Fasthosts

Fasthosts Internet Ltd is a UK hosting provider based in Gloucester, England, offering domain name registration, web hosting, email mailboxes, dedicated servers and online marketing tools. The company describes itself as an award-winning hosting provider with great products and customer service at the forefront of what it does, and it operates its services around a control panel where customers manage sites, domain names, servers and mailboxes in one place.

Its product range spans the fundamentals of getting and staying online. According to Fasthosts, customers can register and manage domain names, publish websites on shared hosting, run business email, and scale to dedicated server infrastructure. The company also sells online marketing tools alongside its hosting plans, positioning itself as a one-stop provider for small businesses and organisations that want to build and maintain a digital presence.

Fasthosts reports substantial scale in the UK market. Its own figures include over 1.1 million domains currently registered, more than 586,000 customer mailboxes live, over 315,000 sites hosted, and more than 10,000 servers hosted across its UK data centres. The business also operates the domain name registration service UKreg, according to Wikipedia.

The company’s infrastructure sits in UK data centres that Fasthosts says run on 100% renewable energy and are packed with the latest hardware. It highlights a Tier IV facility in Worcester, which it describes as giving customers more technology and security, and notes a modular design intended to allow future expansion. Its careers page adds that the data centres are ISO 50001 certified for energy management.

Fasthosts’ history began with a school project. The company states that in 1998 founder Andrew Michael was looking for a reliable hosting service for his A-Level project and, unable to find one he liked, decided to create his own, which led to Fasthosts. Wikipedia records that the business became a limited company in 1999 and launched UKreg in 2000, and that it was sold in 2006 to German internet service provider United Internet. The company has since grown into a team of tech-focused innovators, in its own words.

Customer support is central to how Fasthosts presents itself. The company says its UK-based support team is available 24/7 over the phone, via email or live chat, and that it offers specialist support for servers. It frames its priorities around customer needs, with a passionate team operating around the clock to deliver the best possible service.

On working culture, Fasthosts describes a loyal community of people who support each other and make sure everyone is working in the best possible way, balancing fun and focus. Documented benefits include a competitive salary, pension plan, private healthcare, an employee assistance programme, a cycle-to-work scheme, hybrid working, free parking and secure bike racks, break rooms stocked with fresh fruit and barista-style coffee, and office parties, team events and fitness groups. The company also says it keeps the environment in mind, citing renewable-energy-powered data centres.