Web Hosting Companies & Organisations

Companies and organisations involved in web hosting, including Apache, IIS and specialist hosting such as Cold Fusion, MySQL and MS SQLServer.

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Pan european ISP with high end and low end hosting solutions, formerly known as Virtual Internet in the UK

Demon Internet

Major British ISP and hosting company, now owned by THUS plc. They have one of the most stable British hosting environments and have been around since the early days of the commercial internet.

Easyspace

Easyspace ( http://www.easyspace.com ) is a privately owned debt-free Internet registrar and Internet services company which was established in 1997 by Erik Young and Sam Evans -- both of whom remain actively involved in the company's activities. Founded on a belief of making Internet web space available to customers at competitive rates, and backed by reliable and robust technology, Easyspace has now become the UK's largest domain name registrar and is among the largest in the world. Today, 70% of the company's new business comes through customer recommendations and referrals. Easyspace provides a wide range of Internet services, including webhosting packages, domain name registrations and keywords, all available directly to end-user customers ranging from large companies to private individuals. In addition, the company also offers a special wholesale service for computer and Internet resellers called Easynic ( http://www.easynic.com ).

Lycos

As part of Lycos Europe, the company was founded in 1997 as a joint venture between Lycos Inc. and Bertelsmann. The portal provides its users with three basic but essential functions: the ability to find knowledge on the Web through search; the ability to communicate and interact with other users; and the ability to shop.

Lycos was for some time one of the leading search sites in the UK, but recently has concentrated more on users experience services.

Rackspace Hosting

Rackspace Managed Hosting was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in the US, with EMEA headquarters in West London, UK. Rackspace has experienced fast organic growth since inception and has built up a significant global presence. Today Rackspace has over 6,500 customers worldwide, equating to 1% of the Internet. 2004 was Rackspace Europe's best year yet, doubling business and achieving our milestone of 1,200 customers across 57 countries. Rackspace is a privately owned company.

TeleCity

TeleCity is a European provider of colocation and data centre services. Through its network of carrier-neutral data centres, it provides colocation, IT infrastructure management and IT services to communication service providers, corporate enterprises and the public sector. The company has 9 locations across Europe, in Amsterdam, Dublin, London, Manchester, Frankfurt, Paris and Stockholm. Headquartered in London, TeleCity was established in 1998 and floated on the London Stock Exchange (TCY.L) in June 2000.