News & events

Selligent finds a strategic hosting partner in Combell

Selligent is a fast growing specialist in conversion marketing and interactive CRM software. In other words: Selligent customers see their online results significantly improve owing to innovative software, targeted e-campaigns and extremely efficient marketing actions. In such a market, reliable and scalable connections and servers are essential. And it is Combell that takes care of these aspects.

Read the full press release

23/06/11

The first benelux city with its own domain name extension will be Ghent

Ghent, 23 June 2011 - The City of Ghent’s Local Council has approved, this very morning, the application for the dot gent extension. This means that the City of Ghent has become the very first Benelux city to publicise its intention of using its own domain name extension. The use of dot gent will reinforce the direct links of the companies, organisations and citizens with the city and with the region. It will make them easier to locate on the Internet and will provide enhanced protection for on-line traffic to and from the City’s website.

Read the full press release

29/01/10

Combell launches the Combell Academy

Combell launches the Combell Academy. The offer includes several trainings for different target groups. In January 2010, the program includes trainings about SharePoint, working efficiently and mobile with e-mail and reseller tools (among others). Most trainings are free of charge for customers

Read the full press release

29/01/10

Combell opens its third data centre with extremely high availability thanks to a unique multi-data centre concept

For business critical applications or websites, the slightest failure can be a disaster. That is why Combell offers its customers a unique “high availability” architecture that remains functional even in case of multiple failures. The newest option is an installation shared over two different data centres, which is additionally transparent to the public

Read the full press release

21/01/10

Combell provides the technical infrastructure of “Help Haïti – 1212” live TV and radio show

Ghent, 20 January 2010 – VTM and Eén organise a live TV show for the earthquake victims in Haiti. Combell sponsors this action by providing the necessary technical infrastructure for the website and online payments in record time.

Read the full press release

18/01/10

In 2009, Combell grew with nearly 25%

Ghent, 19 January 2010 - In 2009, Combell, Belgium’s largest independent hosting company, celebrated its 10th birthday. But growth was achieved in 2009 as well: the holding’s turnover grew with 23%, reaching 8 million euros, 15 new colleagues joined the team and the range of products and services was considerably expanded. A short retrospective...

Read the full press release

24/08/09

Combell concludes 2 new takeovers

Ghent, August 13, 2009 – Combell, the largest autonomous Belgian hosting company, has taken over Besite’s and Globalhost’s hosting activities. Besite, a company from Leuven, managed 4,500 domain names and 500 web hostings for over 1,000 customers. Globalhost, a company from Wervik, is a smaller takeover. With these takeovers, Combell reinforces its market position in Belgium

Read the full press release

19/05/09

10 years of Combell, 10 years of expertise

Ghent, 18 May 2009 – The hosting company Combell celebrates its tenth anniversary. But, for Combell, 2009 will not only be a jubilarian year: it will also be a very special year for the country’s largest independent hosting company. As a matter of fact, Combell has new offices near Ghent, opened an additional data centre and launched a new website and a new company logo

Read the full press release

08/12/08

ICT is often Chinese for entrepreneurs

Ghent, 8 December 2008 – ICT specialists and entrepreneurs speak a different language. This was revealed in a study conducted by the knowledge centre KMO-IT (www.kmo-it.be) and web hosting specialist Combell (www.combell.com). Together, they tested the ICT fitness levels of 1900 entrepreneurs, i.e. their knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT), as well as the way they use the Internet and web-related applications.

Read the full press release

23/09/08

Hubo.be launches a revolutionary website: Doe-Het-Zelver 2.0

Ghent/Wommelgem, 23 September 2008 – The chain of do-it-yourself stores Hubo has launched a new website. Both the content and the choice of the hosting provider were thought through. The new website is a new generation website, which features many Web 2.0 items to stimulate the interaction with and between customers.

Read the full press release

27/08/08

Think Media hosts "heavy" websites at Combell

Think Media, that – via its subsidiaries De Vrije Pers N.V. and Meta Media NV – is the publisher of Ché, P-Magazine, Menzo, Motoren&Toerisme and Officieel Playstation Magazine (among others), chose Combell as its reliable hosting partner. Since all its websites welcome thousands of visitors every day and to ensure optimal e-mail traffic, they needed a new partner.

Read the full press release

05/08/08

Belgian company Combell launches preregistrations for personalized domain extensions

Combell, Belgium’s largest independent web hosting company, is the first company in the world to offer the possibility to preregister a personalized domain extension. This will make it possible for companies, municipalities and other organisations to register their own extension, like e.g. .ghent or .google.

Read the full press release