ANN ARBOR ? Data Center Online Tech announced Tuesday that it sold its shared web hosting business to IGD Solutions, a website design, development, and hosting company in Clarkston. Terms were not announced.
Online Tech sold its 15 year old web hosting business to focus on its rapidly expanding colocation and managed server business. Over the last 5 years, Online Tech?s business has shifted from shared website and e-mail hosting to managing multi-server environments for IT departments, hosting, and Software-as-a-Service companies. The shared hosting business represented only a small portion of its total revenue.
?We?ve come to the point where we feel that our website and e-mail hosting clients can be best served by a partner that focuses specifically on those services? said Mike Klein, President of Online Tech. ?We don?t want to be competing with our rapidly growing customer base of web hosting companies.?
As IGD Solutions looked to Online Tech as their technology infrastructure provider, the companies found they shared the same customer-centric values in their business approach. IGD Solutions found the high availability managed server partner they were looking for and Online Tech found a trusted partner to service their shared hosting clients and take over the website business.
?We are extremely impressed with Online Tech?s managed server solutions. Their customer-centric approach, attention to details, and the uptime delivered through their SAS 70 certified data centers is exactly what we were looking for? said Steve Hyer, President of IGD Solutions. ?This deal came together as a true partnership as we learned how well Online Tech?s web hosting customers were matched to our existing customer base.?
Online Tech?s former web hosting clients will gain access to additional services from IGD Solutions, including website application design, development and search engine optimization. IGD Solutions’ clients will gain the reliability and uptime that come with having IGD Solutions’ managed servers at Online Tech?s SAS 70 Tier 3 data center.
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