PIPEX Acquires Web Hosting Business

PIPEX Communications has acquired award-winning Donhost, the dedicated and shared hosting and domain name business, to further enhance its hosting capabilities and provide a reseller-based hosting solution.

Donhost is a web hosting business providing shared and dedicated servers, reseller solutions, domain name registration and Internet access to business and residential customers in the UK. Donhost has 92,000 end customers for hosting services and 120,000 domain names, which takes the total number of domain name registrations for the PIPEX group to over 1 million.

The announcement highlights PIPEX's position as a tier one communications and Internet service provider and follows its recently announced financial results which saw turnover increase to £102.3 million, up from £35.2 million in 2003.

"Having completed the integration of Host Europe and Nildram over the last eight months, we are now well placed to further strengthen the hosting part of our portfolio with the acquisition of Donhost," said Mike Read, CEO, PIPEX.

Donhost's reseller hosting packages enable users to host and manage an unlimited number of websites on both UNIX/Linux and Windows 2003 web servers making them ideal for web designers, hosting resellers, entrepreneurs and anyone who needs to host multiple domains.

PIPEX is a telecom network operator and provider of broadband solutions that combines the best infrastructure, services, support and people to make communication simple for business.

Established in 1991, PIPEX was the UK's first commercial ISP, set up to deliver affordable, high speed, high quality corporate Internet access. The company delivers the same outstanding benefits to businesses today.

Now owning one of the UK's most extensive communication networks, PIPEX has data centres in London, Manchester and Leeds and over 100 Points of Presence (PoPs) nation-wide.

With its unparalleled experience of connecting organisations and its multi-award winning service, support levels and dynamic people, PIPEX is reputed, by its clients, to be one of the safest pairs of hands in the telecom industry.