Daily Archives: October 12, 2011

Hosting.com, a leading provider of cloud hosting and recovery services, today announced the acquisition of Dallas-based NeoSpire, a mission-critical managed hosting company.

The acquisition both expands the physical footprint of Hosting.com and adds additional expertise to the company’s portfolio of services. With data centers in Dallas, Denver, Irvine CA, Louisville, Newark DE, and San Francisco, the company is well-positioned to offer expanded services to customers in the south with geographic diversity across the country.

“The synergistic relationship between NeoSpire’s managed hosting services, including managed security, application hosting, database administration, exchange hosting, SaaS hosting and colocation work well within the current and future direction of Hosting.com’s strategic plans,” stated Art Zeile, CEO of Hosting.com. “We’re excited to bring their current customers into our portfolio and leverage NeoSpire’s extensive security operations and expertise.”

“NeoSpire is excited about the opportunities this acquisition will provide for our customers,” said Mitch Gervis, CEO and co-founder of NeoSpire. “We started NeoSpire with the vision of providing the best customer service in the managed hosting industry. Hosting.com shares this commitment and will also bring an expanded product line to enhance our current offerings.” Derek Wilson, chairman and co-founder of NeoSpire stated, “We have worked very hard to start and successfully build our business. This transaction with an industry leader creates a winning combination for our customers and the NeoSpire team.”

NeoSpire was founded in 1999 by Mitch Gervis and Derek Wilson. The NeoSpire team operates a wide range of security services and best practices to provide the highest levels of protection for their customers. The company’s security operations center in Dallas delivers a high level of compliance and certification assistance to help companies with complex industry and government regulations.

NeoSpire customers will reap the benefits of Hosting.com’s rich heritage and technical leadership for availability and recovery services. Customers will have access to the entire suite of enterprise-class Hosting.com services, including the recently launched Cloud Replication solution that leverages VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager 5 (SRM 5) to deliver enterprise-class offsite data protection and disaster recovery.

“In addition to the expanded service offerings that Hosting.com will bring to the NeoSpire customers, they will benefit from the highest level of service in the industry,” commented Joel Daly, Hosting.com COO. “They will also have access to our industry-leading online tools that enable self-management of their deployed services – all of which provide an excellent customer experience.”

The company now has over 131,000 square feet of available colocation space in six geographically dispersed cities to deliver business solutions to customers from coast-to-coast.

Hosting.com is backed by Pamlico Capital, a private equity firm founded in 1988 that invests in growing middle market companies. “Pamlico continues to be a great partner and valuable asset for Hosting.com. Pamlico has been instrumental in advancing Hosting.com’s strategy and supporting the company with acquisitions, datacenter expansions, and investment in cloud hosting and recovery services,” stated Art Zeile.

Hosting.com was advised by Alston and Bird LLP, Ernst and Young LLP, W. David Snead, EKS&H, and Moreton & Company.

DH Capital, LLC served as exclusive financial advisor to NeoSpire on the transaction. Patton Boggs, LLP acted as legal counsel to NeoSpire in connection with this transaction.

cPanel, the leading Web Hosting Control Panel Software provider, announced today at its annual conference that Attracta’s Free Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools will become a standard feature in future releases.

cPanel powers the web hosting industry with its point-and-click software that automates the provisioning and management of websites. The tens of millions of website owners who host their websites with cPanel’s hundreds of hosting partners use cPanel’s easy-to-use interface to manage every aspect of their websites. The bundling of Attracta adds the ability to easily manage their search engine presence with point-and-click SEO Tools.

As the Internet matures, and more businesses have websites, two things are happening: the web hosting industry is getting more competitive, and it’s getting harder for website owners to make their sites stand out. Attracta’s SEO Tools help solve both of these problems through giving webhosts a way to be more competitive by providing their customers with the tools to more effectively promote their websites.

Attracta is the world’s largest SEO service. Over one million websites use the Attracta suite of tools to increase their search traffic.

Attracta’s Free SEO Tools include:

1,000 page XML Sitemap Submission to Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask

Google Blacklist Check

Link Building Tools

Social Networking Tools

SEO Tips and Tutorials

Website owners who want more traffic can upgrade to paid plans that include automated SEO Tools and XML Sitemap submission, along with guaranteed listings in up to 100 of the world’s top search engines.

“Attracta is the first and so far the only third party software ever to be bundled in cPanel,” said Aaron Philips, cPanel VP of Operations. “Every site needs traffic, and since Attracta’s XML Sitemap technology has proven to work well for our customers, it only made sense to include it as a core feature of our control panel software.”

“cPanel is the world’s most popular Web Hosting automation. When two industry leaders join forces the market benefits by having greater access to technology that helps both website owners and web hosts become more successful,” said Troy McCasland, VP of Business Development for Attracta.

About Attracta:

Founded in 2009 by a team of successful Internet entrepreneurs in Napa, CA, Attracta develops innovative search engine visibility technology that helps customers of all sizes build search engine traffic. With over one million websites using its services, Attracta has quickly become the world’s most popular Search Engine Optimization provider. The company sells its services directly, and through a channel of web hosts, web designers and search industry agencies. For more information, visit www.attracta.com call 888-317-3994.

About cPanel:

Since 1997, cPanel has been a leading innovator and developer of control panel software for the web hosting industry. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, cPanel builds software that allows web host professional to transform standalone servers into fully automated point-and-click web hosting platforms. cPanel licensed software allows owners of servers and websites, along with resellers and developers, to optimize their technical resources and replace tedious shell-oriented tasks with dynamic, intuitive web- based interfaces. For more information, visit www.cpanel.net