April 18, 2006 — Shared Web hosting provider PowWeb announced on Monday that it had been acquired by The Endurance International Group (enduranceinternational.com), which owns several other Web hosting firms, including BizLand and FatCow.

Financial details of the sale were not disclosed, but the companies say Endurance will maintain the PowWeb brand, as well as its popular online forums.”We’re very excited to work with an online community as dynamic and engaging as PowWeb’s,” says Steve Sydness, CEO of Endurance. “Listening and responding to customer feedback is a hallmark of Endurance. The PowWeb forums will provide a great vehicle for staying close to our customers.”

PowWeb CEO Andrew Te says the company is about to begin the process of migrating customer Web sites and email to a new hosting platform that employs the company’s proprietary load-balanced hosting technology. He says the new platform will support all its customer sites from a single massively shared hosting pool, which will provide greater redundancy.

“While its ownership has changed, PowWeb’s commitment to providing high-quality, rock-solid hosting solutions is stronger than ever,” says Te.

Data center operator and managed service provider Peak 10 (peak10.com) announced on Thursday that it had completed a successful review of its emergency management plan. It also updated its Web site to provide businesses with information on its disaster recovery solutions.  

Peak 10 says its review was designed to ensure that the company can provide customers with a secure facility and redundant infrastructure, along with weather and disaster recovery information before, during and after a hurricane or other natural disaster.

According to Peak 10, every type of organization should have a disaster recovery plan in place, whether to protect its data from hurricanes, cyber attacks or human error.

“With the increased number of hurricanes in the past two years, more organizations are realizing the importance of being prepared,” says Jeff Biggs, vice president of operations and engineering for Peak 10. “We take our responsibility as a DR partner seriously and have tested our emergency plan in all data centers to ensure Peak 10 can maintain the security and availability of our customers’ technology infrastructure, data and applications in the event of a disaster.”