SiteGround

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] It has offices in Sofia, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora and Madrid.[5]

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

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]

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. 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. 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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