Our History

For more than a decade, we’ve designed new ways to help our partners and their customers work better online. Our highly successful track record and proven business model have made us the UK's number one web-hosting company and a leading provider of cloud services for partners.

We’ve listed some of our highlights below, but if you’d like to know more about how we can help you, call us.

2010

• March: Launched Rise’s channel business operations
• March: Launched Fasthosts’ formal cloud services range with virtual servers

2009

• October: Launched the broadest range of high-spec dedicated servers to date
• July: Appointed new executive team to drive strategic growth of Fasthosts Internet Group

2008

• November: Acquired Streamline.net to focus on consumer and small office/home office (SOHO) services

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 group’s business to business and indirect channel markets
• May: Launched easy instant blogging tool, integrated with all web-hosting packages
• January: Launched real-time mobile email using new "push" technology
• January: Awarded 4.5 out of 5 by The Independent
• January: Launched reseller program including unique new hosting API and redesigned reseller control panel

2005

• August: Launched Internet merchant account ecommerce service- eMerchant in association with the Bank of Ireland
• June: Launched revolutionary new dedicated server range, with the completion of our second state-of-the-art dedicated UK data center
• January: Rated one of the UK’s top 50 companies by award-winning magazine, Business XL

2004

• December: Ranked in the Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic TechTrack 100 for the third year running
• November: Launched business-class hosted Microsoft Exchange email
• April: Launched unlimited broadband Internet access with integrated web hosting
• February: Officially declared the world's largest Windows 2003 web host by Netcraft

2003

• May: Launched new multi-server load-balanced web-hosting architecture
• April: Identified as first company to support Microsoft .NET Framework in the UK
• January: Ranked Europe's 10th fastest-growing technology company by Deloitte & Touche

2002

• November: Ranked the UK's second fastest-growing technology company in the Sunday Times TechTrack 100
• March: Launched multi-platform Windows and Linux shared web hosting.

2001

• April: Launched range of dedicated servers
• February: Completed first purpose-built web-hosting data center

2000

• December: Launched UKreg domain registration and management portal - now the leading domain name registration brand in the UK.
• February: Opened Gloucester Quays office

1999

• January: Launched Fasthosts’ web-hosting service in the UK

1998

• November: Conceived Fasthosts’ business plan