Celebrating 25 Years of Helping Businesses Grow Online

A Quarter Century of Business Dotted with Technology Advancements and Industry-Leading Support 

ATLANTA, GA – August 29, 2022 – Liquid Web, the market leader in cloud hosting and software solutions for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), celebrates 25 years of helping businesses grow online.

Over the past quarter century, Liquid Web has grown right into a Family of Brands delivering technology, services, and support for thriving businesses and nonprofits running mission-critical web sites, eCommerce stores, and applications. Liquid Web (High Performance Managed Hosting), Nexcess (Digital Commerce Cloud), StellarWP (WordPress Software and Tools), and Modern Tribe (Enterprise WordPress Agency) have greater than 500,000+ sites under management and support over 175,000 software subscribers and a couple of.5 Million+ free version software users. 

The corporate was founded in 1997 by Matthew Hill, who passed away unexpectedly on July 13, 2022. He was in highschool when he founded Liquid Web in Holt, Michigan. For 18 years, before he sold in 2015, with the assistance of his family and friends, he built the muse for what the corporate is today.  

In 2015, Madison Dearborn and the management team (Jim Geiger (CEO), Joe Oesterling (CTO), and Carrie Wheeler (COO)) invested in Liquid Web. The brand new leadership team set a vision to construct a platform to enable small businesses – and the creators who construct sites and stores for them – to earn cash online. The strategy was developed to innovate services that address market trends toward simplification and deliver one of the best experience in hosting – to develop into the Most Helpful Humans in Hosting®.

“All of our efforts and techniques are focused on helping small businesses earn cash online,” said Jim Geiger, CEO. “We’ve coined the phrase “Web-Dependent SMBs” because, for our customers, their online presence is their business. They usually are not “setting and forgetting” their website; it’s not brochureware, it’s not a hobby. Our platform(s) power their online commerce and subsequently, their livelihood”, said Geiger.

Within the last 7 years, Liquid Web invested heavily in product development, sales, and marketing and expanded platform and support capabilities by adding Managed WordPress (2016); Premium Business Email (2017); the industry’s first Managed WooCommerce Hosting (2018); Protection and Remediation Services (2018); VMware Private Cloud (2019); CloudFlare (2019); Acronis Cyber Backups (2020); Managed Cloud Servers (2020); VMware Private Cloud Multi-Tenant (2020); and Threat Stack (2021).

The corporate has honed a strategic focus around open source software and platforms and the flexibleness and ownership those provide for online site and store owners. Because the shoppers they attract are largely throughout the WordPress ecosystem – the world’s most dominant content and commerce management system powering over 43% of all online properties on the Web today – the corporate has a commitment to fostering ongoing innovation with latest features, curated solutions, and tools to assist customers realize the ability that open source provides. In 2021, the corporate launched the primary SaaS-like customer experience for purchasing, constructing, and managing a web based store with a product called StoreBuilder, and in 2022, launched LearnDash Cloud. These products integrate hosting and curate quite a lot of the corporate’s owned software solutions to innovate online commerce solutions on WordPress.

“We proceed to imagine that we will lead in providing simplified, highly performant, secure, curated solutions to speed up SMBs and creators getting, staying, and growing online. Our North Star, our strategic vision, is to proceed to simplify online commerce – in all its forms – for brand spanking new and existing online merchants by leveraging open source solutions riding on our infrastructure, our software assets, our industry expertise, and our world-class technical support,” said Geiger. “We have fun this anniversary with great pride and appreciation for our customers who trust us with their business and our employees, the Most Helpful Humans in Hosting® who make us stand out as an industry leader. As we sit up for our future, we understand the responsibility we’ve to the companies we support and can proceed to deal with our purpose of helping SMBs and their creators earn cash online.”

Constructing on 25 years of success, our Liquid Web Family of Brands delivers software, solutions, and managed services for mission-critical sites, stores, and applications to SMBs and the designers, developers, and agencies who create for them. Liquid Web (Managed Hosting), Nexcess (Digital Commerce Cloud), and StellarWP (WordPress Software and Tools) have greater than 500,000+ sites under management, over 175,000 software subscribers, and a couple of million+ free version software users. Collectively, the businesses have assembled a world-class team of industry experts, provide unparalleled service from solution engineers available 24/7/365, and own and manage ten global data centers. As an industry leader in customer support, the rapidly expanding brand family has been recognized amongst INC. Magazine’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Corporations for 12 years. Learn more in regards to the Liquid Web Family of Brands.