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Peer 1 Hosting provides Internet hosting services that include managed hosting, dedicated servers, colocation, and cloud computing.〔Webhostingjungle.com "(Peer 1 Dedicated Hosting Review )." Retrieved March 14, 2011.〕 The company is headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Canada and a wholly owned subsidiary of Cogeco Cable Inc.〔Peer 1 Hosting website. "(Investors )" Retrieved June 1, 2014.〕 The company serves more than 13,000 customers from 19 data centers located in Canada, the United States and England.〔John Rath, Data Center Knowledge. "(Roundup: CoreSite, Horizon, Peer 1, Akamai )." May 12, 2010. Retrieved March 14, 2011.〕 ==History== The company was founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1999 by Lance Tracey and Mark Teolis.〔Stephen Ibaraki, Technet.com. "(Fabio Banducci, President and CEO, Peer 1 Hosting shares his deep expertise )." December 22, 2010. Retrieved March 14, 2011.〕 From the beginning, the co-founders targeted small- and medium-sized business customers.〔 In 2004, the company acquired ServerBeach, a dedicated hosting provider located in San Antonio, Texas, for $US 7.5 million. ServerBeach had been started by Richard Yoo, who had served as the CEO of Peer 1 Hosting competitor Rackspace, who returned to RackSpace after the acquisition.〔San Antonio Express-News. "(title )." Retrieved on 7 January 2009.〕 ServerBeach was the host for video hosting company, YouTube, which as it expanded powered expansion of the data centre. After YouTube was acquired by Google, the operations were migrated to Google data centers.〔Canadian Reviewer. "(Peer 1 Hosting launches Largest Data Centre in Toronto )." January 28, 2010. Retrieved March 14, 2011.〕 In 2007, the company introduced an incubation program, that combined discounted hosting services with consulting assistants.〔Shane Schick, ITWorldCanada.com. "(Peer 1 Hosting promises cheaper, easier SaaS for ISVs )." November 28, 2007. Retrieved March 14, 2011.〕 In 2010, the company built a new energy-efficient and green data center located just outside Toronto 〔〔Kathleen Lau, Network World. "(Peer 1 unveils flagship data centre in Toronto )." February 16, 2010. Retrieved March 14, 2011.〕 which was followed by opening in November 4, 2011 of another green 58,000 sq. ft. data center located in Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK.〔(Peer 1 Hostings latest data centre opening ), BBC South, November 4, 2011〕〔(PEER 1 Hosting Launches New Data Center ), webhosting.info, October 18, 2011〕 To provide Internet users with a visual perspective into online traffic flows, the company developed a graphical "Map of the Internet" that depicts the layout of all the networks that connect to form the Internet.〔Matt Hartley, National Post. "(Ever wonder what the Internet looks like? )." March 7, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2011.〕〔〔Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM. "(Check out This Beautiful Map of the Internet )." March 1, 2011. Retrieved March 14, 2011.〕〔〔Tom Foremski, ZDNet IMHO Blog. "(The Internet looks like a golden flower... )." March 3, 2011. Retrieved March 14, 2011.〕〔 Much of the data was collected from the (Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA). ) The image shows a graph of 19,869 autonomous systems, joined by 44,344 connections.〔〔〔 In 2013, the company launched an interactive mobile app version.〔Paul Sawers, The Next Web. "()." March 8, 2013. Retrieved March 8, 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peer 1」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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