SiteGround
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| Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Web hosting |
| Founded | March 22, 2004[1] |
| Founder | Ivo Tzenov |
| Headquarters | Sofia, 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 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]
History
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "SiteGround.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
- ^ "WordPress Hosting". SiteGround. 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
- ^ Hosting, SiteGround Web. "Enterprise Hosting - Premium Custom-made Solutions". www.siteground.com. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "About Siteground". SiteGround. SiteGround. 5 October 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "Joomla! offers FREE hosted website solution on Joomla.com in partnership with SiteGround". Joomla. January 20, 2015. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
- ^ "SiteGround Uses Data Centres on 4 Continents!". SiteGround. 2023. Retrieved May 18, 2023.
- ^ Williams, Mike (August 21, 2019). "Best Linux web hosting services of 2019". TechRadar. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
- ^ "No More cPanel: Exploring SiteGround's 'Site Tools' Control Panel • GigaPress". GigaPress. 2021-07-27. Retrieved 2021-11-16.
- ^ "Moving to Google Cloud Platform". SiteGround. 2020. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
- ^ Lupold Bair, Amy (2019). Blogging For Dummies (7th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-119-58808-5.
- ^ Clymo, Rob (July 18, 2019). "The best web hosting services of 2019". techadvisor.co.uk. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
- ^ a b Wilson, Jeffrey L. (January 25, 2019). "SiteGround Web Hosting". PC Magazine. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
- ^ Clymo, Rob (June 24, 2019). "SiteGround review". techadvisor.co.uk. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
