Concentric Hosting

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Concentric
Type Public
Industry Web Hosting
Founded 1995
Headquarters Herndon, Virginia, United States
Key people Craig Collins, President of SMB & Hosting
Products Web Hosting and Web Services
Website http://www.concentric.com

Concentric is a web hosting services company that entered the Internet Service Provider business in 1995 [1] and went public with an IPO on July 25, 1997. At that time, SEC filings showed declining losses and increased revenue growth, prompting the IPO.[2] Acquired by Nextlink on Jan. 10, 2000, the two companies merged to become XO Communications. In 2004, Concentric returned to the market as an XO Communications service.[3] Concentric is based in San Jose, California.

Concentric claims to be the first web hosting company to have a patent for Clustered Hosting architecture.[4] Clustered hosting is a type of web hosting that spreads the load of hosting across multiple physical machines ("nodes"), increasing availability and decreasing the chances of one service (for example FTP or email) affecting another.

References

  1. ↑ Interview with Barbara Bannerman at HostSearch, Mar 2005
  2. ↑ Concentric shows sharp growth, Jul 25, 1997
  3. ↑ XO Communications Appoints Barbara Branaman as Vice President and General Manager of Hosting, Jun 7, 2004
  4. ↑ US patent for Clustered Hosting

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