LeaseWeb

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LeaseWeb
Type Private
Industry Hosting
Founded 1997 (1997)
Headquarters Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Area served Worldwide
Services Dedicated Servers
Colocation
Cloud hosting
Content Delivery Network
Hybrid Solutions
Website LeaseWeb.com

LeaseWeb is a hosting provider with offices in Europe and the United States. The company offers hosting-related services: dedicated servers, colocation, cloud hosting, content delivery network (CDN) and hybrid solutions.

Its parent company OCOM has been listed in the Deloitte Fast 50 in 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011.[1]

Customers include Heineken, Starbucks, Kelkoo, Twenga and Kaspersky.[2] The company sponsors the Wikimedia Foundation.[3]

History

The company was founded in 1997 with one website, an online business directory. Companies could add their contact details and a short description. The company started designing and building websites as an additional service, and opened an office in Utrecht in 1998. The company eventually focused solely on hosting services. The company was named LeaseWeb in 1999, and the first employees were hired that year.

LeaseWeb acquired its first own servers in 2000. The four servers had a total bandwidth of 512 kbps. LeaseWeb also moved to Amsterdam. The company owned 5,000 servers in 2005. Two years later the number of servers had grown to 10,000.[4]

The company doubled its number of employees in two years to 50 by 2007. LeaseWeb moved to its current offices in the Amsterdam area and was also for the first time included in the Deloitte Technology Fast50.[1] In 2009, the number of employees doubled again to 100. In 2010, the company had 25,000 servers. As of 2013, the company has over 300 employees and over 50,000 servers.[5]

LeaseWeb acquired the German hosting provider Netdirekt in 2010.[6] Through this acquisition, LeaseWeb was able to expand its presence in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It allowed LeaseWeb to support its German customers in their own language from its datacenter in Frankfurt.

LeaseWeb expanded its operations to the United States in 2011 with the establishment of a subsidiary LeaseWeb USA Inc. It operates a datacenter in Manassas, Virginia,[7] and will mainly provide services to its American customers.[8]

On October 14, 2011, OCOM, LeaseWeb’s parent company, was again listed in the Deloitte Fast 50.[1] OCOM was the company with the highest revenue on the Deloitte Technology Fast50 2011 with a total turnover of € 50 million (2010).[citation needed]

On October 7, 2011, LeaseWeb was chosen as HP Service Provider partner of the Year 2011.[9] The best-performing HP partners in the Netherlands across various disciplines are presented awards.

LeaseWeb was one of the hosting providers of Megaupload. In January 2012, the servers were shut-down after an international action coordinated by the FBI,[10] and has deleted all Megaupload user data from 690 servers without warning [11] in what is called the biggest data loss in history.

On March 19, 2012, LeaseWeb announced its new public cloud platform.[12] The company stated that it can accommodate large numbers of customers, while offering a robust foundation for advanced Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) applications.

StopBadWare and LeaseWeb announced on April 19, 2012 that they would work jointly on cybercrime prevention.[13] StopBadware is a nonprofit anti-malware organization that coordinates and brings together stakeholders throughout the Internet ecosystem. LeaseWeb sponsors StopBadware as a part of its Community Outreach Project.

As of June 2013, LeaseWeb offers a CDN (Content Delivery Network).[14]

On December 17, 2013, LeaseWeb launched its new Private Cloud platform, powered by Apache CloudStack.[15]

Business model

LeaseWeb provides its customers a single location where they can obtain a domain name, IP addresses, hardware, housing and bandwidth: a one-stop shop.[16] Its infrastructure incorporates hardware, software and services from Cisco, Dell and HP.[17]

Development

LeaseWeb’s network has been IPv6 ready for years.[18] All network hardware the company purchased in recent years supports IPv6. The company tries to stimulate the adoption of IPv6 by handing out addresses to its customers free of charge. LeaseWeb runs a double stacked network, where IPv6 runs on the same network infrastructure as IPv4 and does not require additional hardware.[19]

LeaseWeb has developed its own cloud platform, which it launched in March 2012.[20] On June 7, 2012 it announced on its blog basic firewall functionality for existing and new customers.[21]

In June 2013, LeaseWeb launched its worldwide CDN (Content Delivery Network).[14] It was built with open-source products from NGINX. NGINX is used by more than 25% of the world’s top 1000 web sites with intensive traffic, including Facebook, Dropbox, Groupon, Wordpress and SourceForge.[22] NGINX uses LeaseWeb’s infrastructure and recommends LeaseWeb services to its customers.[23]

Corporate social responsibility

LeaseWeb was one of the first ISPs in the Netherlands to take measures against child pornography.[24] The Spamhaus Project and Andrew Martin's security blog show that LeaseWeb is also the victim of spammers and even botnet controls.[25][26][27][28]

Through its Community Outreach Project, LeaseWeb offers free hosting to organizations that monitor, identify and combat the sources of spam and cybercrime.[29]

Network and datacenters

The company operates six datacenters in the Netherlands, Germany and the United States. LeaseWeb peers with Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, New York, Brussels, Stockholm, Madrid, Zurich, Düsseldorf, Paris, Warsaw, Budapest, Milan, Vienna, Prague, Luxembourg, Bucharest, Bratislava, Copenhagen, Oslo, Ashburn, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Palo Alto and Los Angeles.[30] LeaseWeb’s network consists of 27 Points-of-Presence globally. The network has a bandwidth of 3.5 Tbps and a reported uptime of 99.99999%[31]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Deloitte Technology Fast50 2011". Retrieved 2013-06-20. 
  2. ↑ "LeaseWeb Clients". Retrieved 2013-06-11. 
  3. ↑ "Client Case The Wikimedia Foundation". Retrieved 2013-06-11. 
  4. ↑ "OCOM History". Retrieved 2013-06-20. 
  5. ↑ "About LeaseWeb". Retrieved 2013-06-20. 
  6. ↑ "LeaseWeb Acquires Germany's netdirekt". Retrieved 2012-07-01. 
  7. ↑ "LeaseWeb To Open Virginia Data Center". Retrieved 2012-07-01. 
  8. ↑ "LeaseWeb To Open US Datacenter". Retrieved 2012-07-01. 
  9. ↑ "LeaseWeb is HP Service Provider partner of the Year 2011". Retrieved 2012-08-01. 
  10. ↑ "LeaseWeb was hoster MegaUpload". Retrieved 2012-08-01. 
  11. ↑ "Leaseweb Wipes All Megaupload User Data, Dotcom Outraged". Retrieved 2013-06-20. 
  12. ↑ "LeaseWeb launches new public cloud platform". Retrieved 2013-04-13. 
  13. ↑ "LeaseWeb Provides Free Hosting to Anti-Malware Non-Profit StopBadware". Retrieved 2012-08-01. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "LeaseWeb Launches In-House Developed CDN Service". Retrieved 2013-06-11. 
  15. ↑ "LeaseWeb adds new Private Cloud platform powered by Apache CloudStack". Retrieved 2013-12-24. 
  16. ↑ "Company Values". Retrieved 2012-08-02. 
  17. ↑ "Partners". Retrieved 2012-08-04. 
  18. ↑ "Is the Internet Running out of IPs?". Retrieved 2012-07-01. 
  19. ↑ "IPv4 & IPv6 interoperability and the LeaseWeb network". Retrieved 2012-08-04. 
  20. ↑ "LeaseWeb launches new public cloud platform". Retrieved 2012-07-01. 
  21. ↑ "Introducing free Basic Firewall functionality for LeaseWeb Cloud Express". Retrieved 2012-07-17. 
  22. ↑ "Usage of web servers broken down by ranking". Retrieved 2012-07-01. 
  23. ↑ "Leaseweb gaat over op Nginx-software voor content delivery". Retrieved 2012-05-11. 
  24. ↑ "Hostingbedrijf LeaseWeb plaatst kinderpornofilter". Retrieved 2012-07-01. 
  25. ↑ "The Spamhaus Project - SBL: SBL Advisory: Found 18 SBL listings for IPs under the responsibility of leaseweb.com". The Spamhaus Project. Retrieved September 18, 2012. 
  26. ↑ Martin, Andrew (December 11, 2008). "Sources of Badness - LeaseWeb". Andrew Martin: Viewing InfoSec from the trenches (formerly Real Security). Retrieved September 11, 2012. 
  27. ↑ "LeaseWeb forced to shut down more bittorrent sites". Retrieved 2012-07-12. 
  28. ↑ "Security officer at LeaseWeb speaks about the Bredolab botnet's takedown". Retrieved 2012-07-12. 
  29. ↑ "Web Host LeaseWeb launches Community Outreach Project". Retrieved 2012-07-01. 
  30. ↑ "LeaseWeb NOC". Retrieved 2012-07-01. 
  31. ↑ "LeaseWeb's Network". Retrieved 2012-11-01. 

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