SiteGround

SiteGround is a web hosting company founded in 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria. In most recent data, it reports servicing more than 2,000,000 domains worldwide[2]. It provides shared hosting, cloud hosting and enterprise solutions[3] as well as email hosting and domain registration. In 2019, the company employed over 500 people.[4] It has offices in Sofia, Stara Zagora, Madrid and Plovdiv.

SiteGround Hosting Ltd.
Privately held company
IndustryWeb hosting
FoundedMarch 22, 2004 (2004-03-22)[1]
FounderIvo Tzenov
HeadquartersSofia, Bulgaria
Number of employees
500+
Websitewww.siteground.com

History

SiteGround was founded in 2004 in Sofia by a few university friends.[5] In January 2015, Joomla offered free hosted website solution on Joomla.com in partnership with SiteGround.[6] As of 2017 SiteGround has offices in Sofia, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora and Madrid.[5]

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 has developed software solutions for account isolation, monitoring and reaction, and speed-optimization, sold under the 1H brand and used by other Linux hosting companies. SiteGround uses SSD (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] SiteGround has a reputation for very good uptime.[14][10]

On July 30th 2019, SiteGround announced the launching of their redesigned user area with a new control panel known as 'Site Tools'. The new system, according to the officials[15], took more than 3 years and over 20 new technical staffs to develop.

Partners

SiteGround partners with multiple companies such as SingleHop, SoftLayer, CloudFlare,[16] OpenSRS, cPanel, GlobalSign, Softaculous, 1H, Spam Experts,[17], Open Classifieds, and Printful[18].

Kyup

In 2014 part of the SiteGround team began working on Kyup, a side-project that would allow the company to focus on the more technically-oriented markets of developers and devops.[19]

References
  1. "SiteGround.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
  2. Jerry, Low. "SiteGround Review". HostScore. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  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. "Best Data Centers on Three Continents". SiteGround. 2019. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  8. Hosting, SiteGround Web (2020-05-18). "Faster CPUs, More Data Centers, Bigger GoGeek Plans". SiteGround Blog. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  9. Williams, Mike (August 21, 2019). "Best Linux web hosting services of 2019". TechRadar. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  10. Wilson, Jeffrey L. (January 25, 2019). "SiteGround Web Hosting". PC Magazine. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  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. Clymo, Rob (June 24, 2019). "SiteGround review". techadvisor.co.uk. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  14. Finch, Nathan (May 30, 2019). "Siteground Review". bestwebhostingaustralia.org. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  15. Reneta, Tsankova. "The Future is Now: Our New Client Area and Site Tools Are Going Live". SiteGround Blog. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  16. "Cloudflare RailGun Used by SiteGround". TechCrunch. 26 February 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  17. "Spam Experts SiteGround case study" (PDF). SpamExperts BV. Retrieved 10 Jan 2020.
  18. "Printful launches partnership with SiteGround to help set up WooCommerce stores". Printful. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
  19. Weinberg, Tamar (May 2, 2016). "Tenko Nikolov's 3 tenets have made SiteGround a huge success". hostadvice.com. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
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