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* In April, 2007, Hostway acquired [[Affinity Internet Inc.]], a web hosting company founded in 1996, from Florida, with almost 300 employees and 200,000 customers at that time. <ref> [http://www.hostreview.com/news/070405hostwaycorporation.html Host Review]</ref>
* In April, 2007, Hostway acquired [[Affinity Internet Inc.]], a web hosting company founded in 1996, from Florida, with almost 300 employees and 200,000 customers at that time. <ref> [http://www.hostreview.com/news/070405hostwaycorporation.html Host Review]</ref>
* In July, 2007, Hostway moved the Affinity Miami data center, which at that time had clients such as ValueWeb and Gate.com. The migration had a disastrous affect, especially on ValueWeb, leaving thousands of sites offline for almost three days.<ref> [http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/07/31/data-center-migration-goes-awry-at-valueweb/ Data Center Knowledge]</ref>. This incident was ranked #2 of the top 8 Data center Disasters of 2007 by IT Management Magazine. <ref> [http://www.itmanagement.com/features/top-8-012808/ It Management.com]</ref>
* In July, 2007, Hostway moved the Affinity Miami data center, which at that time had clients such as [[ValueWeb]] and [[Gate.com]]. The migration had a disastrous affect, especially on [[ValueWeb]], leaving thousands of sites offline for almost three days.<ref> [http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/07/31/data-center-migration-goes-awry-at-valueweb/ Data Center Knowledge]</ref>. This incident was ranked #2 of the top 8 Data center Disasters of 2007 by IT Management Magazine. <ref> [http://www.itmanagement.com/features/top-8-012808/ It Management.com]</ref>
* In May, 2009, Hostway sold its FL Data Center to [[Host.net]], a Florida based Internet business company. <ref>[http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/04/hostnet-buys-hostway-data-center/ Data Center Knowledge.com]</ref>
* In May, 2009, Hostway sold its FL Data Center to [[Host.net]], a Florida based Internet business company. <ref>[http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/04/hostnet-buys-hostway-data-center/ Data Center Knowledge.com]</ref>