Peer 1 Hosting provides Internet hosting services that include managed hosting, dedicated servers, colocation, and cloud computing. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Canada and a wholly owned subsidiary of Cogeco Cable Inc. The company serves more than 13,000 customers from 19 data centers located in Canada, the United States and England.
History
The company was founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1999 by Lance Tracey and Mark Teolis. From the beginning, the co-founders targeted small- and medium-sized business customers.
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. 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.
In 2007, the company introduced an incubation program, that combined discounted hosting services with consulting assistants. In 2010, the company built a new energy-efficient and green data center located just outside Toronto which was followed by opening in November 4, 2011 of another green 58,000 sq. ft. data center located in Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK.
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. 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. In 2013, the company launched an interactive mobile app version.
Acquisitions and growth
Peer 1 Hosting has grown through acquisitions:
- 2004: ServerBeach and data center in San Antonio, Texas, for $US 7.5 million. Includes network points-of-presence locations in 17 cities across North America and Europe.
- 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.
- 2007: Last YouTube data leaves former ServerBeach site for Google in November.
- 2009: New data center opened in London.
- 2010: opens first energy-efficient data center outside Toronto.
- 2012: NetBenefit acquired for $38.5 million.
- 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.
Products and services
Peer 1 Hosting offers: colocation; dedicated servers; managed hosting; private cloud services; cloud storage; hosted email; and cloud-based graphics processing. In November 7, 2011 Peer 1 announced launching its new cloud division Zunicore.
References
External links
- Company website
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