SiteGround

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SiteGround Hosting Ltd.
Company type Privately held company
Industry Web hosting
FoundedMarch 22, 2004;20 years ago (2004-03-22) [1]
FounderIvo Tzenov
HeadquartersSofia, Bulgaria
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 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]

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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 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]

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