] A September 18, 2020, review by PCMag.com praised SiteGround for their strong uptime and customer support, but rated them 3.5/5 overall, before major price increases in 2021 and 2022.[13]

References

  1. "SiteGround.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. https://whois.domaintools.com/siteground.com. 
  2. "WordPress Hosting". SiteGround. 2023. https://www.siteground.com/wordpress-hosting. 
  3. Hosting, SiteGround Web. "Enterprise Hosting - Premium Custom-made Solutions" (in en). https://www.siteground.com/enterprise-hosting. 
  4. "About Siteground". SiteGround. 5 October 2018. https://www.siteground.com/people. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Cherkezova, Darina (February 8, 2017). "На гости в офиса на... SiteGround" (in bg). https://www.karieri.bg/karieren_klub/blog/2913120_na_gosti_v_ofisa_na_siteground/. 
  6. "Joomla! offers FREE hosted website solution on Joomla.com in partnership with SiteGround". Joomla. January 20, 2015. https://www.joomla.org/announcements/general-news/5580-joomla-offers-free-hosted-website-solution-on-joomla-com-in-partnership-with-siteground.html. 
  7. "SiteGround Uses Data Centres on 4 Continents!". SiteGround. 2023. https://www.siteground.com/datacenters. 
  8. Williams, Mike (August 21, 2019). "Best Linux web hosting services of 2019". https://www.techradar.com/uk/web-hosting/best-linux-web-hosting. 
  9. "No More cPanel: Exploring SiteGround's 'Site Tools' Control Panel • GigaPress" (in en-US). 2021-07-27. https://gigapress.net/siteground-site-tools/. 
  10. "Moving to Google Cloud Platform". SiteGround. 2020. https://www.siteground.com/blog/moving-to-google-cloud/. 
  11. Lupold Bair, Amy (2019). Blogging For Dummies (7th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-119-58808-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=P3imDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA60. 
  12. Clymo, Rob (July 18, 2019). "The best web hosting services of 2019". https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/internet/web-hosting-3651379/. 
  13. 13.0 13.1 Wilson, Jeffrey L. (January 25, 2019). "SiteGround Web Hosting". https://www.pcmag.com/review/329203/siteground-web-hosting. 
  14. Clymo, Rob (June 24, 2019). "SiteGround review". https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/review/software/siteground-3698377/. 

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