LANSING ? Matthew Hill, CEO and Founder of Liquid Web, has been named to the “10 Over the next 10” ? one of the top Lansing area young professionals who, over the next 10 years, will contribute significantly to the Lansing community and become one of tomorrow’s leaders.
The award is given by the Lansing Regional Chamber, The Greater Lansing Business Monthly and the Grand River Connection.
Hill founded Liquid Web in 1997, it was his third venture at 16. In 2000 Matthew opened Liquid Web’s first Lansing based office on Aurelius Road after experiencing increased customer demand for managed hosting products. Shortly afterwards, Hill moved Liquid Web’s servers from a collocation facility in Scranton, PA to the first Creyts road facility and established the first Liquid Web data center, DC1.
DC1 was an important milestone in the growth of Liquid Web and allowed Liquid Web to enter into a wider foray of technology offerings and with facility control in hand the improved quality fueled organic sales and quite rapidly DC1 was filled. The rapid growth necessitated the engineering and creation of a second facility called DC2.
DC2 is a 32,000 square foot data center that is home to 8,000 additional client servers housing more than three quarters of a million web sites and more than 150 full time high tech employees. As of September 2008, DC2 is filled to 80% capacity. DC2 is expected to be filled by February of 2009.
In 2008 Hill began construction on Liquid Web’s newest 90,000 square foot data center in Lansing on Ena drive. This new data center will be home to the next 600 high tech liquid web engineers and more than 25,000 client servers.
Hill and Liquid Web were honored in 2007 and 2008 as one of INC Magazines 5,000 fastest growing companies in the country.
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