In a rapidly evolving web hosting industry, a new player has emerged from a team of familiar faces. BuiltFast.com, is a hosting company founded by former A2 Hosting executives Paul Carter, Justin Mazzi, and Josh Priddle, industry veterans with decades of collaboration under their belts. BuiltFast enters the market with a clear mission: to deliver a high performance, customer first hosting experience.
BuiltFast arrives on the scene shortly after A2 Hosting’s acquisition by World Host Group (WHG) and its subsequent rebranding as Hosting.com. While the timing may appear telling, the BuiltFast founders have taken a forward looking approach, focusing on what they see as an opportunity to innovate and differentiate in a landscape increasingly dominated by large, investor-owned hosting conglomerates.
“We’re reimagining hosting with a team that’s collaborated for more than a decade,” said BuiltFast CEO Paul Carter. “Justin Mazzi, Josh Priddle, and I have built together for years; they’re exceptionally talented and creative. It was our shared vision of what hosting can be and what the customer experience should feel like that made founding BuiltFast together a natural next step. We believe being privately owned and founder-led will enable us to prioritize long-term customer value, deliver true customer support, and deploy new technologies that help our customers build their online success stories better than our competitors.”
Navigating the Current Hosting Landscape
The launch of BuiltFast underscores a growing diversity in the hosting world. On one end, large-scale providers like WHG, GoDaddy, and Newfold Digital continue to expand through acquisitions, offering infrastructure at scale but sometimes struggling with agility and individualized service. On the other end, a wave of smaller “boutique” hosting companies, like BuiltFast, Rocket, Convesio are carving out space by delivering tailored solutions, niche focus, and high-touch support experiences.
Market Research Future projects the global web hosting services market will grow from $35.44 billion in 2025 to $70 billion by 2035, reflecting a 6.39% CAGR over the decade. This growth is fueled by increased cloud adoption, the rapid rise of e-commerce, the creator economy, digital transformation across industries, and the integration of AI and automation into hosting infrastructure.
At the same time, customer expectations around uptime, page load speed, and support responsiveness continue to climb. As the e-commerce and AI integration boom reshapes what it means to be “online.”
Built for Today, BuiltFast for Tomorrow
What sets BuiltFast apart is its deep technical foundation and its bet on performance focused infrastructure. BuiltFast comes from an engineering culture that prizes raw uptime and low-latency connections. Out of the gate, the platform serves developers who want greater control, security, and predictable performance. BuiltFast is positioning itself to bridge the gap between traditional power users and modern developers who want DevOps flexibility without sacrificing support.
A Return to Hosting Roots?
BuiltFast’s founding also represents a broader return to the foundational values of the early hosting world: trust, technical excellence, and personal support. BuiltFast’s promise of direct access to technical expertise and a founder-led product vision may resonate with developers, agencies, and startups seeking a more personalized hosting experience.
In the words of Carter, “We’re not building a commodity hosting company. We’re building a platform that helps customers scale with us, and trust us, with their online business.”
With a team that helped shape one of the fastest hosting platforms in the industry now at the helm of a new venture, BuiltFast.com is one to watch in 2025. Whether it’s a quiet revolution or the start of a significant shift, the move signals that the hosting space still has room for innovation, especially when passion and performance lead the way.