hosting founded 1999 headquarters 1000 555 west hastings street vancouver bc v6b 4n6 key people lance tracey and mark teolis co founders philippe jett president parent cogeco communications inc. website https www.cogecopeer1.com cogeco peer 1 provides internet hosting services that include managed hosting dedicated servers colocation and cloud computing . 1 the company is headquartered in vancouver bc canada and a wholly owned subsidiary of cogeco cable inc. 2 the company serves more than 13 000 customers from 19 data centers located in canada the united states and england . 3 contents 1 history 2 acquisitions and growth 3 products and services 4 references 5 external links history edit the company was founded in vancouver british columbia canada in 1999 by lance tracey and mark teolis . 4 from the beginning the co founders targeted small and medium sized business customers . 4 in 2004 the company acquired serverbeach a dedicated hosting provider located in san antonio texas for us 7.5 million . serverbeach had been started by richard yoo who had served as the ceo of peer 1 hosting competitor rackspace who returned to rackspace after the acquisition . 5 serverbeach was the host for video hosting company youtube which as it expanded powered expansion of the data centre . after youtube was acquired by google the operations were migrated to google data centers . 6 in 2007 the company introduced an incubation program that combined discounted hosting services with consulting assistants . 7 in 2010 the company built a new energy efficient and green data center located just outside toronto 6 8 which was followed by opening in november 4 2011 of another green 58 000 sq. ft. data center located in portsmouth hampshire uk . 9 10 to provide internet users with a visual perspective into online traffic flows the company developed a graphical map of the internet that depicts the layout of all the networks that connect to form the internet . 11 11 12 12 13 13 much of the data was collected from the cooperative association for internet data analysis caida . the image shows a graph of 19 869 autonomous systems joined by 44 344 connections . 11 12 13 in 2013 the company launched an interactive mobile app version . 14 acquisitions and growth edit peer 1 hosting has grown through acquisitions 2004 serverbeach and data center in san antonio texas 15 16 for us 7.5 million . 17 18 includes network points of presence locations in 17 cities across north america and europe . 19 2005 interland s dedicated hosting business acquired for 14 million including 115 000 square feet 10 700 m2 of data center space in atlanta miami and fremont california . 20 21 2007 last youtube data leaves former serverbeach site for google in november . 22 2009 new data center opened in london . 23 2010 opens first energy efficient data center outside toronto . 8 24 2012 acquired netbenefit for 38.5 million . 25 2013 cogeco cable inc. the main unit of media and telecom company cogeco inc. acquired peer 1 hosting for c 526 million to expand its cloud computing and data hosting business . 26 products and services edit peer 1 hosting offers 27 colocation ; 28 dedicated servers ; 29 managed hosting ; 30 private cloud services ; 31 cloud storage ; 32 hosted email ; 33 and cloud based graphics processing . 34 35 36 in november 7 2011 peer 1 announced launching its new cloud division zunicore . 37 38 references edit webhostingjungle.com peer 1 dedicated hosting review . retrieved march 14 2011 . peer 1 hosting website . investors retrieved june 1 2014 . john rath data center knowledge . roundup coresite horizon peer 1 akamai . may 12 2010 . retrieved march 14 2011 . a b stephen ibaraki technet.com . fabio banducci president and ceo peer 1 hosting shares his deep expertise . december 22 2010 . retrieved march 14 2011 . san antonio express news . title . retrieved on 7 january 2009 . a b canadian reviewer . peer 1 hosting launches largest data centre in toronto . january 28 2010 . retrieved march 14 2011 . shane schick itworldcanada.com . peer 1 hosting promises cheaper easier saas for isvs . november 28 2007 . retrieved march 14 2011 . a b kathleen lau network world . peer 1 unveils flagship data centre in toronto . february 16 2010 . retrieved march 14 2011 . peer 1 hostings latest data centre opening bbc south november 4 2011 peer 1 hosting launches new data center webhosting.info october 18 2011 a b c matt hartley national post . ever wonder what the internet looks like . march 7 2011 . retrieved march 10 2011 . a b c stacey higginbotham gigaom . check out this beautiful map of the internet . march 1 2011 . retrieved march 14 2011 . a b c tom foremski zdnet imho blog . the internet looks like a golden flower ... . march 3 2011 . retrieved march 14 2011 . paul sawers the next web . 1 . march 8 2013 . retrieved march 8 2013 . mysanantonio . s.a. web hosting business is sold . retrieved on 7 january 2009 . netcraft . title . october 6 2004 retrieved may 1 2011 . peer 1 network signs definitive agreement to acquire serverbeach . 2004 10 5 retrieved on 7 january 2009 s.a. web hosting business is sold . san antonio express news retrieved on 7 january 2009 serverbeach reaches 10 000 server milestone liam eagle thewhir.com . peer 1 buys interland s dedicated arm . september 6 2005 . retrieved may 1 2011 . netcraft . interland sells dedicated server business to peer 1 . september 7 2005 . retrieved may 1 2011 . serverbeach sends youtube a video kiss off cnet 2008 2 11 retrieved on 6 january 2009 . charnell lucich web hosting talk . peer 1 hosting opens office and data center in the uk . april 27 2009 . retrieved may 3 2011 . canadian reviewer . peer 1 hosting launches largest data centre in toronto . january 28 2010 . retrieved march 14 2011 . reuters . 2 . june 6th 2012 . web host industry review whir . canadian cable giant cogeco completes peer 1 acquisition . january 31 2013 . retrieved june 1 2014 . webhostingjungle.com . peer1 dedicated hosting review . retrieved march 14 2011 . alison sperling stack overflow blog . alison sperling peer 1 hosting making your data center more awesome . march 8 2011 . retrieved may 1 2011 . kyle brandt server fault blog . managed hosting promotion with peer 1 . march 10 2011 . retrieved may 13 2011 . eric long ebusiness blog . managed hosting rackspace vs. peer 1 hosting vs. inetu . part 1 . november 6 2006 . retrieved may 2 2011 . justin lee web host industry review . peer 1 joins vmware service provider program . august 17 2010 . retrieved may 2 2011 . david hamilton web host industry review . web hosting provider peer 1 hosting launches cloud storage solution built on emc atmos . june 1 2010 . retrieved may 2 2011 . kathleen lau itworldcanada . peer 1 microsoft partner on new e mail service . july 20 2010 . retrieved may 2 2011 . maxwell cooter pcworld australia . peer 1 offers cloud based high performance computing . september 19 2010 . retrieved may 2 2011 . jim davis tier 1 research . peer 1 hosting trials nvidia gpu cloud ; is the gpu the next cpu . july 26 2010 . retrieved may 2 2011 . andrew geek central news . bringing the gpu to the cloud . december 1 2010 . retrieved may 2 2011 . web host peer 1 creates new division to launch public cloud web host industry review november 7 2011 inside peer 1 s new public cloud division zunicore web host industry review november 7 2011 external links edit company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title peer 1 & oldid 733626628 categories cogecocompanies formerly listed on the toronto stock exchangeinternet hostingcloud computing providerscloud platformscloud infrastructure navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 august 2016 at 02 10 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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