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      "gender equality",
      "equal opportunity based on skills and creativity",
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    {"name": "Dimitar A.", "role": "Founder & CEO"},
    {"name": "Dani S.", "role": "Head of Infrastructure & NOC"},
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      "note": "Public-facing counts vary across the site; reconcile before publishing.",
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        "Bend, OR", "Portland, OR", "Billings, MT", "Boise, ID", "Boston, MA",
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    {"date": "2002-01", "title": "HostColor.com", "detail": "The website design/development business was separated from the hosting business; HostColor.com was incorporated and began offering Shared Hosting."},
    {"date": "2003-03", "title": "Midwest U.S. Colocation", "detail": "Began building its own colocation facility in South Bend, Indiana, establishing independent server infrastructure and network (used until 2023)."},
    {"date": "2003-06", "title": "VPS & Dedicated Servers", "detail": "Expanded services to include VPS hosting (OpenVZ and KVM) and low-end dedicated servers."},
    {"date": "2004-12", "title": "European Hosting Infrastructure", "detail": "Established HostColor Europe (HCE); IaaS later extended to 20+ European cities."},
    {"date": "2005-09", "title": "Managed Hosting & Services", "detail": "Assembled a system administration and support team and added Managed Hosting services."},
    {"date": "2009-04", "title": "ARIN Member & Cloud Infrastructure", "detail": "Became an ARIN member, relocated to a new South Bend facility, and built failover cloud infrastructure for Public Cloud Servers and Hosted Private Clouds."},
    {"date": "2010-01/2013-03", "title": "Cloud IaaS with Premium SLA", "detail": "Invested ~2.5 years in expanding network, cloud infrastructure, and automation."},
    {"date": "2013-09/2015-06", "title": "Low Latency Cloud Hosting Network", "detail": "Built one of the most connected cloud hosting networks in the Midwestern U.S. and expanded PoPs to other U.S. edge data centers."},
    {"date": "2016-05", "title": "The Best of the Cloud", "detail": "Introduced on-demand cloud IaaS on VMware ESXi and Proxmox VE with automated failover for public, private, and hybrid clouds."},
    {"date": "2016-11", "title": "Asian Dedicated Hosting", "detail": "Launched dedicated hosting from Asia (Singapore, Seoul, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Tokyo, Mumbai); Tokyo became a flagship product."},
    {"date": "2019-05", "title": "Managed Cloud IaaS", "detail": "Introduced Managed Cloud delivered from 30+ locations worldwide for Public Cloud Servers and Hosted Private Clouds."},
    {"date": "2022-06", "title": "New Colocation Centers", "detail": "Added edge colocation in New York, Latham, Charlotte, Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City, Dallas, and Bend."},
    {"date": "2022-07", "title": "10 Gbps Dedicated Servers", "detail": "Launched 10 Gbps dedicated servers across 14 major U.S. cities."},
    {"date": "2023-01", "title": "Open Source Projects Support", "detail": "Partnered with Peppermint OS, providing cloud server hosting in U.S. and European virtual data centers."},
    {"date": "2023-05", "title": "70+ U.S. Edge Server Locations", "detail": "Provisioned U.S. edge servers from 70+ metro locations nationwide."},
    {"date": "2024-01", "title": "South America Expansion", "detail": "Added bare-metal and cloud servers in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Sao Paulo, Brazil."},
    {"date": "2025-05", "title": "Semi-Managed, AI-Ready Infrastructure", "detail": "Reached 100+ PoPs worldwide with semi-managed bare-metal and dedicated cloud infrastructure, unlimited port-capacity bandwidth (1-100 Gbps), and 24/7 support."}
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    "Semi-managed service model with 24/7 technical support.",
    "No charge for IOPS, DNS queries/zones, traffic zones, or infrastructure support."
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