We’ve got some actually massive information to share at the moment. A2 Internet hosting has been formally acquired by World Host Group. For greater than 20 years, A2 Internet hosting has been a frontrunner within the internet hosting {industry} recognized for our dedication to customer support, technical excellence, and performance-driven options.
“Our purpose is easy but transformative: to construct the world’s most trusted internet hosting group,” mentioned Seb de Lemos, CEO of World Host Group, in our latest press launch. “With A2 Internet hosting, we’re not simply preserving its strengths however amplifying them to ship unparalleled worth to its prospects.”
Each World Host Group and A2 Internet hosting share a customer-first philosophy. A2 Internet hosting has lengthy been a trusted companion for businesses, builders, and companies, due to its performance-optimized internet hosting options tailor-made to distinctive wants. Becoming a member of forces with World Host Group ensures that this legacy continues and evolves with new investments in infrastructure and progressive options.
This acquisition will enable A2 Internet hosting to scale, persevering with to supply our distinctive internet hosting companies, whereas additionally increasing our attain and help.
What It Means For Our Clients: Highlights from Our Dialog
I just lately had the prospect to sit down down with Seb de Lemos and speak concerning the acquisition, his plans for A2 Internet hosting and World Host Group within the coming months, and what it means for our present prospects.
Seb additionally expressed his enthusiasm for working with the A2 Internet hosting workforce: “I’m completely delighted that, at World Host Group, we’re in a position to work with the wonderful workforce at A2. We’re tremendous comfortable to have been trusted to take what Bryan Muthig, Paul Carter, Justin Mazzi, Aaron Campbell, and the remainder of the workforce have constructed. And we’re in a position to take that and take it to the subsequent stage.”
Skilled Technical Founders and Internet hosting Management
One of many issues that at all times set A2 Internet hosting other than different firms within the {industry} is that Bryan Muthig, our CEO, was additionally a technical founder. Not like some companies the place the CEO was centered solely on development, Bryan understood the technical points of our enterprise and actually cared concerning the high quality of our internet hosting service. So does Seb and World Host Group.
What makes this acquisition so particular is that Seb additionally has his personal historical past with the technical aspect of webhosting. He began internet hosting his personal web site and dealing as a internet hosting reseller when he was in his teenagers.
In our interview, Seb tells me how he obtained his begin, saying, “My dad and mom gave me, I believe, $30, to take a internet hosting account from Hostway, who was my first server internet hosting supplier.”
“And that didn’t fairly cowl the server from Hostway, so I needed to go and discover different individuals who would share the server value with me. And so from that, we type of began providing internet hosting.”
Along with specializing in his faculty, Seb was managing relationships with prospects and dealing with help requests. Nearly accidentally, he had grown his internet hosting firm into a very nice enterprise.
“Then in 2015, I wanted to do one thing else, strive one thing else in my life.” That’s when Seb bought his internet hosting enterprise. He went on to steer groups that developed the billing software program known as Upmind, the Improve management panel software program, and a WordPress upkeep firm known as Fastened.internet.
One of many core issues every of these companies confronted was internet hosting.
“We simply couldn’t get round the truth that the internet hosting that we had been coping with wasn’t excellent. And we had been like, we might do that so significantly better. And there was additionally part of me which was like, ‘I actually missed waking up on a Sunday morning and checking help tickets.’”
Seb went on to say, “So we type of began internet hosting as somewhat aspect venture round 2020. After which grew one other nice model within the UK, simply organically actually. However pondering far more philosophically about how we wished to architect issues, how we wished to do infrastructure, and the way we wished to make issues not so depending on particular person areas and management issues centrally, fairly than have issues develop organically over time. And really rapidly that then snowballed right into a World Host Group.”
Unquestionably, Seb has a historical past of constructing internet hosting firms and rising profitable companies. However that success actually comes right down to who he’s as an individual.
“What I actually like is constructing issues. And I like placing issues collectively and making issues that match nicely and develop nicely and run nicely. And that’s one of many superior issues we’re in a position to do at World World Host Group.”
Seb’s Imaginative and prescient for A2 Internet hosting and World Host Group
For Seb, buying A2 Internet hosting was extra than simply buying an asset. It was about folding a profitable enterprise – and the workforce that helped it develop – into the World Host Group greater technique, with A2 Internet hosting because the core. .
“A2 is a superb enterprise, to be trustworthy. A2 jogs my memory a lot of the enterprise that I in-built 2003. A2 is a much bigger enterprise, proper? However the qualities that A2 has, the dedication to customer support, the dedication to technical internet hosting, the efficiency base, the truth that a very powerful factor that everybody’s engaged on is to ensure that the product is definitely good is simply so core to A2.”
In the case of the way forward for A2 Internet hosting and World Host Group, Seb’s imaginative and prescient is obvious: It’s about constructing belief with prospects. And which means persevering with to supply distinctive buyer help and product excellence.
Speaking about belief, Seb mentioned, “It’s all about belief, as a result of we all know that what we do as a bunch isn’t rocket science. And we all know that the relationships that we’ve got with our purchasers are a very powerful issues, and it’s very simply damaged.”
Any disruption to internet hosting companies can have a long-lasting influence on our prospects. And it’s not nearly having a spot to host your web site any extra. It’s about providing the companies and the instruments to assist our prospects thrive.
He added, “We would like our purchasers to know that we’ve got their finest pursuits at coronary heart, and we would like to have the ability to show it.”
Speaking about World Host Group, Seb mentioned, “We’re clearly solely a few years previous, and we’re simply over about $115 million in income, however rising extraordinarily rapidly, partly via natural development and many of the development in the mean time is coming from mergers and acquisitions.”
“We’re constructing a really long run enterprise with absolute long run sight. We wish to construct a world internet hosting group that we will be pleased with, and that bucks the development of what everybody presently says about internet hosting teams.”
A part of the important thing there’s expertise, with Seb saying, “We’ve assembled an absolute high workforce with a number of totally different knowledgeable areas, some in internet hosting and a few exterior internet hosting.”
Whereas we’ll stay dedicated to providing excessive efficiency internet hosting and industry-leading customer support, Seb additionally hinted that one thing massive is coming, saying “We’ve got one thing tremendous thrilling coming in April.”
Not wanting to provide away an excessive amount of, he mentioned, “It undoubtedly entails a correct rethink of what a internet hosting expertise must be and ought to be for purchasers and for workers, and for all of us.”
My Full Interview With Seb de Lemos Is Out there Now
For extra about World Host Group and Seb de Lemos, watch our full podcast now. Seb and I cowl many various points of the internet hosting {industry}.
A number of the different matters we cowl embrace the significance that open supply software program like WordPress, PHP, and Laravel have on the internet hosting {industry} and the position that businesses play and the way A2 Internet hosting and World Host Group is dedicated to serving to them develop with new companies and options that assist them stay aggressive.
Additionally, subscribe to the A2 Internet hosting channel on YouTube as we proceed to discover the evolution and innovation of internet hosting and the way they relate to WordPress, web site optimization, and advertising.
