SiteGround

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SiteGround Hosting Ltd.
Company type Privately held company
Industry Web hosting
FoundedMarch 22, 2004;21 years ago (2004-03-22) [1]
FounderIvo Tzenov
HeadquartersSofia, Bulgaria
Revenue237,839,000 Bulgarian lev (2022)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
143,211,000 Bulgarian lev (2022)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Total assets 345,667,000 Bulgarian lev (2022)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Number of employees
600+
Website www.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. In 2019, the company employed about 500 people. [4] [ better source needed ] It has offices in Sofia, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora and Madrid. [5]

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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, UK, 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 quality 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 . Retrieved 2016-11-17.
  2. ↑ "WordPress Hosting". SiteGround. 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  3. ↑ Hosting, SiteGround Web. "Enterprise Hosting - Premium Custom-made Solutions". www.siteground.com. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  4. ↑ "About Siteground". SiteGround. SiteGround. 5 October 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  5. 1 2 Cherkezova, Darina (February 8, 2017). "На гости в офиса на... SiteGround" [Guest visit to Site Ground office]. karieri.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Joomla! offers FREE hosted website solution on Joomla.com in partnership with SiteGround". Joomla. January 20, 2015. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  7. ↑ "SiteGround Uses Data Centres on 4 Continents!". SiteGround. 2023. Retrieved May 18, 2023.
  8. ↑ Williams, Mike (August 21, 2019). "Best Linux web hosting services of 2019". TechRadar . Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  9. ↑ "No More cPanel: Exploring SiteGround's 'Site Tools' Control Panel • GigaPress". GigaPress. 2021-07-27. Retrieved 2021-11-16.
  10. ↑ "Moving to Google Cloud Platform". SiteGround. 2020. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  11. ↑ Lupold Bair, Amy (2019). Blogging For Dummies (7th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. p. 60. ISBN   978-1-119-58808-5.
  12. ↑ Clymo, Rob (July 18, 2019). "The best web hosting services of 2019". techadvisor.co.uk. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  13. 1 2 Wilson, Jeffrey L. (January 25, 2019). "SiteGround Web Hosting". PC Magazine . Retrieved January 3, 2021.
  14. ↑ Clymo, Rob (June 24, 2019). "SiteGround review". techadvisor.co.uk. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
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