Type of business Private company Revenue 13.8 million USD (2012) Headquarters Orlando | Website www.hostdime.com Founded 2003 Type Privately held company | |
Key people Dennis Henry (Vice President of HostDime Operations) Industry Data center, Cloud storage, Domain Registrar, Web hosting, SSL certificates, small businesses Profiles | ||
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HostDime, Inc is a global data center provider offering an array of cloud products including managed services for scalable cloud storage, dedicated servers, VPS, and colocation services. HostDime owns and operates infrastructure and networks in eight countries: the United States, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, Netherlands, India, Colombia, and Hong Kong. Its flagship facility is in Orlando, Florida. In 2012, Inc.com reported that the company posted an annual revenue of more than $13.8 million USD with a 3-year growth rate of 74%.
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History
HostDime.com Inc. was founded in 2003 in Daytona Beach, Florida. It became a legal Florida corporation in November 2003 in Orlando, Florida. Due to continued quick growth, HostDime opened its first own datacenter in Downtown Orlando in December 2003 and moved its servers from a New Jersey Colocation facility.
As of 2017, HostDime is a privately held and self-funded company with no outside equity investors and its internal company shareholders maintain full ownership of the company.
Present
HostDime operates one of the largest networks in the Central Florida region. In 2016, HostDime broke ground on a new seven-story headquarters in Eatonville, combining their administrative offices and their data center. Along with the Orlando flagship data center, HostDime owns and operates data centers in Mexico and Brazil, with network facilities in Colombia, Hong Kong, India, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
It claimed to have over 5 million domains hosted in the entire fleet of data centers operated by HostDime and its subsidiaries globally, with a client base of over 50,000.
Controversy
In November 2012, a report by human rights and digital media research lab Citizen Lab found that HostDime was among a handful of American companies selling hosting services to the Syrian government in direct opposition of an executive order from President Barack Obama. This sanctions order expressly prohibits transactions with certain governments without United States Treasury Department approval. The story was picked up by The New York Times in late November. Dennis Henry, the Vice President of HostDime Operations, revealed in The New York Times story that the website in question, Syria’s Ministry of Religious Affairs, was hosted by a customer who leased a server in their data center. Immediate steps were taken to sever ties from Syria and that matter was quickly resolved.
Besides being a cPanel-licensed distributor, HostDime also offers domain registration, SSL certificates, remote data storage, software licenses, and audio streaming services.