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History

Peer 1 Network Enterprises was founded in 1996 in Vancover, British Columbia, and funded in 2003. In 2004, Peer 1 acquired ServerBeach for about US$7.5 million. ServerBeach was based in

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, founded in January 2003 by

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co-founder

Richard Yoo Richard Yoo is an American entrepreneur, the co-founder and former CEO of the web hosting company Rackspace, and the founder and former CEO of web hosting company ServerBeach. Richard Yoo was born in Houston, Texas. Life Born in Houston, Texas ...

. ServerBeach had hosted video site

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until December 2007. In 2005, Peer 1 acquired Interland, Inc. assets in the USA for about US$14 million, and an investment of US$ 36 million, led by Celerity Partners, of

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. By 2010 Peer 1 was doing business as Peer 1 Hosting, listed as a public company on the Toronto Stock Exchange with symbol PIX, reporting yearly revenues of about CDN$98 million. In 2012, Peer 1 acquired UK hosting provider NetBenefit for 25 million pounds, from Group NBT Limited.

Cogeco Cable Cogeco Inc. is a Canadian telecommunications and media company. Its corporate offices are located at 1 Place Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec. The company is structured into three strategic business units (SBU); Cogeco Connexion, Breezeline ( ...

purchased Peer 1 Hosting in December, 2012. It formed Cogeco Peer 1 specializing in managed hosting, dedicated servers, cloud services and colocation. On February 27, 2019, Cogeco agreed to sell Cogeco Peer 1 Inc. to the investment firm Digital Colony. The deal closed on May 1, 2019. In August, 2019, Cogeco Peer 1 changed its name to Aptum Technologies. Susan Bowen was chief executive at the time. The Canadian co-location business was sold to eStruxture in May, 2021. In June, 2021, the parent of Digital Colony,

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, based in Boca Raton, Florida, announced it would rebrand itself to be called DigitalBridge.

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External links

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