SiteGround

SiteGround Hosting Ltd.
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryWeb hosting
FoundedMarch 22, 2004 (2004-03-22)[1]
FounderIvo Tzenov
HeadquartersSofia, Bulgaria
Revenue237,839,000 Bulgarian lev (2022) 
143,211,000 Bulgarian lev (2022) 
Total assets345,667,000 Bulgarian lev (2022) 
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] It has offices in Sofia, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora and Madrid.[6]

History

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]

Products and services

SiteGround provides quality web hosting services for WordPress, Joomla, Magento, Drupal, PrestaShop and WooCommerce websites.[12][13][14] It also has a Weebly connector.[15] A September 18, 2020, review by PCMag.com praised SiteGround for their strong uptime and customer support, but rated them 3.5/5 overall, before major price increases in 2021 and 2022.[14]

References

  1. ^ "SiteGround.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
  2. ^ "WordPress Hosting". SiteGround. 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  3. ^ Hosting, SiteGround Web. "Enterprise Hosting - Premium Custom-made Solutions". www.siteground.com. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  4. ^ "Usage statistics of Squarespace as web hosting provider". W3Techs. 2025-11-24. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
  5. ^ "About Siteground". SiteGround. SiteGround. 5 October 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "Joomla! offers FREE hosted website solution on Joomla.com in partnership with SiteGround". Joomla. January 20, 2015. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  8. ^ "SiteGround Uses Data Centres on 4 Continents!". SiteGround. 2023. Retrieved May 18, 2023.
  9. ^ Williams, Mike (August 21, 2019). "Best Linux web hosting services of 2019". TechRadar. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  10. ^ "No More cPanel: Exploring SiteGround's 'Site Tools' Control Panel • GigaPress". GigaPress. 2021-07-27. Retrieved 2021-11-16.
  11. ^ "Moving to Google Cloud Platform". SiteGround. 2020. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  12. ^ Lupold Bair, Amy (2019). Blogging For Dummies (7th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-119-58808-5.
  13. ^ Clymo, Rob (July 18, 2019). "The best web hosting services of 2019". techadvisor.co.uk. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  14. ^ a b Wilson, Jeffrey L. (January 25, 2019). "SiteGround Web Hosting". PC Magazine. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
  15. ^ Clymo, Rob (June 24, 2019). "SiteGround review". techadvisor.co.uk. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
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