Shared Hosting to Move to Hostopia
Category: Aplus.Net
Aplus.net recently agreed to the purchase of its shared hosting business by Hostopia, a leading provider of Web services for small and medium-sized businesses. Hostopia, a unit of Deluxe Corporation, will also provide service and support for all customers with hosted e-commerce stores, managed e-mail services, domains and a variety of Web site management applications. The Aplus.net/Deluxe transaction is expected to close by the end of July.
“Within weeks of closing, Aplus.net’s shared hosting customers will see a service upgrade offering numerous new and enhanced web services including: mobile messaging, logo design, social networking for business, ecommerce, website design, email marketing, and other promotional materials that help small businesses get and keep customers,” said Colin Campbell, president of Hostopia.
Read the full press release here.
This is good
Why did you sell your shared hosting business?
What does this mean for the Aplus shared hosting customers?
This means good things for Aplus.net customers. Hostopia offers a robust and powerful platform that will provide enhancements for current customers. In addition, there will be new tools and services in the coming months.
After 7 years with aplus this ‘upgrade’ has become a horror. We spent about 20 hours on the phone in the weeks leading up to the upgrade attempting to make sure that our business would not be affected, only to find out that the new host managed to mix up our websites, which ran under completely different accounts and were unable to fix it prior to the transition. Now that the transition is finished our shopping cart has stopped working and the best we can get is vague assurances that somebody will look at the problem within 48 or 24 hours, depending on whom we’re talking to. This has completely crashed our business which is our sole means of support and I have no confidence that the new hosting company can or will fix it. Needless to say I’m very unhappy.
Joe Lynn