Hostway

History

Foundation

In 1998, acquired the graduates of the University of Chicago Lucas Roh, John Lee, Arnold Choi along with two other business partners SpectroNet Inc., a webhosting company with annual sales of U.S. $ 30,000. They named the company in Hostway Corporation and immediately began for expansion in the U.S. and in international markets prepare. Previously worked as a raw computer at Argonne National Laboratory. There he did research in the emerging field of " automatic differentiation" (see: Automatic Differentiation ). He was also six years as a software and hardware developer at Tektronics and Hewlett -Packard. Rohs technological background and his commercial interest led him to become the founder, president and CEO of Hostway Corporation.

Globalization

After the customer base in the metropolitan area of Chicago and throughout the United States was expanded, the company founded Hostway Korea. This has proven to be an ideal start for Hostway's expansion, especially raw grew up in South Korea before his family immigrated during his high school years in the United States. Thus he was already well acquainted with the local business culture and its processes. This beginning was the starting point for a far-reaching globalization of the web hosting services of Hostway.

Hostway has always remained during the expansion in private hands. It centers and offices in North America (Chicago, Tampa, Austin, Vancouver ), Europe ( UK, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany ), as well as in Australia, India and Korea were opened. Since founding Hostway is profitable. It is worth mentioning that during the expansion of activity in the global markets at no time external equity capital has been claimed.

Acquisitions

Since 2000, Hostway has in the first decade of half performed a series of mergers and acquisitions to expand its customer base and expand its market strength in the areas dedicated servers, managed hosting and domain name registration. The most important merger in 2003 with the Canadian listed NetNation Communications ( Nasdaq: NNCI ), in which U.S. $ 10 million was paid in cash to the shareholders of NetNation.

In April 2005 took place in Germany, the merger with the Server -Service GmbH, headquartered in Hanover, one of Germany's leading Internet company focusing in the areas of co-location, dedicated servers and managed hosting, and domain and hosting solutions for resellers. The Server -Service GmbH was founded in 1999 by Cord Bansemer and Achilleas Anastasiadis as successor since 1997 operating on the Internet Anastasiadis & Bansemer GbR, which operated previously under the brand name server service. Thus Hostway could set in Germany on the experience of one of the oldest Internet provider in the country. In November 2007, the Server Service GmbH was renamed the Hostway Germany GmbH after she operates between December 2005 and November 2007 as Server -Service AG.

In June 2006, Hostway announced the opening of its new data center in the global headquarters of Boeing International in the heart of downtown Chicago. It is the largest commercially operated data center in downtown Chicago.

In April 2007, Hostway has announced the acquisition of Affinity Internet Inc.. Affinity Internet had its headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, had approximately 300 employees and was founded in 1996.

Disposals

In May 2009, Hostway has sold its data center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida ( USA), including colocation customers Host.net.

Financing

In March 2010, Hostway has received according to its own information, a funding of $ 110 million U.S. dollars from a consortium of investors for the financing of its ongoing growth strategy.

Hostway offices and data centers

Hostway has subsidiaries and data centers in the following locations:

  • Chicago, USA
  • Tampa, United States
  • Austin (Texas ), USA
  • Fort Lauderdale, United States
  • Hanover
  • Frankfurt am Main
  • Vancouver, Canada
  • London, United Kingdom
  • Paris, France
  • Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Antwerp, Belgium
  • Bucharest, Romania
  • Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Sydney, Australia
  • Mumbai, India
  • Seoul, South Korea

Hosting infrastructure

  • 45,000 m² of data center space
  • Carrier - independent
  • Multiple OC -48, OC -12, and GigE connections to Tier 1 Internet backbone providers
  • Cisco, Foundry, Juniper networking equipment
  • Diesel generators ( power systems )
  • VESDA ( very early fire detection), FM200 and nitrogen fire extinguishing
Types of business entity Server (computing) Internet hosting service Colocation centre Tampa, Florida Austin (Texas)
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