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I talked to Brian Amerige, the founder of ExtendMac about his hosting company, and exactly where it is heading and what is in the future.

When did you launch ExtendMac?

Well, as a company, we started in March of this year or so. However, the group of passionate and dedicated people who help make Extendmac possible have been making great things since May 2005, when we were originally focused on our Mac-forum, called Macin-Talk.

Why did you decide to get into the hosting business? Did you feel you could offer something others cant?

That’s exactly it. Around April or so, when we were looking into hosting solutions for ourselves, we found lots of faults in the hosting industry that we said “well that just doesn’t seem right.” So, we looked into it, and it turned out we could really make this happen–so we took a chance–and we went for it.

Are the sites hosted exclusively on the Mac?

Well, we certainly try to focus and market our hosting and upcoming products for the Mac platform, we’re certainly not going to turn away other customers simply because of their platform. After all, a few years ago, even I was on the PC!

As a company, what is your vision. What’s your aims? What are your goals?

To quote our about page, “we’re all about creating fun, beautiful and enjoyable products for our customers to utilize to improve their lives. At Extendmac, maintaining, enhancing, and focusing “the vision” is one of our most important goals. It’s not just software and hosting to us. It’s the redefinition of passion, it’s the essence of belief. This is what we love to do, and put pure and simple, that’s why we’re doing it.

Has ExtendMac been as popular as you hoped it would be when you launched?

Well, with any new company, it’s really hard to tell where a company is headed as far as the generic term of “success.” To us, making one customers day better is enough for us to say we’re successful. That theory, has gotten us to where we are today, and we’re very satisfied with our growth, and look forward to a very bright future.

What one thing are you offering customers that none of the large companies can?
As a new company with a highly focused vision, we’re not going to let ourselves lose the forest for the trees. We’ve seen that happen all too much, where over-confidence makes successful people think they can’t lose. As a passion-driven company, we’re not like that. Product-wise, as far as our hosting goes, one of our favorite features is the flexibility and control we can give our customer using our Plesk Control Panels.

What’s to come in the future for ExtendMac?
Well, as I’ve mentioned a bit on in the past–at our core, we’re a software company. We’re currently building an application called Edge–which is going to revolutionize the Mac FTP, Web Authoring/Management, and Blogging worlds. That’s first on our to-do list–but we’ve got more planned. We’re taking our time in building our first release of Edge, because as any good “producer” knows, there’s a certain honest quality that one is always out to get–and we’re determined to have that on Edge’s first public appearance.

So Edge will take on Transmit and MarsEdit in ONE application?

Edge is set to take on Transmit, MarsEdit, and even Ecto–in one, beautifully integrated application.

When can we expect to see Edge?

Well, we’re not going to give any dates–those are dangerous. I think it’s safe to say that Edge will meet the world when it’s primed and ready, and at the current rate of development, it will come exactly when the Mac World needs it most.

Any exclusive information for readers to this blog?

Well, I can’t talk about specific things, or screenshots–but I can tell you this–it’s going to make not only building a website easier, but it’s going to totally change the way you perceived managing a website to be. As for the blogging end, we think we really take blogging up to classic-Mac intuitiveness’ level–where it belongs.

Thanks for your time, and good luck with the venture!

You’re very welcome! Happy hosting!