Q&A: Sylvain Leclair On IWeb’s New Shared Hosting Company Funio

Sylvain Leclair is the boss of Funio

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Canadian web hosting provider iWeb Group ( www.iweb.com ) done waves progressing this year when it was a of couple of web hosting companies to go from open to private. Now, 4 months later, iWeb is creation more changes by rising a new firm to take over its common hosting and domain name registration. The new company, Funio ( www.funio.com ), will capacitate iWeb to concentration on the growth of its dedicated “smart” servers, that iWeb launched a year ago.

Funio will run exclusively from iWeb starting in 2012, and until then will work with iWeb to make the passing from one to another run uniformly for iWeb’s more than 15,000 existing common hosting clients.

The new firm will be headed by iWeb’s one-time CDO and VP of sales of selling Sylvain Leclair. In an email QA with the WHIR, Leclair, Funio president, discusses the ground at the back the creation of Funio together with how iWeb will go on to run in the future once Funio is its own well-defined entity.

WHIR: What was at the back the preference to combine common hosting and domain services in to a well-defined business?

Sylvain Leclair: iWeb motionless to make this preference since during the final couple of years you have put all our efforts in to our dedicated server and chic server line. Accordingly so, you outlayed reduction time on common hosting services. We still think in the common hosting services promising and this is the most appropriate way you found to upgrade our product and services. The common hosting and dedicated server markets are different. We think that you will be able to improved aim our customers’ mandate by providing our common hosting customers a entire firm who will take caring of delivering the most appropriate out of the service.

WHIR: How have iWeb’s existing customers responded?

SL: We have had many certain explanation from common hosting customers on these changes, but you know that other customers are watchful to see what will happened next. We are right away in a passing from one to another time until the commencement of 2012, but you are assured that our existing customers will see the difference, since you have so many great alleviation projects on our roadmap.

WHIR: Do you think the iWeb brand approval will help Funio pick up new customers?

SL: iWeb as built a great brand over the years, so during the passing from one to another period, being shut to iWeb can not hurt. iWeb’s group has capable so much, it would be alluring to replicate the same branding strategies. This being said, it would be toxic to clasp to iWeb’s brand since Funio and iWeb will not aim the same markets anymore. Different markets meant not similar branding strategies and approach. The objective for Funio will be to erect his own brand, its own craving culture, being unconstrained inside of the next months, to be closer to our existing customers and promising customers.

WHIR: What was your formerly purpose inside of iWeb?

SL: I’ve been with iWeb is to final 15 years, when you were 4 in the groundwork of Eric Chouinard (iWeb’s CEO and co-founder) house. I worked in many not similar positions in the firm over the years and is to final couple of years, I was CDO and VP of sales and marketing.

I’ve schooled a lot from Eric Chouinard and Martin Leclair (my comparison hermit and iWeb’s co-founders), and moreover from all the iWeb group who did such a great job in office building iWeb’s growth over the years. I am thankful I have schooled so sufficient from my group and the ardent people I worked with (and that I’m still working shut with).

WHIR: Can you explain how iWeb will pierce deliver after Funio starts to run autonomously?

SL: iWeb will go on developing the “Smart server” technology. All the projects of the firm will be aligned with the dedicated server innovation, they will be more concentration on there targeted marketplace and reduction expansion between many not similar products. I have no skepticism they will go on carrying out great similar to they are right now, at a faster pace.

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