science

Leaseweb

Leaseweb is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Leaseweb rather than just read about it. In short: Leaseweb is a Dutch cloud computing and web services company with offices in the continents of Europe, Asia, and North America. Leaseweb is a subsidiary of OCOM, an internet services company headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Key takeaways

Leaseweb belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Leaseweb to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Leaseweb from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Leaseweb is a Dutch cloud computing and web services company with offices in the continents of Europe, Asia, and North America. Leaseweb is a subsidiary of OCOM, an internet services company headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

History Leaseweb was founded in 1997 by Dutch pilots Con Zwinkels and Laurens Rosenthal. In 1998, Leaseweb acquired its first servers and set up their first office in Utrecht. By 2005 the company owned 5,000 servers, a number that had doubled to 10,000 two years later. In 2007, Leaseweb relocated the company headquarters to the Amsterdam area. In 2010, Leaseweb acquired German hosting provider Netdirekt. In 2016, Leaseweb acquired the Illinois based Nobis Technology Group, and its Ubiquity Hosting operations. In 2018, Leaseweb USA acquired ServInt, a Northern Virginia-based web hosting and managed hosting services for cloud IT operations. In 2021, Leaseweb acquired iWeb, and their Canadian data centres, from INAP for an undisclosed amount. In February 2023, Leaseweb rebranded their Canadian operations under the name Leaseweb Canada.

Leaseweb Network The company operates eighteen data centers in Europe, Asia and the United States. Leaseweb peers with Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Stockholm, Warsaw, Budapest, Vienna, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Zurich, Brussels, Paris, Luxembourg, London, Madrid, Washington DC, New York, Miami, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Seattle, San Jose, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Network and datacenters The company operates 26 datacenters in Europe, North America, Asia and the Oceania. Leaseweb peers with Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, New York City, Brussels, Stockholm, Madrid, Zurich, Düsseldorf, Paris, Warsaw, Budapest, Milan, Vienna, Prague, Luxembourg, Bucharest, Bratislava, Copenhagen, Oslo, Ashburn, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Palo Alto and Los Angeles. Leaseweb's network consists of 55 Points-of-Presence and 33 Internet Exchanges across the globe. The network has a bandwidth capacity of 5.9 Tbit/s with peak traffic about 2.5 Tbit/s and reports uptime of 99.9999%

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Leaseweb

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Leaseweb claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Leaseweb before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Leaseweb ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Leaseweb

In research: Leaseweb appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Leaseweb in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Leaseweb is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Data centers, Internet hosting, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Leaseweb outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Leaseweb in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Leaseweb means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Leaseweb out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Leaseweb in simple terms?

Why does Leaseweb matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Leaseweb?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Leaseweb.