This latest installment in the “Meet the Resellers” series features Steffan Søndermark Fallesen, founder of Servage, an innovative web host located in Germany.

Steffan Søndermark Fallesen, Servage (and friend)

James McNally (JM): How long has Servage been doing business and what are all the services you offer to your customers?

Steffan Søndermark Fallesen (SSF): I started Servage Hosting in 2004 with the dream of providing one package that included everything so that customers could grow with it without having to upgrade or make advanced purchase decisions.

Servage Hosting has a unique position in the webhosting market with our simple strategy. We still offer one solution that is loaded with features and includes absolutely everything that a webmaster needs. Every week new features are added and our customers trust that we continuously add new and exciting functions to our package.

JM: Any interesting stories from your company’s history?

SSF: Servage is really all about software and great service. So unlike almost all other webhosting companies we started out developing our own cluster structure and control panel software. We wanted to be the first company to offer clustered webhosting to the mass market so that everyone could take advantage of this great new technology.

The first year we went from just two server racks to filling out the colocation facility where our servers were located. So without planning much we had to start building our own datacenter from scratch which was a major challenge for us at the time.

JM: How did you personally get into the Internet business?

SSF: I have been playing around with computers as long as I can remember and ended up studying computer science. During my studies, I did the initial coding on the cluster backend software and after graduation all my time was spent on making Servage ready for business.

Harbor, Flensburg, Germany

JM: Where are you located and what makes it such a great place to do business?

SSF: Our company is located in Flensburg which is probably one of the most beautiful locations in Germany. Located by the sea and surrounded by nature it is just an ideal place to live, and combined with a fairly large university it is a great business location too!

I grew up in Denmark and after my studies I needed to select a location to start Servage. At that time Germany was just a better place to purchase bandwidth, so without many thoughts I selected the nicest town and moved here.

JM: How long have you been an OpenSRS Reseller and how has your partnership with OpenSRS helped your company succeed?

SSF: Servage has been using OpenSRS from day one and we have been quite pleased. When we started out we needed a provider with a really good API and OpenSRS provided us with that, along with fair pricing.

JM: What can we do to make the relationship stronger?

SSF: You have done quite a bit already, especially lately, when we got a visit from Marco Zuliani and Elliot Noss. It was nice to meet a few of you guys face to face.

If you’re a reseller interested in sharing your story with our readers, get in touch with me (jamesmATopensrsDOTcom). We’d love to hear from you!

Special thanks to Flickr user Arne List for making his image available under a Creative Commons license.