In a jaw dropping move that has left techie afficionados and industry watchers in awe, Nigeria based web-hosting firm GigaLayer went public with news of its merger with Russian web-hosting company HUB8 aimed to build one of Africa biggest and most expansive web-hosting company. Sources at GigaLayer say that talks for the merger has been on for some time but both parties were not able to agree on some of the fine details of the transaction until now. HUB8 which is a subsidiary of a Czech Republic-based, Russian-owned web hosting company that is Africa-focused has been working on extending its tentacles into the very heart of Africa to build a worthy clientele base and with GigaLayers huge presence, that dream became a reality which helped smoothen the edges of the merger.
With this merger, all operations of HUB8 will now be moved to GigaLayer, giving it full control of the new entity. What this means according to insiders who are in the know of the full details of the agreement is that all existing domain names and hosting services with HUB8, and also new orders for HUB8 will be delivered by GigaLayer going forward.
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GigaLayer sources say that the company is in sync with the structural makeup of HUB8 because both firms share similar outlook and aspirations and also focused on same market. HUB8 will be bringing to the table its vast experience in WordPress engine hosting, Site Builder, country-specific domains, and a number of others which GigaLayer is looking to build itself thus making this a beautiful marriage of expectations, moreso, the merger will help the company to adopt a far more cost effective strategy on inevitably building those products.
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GigaLayer has a virtual presence in 13 African countries including Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Ghana, which HUB8 also served. Mukoshy also boasts of finally having access to Sudan, which according to him is a fully sanctioned country. While Mukoshy is not ruling out possibilities of a physical presence in those countries in the near future, he says they will continue to deliver services remotely.
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Formerly known as Aimtech HostingCo, GigaLayer was founded in 2014 by Ahmad Mukoshy as a pan-African domain name and service provider. Prior to this merger with HUB8, it acquired three local hosting companies along its way. With this development, GigaLayer will add to its present wide-reaching hosting network, worldwide. With servers in regions like Helsinki, Florida, Falkenstein, Cape Town, and Lagos, the Nigerian web hosting company is able to deploy service infrastructure in close proximity to the customer base.
Kelechi Deca
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