Stackpath
The story of is one of rapid expansion, fueled by the ambition to bring the internet's processing power as close to the user as possible. Founded in 2016 by Lance Crosby—the same mind behind SoftLayer (which sold to IBM for $2 billion)—the company was built on the idea that "the edge" is the natural evolution of the cloud. The Vision: Moving Beyond the Centralized Cloud
: Developers often used tools like Terraform to automate these global deployments, managing entire "anycast" networks with just a few lines of code. The Legacy StackPath
: To scale these services, StackPath moved away from unbranded "white box" servers and partnered with Lenovo to install thousands of ThinkSystem servers in major metropolitan markets worldwide. Defining the "Edge" The story of is one of rapid expansion,
Building a global anycast service in under a minute - Toonk.io The Legacy : To scale these services, StackPath
: Customers began using StackPath for everything from high-frequency financial trading to personalizing content for gamers in real-time.