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midPhase Relaunches Company, Site (July 16, 2008) - Shared hosting provider midPhase (midphase.com) announced on Wednesday it has officially relaunched following its acquisition in December 2007 by UK2 Group (uk2group.com) .


The company has relaunched with a new vision, website and solution that represents the mandate that "technological expertise should not be a barrier to having an online presence midPhase provides the tools and solutions to provide everyone with a professional website."

In December 2007, UK-2 Group acquired midPhase Services' shared and virtual private server businesses, which includes the midPhase.com, ANHosting.com and Autica.com brands. The new site reflects this philosophy with a suite of packages that includes $6.95 hosting and DesignPhase, an exclusive new solution that provides a customer with no design experience to launch a professional website and have it customized, starting from $59 a month.

The new website represents the first major revision, redesign and upgrade since midPhase was acquired.  "Our new website reflects our philosophy: the widest array of easy to access, understand and use services for online customers of any level of technological competency," says Marc Bollinger, GM of midPhase. "We don't want anyone intimidated by the Internet. We want to make the process of having an online presence as painless as possible and give our customers a professional site, even if they're afraid of using a mouse. A customer can literally send us text, pick out a design from the catalogue of over 10,000, and have a professionally designed website up in less than two days." DesignPhase provides customers with access to over 10,000 designs including Wordpress, Joomla and phpBB designs. Designs can be changed every year while customers can access 30 minutes of content additions and updates every month.

There is no setup fee and the $59 a month fee includes access to professional design teams. The hosting package also includes 750GB of storage, 10TB data transfer, 99 MySQL databases and nightly backups.

midPhase, which currently hosts over 120,000 sites, provides a range of hosting services including budget, shared and advanced to customers ranging from small business to individuals.

UK2 acquires midPhase (January 3, 2008) - CHICAGO AND LONDON, 21st December 2007

UK2 Continues Expansion by Acquiring Shared Hosting Assets from midPhase Services Inc.

Leading web hosting organization UK-2 Group, Ltd. (www.uk2group.com), announced today that it has completed the acquisition of US hosting provider midPhase Services Inc.'s Shared and Virtual Private Server businesses. This acquisition continues the expansion plans of UK-2 Group and closely follows the recent acquisition of clients from US host Stargate.

"We are extremely happy to announce our acquisition of midPhase" commented UK-2 Group CEO Ditlev Bredahl. "It is the next step towards achieving our ambitious growth strategy and the continued international expansion of UK-2 Group. This acquisition now makes UK-2 Group one of the largest international hosting companies, which will allow us to have a hugely positive impact on the marketplace."

UK-2 Group has been a significant player in the British and European hosting markets for many years, and recently underwent a large restructure, making important organizational changes in readiness for customer growth plans and challenging the bigger hosting brands. UK-2 is one of the largest domain registrars in the UK having registered over 1 million domain names.

"Zak and I are both very happy to announce the handover of our shared and VPS customers to UK-2. We're very happy to have been able to reach a deal which results in minimal disruption to our customers," said Dan Ushman, Co-founder and President of midPhase Services, Inc.

UK-2 Group intends to continue operation of midPhase's various brands, including: midPhase.com, ANHosting.com and Autica.com, due to its successful approach and market leadership to date. UK2 will not integrate midPhase into any existing UK-2 Group brand. This means there will be no impact on existing midPhase customers in terms of products, services, prices and support. UK-2 does not plan to migrate servers and has chosen to collocate the existing midPhase servers with SingleHop, Inc., a company owned and operated by Zak Boca and Dan Ushman.

About UK2
UK-2 Group, a major player in the British hosting industry since the late nineties, provides domain name registration and web hosting services to many customers through its family of hosting brands - UK2.net, US2.net and Resell.biz. 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. UK2-Group is also a major shareholder in the merged Redbus Interhouse and Telecity Group, the leading European data centre provider.
About midPhase Services, Inc.

midPhase Services, Inc. is a privately held web hosting and Internet services company founded in 2003 and based out of Chicago. midPhase provides budget, shared, advanced and other types of web hosting services to a wide range of clients ranging from small business to individuals. By providing a robust technological base and reasonable pricing, midPhase is able to offer customers an unbeatable value. midPhase is able to distinguish itself from countless other providers by offering an incredible value to our customers. This combination of advanced products and affordability has helped midPhase retain a record-breaking growth pattern, faster than the industry average every month since inception. Unlike most web-hosting providers, midPhase owns all of the hardware it uses. midPhase does not rent or lease servers.

Web Host UK-2 Acquires midPhase (December 21, 2007) - UK Web hosting provider UK-2 Group (uk2group.com) announced on Friday it has acquired US Web hosting provider midPhase Services' (midphase.com) shared and virtual private server businesses. This acquisition continues the expansion plans of UK-2 Group and closely follows the recent acquisition of clients from Web host Stargate.


"We are extremely happy to announce our acquisition of midPhase," says UK-2 Group CEO Ditlev Bredahl. "It is the next step towards achieving our ambitious growth strategy and the continued international expansion of UK-2 Group. This acquisition now makes UK-2 Group one of the largest international hosting companies, which will allow us to have a hugely positive impact on the marketplace."

UK-2 Group says it plans to continue operation of midPhase's brands, which includes midPhase.com, ANHosting.com and Autica.com, because of its ongoing successful approach and market leadership.

The company also says it will not integrate midPhase into any existing UK-2 Group brand, which means that midPhase customers will not be affected by the acquisition in terms of products, services, prices and support. UK-2 does not plan to migrate servers and has chosen to colocate the existing midPhase servers with SingleHop.

The company announced yesterday it is offering multiple Christmas promotions, including three free domain names when customers sign up for an annual contract of its Plus Web hosting plan.