What NetSource Communications does

NetSource Communications, Inc. is a privately held managed hosting provider founded in 1995 and headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Venture Technologies (now part of Convergeone). The company owns and operates its own SSAE18 Type 2, SOC1, and SOC2 compliant datacenter in Naperville, with secondary geographic-redundancy datacenters in Jackson, Mississippi and a downtown Chicago presence at 350 E. Cermak. Approximately 11-50 employees serve customers across the United States, with a regional concentration in the Chicago metropolitan area.

The company delivers a unified portfolio of infrastructure services built on enterprise-class hardware including Cisco switching, Checkpoint firewalls, F5 load balancers, and HP 3Par or Pure Flash storage, with VMware as the primary virtualization platform. Core offerings span colocation hosting, dedicated servers, public cloud, private cloud, dedicated cloud, and hybrid hosting configurations. These are augmented by a managed services suite including Veeam- and Zerto-powered disaster recovery (BaaS/DRaaS with RPO/RTO as low as 15 minutes), R1Soft continuous data protection, off-site backup cloud storage, SysOrb-based server monitoring, Kemp LoadMaster load balancing, and managed Juniper and Cisco firewall services. Vertical-specific compliance packages for HIPAA (including BAAs) and PCI DSS (SAQ-D qualification) address healthcare providers and ecommerce merchants.

NetSource operates a sales-led, consultative go-to-market motion through direct sales (866-778-1212 / 630-778-1212), website quote requests, in-person datacenter tours, and a referral program offering 10% monthly commissions on referred customer contracts. Pricing is predominantly quote-based with publicly disclosed entry-level tiers (public cloud from $19/month; private cloud from $1,000/month for two servers plus SAN; storage servers $221-$499/month; bandwidth billed via 95th percentile method or at $0.10 per GB). Marketing relies on an educational blog, email newsletter, webinars, social media presence, and BBB A+ reputation, with the company claiming 98% customer satisfaction and 9.5/10 monthly support scores. Revenue is not publicly disclosed and there are no disclosed funding rounds or venture investment events.

Name

NetSource Communications

Legal name

NetSource Communications, Inc.

Website

https://netsource.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

NetSource Communications is a privately held managed hosting provider in Naperville, IL, operating its own SSAE18-compliant datacenter to deliver colocation, dedicated servers, public/private cloud, and compliance-focused hosting (HIPAA, PCI) primarily to small and medium-sized businesses across the United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Managed Hosting Services

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Computer Facilities Management Services (541513)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Cloud Operations Outsourcing (Cloud Managed Operations) (BPAEAMAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cloud Managed Services (M365/Azure/AWS/GCP) (BPAEABAE), Network Management (LAN/WAN/Wi‑Fi) Services (BPAEABAD), Network Resilience & High Availability Services (Redundancy, Failover) (BPAEAEAL)

Keywords

• Managed hosting services
• Colocation hosting
• Cloud hosting
• Disaster recovery services
• Compliance hosting

Headquarters

HQ city

Naperville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Colocation Hosting: Customers host their own servers in NetSource's enterprise datacenter. Revenue generated from space (per U, 1/3, 1/2, or full racks), power, and bandwidth charges. NetSource provides SSAE18 Type 2 compliant facility with redundant power, cooling, and network connectivity.
2. Dedicated Server Hosting: NetSource builds and maintains servers to customer specifications. Customers lease servers with full root/administrative access. Revenue from monthly server rental plus optional managed services.
3. Public Cloud Hosting: Multi-tenant cloud servers on VMware with flexible billing options (pay-as-you-go or flat rate). Revenue from hourly/monthly VM instance charges with included bandwidth.
4. Private Cloud Hosting: Single-tenant private cloud solutions starting at $1000/month for 2 servers and SAN. Revenue from monthly hardware租赁 with customization options.
5. Managed Services: A la carte managed services including firewalls, data backups, server monitoring, patch updates, security scans. Also includes fully managed hosting packages.
6. Disaster Recovery Services: Veeam-powered BaaS and DRaaS solutions. Backup as a Service priced per VM plus storage. DRaaS includes failover capability with RPO/RTO as low as 15 minutes.
7. Compliance Solutions: HIPAA and PCI compliance hosting packages. HIPAA includes security services for healthcare providers. PCI packages help ecommerce merchants achieve PCI DSS compliance (SAQ-C and SAQ-D).
8. Storage Servers: Large capacity dedicated storage servers with 100 Mbps unmetered connections. Pricing starts at $221/month for 3TB up to $429/month for 30TB.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

NetSource Communications provides custom managed hosting solutions from its own SSAE18 Type 2, SOC1, SOC2 compliant datacenter in Naperville, IL, with a secondary disaster recovery site in Jackson, MS. Core offerings include colocation hosting, dedicated servers, and cloud hosting (public, private, dedicated, and hybrid environments) tailored to small and medium businesses. The portfolio is augmented by managed services including disaster recovery (powered by Veeam and Zerto), R1Soft data backups, advanced server monitoring, managed firewall services, load balancing, and HIPAA/PCI compliance hosting packages.

Product overview

NetSource Communications is a managed hosting provider offering a unified portfolio of infrastructure services built around its owned and operated SSAE18 Type 2, SOC1, SOC2 compliant datacenter in Naperville, IL (with secondary DR location in Jackson, MS). The core product portfolio centers on colocation hosting, dedicated servers, and cloud hosting (public, private, and dedicated cloud), which can be combined through hybrid hosting solutions. These core services are augmented by a comprehensive suite of managed add-on modules including disaster recovery powered by Veeam or Zerto, R1Soft data backups, off-site backup cloud storage, advanced server monitoring via SysOrb, load balancing using Kemp LoadMaster, and managed firewall services (Juniper SSG5, SRX, and Cisco ASA). Compliance-specific offerings include HIPAA Hosting and PCI Hosting. The company also offers a VTCloud service for business-class cloud hosting and maintains a RingCentral partnership for unified communications. Infrastructure is built on enterprise-class hardware including Cisco switching, Checkpoint firewalls, F5 load balancers, and HP 3Par/Pure Flash storage.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• NetSource Public Cloud: Public cloud hosting platform running on VMware with enterprise-grade hardware including Cisco Switching, Checkpoint firewalls, F5 Load Balancing, and HP 3Par or Pure Flash Storage.
• NetSource Private Cloud
• VTCloud

Products and services

• Colocation Hosting
• Dedicated Servers
• Public Cloud

Quantifiable outcome

• RPO/RTO as low as 15 minutes for disaster recovery using Veeam
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration18 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• ConvergeonecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParent company of NetSource Communications. Convergeone is an IT Solutions Provider delivering Premise Infrastructure Solutions, Collaboration Solutions, Cloud Services, and Business Application Solutions. The merger with Venture Technologies (parent of Convergeone) in 2017 expanded NetSource's capabilities and geographic reach.
• VeeamcoreTechnology or IntegrationVeeam provides industry-leading backup and disaster recovery software used for NetSource's BaaS (Backup as a Service) and DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) offerings. Veeam Cloud Connect enables RPO/RTO as low as 15 minutes for VMware and Hyper-V environments.
• VMwarecoreTechnology or IntegrationVMware provides the virtualization platform for NetSource's enterprise cloud infrastructure, enabling both public and private cloud hosting services.
• CiscomajorTechnology or IntegrationCisco switching equipment used in NetSource's cloud infrastructure. Cisco ASA firewalls offered as managed security solutions for customers.
• HP 3Par / Pure StoragemajorTechnology or IntegrationEnterprise flash storage solutions (HP 3Par and Pure Flash) used in NetSource's cloud infrastructure for high-performance storage requirements.
• CheckpointmajorTechnology or IntegrationCheckpoint firewalls integrated into NetSource's cloud infrastructure for security.
• F5 NetworksmajorTechnology or IntegrationF5 Load Balancing technology used in NetSource's cloud platform for traffic distribution and application delivery.
• RingCentralminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorRingCentral partnership offering Message, Video, Phone services as part of NetSource's hosted solutions portfolio.
• Juniper NetworksmajorTechnology or IntegrationJuniper SRX and SSG firewall series offered as managed hardware firewall services. Juniper firewalls provide network protection including UTM features, IPS, and advanced threat protection.
• R1SoftcoreTechnology or IntegrationR1Soft CDP (Continuous Data Protection) backup software used for disk-based backup services. Provides bare-metal restore, cross-platform support, and compliance features for PCI, HIPAA, GLBA, SOX.
• ZertomajorTechnology or IntegrationZerto DRaaS offered for enterprise clients requiring very low RPO/RTO times. Zerto enables backup, test, failover and failback of VMs from one location at RPOs and RTOs in minutes.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Atlantic.Net: Managed hosting provider specializing in HIPAA and PCI compliant cloud and dedicated hosting for SMBs, closely aligned with NetSource's compliance niche.
• SingleHop: Chicago-founded managed and dedicated hosting provider targeting SMBs, closely comparable in product and market focus.
• Liquid Web: Managed dedicated, cloud and VMware hosting for SMBs with strong support emphasis, mirroring NetSource's value proposition at national scale.
• Expedient: VMware-based cloud, colocation and DR provider for mid-market companies, directly comparable in technology stack and managed hosting model.
• ServerCentral (Deft): Chicago datacenter operator offering colocation, managed and cloud hosting to businesses, a direct regional competitor with the same product mix.
• Steadfast: Chicago-based managed hosting, colocation and cloud provider serving SMBs from owned datacenters, directly overlapping NetSource's offering and geography.

Emerging players

• phoenixNAP: Datacenter and managed cloud/colocation provider with DRaaS and compliance offerings, overlapping NetSource's infrastructure services portfolio.

Broad incumbents

• DataBank: Colocation, managed cloud and compliance (HIPAA/PCI) hosting provider across many metros, offering the same categories as NetSource more broadly.
• TierPoint: National operator of regional datacenters offering colocation, cloud, DR and compliance hosting, overlapping NetSource's services at much larger scale.

Regional players

• US Signal: Midwest-focused datacenter, cloud, DR and managed services provider serving the same regional SMB/enterprise base as NetSource.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/netsource
• Facebookfacebook.com/NetSource-Communications-Inc-179036795479877
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/4815745

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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