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Hostway and Hosting.com to merge

Two hosting firms are merging.

Austin-based Hostway and Denver-based Hosting.com are tying the knot, the firms disclosed.

Emil Sayegh, who right now heads Hostway, will be the firm’s CEO and president.

The two firms combine to have 14 data centers in five countries across three continents. They have regarding 1,000 employees.

Hostway is primarily a Windows Azure shop. Hosting.com, which actually goes by the generic name Hosting, focuses on AWS. They manage services on these public clouds as well as provide their own hosting infrastructure.

Both firms were founded in the late 1990s at a time when the hosting business was dramatically different than today.

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