SiteGround is a web hosting company founded in 2004 and servicing more than 800,000 domains worldwide. It provides shared hosting, cloud hosting and dedicated servers. Currently, the company employs over 400 people.
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Server infrastructure and setup
SiteGround has data centers in 5 countries, the United States, the Netherlands, UK, Milan (Italy) 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. Their in-house built SuperCacher provide users to boost their website speed and with the help LXC technology, they managed to build cutting edge server technology to deliver maximum server uptime.
In 2008, the company introduced the best account isolation protocol which protect each and every single account on a shared server. Before that, it was impossible and now the same system to isolate shared hosting account is commonly used by many web hosts.
SiteGround uses SSD (Solid State Drives) to store data.
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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 5 different locations:
- Chicago, USA
- London, UK
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Milan, Italy
- Singapore
Partners
SiteGround partners with multiple companies such as SingleHop, SoftLayer, CloudFlare, OpenSRS, cPanel, GlobalSign, Softaculous, 1H, Spam Experts, and Open Classifieds.
Kyup
In 2014 part of the SiteGround team began working on Kyup, a side-project that would allow the company to focus on the more technically-oriented markets of developers and devops. Kyup is described by its founders as "a natural outlet of our passion for open-source, technology and entrepreneurship"
Internet freedom
SiteGround has publicly spoken against the PIPA and SOPA legislation.
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