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SiteGround
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryWeb hosting
FoundedMarch 22, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-03-22)[1]
HeadquartersSofia, Bulgaria[2]
Number of employees
320+
Websitesiteground.com

SiteGround is a web hosting company founded in 2004 and servicing more than 500,000 domains worldwide. It provides shared hosting, cloud hosting and dedicated servers. Currently, the company employs over 320 people.[3]

Server infrastructure and setup

SiteGround has servers in data centers in 4 countries, the United States,[4] the Netherlands,[5] UK[6] and Singapore. SiteGround uses CentOS, Apache, MySQL, PHP and WHM/cPanel for its servers. The company has developed custom software solutions for account isolation, monitoring & reaction, and speed-optimization of its servers, which are sold under the 1H brand and used by other Linux hosting companies for their shared servers.[7]

Involvement in open-source communities

SiteGround works closely and sponsors various open source communities such as Joomla,[8][9] WordPress,.[10][11][12] Magento, and others. It provides custom server and application solutions for many open source applications. In addition, SiteGround provides a collection of free tutorials and templates for many applications and organizes educational webinars on different topics.[13] The company also has a special hosting plan for students and faculty partnership program.

Datacenters

SiteGround has data-centers in three different locations:[14]

  • Chicago, USA
  • London, UK
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Singapore

Partners

SiteGround partners with multiple companies such as SingleHop, SoftLayer, CloudFlare,[15] OpenSRS, cPanel, GlobalSign, Softaculous, 1H, Spam Experts,[16] and Open Classifieds.

Internet freedom

SiteGround has joined the community of hosting providers that have publicly spoken against the PIPA and SOPA legislation.[17]

References

  1. ^ "SiteGround.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
  2. ^ https://www.besthostnews.com/a-look-at-the-siteground-office-interior-design/
  3. ^ "The SiteGround People". SiteGround. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  4. ^ "Server Locations on Three Continents".
  5. ^ Lily. "Hello Europe! Our first server location outside the US is now a fact". SiteGround. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  6. ^ "Our Second European Datacenter is Now Live in London". 20 November 2015.
  7. ^ "About Us". 1h. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  8. ^ "Main Sponsor: SiteGround". joomla.org. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  9. ^ SiteGround Sponsors Joomla Day Chicago 2012 Archived March 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ "Thank You Siteground!". WordPress.org. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  11. ^ "A Big Thanks to InMotion Hosting and SiteGround, Our Buena Vista Park Sponsors!". wordcamp.org. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  12. ^ "welcome hosting company siteground as a commercial sponsor". PressNomics.com. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  13. ^ Pearce, Richard. "Webinar: How to Speed up Your Joomla Site". BuildaJoomlaWebsite.com. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  14. ^ "Siteground Review". top5hosting.co.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  15. ^ "Cloudflare RailGun Used by SiteGround". TechCrunch. 26 February 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  16. ^ "SPAMEXPERTS EXPANDS ITS CLIENT BASE BY ADDING SITEGROUND TO IT". SpamExperts BV. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  17. ^ Justin Lee. "Web Host SiteGround Launches Anti-SOPA, PIPA Campaign". Retrieved 1 October 2014.
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