Hostpoint's turnover jumps

Hostpoint ends 2015 on a high note. With an increase of 24 percent to CHF 14.5 million, turnover exceeded the previous year's (CHF 11.7 million) by CHF 2.8 million.

2015 was the year of domain names and FreeSSL
This past year saw the closing of Switch's end customer business which caused several hundred thousand .ch domain address to find a new home. As the only ICANN-accredited web hosting provider in Switzerland and an official registrar of .swiss domains, Hostpoint played a key role in the launch of the new domain ending .swiss.

The FreeSSL initiative launched by Hostpoint in September also made the company based in Rapperswil an internet pioneer in Switzerland. Hostpoint is the first Swiss web hosting provider to offer its customers free SSL data traffic encryption. Just two months after the launch of FreeSSL, the number of encrypted websites in Switzerland increased by more than 30 percent. Let’s Encrypt was launched later as the next provider to pursue this same goal of making the internet more secure – something that's very much in the spirit of the FreeSSL initiative. For this reason, Hostpoint has made a substantial contribution to sponsoring this non-profit certification authority.

Fully committed to Switzerland
Hostpoint is fully based in Switzerland, storing its customers' data exclusively on servers located in Switzerland. The company also provides all of its support, development and administration services from Switzerland with 51 full-time employees (10 more than the previous year) at its offices in Rapperswil-Jona.


Contact: Thomas Brühwiler, Tel: 055 220 63 28, Email: thomas.bruehwiler@hostpoint.ch

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