Maine Hosting Solutions (www.mainehost.com) a relatively small hosting provider based, appropriately, in Bath, Maine, announced this week an agreement, the division would acquire hosting local telecommunications provider Great Works Internet (www . Gwi. net).
According to a report on local business news website Mainebiz, Maine Hosting Solutions will take over hosting duties for the customers from Tuesday at noon. The story describes the number of customers as “600-1200″ but offers no specific reason for the range of unknown number.
Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
Maine Hosting Solutions was already providing to the final phase of the GWI hosting solutions are offered to new customers, so they came to acquire the business from existing customers as a kind of logical extension of the relationship.
“We were in a strategic partner with GWI, and all business customers were being hosted on our network, so it just became a better fit for existing customers,” Maine Hosting Solutions Mainebiz President Daniel Eosco said.
Customer data center also moved GWI data to new servers in Maine Hosting Solutions’ data center in Brunswick, Maine. GWI website describes the company’s products, including placement, which can not be included on customers who moved to Maine Hosting Solutions.
According Mainebiz, customers who moved from GWI will have access to Maine Hosting Solutions wider range of service offerings, which include marketing tools e-commerce and e-mail and content management, blogs and software web site creation.
Maine Hosting Solutions was founded in the mid-nineties, associated with the creation of a collection of online guides related to various local services in Maine, as MaineGuides (www.maineguides.com) MaineRestaurants (www.mainerestaurants.com) and Maine-Webcams (www.main-webcams.com).
