Celebrating 26 Years of Excellence

EDIS Global was established as a sole proprietorship on February 16 1999, starting with just one 1U Supermicro Dual Pentium III 866 MHz server. Despite its humble beginnings, this machine laid the foundation for the company's future growth and success.

Accreditation by the Austrian domain name registry nic.at was received, allowing us to become a domain name registrar.

In 2001, we began operating our own server rooms in Graz, Austria, because the existing market did not offer the quality and pricing we required.

The company introduced its first virtualization products based on _Usermode Linux_ (UML) attracting the first international customers. We made history becoming one of the first providers to launch commercial virtualization products based on that technology.

We have become the first Austrian web hosting provider with its own dedicated gigabit uplinks

We acquired the domain name and hosting businesses of IFO.net GmbH and Liechtenstein's Kyberna AG.

Infrastructure and website hosting platforms expanded into 40 countries.

The company underwent restructuring, laying the foundation for future international growth and moving towards a full legal entity.

With the launch of virtualization products (Linux vServer Container, KVM and OpenVZ), we finally made the leap onto the global stage.

EDIS Global became the leading provider of low-cost VPS hosting in Austria and Switzerland, strengthening its position in the European market.

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 Global established an in-house fiber optic backbone with redundant connections via Vienna and became the first Austrian web hosting provider to have its own 10 Gbps backbone, leading to the relocation of its core infrastructure from Graz to Vienna. Expansion into 17 or more countries, including Russia, Chile, Hong Kong, Iceland, Sweden, Switzerland, Isle of Man, and the USA.

Infrastructure and website hosting platforms were established in 25 countries.

By 2019, EDIS Global operated in 35 countries across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Southern Europe, marking its largest expansion to date.

Provision of zero-downtime web hosting with horizontal scaling, NVMe Ceph storage along with a focus on platform, CDN, Elasticsearch, and S3 hosting.

EDIS Global expanded to London Canary Wharf, North Beach Florida (Miami), launched its Global Traffic Pools feature, Windows Server, and went live with its 2nd Server location in Vienna at Interxion. Additionally, EDIS Global launched ANYCAST DNS with over 40 domain name servers in two independent CLOUD platforms worldwide.

EDIS Global launched a massive wave of upgrades to 10Gbps for every server node worldwide in what we like to call the "10G year." Spinoff and rebranding of the VPS and server business with the new EDIS Global brand, Foundation of EDGBL Ltd., celebrating the launch of our VPS hosting platform in Bogotá, Colombia.

In 2024, EDIS Global achieved accreditation by CYTA (Cyprus Telecom Authority), expanded with new server locations in Limassol (Cyprus) and Los Angeles (California), and ended the year by launching a low-latency AMD EPYC-only point of presence in Tallinn, Estonia.

Launch of EDBB (ED Backbone & CO), a new VPS business created in partnership with EDIS Global. EDBB provisions VPS from EDIS Global’s resource pools while serving a distinct customer base as an independent entity.