HUERTH, Germany, January 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The piece of news regarding the sale of Basic Thinking - the most well-known blog in the German-speaking countries, which has been run by Robert Basic - had caused quite a stir in the media recently. Speculations were running wild afterwards about who would acquire the blog in the online auction and what its future form would be. Now, the mystery is solved: serverloft, a supplier of professional Root Servers with headquarters near Cologne, Germany, is the winner of the auction.
Basic Thinking is the most linked weblog on German blog charts. Former editor Basic has written more than 12,000 articles, and over 100,000 comments have been left by his visitors. In December 2008, the blog had 185,000 unique visitors and 254,000 page impressions. Basic Thinking has always been far more than just a personal log on the internet. It has been an opinion and information source for a large number of readers. The blog was even called an Alpha Blog in German media.
Thomas Strohe (29), founder of serverloft, and his colleagues have been enthusiastic readers of Robert Basic's blog themselves for a long time. Since they became acquainted with the fact that the blog should be sold, Strohe got into contact with Robert Basic and had long discussions with him about the blog's future. We want to continue with Basic Thinking in the way that Robert used to run it, says Strohe. When we heard about the auction, we considered it a real pity that this versatile blog with focus on web and technology topics should not be kept alive as before. In order to avoid a commercial stripping as well as a loss of content quality, we finally decided to acquire the blog ourselves, and to maintain it for the technical community.
For a transition period of several months, Robert Basic will be working together closely with serverloft to secure a smooth transfer of the blog's maintenance to the new staff of editors. Topics like trends on the net, blogging, social networks, web start-ups etc. will now remain the blog's main focus in the future, while keeping up its wide-ranging theme spectrum. Moreover, the blog's role as one of the best and most famous in German-speaking countries shall be strengthened.
The people behind serverloft are a young and committed team, and have been amongst the pioneers in the area of dedicated hosting in Germany for more than ten years now. Today, serverloft is one of the leading companies in the hosting business worldwide. All serverloft offers address to professional users, who manage their server by themselves with full root access. serverloft customers get brand hardware with all offers, as well as a fast and stable connection, free support, and replacement of defective hardware 24/7 within four hours. The least-priced Root Server is available at serverloft for only 79 EUR per month, with monthly payment and without minimum contract term.
Pressekontakt: If you have any questions regarding this press release, please contact: Thomas Strohe, CEO serverloft Mobile: +49-173-70-81-919 E-mail: t.strohe@serverloft.de
Pressekontakt: If you have any questions regarding this press release, please contact: Thomas Strohe, CEO serverloft Mobile: +49-173-70-81-919, E-mail: t.strohe@serverloft.de
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