SWsoft Acquires Two Hosting Software Vendors

The acquisitions add Plesk Server Administrator (PSA) control panel and Confixx Professional hosting software to SWsoft's HSP Complete.

SWsoft's HSP Complete solution gives hosting providers the ability to manage thousands of customer accounts from one central console, the company said.

Terms of the deals were not disclosed.

With the acquisitions, SWsoft now has more than 30,000 servers deployed to support 3 million customers using the combined companies software to manage corporate web sites, e-mail servers and file servers, the company said.

The technology behind HSP Complete is dubbed Virtuozzo, which SWsoft developed itself. HSP Complete includes an administrative control panel for the hosting service provider, a reseller control panel for hosting service provider partners, and customer control panels that allow the customer to perform simple tasks such as Web site updates or make changes to components within the environment.