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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting and Internet services provider H4Y Technologies (www.h4y.us) has acquired Oregon-based web host iWebFusion Technologies (www.iwebfusion.net), which will continue to operate as a separate brand in the H4Y Technologies group along with its primary brand, Host4Yourself.com.
According to H4Y's Thursday announcement, iWebFusion brings an entirely new customer base to H4Y. Host4Yourself focuses on development, enterprise class and mission critical managed hosting, dedicated servers, and colocation, while iWebFusion.net has built a successful name for itself for its economical shared, reseller, and virtual private server product lines.
"As if Host4Yourself.com didn't already offer a huge range of options to our clients, the purchase of iWebFusion.net should make us attractive to just about every conceivable consumer and business," H4Y web administrator and owner Evan Kamlet said in a statement. "With the resources and capital on tap at H4Y, we foresee a very rosy picture for iWebFusion.net in the coming months and years. It is very exciting for all of us".
iWebFusion.net's staff, billing, and structure will not change, according to the announcement, and customer services will not be interrupted or affected in any way because no equipment will be moved. Also easing the transition -- some of iWebFusion.net's equipment was already under the ownership of H4Y before the acquisition.
Management is currently considering changing the pricing model, however, clients have been guaranteed that existing accounts will never increase in price, nor will future sign-ups for clients with existing accounts.
H4Y also announced on Thursday that has signed a partnership arrangement with Monticello, Iowa, data center United States Secure Hosting Center (www.usshc.com) to offer a new line of mission-critical hosting products to Host4Yourself.com customers who want the "the most secure data center in the United States." Built by the US government as a communications facility during the cold war era in the years following the Cuban Missile Crisis, USSHC is resistant to multi-megaton nuclear weapons and electro-magnetic pulses. iWebFusion VPS nodes and dedicated servers currently occupy a small portion of space at this facility, and H4Y plans to add new customers to it.
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