Cologne based intergenia purchased internet24 GmbH, a German host services provider, in a bid to strengthen its post as one of Germany's top providers of managed hosting.

"We have known the internet24 team for a long time and are glad to have them on board as part of the intergenia group," Jan-Jaap Jager, CEO of intergenia, said in a statement.

"The combination of intergenia's managed hosting brand PlusServer with internet24 will help our managed hosting business unit to become one of the leading providers in German-speaking countries," he added.

internet24 GmbH, founded in 1997, concentrates in supplying managed hosting services among all German-speaking countries. It is based in Dresden with 35 employees serving around 20, 000 clients that include some global commerce companies.

"We consider the acquisition by intergenia as an important step towards implementing our strategy. Together with intergenia, we will be able to provide our customers with the best technology and price-performance-ratio," said Heiko Heerwagen, internet24's CEO.