The Web Hosting Blog of Host Color

“It is a good story. We got spammed by a guy who now owns a fairly good shared hosting provider. The owners of the company started with a small boutique web design studio. They needed web hosting and signed up with a hosting provider, which was quite popular at that time, but it wasn’t good enough. So we needed to switch to any other company and when we received the “spam” we decided to see who sent it”, revealed Alexander Avramov, Host Color’s Managing Director in an exclusive web hosting interview for WebHostMagazine.

“The spam wasn’t an automated message. It was sent by a real person as a proposition. So we contacted the sender because we were curious about what they offer. He gave us a decent Reseller account (it was actually a number of shared hosting accounts, without a reseller management interface). In 2001, however we began receiving a lot of requests for web hosting, so we bought the first dedicated server.”, explained also Host Color’s executive in the interview.

We discussed a concept which would present the web host as a company focused to serve different people, which belong to different societies and different business cultures. Within the first years we got not just U.S. customers, but many site owners from Spain, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Australia, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Argentina and many other countries. I believe that for some time we were even the #1 web host in Sri Lanka and probably in Peru It was funny. For quite a while in 2004 we had around 5000 customers and 100 of them from Sri Lanka and 50 from Peru. So we became Host Color, a company that serves people from different cultures and nations. I know it is not a regular tech story, but it is true.

Where the name Host Color came from?

Alex explained that from the first moment it entered in web hosting business Host Color was a company which served people from very different cultures. He said that diversity is the key to understand the company’s name and values. “We discussed a concept which would present the web host as a company focused to serve different people, which belong to different societies and different business cultures. Within the first years we got not just U.S. customers, but many site owners from Spain, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Australia, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Argentina and many other countries. I believe that for some time we were even the #1 web host in Sri Lanka and probably in Peru”, said ALex and added “It was funny. For quite a while in 2004 we had around 5000 customers and 100 of them from Sri Lanka and 50 from Peru. So we became Host Color, a company that serves people from different cultures and nations. I know it is not a regular tech story, but it is true.

We were proud that we hosted many customers from countries that were very far from what people used to call “developed world” 10 years ago. Now is a little bit different. We have a very strong portfolio of customers in U.S., Canada, U.K., and Australia. But we still have many of our customers from old days with us. Some however switched to local companies, which didn’t existed 10 years ago. We are still international, but 75% of our customers are either Americans or Europeans.”, adds Host Color’s official. Read the whole interview in Web Hosting Magazine ( http://www.webhostmagazine.com/library/Interview-Host-Colors-Alexander-Avramov-Managing-Director.asp )