founded germany 2004 founder steffan sondermark fallesen headquarters neustadt 16 flensburg germany key people ari liukko ceo products web services website servage.net servage gmbh is a german web hosting provider headquartered in flensburg germany . the company is doing business as servage hosting . the company is a subsidiary to the swedish company servage ab publ . the corporate name servage is an offspring of serve and age . as such the name equates to the company s branding toward modern service . contents 1 early years 2 criticism 3 network 4 servageos 5 servage control panel 6 award nominations 7 additional information 7.1 servage magazine 7.2 servage wiki 8 references 9 external links early years edit the company was incorporated in 2004 by steffan sondermark fallesen and later sold 1 to the publicly listed swedish telecommunication firm tele5 voice services ab for 3.5 million cash in may 2007 2 and left the company in october 2009 . 3 in 2008 tele5 voice services ab changed its name to servage ab as chairman of the tele5 voice services ab board per bergstr m felt that servage was a better suited brand name for an international corporation . 4 during the first three years the company operated only an english version but in recent years german polish danish and swedish versions are also offered . company is now among the 20 largest german web hosts . criticism edit servage has been criticized for overselling its services in order to keep up with competition in recent years . citation needed there have also been large numbers of servage customers reporting that their sites have been repeatedly hacked resulting in malicious code being inserted into their web pages . 5 servage claims that the issue is resolved by their new server operating system servageos . citation needed network edit servage is operating network as 29671 6 which interconnects to versatel teliasonera tiscali and cogent communications . in an attempt to become fully open source powered servage changed its entire network infrastructure to the open source routing platform gnu zebra in 2007 . 7 prior to the change servage had been using cisco routers . as of 28 april 2010 mass hacking of servage hosted sites identified by url http blog.unmaskparasites.com 2010 04 28 hackers abuse servage hosting to poison google image search . hackers hotlink images scraped from google image search on hundreds of hacked servage domains then manage to take the place of the original host domain in the google image serps . when a surfer clicks the hijacked image traffic from google is redirected to malware site . servageos edit october 21 2008 the company released a new customized linux version servageos 8 for use on its server clusters . most notable features is full process separation between customers and other similar security enhancements suitable for hosting environments . 9 servage control panel edit servage has an in house developed control panel some of the functions found inside the control panel are mentioned below . e mail management optional antispam system autoinstaller ftp management online filemanager webdrive full dns control integrated accounting help center award nominations edit 2010 xbiz award nominee web host of the year 10 additional information edit servage magazine edit servage runs a blog or as it is called servage magazine which is filled with useful tips for web hosting customers regardless if they have a servage hosting accounts or not the blog is interactive and allows for comments from the readers . the blog is updated regularly and the feed is also available at servage s fan page on facebook . servage wiki edit along with the blog magazine servage also provides an online knowledge base in wiki form servage wiki filled with useful information covering almost everything there is a need to know something about an account with servage . being a wiki it is encouraging contribution by anyone possessing relevant knowledge on a subject . references edit swedish it and telephony services provider tele5 voice services ab acquires german web hosting company servage gmbh . bnet business network . may 16 2007 . cheval capital pressrelease . cheval capita inc. personal blog of steffan sondermark fallesen . tele5 byter namn till servage och avyttrar aphone swedish . mynewsdesk sweden . servage hacked . proxyutza.com . ripe on as29671 . ripe ncc . comon article on servage open source routing danish . comon computer newspaper . servageos . yahoo news . web hosting planners 2013 retrieved 5 january 2014 xbiz announces finalist nominees for 2010 xbiz awards xbiz wednesday dec 16 2009 external links edit servage hosting servage hosting swedish site servage hosting danish site servage hosting german site servage hosting polish site ripe ncc servage ab publ servage magazine servage wiki servage facebook group v t e website management concepts overselling web document web content web content lifecycle web hosting service web server 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