Fasthosts

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Fasthosts Internet Ltd

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legal form Private Limited Company
founding 1999
Seat Gloucester , England
management Andy Burton ( CEO )
Branch Internet provider
Website www.fasthosts.co.uk

The Fasthosts Internet Ltd (short Fasthosts called) is a British Internet service provider (ISP) based in Gloucester. Founded in 1999, it is the UK's largest web hosting product reseller . The company has been part of the United Internet Group since 2006 .

history

Fasthosts was started by Andrew Michael in the late 1990s, initially as a development project as part of his graduation. Due to the booming New Economy , Fasthosts Internet Ltd was founded in October 1998 to continue to operate the web hosting platform.

In 2000, Fasthosts introduced a platform called UKreg that focuses exclusively on the assignment of domains and the provision of e-mail inboxes . The brand continues to this day.

At the beginning of May 2006, the German United Internet AG announced that they had agreed on a takeover with the owners of Fasthosts. The purpose of the company was to strengthen its presence in the market in conjunction with the UK branch of the web host 1 & 1 . The purchase price agreed to be £ 61.5 million , which was paid in cash.

In 2008 Fasthosts bought the US reseller Streamline . In the following year, a separate location was opened in Chesterbrook (United States) in order to better serve local customers. The subsidiary Fasthosts Internet, Inc. is based there.

In order to keep up with the emerging market for cloud hosting , Fasthosts founded a specially designed platform in March 2010 under the name Rise . This was one of the first offers based exclusively on Microsoft technologies and not operated by the group itself. Rise was sold to the British company Outsourcery in October 2014.

Products

The company's offers are not aimed exclusively at commercial customers, as is the case with the German sister company InterNetX , but business with end customers, according to the company, hardly plays a role. Fasthosts is one of the largest hosting plan resellers in the UK with approximately 5,500 active resellers . Together with 1 & 1 UK , Fasthosts has a dominant market share of 21 percent in Great Britain.

Fasthosts covers the entire range of web hosting services under its own brand . In addition to shared hosting packages in which several customers share a server, virtual and dedicated servers as well as managed exchange rates are also offered. The company is also a provider of broadband Internet connections active, the technically on the backbone of British Telecom realized (BT).

As one of the few providers, Fasthosts does not rely on the free Linux operating system , but on Windows Server . The company is one of Microsoft's largest hosting partners and was identified in February 2004 by Netcraft as the world's largest operator of active servers running Windows Server 2003 .

criticism

Before the acquisition by United Internet, the company was criticized several times for being too wasteful with its own resources. The Christmas party in 2005, which according to official figures cost 600,000 pounds, was particularly criticized. The artists Jonathan Ross , The Darkness and Boney M. performed at the event .

In 2007, Fasthosts came under fire because the company had to shut down numerous websites for its customers. The reason for this was a hacker attack through which unauthorized persons could gain access to the management system of the shared hosting packages. Since the customer's passwords for services such as e-mail and FTP were saved in clear text, Fasthosts had to automatically generate and send a new password for several thousand customers. Since a large number of websites are operated by Fasthosts, the shutdown of numerous offers resulted in the failure of large parts of the British World Wide Web .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Simon Deutsch: Internet entrepreneur celebrates £ 61m deal. In: The Independent . May 11, 2006, accessed August 27, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Companies House WebCheck. Retrieved August 27, 2012 (Date of Incorporation).
  3. ↑ About UKreg. Fasthosts Internet, accessed August 27, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Jens Ihlenfeld: United Internet is buying in Great Britain. In: Golem. May 10, 2006, accessed August 27, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Jürgen Kuri: United Internet takes over Fasthosts Internet. In: heise online. May 10, 2006, accessed August 27, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Our history so far. Fasthosts Internet, accessed August 27, 2012 .
  7. ↑ a b More details on the Fasthosts brand. (No longer available online.) United Internet, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 27, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.united-internet.de  
  8. ↑ Annual Report 2011. (PDF; 3.1 MB) (No longer available online.) United Internet, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 28, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.united-internet.de  
  9. ↑ Alex Scroxton: Hosted clouds Rise for FastHosts. In: MicroScope. March 30, 2010, accessed August 27, 2012 .
  10. ↑ http://www.outsourcery.co.uk/Outsourcery/Pages/Rise.aspx
  11. ↑ Web Hosting Companies in United Kingdom. (No longer available online.) Directi, archived from the original on June 9, 2011 ; Retrieved August 27, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.webhosting.info
  12. ↑ Getting started: Fasthosts Broadband. Fasthosts Internet, accessed August 27, 2012 .
  13. ↑ Fasthosts officially declared the world's largest Windows 2003 Web Host. February 18, 2004, accessed August 27, 2012 .
  14. ↑ Cahal Milmo: Ross and The Darkness star at £ 600,000 office party. In: The Independent . December 20, 2005, archived from the original on November 28, 2010 ; Retrieved October 15, 2010 .
  15. ^ Leo King: Sites shut down after hack on Fasthosts. In: Computerworld . December 6, 2007, accessed August 27, 2012 .