headquarters amsterdam the netherlands area served worldwide services dedicated servers colocation cloud hosting content delivery network hybrid solutions website leaseweb.com leaseweb is an internet hosting service with offices in europe asia and the united states . the company offers hosting related services dedicated servers colocation cloud hosting content delivery network cdn and hybrid solutions . its parent company ocom was listed in the deloitte fast 50 in 2007 2009 2010 and 2011 . customers include heineken starbucks kelkoo twenga and kaspersky lab . 1 the company sponsors the wikimedia foundation . 2 contents 1 history 2 business model 3 development 4 corporate social responsibility 5 network and datacenters 6 criticism 7 references 8 external links history edit the company was founded in 1997 with one website an online business directory . client companies could add their contact details and a short description . the company started designing and building websites as an additional service and opened an office in utrecht in 1998 . the company eventually focused solely on hosting services . the company was named leaseweb in 1999 and the first employees were hired that year . leaseweb acquired its first own servers in 2000 . the four servers had a total bandwidth of 512 kbit s. leaseweb also moved to amsterdam . the company owned 5 000 servers in 2005 and 10 000 two years later . 3 the company doubled its number of employees in two years to 50 by 2007 . leaseweb moved to its current offices in the amsterdam area and was also for the first time included in the deloitte technology fast50 . 4 in 2009 the number of employees doubled again to 100 . in 2010 the company had 25 000 servers . as of 2013 update the company had over 300 employees and over 50 000 servers . 5 leaseweb s netherland s datacenter is located at evoswitch ams1 j.w. lucasweg 35 2031 be haarlem netherlands . this is their largest datacenter . this datacenter in the waarderpolder in haarlem hosts the wikimedia foundation s european hub as part of a 300 000 donation of in kind support to the foundation . leaseweb acquired the german hosting provider netdirekt in 2010 6 and expanded its presence in germany austria and switzerland . the acquisition allowed leaseweb to support its german customers in their own language from its datacenter in frankfurt . leaseweb expanded its operations to the united states in 2011 with the establishment of a subsidiary leaseweb usa inc. it operates a datacenter in manassas virginia . 7 the manassas datacenter is at evoswitch wdc1 9651 hornbaker rd manassas va 20109 this is mainly for its american customers . 8 on october 14 2011 ocom leaseweb s parent company was again listed in the deloitte fast 50 . 4 ocom was the company with the highest revenue on the deloitte technology fast50 2011 with a total turnover of 50 million 2010 . citation needed on october 7 2011 leaseweb was chosen as hp service provider partner of the year 2011 . 9 the best performing hp partners in the netherlands across various disciplines are presented awards . leaseweb was one of the hosting providers of megaupload . in january 2012 the servers were shut down after an international action coordinated by the fbi 10 and all megaupload user data was deleted from 690 servers 11 in what is called the biggest data loss in history . on march 19 2012 leaseweb announced its new public cloud platform . 12 the company said that it could accommodate large numbers of customers and provide a robust foundation for advanced infrastructure as a service iaas applications . anti malware organization stopbadware and leaseweb announced on april 19 2012 that they would work jointly on cybercrime prevention . 13 leaseweb sponsors stopbadware as a part of its community outreach project . as of june 2013 update leaseweb offered a cdn content delivery network . 14 on december 17 2013 leaseweb launched a private cloud platform powered by apache cloudstack . 15 march 2014 leaseweb was ranked in the top 31 world s worst hosts and networks based on malicious traffic it hosts . 16 in mid 2014 leaseweb opened a data center in singapore . 17 business model edit leaseweb provides its customers a single location where they can obtain a domain name ip addresses hardware housing and bandwidth a one stop shop . 18 its infrastructure incorporates hardware software and services from cisco dell and hp . 19 development edit leaseweb s network has been ipv6 ready for years . 20 not in citation given the company provides ipv6 addresses to its customers without charge . the network is double stacked running both ipv6 and ipv4 on the same infrastructure . 21 leaseweb developed a cloud platform which it launched in march 2012 . 22 from 2012 it provided basic firewall functionality for all customers . 23 in june 2013 leaseweb launched its worldwide cdn content delivery network . 14 it was built with open source products from nginx used by more than 25 % of the world s top 1 000 web sites with intensive traffic . 24 nginx uses leaseweb s infrastructure and recommends leaseweb services to its customers . 25 corporate social responsibility edit leaseweb was one of the first isps in the netherlands to take measures against child pornography . 26 the spamhaus project and andrew martin s security blog show that leaseweb routinely host spammers and botnet controls . 27 28 29 30 through its community outreach project leaseweb offers free hosting to organizations that monitor identify and combat the sources of spam and cybercrime . 31 network and datacenters edit the company operates eight datacenters in europe asia and the united states . leaseweb peers with internet exchanges in amsterdam frankfurt london new york city brussels stockholm madrid zurich d sseldorf paris warsaw budapest milan vienna prague luxembourg bucharest bratislava copenhagen oslo ashburn miami chicago dallas palo alto and los angeles . 32 leaseweb s network consists of 55 points of presence and 33 internet exchanges across the globe . the network has a bandwidth capacity of 5.0 tbit s with peak traffic about 2.5 tbit s and reports uptime of 99.9999 % 33 criticism edit reports of unfair discrimination treatment began surfacing as early as 2014 34 35 where chinese customers reported that a sum of eur 1000 is requested for anyone with a billing address located in china 36 as it is considered a higher risk region for fraud and abuse . 37 as of september 2015 additional reports indicate the deposit is required by all of china s special administrative regions former british colony hong kong and former portuguese colony macau and has spread to become a requirements from neighboring sovereign states such as vietnam taiwan indonesia and the philippines . 38 a spokesperson from leaseweb indicates that the deposit enforceable in accordance with articles 7 and 9 of leaseweb s general terms & conditions 39 as this provides the signing customer with a stable and reliable network . 35 references edit leaseweb clients . retrieved 2013 06 11 . client case the wikimedia foundation . retrieved 2013 06 11 . ocom history . retrieved 2013 06 20 . a b deloitte technology fast50 2011 . retrieved 2012 07 16 . about leaseweb . retrieved 2013 06 20 . leaseweb acquires germany s netdirekt . retrieved 2012 07 01 . leaseweb to open virginia data center . retrieved 2012 07 01 . leaseweb to open us datacenter . retrieved 2012 07 01 . leaseweb is hp service provider partner of the year 2011 . retrieved 2012 08 01 . leaseweb was hoster megaupload . retrieved 2012 08 01 . leaseweb wipes all megaupload user data dotcom outraged . retrieved 2013 06 20 . leaseweb launches new public cloud platform . retrieved 2013 04 13 . leaseweb provides free hosting to anti malware non profit stopbadware . retrieved 2012 08 01 . a b leaseweb launches in house developed cdn service . retrieved 2013 06 11 . leaseweb adds new private cloud platform powered by apache cloudstack . retrieved 2013 12 24 . world hosts report . sitevet.com . march 2014 . leaseweb expands asian presence with pacnet data center in singapore . retrieved 2014 10 08 . company values . retrieved 2012 08 02 . partners . retrieved 2012 08 04 . is the internet running out of ips . retrieved 2012 07 01 . ipv4 & ipv6 interoperability and the leaseweb network . retrieved 2012 08 04 . leaseweb launches new public cloud platform . retrieved 2012 07 01 . introducing free basic firewall functionality for leaseweb cloud express . retrieved 2012 07 17 . usage of web servers broken down by ranking . retrieved 2012 07 01 . leaseweb gaat over op nginx software voor content delivery . retrieved 2012 05 11 . hostingbedrijf leaseweb plaatst kinderpornofilter . retrieved 2012 07 01 . the spamhaus project sbl sbl advisory found 18 sbl listings for ips under the responsibility of leaseweb.com . the spamhaus project . retrieved september 18 2012 . martin andrew december 11 2008 . sources of badness leaseweb . andrew martin viewing infosec from the trenches formerly real security . retrieved september 11 2012 . leaseweb forced to shut down more bittorrent sites . retrieved 2012 07 12 . security officer at leaseweb speaks about the bredolab botnet s takedown . retrieved 2012 07 12 . web host leaseweb launches community outreach project . retrieved 2012 07 01 . leaseweb noc . retrieved 2012 07 01 . leaseweb s network . retrieved 2015 02 21 . leaseweb . retrieved 2015 09 02 . a b leaseweb vps 1250 . retrieved 2015 09 02 . leaseweb asked for an initial deposit of eur 1000 . retrieved 2015 09 02 . leaseweb asking 1 000 deposit from asian customers . retrieved 2015 09 02 . leaseweb 29 1000 . retrieved 2015 09 02 . leaseweb . retrieved 2015 09 02 . external links edit leaseweb.com leaseweb labs ocom retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title leaseweb & oldid 738809462 categories internet hostinghidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersarticles containing 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