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Leading web hosting organization UK-2 Group, Ltd., announced
today that it has completed the acquisition of US hosting
provider midPhase Services Inc.’s Shared and Virtual Private
Server businesses. This acquisition continues the expansion
plans of UK-2 Group and closely follows the recent acquisition
of clients from
US
host Stargate.
“We are extremely happy to announce our acquisition of midPhase”
commented UK-2 Group CEO Ditlev Bredahl. “It is the next step
towards achieving our ambitious growth strategy and the
continued international expansion of UK-2 Group. This
acquisition now makes UK-2 Group one of the largest
international hosting companies, which will allow us to have a
hugely positive impact on the marketplace.”
UK-2 Group has been a significant player in the British and
European hosting markets for many years, and recently underwent
a large restructure, making important organizational changes in
readiness for customer growth plans and challenging the bigger
hosting brands. UK-2 is one of the largest domain registrars in
the UK
having registered over 1 million domain names.
“Zak and I are both very happy to announce the handover of our
shared and VPS customers to UK-2. We’re very happy to have been
able to reach a deal which results in minimal disruption to our
customers,” said Dan Ushman, Co-founder and President of
midPhase Services, Inc.
UK-2 Group intends to continue operation of midPhase’s various
brands, including: midPhase.com, ANHosting.com and Autica.com,
due to its successful approach and market leadership to date.
UK2 will not integrate midPhase into any existing UK-2 Group
brand. This means there will be no impact on existing midPhase
customers in terms of products, services, prices and support.
UK-2 does not plan to migrate servers and has chosen to
collocate the existing midPhase servers with SingleHop, Inc., a
company owned and operated by Zak Boca and Dan Ushman.
About UK2
UK-2 Group, a major player in the British hosting industry since
the late nineties, provides domain name registration and web
hosting services to many customers through its family of hosting
brands – UK2.net, US2.net and Resell.biz. The group operates its
services out of several state of the art, multi million pound
data centers and are committed to providing reliable, secure and
great value products and services underpinned with excellent
support. UK2-Group is also a major shareholder in the merged
Redbus Interhouse and Telecity Group, the leading European data
centre provider.
About midPhase Services, Inc.
midPhase Services, Inc. (midPhase.com) is a privately held web
hosting and Internet services company founded in 2003 and based
out of Chicago. midPhase provides budget, shared,
advanced and other types of web hosting services to a wide range
of clients ranging from small business to individuals. By
providing a robust technological base and reasonable pricing,
midPhase is able to offer customers an unbeatable value.
midPhase is able to distinguish itself from countless other
providers by offering an incredible value to our customers. This
combination of advanced products and affordability has helped
midPhase retain a record-breaking growth pattern, faster than
the industry average every month since inception. Unlike most
web-hosting providers, midPhase owns all of the hardware it
uses. midPhase does not rent or lease servers.
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