SiteGround
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| Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Web hosting |
| Founded | March 22, 2004[1] |
| Founder | Ivo Tzenov |
| Headquarters | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Revenue | 237,839,000 Bulgarian lev (2022) |
| 143,211,000 Bulgarian lev (2022) | |
| Total assets | 345,667,000 Bulgarian lev (2022) |
Number of employees | 600+ |
| Website | 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. 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]
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]