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Rocket.net
👤 Ben Gabler (CPO at CDN firm StackPath until 2020, HostGator's COO before that. He knew edge economics before selling one site.)🌐 site𝕏LinkedIn
Inc. ranked it No. 167 in 2025: 2,320% growth in three years, bootstrapped, with 11-50 people.
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02The numbers
Nearly $10 million/yrEstimateat 2025 sale; bootstrapped
2025source:
bootstrapped to nearly $10 million a year in revenue
Inc. ranks by revenue growth from 2021 to 2024; this was Rocket.net's first year on the list. Inc.'s profile also lists company size as 11-50 and calls the platform bootstrapped. Inc. 5000 profile
Bootstrapped, no outside capital. Sold to hosting.com in August 2025; Gabler stayed on as its Chief Product Officer.
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Inc. 5000 company profile — No. 167 (2025), 2,320% 3-year growth, 11-50 staff, founded 2020, Jupiter, Florida; Inc. calls it a "Bootstrapped SaaS platform".Rocket.net press release (PRWeb, 14 Aug 2025) — 2,320% three-year growth, 45 billion requests and 1.5 PB a month, 98% satisfaction.hosting.com on Ben Gabler — "Rocket.net was bootstrapped to nearly $10 million a year in revenue"; built-in Cloudflare Enterprise integration.Rocket.net pricing (archived 19 Jul 2025) — Starter $30/mo, Pro $60, Business $100; "Delivered & Optimized by Cloudflare Enterprise"; no renewal price hikes.Ben Gabler bio (archived 14 Jun 2025) — HostNine founder 2006-2010, HostGator COO 2010-2012, GoDaddy PM, StackPath CPO 2018-2020.
Revenue is hosting.com's own wording — Rocket.net was "bootstrapped to nearly $10 million a year in revenue" — published by the company that acquired it in August 2025 and now employs Gabler as Chief Product Officer. First-party but unaudited, so STATED, not FILED. Inc. prints the rank and the 2,320% growth but paywalls the dollar figure, and Inc. revenue is self-reported by applicants. Rocket.net's own site was unreachable from our network (connection reset), so pricing and the founder bio are Wayback snapshots dated 19 Jul and 14 Jun 2025 and may not be current; rival prices at WP Engine and Kinsta were read live on 17 Jul 2026. Inc.'s profile blocks scripted fetches, so it was read in a browser and cited only in sources, with the metric tiles pointing at pages a checker can open. That Cloudflare Enterprise is contact-sales with no public price is confirmed on Cloudflare's own plan page, but the wholesale terms Rocket.net actually paid are not public — the arbitrage reading is [our read]. Rivals bars are our read of reach, not revenue. We never score you.