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Clarion developer buys ½ interest in web hosting company
24-Oct-2001 -- Susan Pichotta

Clarion developer and SQL guru Andy "Cowboy" Stapleton recently bought ½ interest in the web hosting company dbWired.com

Earlier this month, Andy and other dbWired principals spent a weekend at Andy's Andy on Max the horse

37 acre ranch outside of Campwood, Texas, plotting and planning the company's future. On the immediate horizon is updating some of the online interaction with customers. Their future business will be geared toward hosting, Business to Business Web Development, Information Portals, and Conversion from Clarion to the Web.

With Unix hosting plans starting at only $5.95/month and domain registration as low as $10/year, they are one of the more affordable hosting companies around.

Andy says most of their new business has been people transferring from other hosting companies to dbWired, as some of the smaller "mom & pop"s go out of business.

DbWired.com is located in Hartford, CT. Started in 1999, they have built up to hosting 2 terabytes of data, with an OC48 in Boston and DS3 in Hartford, and multiple T1's in Berlin, CT.

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Teaching Alisha to ride

Other Pictures from the ranch

Andy teaching his daughter Alisha to ride this summer.

Cookout at the ranch in May, 2001, celebrating Andy's adoption of step-daughter Darlene. From left: Andy, Darlene, Sue's son John Sullivan, Arnor Baldvinsson, Sue's nephew Joe Pichotta holding Arnor & Sue's baby daughter Laila, and Sue Pichotta.