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In 1998, [[Lucas Roh]], [[John Lee]], and [[Arnold Choi]], along with two other business partners, acquired [[Spectronet Inc]]., a Web hosting company that had an annual revenues of $30,000 at that time. <ref> [http://icannwiki.org/Hostway ICANNWIKi.org]</ref>They renamed the company Hostway Corporation and began preparations to expand its reach in the US and international markets. According to the CEO Lucas Roh, when HostWay was  founded it was one of 10,000 Web hosting companies and by 2003 it became one of the top 10.<ref> [http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20031029/PAGES/1426/40-under-40-2003 Chicago Business]</ref>  

In April 2002, Hostway acquired acquired Iarna.com, a web hosting company from London, Uk.[http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/042902_%0D%0AHostway_Acquires_UK-Based_Web_Hosting/? the WebHost Industry review]</ref>  

In August 2003, HostWay merged with [[NetNation]] Communications, Inc. a web hosting and domain registration company from Canada resulting the newly merged company to be one of the largest web service providing company in the world.<ref> [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-106814187.html highbeam]</ref> Also in August2003, HostWay bought another web hosting company [[Neutelligent]] from Tampa.<ref>[http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2003/08/25/daily11.html Tampa Bbay Business Journal]</ref> Later that year, HostWay acquired [[GlobalHost]], a web hosting company from Australia. <ref> [http://www.itnews.com.au/News/12576,hostway-announces-reseller-program.aspx itnews.au]</ref>  

In January 2004 HostWay bought [[Enterprise Networks]] (EPN), a Data Center and Hosting Business based in Korea. <ref> [http://www.hostway.com/press-releases/2004/0113.html highbeam]</ref>

In January 2006, Hostway announced a plan to build a new data center in the Boeing building, along the west bank of the Chicago River.  <ref> [http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2006/01/18/hostway-plans-new-chicago-data-center/ Data Center Knowledge]</ref>. HostWay was later headquartered in that location.

In April 2007, HostWay acquired Affinity Internet Inc., a web hosting company from Florida, USA founded in 1996 having 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 specially on ValueWeb leaving 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 reported to be the second of 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>