Who we are

The foundation of the Hostworks business has been built on and for the online and digital media sector. From our very first customer, MSN (now ninemsn) through to our current position as one of the market leaders within our industry, the culture of our business (Hostworks DNA) is all about delivering to the rapidly changing demands of the media sector.

Hostworks is the only managed services company in Australia that can genuinely claim this position. It has and continues to deliver business critical services to all the major online and digital media market leaders such as: ninemsn, Network TEN, ABC, Prime, Ticketek, Carsales, Seek, realestate.com.au, Wotif and many more.

Hostworks has fine-tuned its services, procedures and processes over time to specifically meet the needs of the media sector. From the very beginning, Hostworks has understood the critical role it plays in ensuring the success of our media customers. Our focus has not been restricted to just highly available infrastructure and management, but also on network reach and redundancy which ensures a quality of service through to the end user.

Hostworks has always and continues to invest heavily into new technology and services to ensure our customers have a the greatest capability to meet their business demands and expectations. These include: content distribution, elastic computing, application performance monitoring and automation. We also appreciate the fast-paced environment that is our industry, therefore we continue to monitor progress to ensure we continue to have the best content distribution services available to market.

Hostworks History

Hostworks Limited began in Adelaide as a public company in 1999 to take on the hosting and management of MSN (the Microsoft Network) for Australia forming the fourth such facility globally. Growing rapidly from here, the company listed on the ASX in February 2001 through a merger with its largest shareholder to form Hostworks Group Limited.

Later in 2001, Hostworks acquired Interpath Australia which broadened its skill base outside of the Microsoft platform and added a range of high profile customers. In 2005 a second acquisition, that of Dimension Data Central, lead to the company cementing its presence within the Sydney marketplace.

The company has since grown to encompass over 70 customers and over 200 applications including many of the largest and most complex online applications in Australia.

In December 2007 Hostworks announced that it would be acquired by Broadcast Australia which was successfully concluded in March 2008.