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* {{Official|https://www.siteground.com/}}
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*Michael Jones sharing real time user's reviews & their experience with SiteGround. [http://www.webhostingreviewsx.co.uk/siteground-uk-hosting-reviews/ SiteGround Reviews] Webhostingreviewsx.co.uk. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
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Revision as of 06:31, 3 September 2019

SiteGround Hosting Ltd.
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryWeb hosting
FoundedMarch 22, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-03-22)[1]
HeadquartersSofia, Bulgaria
Number of employees
500+
Websitewww.siteground.com

SiteGround is a web hosting company founded in 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria. In most recent data, it reports servicing more than 1,800,000 domains worldwide.[citation needed] It provides shared hosting, cloud hosting and dedicated servers as well as email hosting and domain registration. In 2019, the company employed over 500 people.[2][better source needed] It has offices in Sofia, Stara Zagora, Madrid and Plovdiv.

History

SiteGround was founded in 2004 in Sofia by a few university friends.[3] In January 2015, Joomla offered free hosted website solution on Joomla.com in partnership with SiteGround.[4] As of 2017, it had offices in Sofia, Stara Zagora, Madrid and Plovdiv.[3]

Server infrastructure and setup

According to the company's website, in September 2019, it had 5 data centers in 4 countries: the United States, the Netherlands, UK, and Singapore.[5] SiteGround runs CentOS, Apache, MySQL, PHP and WHM/cPanel on its servers.[6] 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.[citation needed] SiteGround uses SSD (Solid-state drives) to store data.[7]

Products and services

SiteGround provides web hosting services for WordPress, Joomla, Magento, Drupal, PrestaShop and WooCommerce websites.[8][9][7] It also has a Weebly connector.[10] SiteGround has a reputation for very good uptime.[11][7]

Partners

SiteGround partners with multiple companies such as SingleHop, SoftLayer, CloudFlare,[12] OpenSRS, cPanel, GlobalSign, Softaculous, 1H, Spam Experts,[13], Open Classifieds, and Printful[14].

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.[15]

References

  1. ^ "SiteGround.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
  2. ^ "About Siteground". SiteGround. SiteGround. 5 October 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Joomla! offers FREE hosted website solution on Joomla.com in partnership with SiteGround". Joomla. January 20, 2015. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  5. ^ "Best Data Centers on Three Continents". SiteGround. 2019. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  6. ^ Williams, Mike (August 21, 2019). "Best Linux web hosting services of 2019". TechRadar. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  7. ^ a b c Wilson, Jeffrey L. (January 25, 2019). "SiteGround Web Hosting". PC Magazine. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  8. ^ Lupold Bair, Amy (2019). Blogging For Dummies (7th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-119-58808-5.
  9. ^ Clymo, Rob (July 18, 2019). "The best web hosting services of 2019". techadvisor.co.uk. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  10. ^ Clymo, Rob (June 24, 2019). "SiteGround review". techadvisor.co.uk. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  11. ^ Finch, Nathan (May 30, 2019). "Siteground Review". bestwebhostingaustralia.org. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  12. ^ "Cloudflare RailGun Used by SiteGround". TechCrunch. 26 February 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  13. ^ "SPAMEXPERTS EXPANDS ITS CLIENT BASE BY ADDING SITEGROUND TO IT". SpamExperts BV. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  14. ^ "Printful launches partnership with SiteGround to help set up WooCommerce stores". Printful. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
  15. ^ Weinberg, Tamar (May 2, 2016). "Tenko Nikolov's 3 tenets have made SiteGround a huge success". hostadvice.com. Retrieved September 1, 2019.

External links

  • Official website
  • Michael Jones sharing real time user's reviews & their experience with SiteGround. SiteGround Reviews Webhostingreviewsx.co.uk. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
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