TRATO was founded in 1998 and is now Europe’s second largest Web host.

Today, the company trades under the company name of STRATO AG with Damian Schmidt as the CEO. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.

It has over 200 staff members and 1.4 million customers in six European countries.

It has 30,000 servers (a mix of dedicated and virtualized servers) and hosts 4 million domains. The company has two state of the art data centres at an undisclosed locations in Berlin and Karlsruhe.

The host uses Windows and Linux for its range of dedicated and shared web hosting plans.

STRATO has won the following major awards and recognitions:

- Web host of the year by a number of well-known computer magazines
- the much coveted ISO 27001 audit by the German technical control board (TÜV)
- a bronze award in the category “Best Small Contact Centre”.
“German Climate and Nature Protection Alliance“ (BUND) awarded STRATO the Berlin Environmental Award

Since 2008, both of STRATO’s data centres are powered by river power plants from the South-German NaturEnergie company.

STRATO work with Humboldt-University and Max-Planck-Institute to fight spam (eg. Professor Scheffer and his team have developed ServerSideSecurity).