SiteGround

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IndustryWeb hosting
FoundedMarch 22, 2004; 21 years ago (2004-03-22)[1]
FounderIvo Tzenov
SiteGround Hosting Ltd.
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryWeb hosting
FoundedMarch 22, 2004; 21 years ago (2004-03-22)[1]
FounderIvo Tzenov
HeadquartersSofia, Bulgaria
Revenue237,839,000 Bulgarian lev (2022) Edit this on Wikidata
143,211,000 Bulgarian lev (2022) Edit this on Wikidata
Total assets345,667,000 Bulgarian lev (2022) Edit this on Wikidata
Number of employees
600+
Websitewww.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. According to W3Techs, SiteGround is used as hosting provider by 2.4% of all websites.[4] In 2019, the company employed about 500 people.[5][better source needed] It has offices in Sofia, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora and Madrid.[6]

SiteGround was founded in 2004 in Sofia by a few university friends.[6] In January 2015, Joomla partnered with SiteGround to offer free websites hosted on Joomla.com.[7]

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.[8] SiteGround runs CentOS, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, PHP, WHM and its in-house developed control panel – Site Tools on its servers.[9][10] In 2020, SiteGround migrated all of its domains to Google Cloud, and all data is stored on Google's SSD persistent storage.[11]

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