StackPath
StackPath, LLC is an American content delivery network (CDN), cloud service and web application firewall (WAF, security as a service in association with Comodo Group [1]) provider with headquarters in Dallas, Texas in the United States .[2][3] The company was founded in 2015 by Lance Crosby (former founder and CEO of SoftLayer). The company showed exceptional growth in 2016 and 2017, and has acquired and integrated services like Highwinds Network Group (CDN), MaxCDN (a developer CDN), Server Density (for infrastructure monitoring)[4], Staminus (providing DDoS mitigation), Fireblade (both cloud security and traffic management), Encrypt.me (a secure VPN provider, formerly Cloak),[5] and IPVanish (an anonymous VPN service). Demand for these services soon created a large CDN network hosting everything from popular web developer resources (like BootstrapCDN) to large gaming networks (like Steam), and video streaming (like FlowPlayer). In 2019, StackPath sold its virtual private network services — including IPVanish and Encrypt.me — to J2 Global. [6]
private company | |
Industry | Internet |
Founded | 2015 |
Founders | Lance Crosby (Chairman & CEO), Jason Gulledge, Ryan Carter |
Headquarters | Dallas, Texas, 75201 USA |
Products | Content Delivery Network |
Revenue | |
Number of employees | 275 (2017) |
Website | stackpath |
As of 2018 the CDN [7] consists of 45 full scale network data centers with 40 Tbit/s capacity, covering North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Founders and ownership
StackPath was founded May 5, 2015 by:
- Lance Crosby, CEO & Chairman
- Greg Bock, Steven Canale, Ryan Carter, Paul Drew, Kenji Fukasawa, Jason Gulledge, Andrew Higginbottom, James Leaverton, Andrew Maten, Dawn Mumm, Nick Nelson, and Josh Reese.
References
- "Comodo and StackPath Join Forces to Secure the Future of the Web". Comodo. 2017-09-13. Retrieved 2018-07-11.
- "About StackPath". Retrieved 2018-07-11.
- "StackPath company info". CrunchBase. Retrieved 2018-07-11.
- "StackPath and Server Density Merge". GlobeNewsWire. 2018-05-14. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
- "StackPath Acquires MaxCDN, Fireblade, Staminus & Cloak". GlobalDots. 2016-08-02. Retrieved 2018-07-11.
- VPN, Desire Athow 2019-05-07T15:08:22Z. "IGN owner J2 Global snaps up major VPN brands". TechRadar. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
- "StackPath CDN data". CDNPlanet. Retrieved 2018-07-11.