Heart Internet
Encyclopedia
Heart Internet is a web hosting company based in Nottingham, UK selling domain name
s, shared hosting, reseller hosting and dedicated servers.
shared hosting, Linux reseller hosting and free web hosting. In November 2008 Linux and Windows dedicated servers were added to the product line, and in January 2009, Windows reseller hosting was launched. In July 2009, Heart Internet made an API available to its reseller services to enable their resellers to build applications using the Heart Internet reseller platform.
Since the company’s formation in 2004, it has grown to become one of the UK’s largest web hosts and in November 2009, it was named the UK's 2nd fastest growing technology company and the 7th fastest growing in EMEA. It is also a member and tag holder of Nominet, enabling it to directly register and update .uk domains on behalf of customers.
Heart Telecom amalgamated with 2 Circles Communications in February 2011 and is no longer using the Heart Telecom name.
Domain name
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s, shared hosting, reseller hosting and dedicated servers.
History
Heart Internet web hosting was founded by Tim Beresford and Jonathan Brealey, who previously set up and ran web hosting companies WebFusion in 1997 and its sister brand 123-reg in 2001. In March 2003 Jonathan and Tim left the company, and in 2004 they launched Heart Internet, selling domain names, LinuxLinux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
shared hosting, Linux reseller hosting and free web hosting. In November 2008 Linux and Windows dedicated servers were added to the product line, and in January 2009, Windows reseller hosting was launched. In July 2009, Heart Internet made an API available to its reseller services to enable their resellers to build applications using the Heart Internet reseller platform.
Since the company’s formation in 2004, it has grown to become one of the UK’s largest web hosts and in November 2009, it was named the UK's 2nd fastest growing technology company and the 7th fastest growing in EMEA. It is also a member and tag holder of Nominet, enabling it to directly register and update .uk domains on behalf of customers.
Recent awards
- About.com Awards 2011: Best Reseller Web Host
- Deloitte Fast 50 UK 2010: 26th fastest growing tech company in UK
- Deloitte Fast 500 EMEA 2009: 7th fastest growing tech company in EMEA
- Deloitte Fast 50 UK 2009: UK's 2nd fastest growing tech company & fastest in Midlands
- Webhostdir.com: Voted most popular web host September 2009
- dedicatedserverdir.com: Voted most popular dedicated server provider September 2009
- domainsdir.com: Voted most popular domain name provider September 2009
- PC Pro Awards 2009: Shortlisted for ‘best web host’ award
- PC Pro Awards 2010: Shortlisted for ‘best web host’ award
- http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/369514/pc-pro-announces-awards-2011-finalists: Shortlisted for ‘best web host’ award
Heart Telecom
Heart Telecom was founded on 25 June 2008 by Jonathan Brealey and Tim Beresford (who are the Directors of Heart Internet) and Stephen Halstead (who has previously been head of operations and finance at Toucan Telecom), with the view to saving businesses and professionals money on their line rental and call costs. The range of solutions included fixed line voice, data and IP, standard and specialist non-geographic numbers, line rental and broadband.Heart Telecom amalgamated with 2 Circles Communications in February 2011 and is no longer using the Heart Telecom name.