Recently receive an email from midPhase said that it has been acquired by UK2.Net. midPhase has been in industry for around 5 years, and grown into one of the most repected web hosting service provider in US and it’s service cover the shared web hosting solution to dedicated web hosting solution.

UK-2 Group has been a major player in the British and European hosting industry since the late nineties, and provides domain name registration and web hosting services to many customers through a family of hosting brands. The group operates its services out of several state of the art, multi million pound data centers and are committed to providing reliable, secure and great value products and services underpinned with excellent support.  UK-2 Group recently expanded into the American hosting market after acquiring clients from US host Stargate.  The acquisition of midPhase further contributes to these international expansion plans and is an exciting and important step for all at UK2.

Web hosting is a very hot business around the world, especially when owning a web site has become very common thing for individual, family or small business. And the potential market keeps on growing in the past many years to around $40B in 2007. This is a great news for all the people working in this industry. And I believe next year will be another exciting year for us all.

By acquiring the midPhase, UK2 successfully enter the market of US, and what’s important is that it will know how to control the cost of web hosting service considering the web hosting price in UK is much higher that what in US. If it can provide the same price as what midPhase provides in US to its UK customers, then it will be another dominate in UK very soon, let’s see how it will go in the next year.

And finally, congraduate to both midPhase and UK2.Net.