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SoftLayer made the cloud a place you could touch
Enterprise · Developer Tools · Hardware

SoftLayer made the cloud a place you could touch

The Dallas company put dedicated servers on a self-service menu. IBM paid $2 billion for the business, but the more useful story is how SoftLayer made physical hardware behave like software.

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The Hosting Company That Refuses to Put a Robot Between You and a Human
Saas · Enterprise · Developer Tools

The Hosting Company That Refuses to Put a Robot Between You and a Human

A bootstrapped host from Chicago spent 13 years betting that real humans and owned hardware beat cheap resellers and chatbots. In 2023 private equity agreed - to the tune of roughly $19 million.

managed-wordpress-hosting · web-hostingRead →