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| 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 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> |
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− | 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.[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. [http://www.itnews.com.au/News/12576,hostway-announces-reseller-program.aspx itnews.au]</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> |
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| HostWay bought [[Enterprise Networks]] (EPN), a Critical Data Center and Hosting Business in Korea | | HostWay bought [[Enterprise Networks]] (EPN), a Critical Data Center and Hosting Business in Korea |
| in Januray 2004. <ref> [http://www.hostway.com/press-releases/2004/0113.html highbeam]</ref> | | in Januray 2004. <ref> [http://www.hostway.com/press-releases/2004/0113.html highbeam]</ref> |
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| + | In Januray 2006, Hostway accouned 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. |
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| + | 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> |
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| + | In July 2007, HostWay moved the Affinity Miami data center which at that time had clients like 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 incedent was reported to be the second of top 8 Datacenter Disaster of 2007 by IT Management Magazine. <ref> [http://www.itmanagement.com/features/top-8-012808/ It Management.com] |
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
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