Our history so far
From Domain Names to Web Hosting and Dedicated to Virtual Servers, innovation and a commitment to Channel partners drives our business - we've been designing new ways to give our partners and their customers complete flexibility and control of the internet potential to drive their business performance since our inception back in 1999.
Our highly successful track record and proven business model have made us the UK's Number 1 web hosting company and leading Partner Cloud Services provider.
There have been many milestones in our history, a sample of which are below:
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2009
- October: Launch of the broadest range of high spec Dedicated Servers to date
- July: Appointed new Executive Team to drive the strategic growth of the Fasthosts Internet Group
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2008
- November: Acquired Streamline.NET to focus on consumer and SOHO solutions
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2006
- November: Teamed up with Sedo's secondary domain name marketplace - the first partnership of this scale in the UK
- November: Acquired by United Internet to focus on the growth of the Groups Business to Business and indirect channel markets
- May: Launched easy instant blogging tool, fully integrated with all web hosting packages.
- More about blogging
- January: Real-time mobile email access launched using revolutionary new "push" technology
- January: Awarded 4.5 out of 5 by The Independent
- More about Mobile Email
- January: Launched our reseller programme including unique new hosting API and redesigned reseller control panel
- More about Reseller Hosting
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2005
- August: Launched internet merchant account ecommerce solution - eMerchant in association with the Bank of Ireland
- June: Revolutionary new dedicated server range launched, with the completion of our second state-of-the-art dedicated UK data centre
- More about Dedicated Servers
- January: Rated one of the UK’s top 50 companies by award-winning magazine, Business XL
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2004
- December: Ranked in the Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic TechTrack 100 for the 3rd year running
- November: Launched our business-class hosted Microsoft Exchange email solutions
- More about email hosting
- April: Launched unlimited broadband internet access with integrated web hosting
- More about broadband
- February: Officially declared the world's largest Windows 2003 web host by Netcraft
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2003
- May: New multi-server load balanced web hosting architecture launched
- April: First to support Microsoft .NET Framework in the UK
- January: Ranked Europe's 10th fastest growing technology company by Deloitte & Touche
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2002
- November: Ranked the UK's 2nd fastest growing technology company in the Sunday Times TechTrack 100
- March: Multi-platform Windows and Linux shared web hosting launched
- More about shared hosting
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2001
- April: Our range of Dedicated server solutions was first launched
- February: Completed our first purpose-built web hosting data centre
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2000
- December: Launched UKreg domain registration and management portal. Now the leading domain name registration brand in the UK.
- February: New Gloucester Quays office opened
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1999
- January: Fasthosts web hosting service launched in the UK
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1998
- November: Fasthosts business plan conceived
