SiteGround explained

SiteGround Hosting Ltd.
Type:Privately held company
Foundation:[1]
Founder:Ivo Tzenov
Location:Sofia, Bulgaria
Industry:Web hosting
Num Employees:600+
Homepage: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] It has offices in Sofia, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora and Madrid.

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.

Notes and References

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

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