Company:SiteGround

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SiteGround Hosting Ltd.
TypePrivately held company
IndustryWeb hosting
FoundedMarch 22, 2004; 21 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 over 3,000,000 domains worldwide.[2] It provides shared hosting, cloud hosting, enterprise solutions,[3] email hosting, and domain registration. According to W3Techs, SiteGround is used as hosting provider by 2.4% of all websites.[4] In 2019, the company employed about 500 people.[5] It has offices in Sofia, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora and Madrid.[6]

History

SiteGround was founded in 2004 in Sofia by a few university friends.[6] In January 2015, Joomla partnered with SiteGround to offer free websites hosted on Joomla.com.[7]

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, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Australia and Singapore.[8] SiteGround runs CentOS, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, PHP, WHM and its in-house developed control panel – Site Tools on its servers.[9][10] In 2020, SiteGround migrated all of its domains to Google Cloud, and all data is stored on Google's SSD persistent storage.[11]

Products and services

SiteGround provides quality web hosting services for WordPress, Joomla, Magento, Drupal, PrestaShop and WooCommerce websites.[12][13][14] It also has a Weebly connector.[15] 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.[14]

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. ↑ "Usage statistics of Squarespace as web hosting provider". W3Techs. 2025-11-24. https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ho-squarespace. 
  5. ↑ "About Siteground". SiteGround. 5 October 2018. https://www.siteground.com/people. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 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/. 
  7. ↑ "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. 
  8. ↑ "SiteGround Uses Data Centres on 4 Continents!". SiteGround. 2023. https://www.siteground.com/datacenters. 
  9. ↑ Williams, Mike (August 21, 2019). "Best Linux web hosting services of 2019". https://www.techradar.com/uk/web-hosting/best-linux-web-hosting. 
  10. ↑ "No More cPanel: Exploring SiteGround's 'Site Tools' Control Panel • GigaPress" (in en-US). 2021-07-27. https://gigapress.net/siteground-site-tools/. 
  11. ↑ "Moving to Google Cloud Platform". SiteGround. 2020. https://www.siteground.com/blog/moving-to-google-cloud/. 
  12. ↑ 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. 
  13. ↑ Clymo, Rob (July 18, 2019). "The best web hosting services of 2019". https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/internet/web-hosting-3651379/. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Wilson, Jeffrey L. (January 25, 2019). "SiteGround Web Hosting". https://www.pcmag.com/review/329203/siteground-web-hosting. 
  15. ↑ Clymo, Rob (June 24, 2019). "SiteGround review". https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/review/software/siteground-3698377/. 



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