About ManagedWay
A Detroit infrastructure company
ManagedWay runs Dedicated Internet, Cloud Hosting, and Colocation Facilities from two datacenters in Troy, Michigan. The customer base spans automotive, finance, education, healthcare, e-commerce, and government. A Tier 1 automotive supplier and Fortune 50 names are in the roster. Annually audited to SOC 2 Type II. PCI-compliant. The boring kind of reliable.
Our Mission
To provide superior communication services through innovative technologies that: partners will select for their clients, customers will want to recommend to others, and employees are proud to be a part of.
Who we are, what we do
Our Vision
To empower businesses with secure, innovative, and scalable technology solutions, driving growth and success in an increasingly digital world.
What we aspire to be
What the work is backed by
SOC 2 Type II compliant
Two Troy datacenters
100% uptime SLA
30+ network partnerships globally
Dark fiber across Southeast Michigan
The journey
Twenty-plus years of network engineering, datacenters, and the customers who stayed long enough to see all of it.
- 2001
Game servers, BSD jails
The lineage that becomes ManagedWay starts in the gaming community. Counter-Strike game servers, team websites, and stats hosting run on BSD jails. Multi-tenant Unix containers from the era before “cloud” applied. Shared hosting bolted on alongside brings the first paying business customers; the pivot from consumer gaming to commercial B2B hosting starts here.
- 2003
All-in on B2B compute
The shift is complete: predecessor businesses go all-in on business compute. Dedicated server hosting, high-availability clusters, and Xen-based virtual machines come online. The original “cloud” offering before the term took hold.
- 2005
Rebuild, rebrand, DirectAdmin shared hosting
Hosting infrastructure is rebuilt on the next generation of compute. The ManagedWay name comes into use as the public face. Shared web hosting goes commercial on DirectAdmin, the start of a vendor relationship that continues today.
- 2006
Platform refresh to KVM
Cloud hosting hypervisor moves from Xen to KVM. The platform aligns with what becomes the Linux mainstream.
- 2008
Distributed storage expanded
Storage layer decouples from compute. Customer workloads no longer constrained to a single chassis; the foundation for the storage tier that follows.
- 2009
AS 53292
AS 53292 is issued by ARIN on December 3. The autonomous system that carries customer traffic today is in our hands; the foundation for routing on our own network is set.
- 2011
OnApp commercial cloud
Cloud Hosting goes commercial on OnApp. Self-service VM provisioning, integrated billing through HostBill, and a CDN layer; the customer-facing cloud product takes its modern shape.
- 2012
BGP transit, SOC 2 audit
BGP transit lights up with multiple upstreams; ManagedWay routes IP traffic on its own AS. The first SOC 2 audit engagement starts the annual control cadence that runs to today: change management, access reviews, evidence pack.
- 2014
Toronto expansion
International edge presence stands up in Toronto. TOR1, then TOR2. Peering across the Canadian carrier hotels, the first leg of the international network footprint that follows.
- 2015
Datacenter and operations acquired
ManagedWay closes an acquisition that adds a second Troy datacenter at 319 Executive Drive, an expanded customer base, and additional metro fiber.
- 2017
Headquarters at 600 Executive Drive
The 600 Executive Drive facility becomes the corporate address and TYM2 datacenter. 319 Executive Drive continues as the second Troy facility.
- 2018
Multi-continent anycast
A long-running global cybersecurity customer puts their anycast cloud edge on ManagedWay IP space and network. The platform now spans Chicago, Los Angeles, Reston, and Amsterdam.
- 2021
Frankfurt expansion
Network reach extends to Frankfurt. Peering and transit interconnects in place to carry European-bound customer traffic through DE-CIX.
- 2021
Amsterdam
Amsterdam edge presence. Peering at AMS-IX, additional European routing for global customer footprints.
- 2022
Storage refresh to Ceph
Distributed storage migrates to Ceph triple-replicated, all-NVMe hot tier. The current foundation underneath Cloud Hosting.
- 2023
Amsterdam expansion
Amsterdam footprint grows. Customer rack additions and routine maintenance windows establish multi-site customer operations from Europe.
- 2024
Cloud expansion in Troy
Large Cloud Hosting build-out across both Troy datacenters. New compute and storage racks added to meet customer demand.
- 2025
Network expansion
Inter-datacenter network builds out. New routes, new dark-fiber additions, design work to meet Fortune-class customer demand.
The team behind the platform
Network engineers, datacenter operators, and software engineers who run the platform from the same offices the fiber comes into. When a customer calls about a routing issue, the person they end up on the line with is the one who configured the route. When a ticket touches storage, it lands with someone who runs the Ceph cluster. The names change over the years; the principle doesn't.
What we sell
Three offerings. Same operator runs the network, the cloud, and the buildings.
Shared, private, and hybrid cloud on AMD EPYC compute with NVMe-backed Ceph storage. Virtual servers, virtual datacenters, bare metal, managed backups. Mail, VPN, and dedicated nodes available.
See details →Two Troy datacenters. Tier III+, SOC 2 Type II, PCI-compliant. Single rack through private suite, up to 30kW+. Smart Hands available 24/7.
See details →Dark fiber across Southeast Michigan, owned and under IRU, up to 100Gbps. IP transit, point-to-point, wavelength, fixed wireless, all under our AS 53292. Multi-homed BGP from two Troy facilities.
See details →Talk it through with the team that would run it
Tell us what you're trying to do. We'll work out what would actually fit. If that's not us, we'll point you to who.