HostPapa completed the acquisition of Hostwinds on April 29, 2026. Hostwinds, founded in 2010 by Peter Holden and headquartered in Seattle, is a full-stack hosting provider offering shared hosting, cloud VPS, dedicated servers, and reseller and white-label hosting solutions. The company owns and operates its infrastructure across data centers in Seattle, Dallas, and Amsterdam, with 2N redundancy standards and a 99.9999% uptime commitment. Financial terms were not disclosed.
This is HostPapa’s second acquisition in twelve days. On April 17, the company acquired Tailor Made Servers, a Dallas-based unmanaged dedicated server provider that had been operating since 2003. That deal added a long-tenured customer base to HostPapa’s ColoCrossing brand. The Hostwinds acquisition is larger in scope: it adds owned infrastructure in two geographies HostPapa did not previously have, Pacific Northwest and Europe, alongside a developer and reseller customer segment that complements HostPapa’s SMB-focused core business.
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What Hostwinds Brings
Hostwinds has built its reputation on two things: infrastructure ownership and support quality. Unlike many hosting providers that rely on third-party colocation, Hostwinds controls its own infrastructure, building redundancy into every layer from routers to fiber paths. PC Magazine awarded it Editors’ Choice for Best Web Hosting across multiple years. The company has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list. Its customer base spans developers, SMBs, agencies, and resellers globally.
The Seattle data center gives HostPapa a Pacific Northwest presence it previously lacked. The Amsterdam data center adds to HostPapa’s European infrastructure footprint, relevant as European data sovereignty requirements continue to shape enterprise hosting decisions. The Dallas data center overlaps with ColoCrossing’s existing Dallas footprint but adds Hostwinds’ self-owned infrastructure layer to that market.
The cloud VPS and reseller product lines are also meaningful additions. HostPapa’s existing portfolio skews toward shared hosting through its core brand, white-label hosting through Hostopia, dedicated servers through ColoCrossing, and cloud commerce through CloudBlue. Hostwinds adds a developer-grade VPS and cloud server offering with customizable configurations that sits between the shared hosting tier and bare metal.
The Pace of Consolidation
HostPapa CEO Jamie Opalchuk described the Hostwinds acquisition as advancing “our ambition to be the most trusted hosting partner for SMBs, developers, and resellers globally.” That framing is deliberate. Each recent acquisition targets a specific gap: TMS added unmanaged dedicated server customers, Hostwinds adds owned infrastructure geography and developer/reseller depth.
The company has now completed 18 acquisitions since 2020 and serves more than 500,000 website owners across a global workforce spanning 37 countries. A $130 million credit facility secured in June 2025 provides the capital structure for continued deal flow. Two acquisitions in twelve days suggests HostPapa is running parallel deal processes rather than sequential ones, which indicates pipeline depth and organizational capacity to integrate at pace.
The pattern across the portfolio is worth noting. HostPapa operates distinct brands for distinct market segments: shared hosting, colocation and dedicated servers, white-label platform for telcos, cloud commerce for software vendors. Hostwinds fits the developer and reseller segment, which had not previously had a dedicated brand within the group. Whether Hostwinds retains its brand or is eventually folded under an existing HostPapa umbrella will determine how the company signals its intentions for that market.
Łukasz Nowak
Nearly two decades in IT. A decade in web hosting - and still in the trenches. Writing about the infrastructure that runs the internet from the inside.