SiteGround
SiteGround is a web hosting company founded in 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria. As of January 2020, it provides hosting for about 2,000,000 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] It has offices in Sofia, Stara Zagora, Madrid and Plovdiv.[5]
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Type | Privately held company |
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Industry | Web hosting |
Founded | March 22, 2004[1] |
Founder | Ivo Tzenov |
Headquarters | Sofia, Bulgaria |
Number of employees | 500+ |
Website | www.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 2020, it had 6 data centers in 6 countries: the United States, the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Australia and Singapore.[7][8] SiteGround runs CentOS, Apache, MySQL, PHP and WHM/cPanel on its servers.[9] The company developed software for account isolation, monitoring and reaction, and speed-optimization, sold under the 1H brand and used by other Linux hosting companies. SiteGround uses solid-state drives to store data.[10]
Products and services
SiteGround provides web hosting services for WordPress, Joomla, Magento, Drupal, PrestaShop and WooCommerce websites.[11][12][10] It also has a Weebly connector.[13] A September 18, 2020, review by PCMag.com praised SiteGround for their strong uptime and customer support.[10]
References
- "SiteGround.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
- Low, Jerry. "SiteGround Review". HostScore. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
- 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.
- 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.
- "Best Data Centers on Three Continents". SiteGround. 2019. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
- Hosting, SiteGround Web (2020-05-18). "Faster CPUs, More Data Centers, Bigger GoGeek Plans". SiteGround Blog. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- Williams, Mike (August 21, 2019). "Best Linux web hosting services of 2019". TechRadar. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
- Wilson, Jeffrey L. (January 25, 2019). "SiteGround Web Hosting". PC Magazine. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
- 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.
- Clymo, Rob (June 24, 2019). "SiteGround review". techadvisor.co.uk. Retrieved September 1, 2019.