The Positive Internet Company Ltd is a Web hosting service

Web hosting service

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet...

 provider originally founded in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 and now operating in both the United States

United States

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 and the UK. Positive was the first UK LAMP

LAMP (software bundle)

LAMP is an acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software, referring to the first letters of Linux , Apache HTTP Server, MySQL and PHP , principal components to build a viable general purpose web server.The GNU project is advocating people to use the term "GLAMP" since what is known as...

 only hosting company, starting on 25 November 1998 and is known for its distinctive giraffe

Giraffe

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 branded logo and its slogan: "we're good".

Initially providing only shared web hosting, Positive Internet has grown its portfolio of services to include dedicated and managed Linux

Linux

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...

 servers. It won the Best Linux/Open Source ISP/Internet Host at the 2006 Linux and Open Source Awards.

Notable hosted sites

In February 2006 Positive Internet hosted the Ricky Gervais Show

The Ricky Gervais Show

The Ricky Gervais Show is a comedy audio show in the UK starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington, later adapted into an animated televised version debuting for HBO and Channel 4 in 2010. The show started in November 2001 on Xfm, and aired in weekly periods for months at a time...

podcast

Podcast

A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

, which was officially recognised by The Guinness Book of Records as the most downloaded show. They also host Stephen Fry's Podgrams

Stephen Fry's Podgrams

Stephen Fry's Podgrams is a series of podcasts performed and recorded by British comedian and author Stephen Fry. First made downloadable on 20 February 2008, the series of podgrams is a collection of Fry's writings, speeches and collective thoughts...

another successful podcast.

The company supports a number of free software

Free software

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 projects, including the hosting of Debian

Debian

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 and Ubuntu

Ubuntu (operating system)

Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu...

 distribution mirrors

Mirror (computing)

In computing, a mirror is an exact copy of a data set. On the Internet, a mirror site is an exact copy of another Internet site.Mirror sites are most commonly used to provide multiple sources of the same information, and are of particular value as a way of providing reliable access to large downloads...

, Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman

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's website, and the British Film Institute

British Film Institute

The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:-Cinemas:The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London...

. In July 2007 they became host to science journalist Ben Goldacre

Ben Goldacre

Ben Michael Goldacre born 1974 is a British science writer, doctor and psychiatrist. He is the author of The Guardian newspaper's weekly Bad Science column and a book of the same title, published by Fourth Estate in September 2008....

's popular website, Bad Science.