Wellington-based hosting solutions company iSERVE has been bought by State owned internet service provider Orcon.

New Zealand's second largest specialty hosting business iSERVE and more advanced hosting services would be controlled by Orcon.  

Orcon CEO Scott Bartlett said in a statement, “We have a strong presence in the internet environment but we want to go beyond just broadband and hosting is one area where we believe we can add zing.”

Website hosting, dedicated server hosting and domain name solutions are the iSERVE’s hosting products.

The assets of iSERVE have been purchased by Orcon, which would be effective form May 1st and staff will now changeover to Orcon.

The business will remain in Wellington.

(Via TopNews New Zealand. Contributed by Surjit Singh)