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SiteGround

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Type
  
Privately held company

Headquarters
  
Sofia, Bulgaria

Website
  
siteground.com

Industry
  
Web hosting

Number of employees
  
320+

Founded
  
March 22, 2004; 12 years ago (2004-03-22)

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.

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Server infrastructure and setup

SiteGround has servers in data centers in 4 countries, the United States, the Netherlands, UK and Singapore. SiteGround runs CentOS, Apache, MySQL, PHP and WHM/cPanel on its servers. 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.

Involvement in open-source communities

SiteGround works with open source communities such as Joomla, WordPress,. Magento, and others. It provides custom server and application solutions for many open source applications, offers a collection of free tutorials and templates for many applications, and organizes educational webinars on different topics.

Datacenters

SiteGround has data-centers in three different locations:

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

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

    Internet freedom

    SiteGround has publicly spoken against the PIPA and SOPA legislation.

    References

    SiteGround Wikipedia