Buyer for a web hosting company in Europe

• Revenue: 1-5 million EUR
• Employees: Not a decisive factor
• Location of the target: Europe
• Reason for acquisition: The company is a large entity and is looking to grow even further by making acquisitions of other companies. The top management of the buyer is open to discussions with a seller from the web hosting sector
• #CFIE ITB048

The buyer is an international group that has operations worldwide with more than 400 employees globally. It is interested in growth in Europe, ideally in Bulgaria, Spain, and the UK. For this, the buyer has a strategy to acquire businesses with similar products and services as their group in order to gain new markets. The target company should have recorded revenues between 1-5 million euros, should have a stable portfolio of clients and should demonstrate real potential for growth. If the conditions are met, the buyer has the necessary means to sustain substantial growth and to offer a good deal to the sellers. The buyer is interested in learning more about cPanel/WHM based hosts in Europe.

The buyer is one of the leading web hosting providers in Europe, hosting many domains globally. It has created its own solutions by developing unique and revolutionary technologies in the areas of server security, uptime, and speed. The clients who prefer to work with this company find that all web hosting plans offered are specially constructed and focused to make their website safer, faster and very well supported. Whatever issue a website manager might come across, the company offers its 24/7 support to make things work. This support comes in the form of tickets, live chat, phone calls, set up wizards, tutorials and webinars.

The company uses the latest web hosting speed technologies which can be identified by faster hardware, new network architecture or an innovative software solution. To ensure faster hardware, solid-state drive technology is implemented, which is a perfect solution for any shared hosting plan that is applicable to files and databases. SSD drives are contained in all cloud plans. For a faster web server, the company uses NGINX web server technology which has outstanding results in increased load speed of the static content of websites. This technology is included as well in all shared and cloud plans and is available for consecrated servers because it increases the servers’ performance. NGINX technology is also used in some of the most used applications such as WordPress, Joomla, and Drupa where it speeds up the caching mechanism and allows optimization of the website’s speed. For a faster loading, free Cloudflare CDN speeds up the website load by choosing the closest data center to deliver the content. For a faster load in the browser, the company is relying on the newest network protocol, HTTP/2, which requires an encrypted connection and enables servers to speed up the website’s loading in the browser. PHP7 is also used for speeding up the PHP execution.

The company is looking to acquire a company that operates in the same activity and has similar services such as:

• Domain name registration
• Web hosting
• App hosting: Joomla, Magento, Drupal, and WooCommerce
• Cloud and reseller hosting
• Dedicated servers
• Enterprise hosting

• The buyer is a global web hosting company
• The company has decided to expand its activities in Europe and is looking to buy another company with similar activities and products
• Target companies should provide web hosting and should have a solid portfolio of clients