From One Server to Global VPS Infrastructure

The business that later became EDIS began as a sole proprietorship on February 16, 1999, using a single 1U Supermicro Dual Pentium III 866 MHz server.

EDIS received accreditation from the Austrian domain registry nic.at and became a domain-name registrar.

EDIS laid the foundation for its own data centre in Graz, Austria.

EDIS became the first Austrian provider to offer virtualization products based on User-mode Linux (UML), attracting its first international customers.

EDIS became the first Austrian web-hosting provider with its own dedicated gigabit uplinks.

The sole proprietorship was incorporated as EDIS GmbH in Austria.

EDIS relaunched virtualization products using Linux vServer containers and KVM, expanding its international VPS business.

EDIS strengthened its virtual-server business in Austria and Switzerland.

In 2013, we launched Waveride, a low-cost OpenVZ VPS platform. The brand was inspired by our former internet café “WaveRide.” While the original café logo was text-only, the VPS version introduced a friendly penguin on a surfboard — a playful touch for what started as a fun side experiment and grew into a surprising success.

EDIS built an in-house fibre backbone with redundant connections through Vienna, became the first Austrian web host with its own 10 Gbps backbone, moved its core infrastructure from Graz to Vienna, and expanded its own infrastructure to more than 17 countries.

EDIS acquired the domain and hosting businesses of IFO.net GmbH and Liechtenstein’s Kyberna AG.

EDIS expanded its own infrastructure to 25 countries.

EDIS expanded its own infrastructure to 35 countries, with growth across Asia-Pacific, the Mediterranean, and Southern and Eastern Europe.

EDIS GmbH introduced horizontally scaled web hosting with NVMe Ceph storage and services for platform, CDN, Elasticsearch, and S3 workloads.

EDIS web-hosting and server infrastructure expanded to 40 countries.

EDIS added London Docklands, Miami, and a second Vienna location at Interxion, introduced Windows Server support and the Global Traffic Pool, and expanded its Anycast DNS platform.

EDIS rolled out 10 Gbps host-node connectivity across its VPS network. The VPS and dedicated-server business was spun off from EDIS GmbH to EDGBL Ltd., a Cyprus company trading as EDIS Global, and the Bogotá VPS location launched.

EDIS Global opened VPS locations in Limassol at the CYTA Amathounta data centre and in Los Angeles, and added an AMD EPYC platform in Tallinn.

In October 2025, EDBB (ED Backbone & CO) began trading as a separate Cyprus entity. It provisions VPS from EDIS Global resource pools while serving its own customer base.