HostDime

HostDime Global Corp, Inc is a global data center provider offering an array of cloud products including managed services for scalable cloud storage, dedicated servers, VPS, and colocation services. HostDime owns and operates infrastructure and networks in eight countries: the United States, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, Netherlands, India, Colombia, and Hong Kong. Its flagship facility is in Orlando, Florida.[3] In 2012, Inc.com reported that the company posted an annual revenue of more than US$13.8 million with a 3-year growth rate of 74%.[2]

HostDime Global Corp, Inc
Type of businessPrivate company
Founded2001 (2001)
HeadquartersOrlando, Florida, United States
Founder(s)Manny Vivar
Key peopleDennis Henry (Vice President of HostDime Operations)[1]
IndustryData center, Cloud storage, Domain Registrar, Web hosting, SSL certificates, small businesses
RevenueUS$13,800,000 (2012)[2]
URLwww.hostdime.com

History

HostDime Global Corp Inc. was founded in 2001 by Manny Vivar in Daytona Beach, Florida. It became a legal Florida corporation in November 2003 in Orlando, Florida.[4] HostDime opened its first own datacenter in Downtown Orlando in December 2003 and moved its servers from a New Jersey Colocation facility.[5] In June 2017, HostDime unveiled its first data center in Brazil. The new $15 million data center, the second in the region, will be used to empower HostDime's services in the country.[6][7]

As of 2017, HostDime is a privately held and self-funded company with no outside equity investors, and its internal company shareholders maintain full ownership of the company.[8]

Present

HostDime operates one of the largest networks in the Central Florida region. In 2016, HostDime broke ground on a new seven-story headquarters in Eatonville, combining their administrative offices and their data center.[9][10] Unfortunately, progress on the building has been extremely slow with barely any activity at the site since and as a result have been forced to combine their corporate office with their current datacenter while awaiting completion for the brand new building. Along with the Orlando flagship data center, HostDime owns and operates data centers in Mexico and Brazil, with network facilities in Colombia, Hong Kong, India, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.[11][12]

It claimed to have over 5 million domains hosted in the entire fleet of data centers operated by HostDime and its subsidiaries globally, with a client base of over 50,000.[13][14]

Controversy

In November 2012, a report by human rights and digital media research lab Citizen Lab[15] found that HostDime was among a handful of American companies selling hosting services to the Syrian government in direct opposition of an executive order from President Barack Obama. This sanctions order expressly prohibits transactions with certain governments without United States Treasury Department approval. The story was picked up by The New York Times in late November.[1] Dennis Henry, the Vice President of HostDime Operations,[1] revealed in The New York Times story that the website in question, Syria's Ministry of Religious Affairs, was hosted by a customer who leased a server in their data center. Immediate steps were taken to sever ties from Syria and that matter was quickly resolved..

References
  1. "Official Syrian Web Sites Hosted in U.S." The New York Times. November 29, 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  2. "HostDime Provides data center services". Inc. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  3. "HostDime's History in Brief". Official website. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  4. "Detail by Entity Name". Secretary of State of Florida. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  5. "HostDime not stopping at 50 new jobs". American City Business Journals. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  6. "HostDime expands beyond Equinix, Level 3 and opens first data centre in Brazil". Data Economy. 2017-06-26. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  7. "HostDime opens $15m site in NE Brazil". www.datacenterdynamics.com. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  8. "HostDime seeks continued growth via new services, new geographic markets". 451 Research. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  9. Lemongello, Steven. "7-story data center could rise on long-vacant Eatonville lot". OrlandoSentinel.com. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  10. Chernicoff, David. "HostDime gets started on flagship Florida data center | ZDNet". ZDNet. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  11. "HostDime Outlines Aggressive International Expansion Strategy". The Whir. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  12. "International Web Hosting - Global Data Center - U.S., Brazil, Mexico, India, UK, Colombia". www.hostdime.com. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  13. "HostDime Now Accepting Bitcoin". Official website. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  14. "HostDime.com Inc. Now Accepting Bitcoin as Payment for Cloud and Data Center Services". Kitco. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  15. "The Canadian Connection: One Year Later". Citizen Lab. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
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