an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . february 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message hostway corporation type privately held industry web hosting founded 1998 headquarters chicago illinois united states key people robert boles ceo ; john martis coo ; products hosting services and infrastructure clarification needed number of employees 310 website www.hostway.com hostway is a multinational web hosting and technology infrastructure clarification needed company headquartered in chicago illinois united states founded in 1998 . it provides individuals small to medium sized businesses and large corporations with email and hosting services for web sites databases and business applications . hostway services inc. serves more than 600 000 customers worldwide . citation needed 1 2 contents 1 history 1.1 founding 1.2 globalization 2 products & services 2.1 enterprise & channel 2.2 partnerships 3 acquisition 4 recent news 5 hosting infrastructure 6 references 7 external links history edit founding edit in 1998 university of chicago alumni lucas roh john lee arnold choi and two other business partners acquired spectronet inc. a web hosting company in the chicago suburbs with annual revenues of 30 000 . they renamed the company hostway services inc. and began preparations to expand its reach in the us and international markets . 3 roh previously served as a computer scientist at argonne national laboratory conducting pioneering research in the emerging field of automatic differentiation . he also worked for six years as a software and hardware engineer at tektronics and hewlett packard prior to becoming a founding partner president and ceo of hostway . globalization edit initially company growth was focused on sales throughout the united states primarily in chicago . in 2000 the founders expanded hostway to international markets with the launch of hostway korea . korea was chosen as the starting point for hostway s expansion because of roh s familiarity with the culture roh was raised and educated in south korea before his family immigrated to the united states while he was in high school . this would serve as the beginning of a much larger push towards its globalization of web hosting services . from 2000 2007 hostway grew via acquisition increasing its client base and building its experience with the dedicated server managed hosting and domain name registration markets . the most significant of these was the 2003 merger with canada s netnation communications with approximately us 10 million paid in cash to netnation stockholders . in june 2006 hostway announced the opening of its new data center located at boeing international s worldwide headquarters in the heart of downtown chicago . it is the largest commercially operated data center in downtown chicago . in april 2007 hostway announced the acquisition of affinity internet inc. which is headquartered in fort lauderdale florida with approximately 300 employees and has been operating since 1996 . hostway has remained a privately held company throughout its expansion which has seen the company open data centers and or local offices in various locations . offices in these cities are currently run by hostway services 4 chicago illinois tampa florida austin texas 2 locations san antonio texas vancouver british columbia sofia bulgaria hostway services has previously run offices in these locations fort lauderdale florida mumbai india london united kingdom paris france amsterdam netherlands antwerp belgium frankfurt germany hanover germany sydney australia seoul south korea bucharest romania products & services edit domain name registration hostway allows the purchase of new domain names or transfer of pre owned domain names to their servers for utilization with their web hosting services . email hosting hostway offers pop imap email accounts which include a webmail client calendar and address book for standalone email hosting . hosted microsoft exchange hostway has partnered with microsoft corporation to provide a hosted solution for the microsoft exchange software solution . they have also combined this with 3rd party security solutions to provide an email compliance package . shared hosting hostway provides hosting on web servers where each website is located on its own section of the server . these plans are the most economical of hostway s offerings citation needed but also the most limited in resources since they are shared among all websites on the server . private label hostway works with telcos msos and big box retail companies to resell their services through a white label wholesale model . enterprise & channel edit managed server hosting hostway builds custom managed hosting solutions on dedicated servers . hostway will build the infrastructure and customers have the ability to install and manage all applications on the servers . cloud hosting hostway is an infrastructure as a service iaas provider that sells both public and private cloud capabilities under its own flexcloud brand . both solutions include virtualization technology with the main difference being that the public cloud is shared by multiple customers and the private cloud allocates specific virtualization resources to one customer . hybrid cloud hostway launched hybrid cloud hosting in 2012 as a service that combines dedicated managed server infrastructure with virtualized cloud environments public or private through a private vlan connection . customers may also connect the hostway infrastructure to their on premises environment . colocation hostway colocation services allow customers to lease space at one of hostway s data centers in order to take advantage of its security power and network while maintaining control of their servers . channel partner hostway partners with companies of various sizes including vars developers and ivrs to resell their enterprise solutions . these partnerships can take the form of referral or reseller programs . partnerships edit hostway has long partnered with microsoft and was selected the 2011 microsoft hyper v cloud provider of the year . in june 2012 hostway as a finalist for the microsoft hosting partner of the year award . hostway was also an exhibitor and presenter at microsoft s 2012 worldwide partner conference . hostway is among north america s largest providers of public cloud services using microsoft hyperv . hostway is a silver partner with magento hosting their ecommerce platform in magento optimized environments . hostway has partnered with stillsecure to offer an expanded selection of data and network security solutions and a hipaa compliant solution for managed servers private clouds and hybrid clouds . 11 hostway also has a long standing partnership with alert logic for on demand security solutions . hostway partners with cynch inc for migration services . acquisition edit in december 2013 hostway was acquired 5 by private equity firm littlejohn & co. . financials of the deal were not disclosed but crain s 6 projected the deal to be worth in the neighborhood of 200 million . recent news edit in june 2014 hostway revealed that its infrastructure underpins wix the highly successful global web development platform which went public in late 2013 . wix s partnership with hostway dates to 2008 . in february 2014 hostway announced a new hosted iaas program for resellers this cloud reseller platform is integrated with parallels automation . in november 2013 hostway announced the launch of flexcloud platform r2 an upgraded public cloud platform based around the microsoft cloud platform . in february 2013 hostway launched cloud drive and cloud backup services which enable storage access sharing and protection of private business data across any device using cloud solutions . in october 2012 hostway launched one of canada s largest public clouds at its vancouver data center adding to its geodiversity . in september 2012 hostway launched windows server 2012 promoting that platform s hyper v replica disaster recovery feature . in april 2012 hostway was named to crn s 2012 partner programs guide and awarded a 5 star partner rating for its full featured and rapidly growing channel partner program . hosting infrastructure edit more than 250 000 sq ft total data center space citation needed carrier independent multiple 10 gig connections per data center to the tier 1 internet backbone providers citation needed cisco brocade networking gear network of 11 lights out tier 3 data centers citation needed megawatt diesel generators vesda detection and gas based fire suppression system references edit hostway survey on blogging shows generation gap . businessweek . april 20 2005 . 40 under 40 2003 pages crain s chicago business . crain communications inc. retrieved 2 may 2014 . horizontal tab character in title at position 17 help 40 under 40 2003 crain s chicago business careers at hostway hostway private investment firm littlejohn & co. acquires hostway corporation . thewhir . december 16 2013 . web host hostway acquired in nine figure deal . crain s chicago business . december 16 2013 . external links edit affinity internet inc. hostway corporation retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hostway & oldid 743336679 categories companies based in chicagointernet companies of the united statesweb hostinghidden categories cs1 errors invisible charactersarticles with a promotional tone from february 2016all articles with a promotional tonewikipedia articles needing clarification from may 2013all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from may 2013articles with unsourced statements from november 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more 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