Est. 2010 · Melbourne, Australia

The people behindzero-footprint hosting.

Smart SEO Hosting is an independent network company built by SEO operators, for SEO operators. For fifteen years we've obsessed over one thing — genuine IP diversity — and turned it into the world's first dual-stack SEO IPv6 across 120+ datacenters.

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15 yrs
Building SEO networks
120+
Datacenters worldwide
100+
Independent IP providers
smartseohosting.com/about
Founded
2010 · Melbourne
Datacenters
120+
Unique IPs
800+
IP providers
100+
Support in
5 countries
RA RM DG +5
One team, one panel
2010
Year founded
100+
IP providers managed
25
AI content languages
24/7
Human support, 3 zones
Our story

Fifteen years chasing one idea: real diversity

We started in 2010 as a small team of SEOs frustrated that "SEO hosting" usually meant a handful of recycled subnets dressed up as a network. So we built the opposite — hosting spread across genuinely independent providers, datacenters and registrars, all provisioned from a single WHM/cPanel panel.

That obsession pushed us to ship the industry's first HTTP/2 rollout, the world's first dual-stack SEO IPv6, and AI content in 25 languages. We're still independently owned, still run by operators, and still measure ourselves by one number: how invisible your footprint stays.

A → C
Every IP class under one roof
0
Footprint left behind
2010

Founded in Melbourne

FloatCast Technology launches Smart SEO Hosting with a first batch of genuinely diverse C-Class IPs and a promise: no recycled subnets, ever.

2013

One panel, 100 datacenters

We crossed 100 datacenters and unified provisioning, replication and DNS into a single WHM/cPanel reseller account — the workflow the whole industry copied.

2016

HTTP/2 across the network

Weeks after Googlebot adopted it, we rolled HTTP/2 out network-wide and published the first research on its SEO benefits for backlink networks.

2018 · World first

The first dual-stack SEO IPv6

While the industry was IPv4-only, we launched diverse /32, /36 and /40 IPv6 ranges — the first and only dual-stack SEO IPv6 in the world.

2021

Spam-free, threat-monitored by default

Real-time blocking of ~20,000 known attackers, live malware scanning and SMTP disabled on every SEO IP became standard on all plans.

2023

BrandLift for end-user clients

We unveiled BrandLift, a client-facing SEO product suite that lets agencies resell our network under their own brand.

2025

SmartArticles™, powered by GPT-5

Unique AI content in 25 languages, generated inside the panel with monthly free credits and full API access.

What we stand for

Principles the whole network is built on

Four commitments that decide what we build, which providers we onboard, and how we answer a ticket at 3am.

Zero footprint, always

The invisible network wins. Distinct rDNS, WHOIS and registrars aren't upsells here — they're the baseline every plan ships with.

Diversity as a discipline

We onboard IPs from 100+ independent providers and reject anything that smells like a recycled block — even when it's cheaper.

Radical transparency

Per-IP pricing, real datacenter names, honest limits. If a technique carries risk, we tell you — we'd rather lose a sale than your rankings.

Support that actually ranks

You reach real SEO engineers across three time zones — people who run PBNs themselves, not a scripted first line.

Meet the team

The people who run the network

We've run SEO hosting for over a decade, working with hundreds of agencies and affiliate marketers. The team handles the technical stuff so your sites can focus on ranking.

Ryan Alavi

Ryan Alavi

Founder / CEO

Started Smart SEO Hosting after getting fed up with the hosting options available to SEO pros. Degrees in Electronics Engineering and ICT, Cisco and Oracle certs, and past work with Telstra, Amazon and Microsoft — now aimed at what Google's algorithms want from a hosting setup.

Ray Mickelsen

Ray Mickelsen

Senior Engineer

Runs the engineering team and keeps 120+ datacenters humming, coordinating in-house developers and external partners across time zones. Deep technical chops paired with the patience to explain a fix to anyone.

Declan Greco

Declan Greco

Technology Engineer

Has done web hosting since before the cloud existed, and writes much of our backend in PHP and Go — especially IP allocation and datacenter integrations. His experience keeps us off every passing hosting fad.

Joshua Barić

Joshua Barić

Web Hosting Engineer

Handles day-to-day server management and is first to jump on a downed site or a stubborn cPanel issue. Lives in Linux and cPanel, from single WordPress sites to complex multi-domain networks.

Hugo Roberts

Hugo Roberts

Networking Engineer

Manages networking infrastructure across every datacenter so traffic routes cleanly and IP allocations never leave a footprint. Brings a fresh, creative angle to hard routing problems.

Neda Sabzevari

Neda Sabzevari

Billing

Runs billing and accounting across multiple currencies and payment processors, and is who clients reach for anything payment-related. Explains the billing side without making it more complicated than it needs to be.

Nate Ketilsson

Nate Ketilsson

Networking Engineer

Works alongside Hugo on routing and connectivity, backed by CCNA and Linux Professional certs. Keeps updates and security patches current across every system.

Aidan B

Aidan B

Tech Engineer

Builds internal tools in Go, Node.js and Rust, with a knack for automation that saves the team hours. Always back from a meetup with an idea to sharpen our tooling.

Want to join the team?

We're a distributed, remote-friendly crew out of Melbourne — hosting, networking and tooling engineers welcome.

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Where we are

One HQ, support around the clock

Headquartered in Melbourne, with round-the-clock support and 120+ datacenters on every populated continent.

Headquarters 🇦🇺

Melbourne, Australia

FloatCast Technology Pty Ltd · Southbank, VIC

Where it all started in 2010. Engineering, networking and support are coordinated from here across 120+ datacenters worldwide.

Founded
2010
Datacenters
120+
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