Founded in 1998 by Danish entrepreneur Bo Bendtsen, UK2.net has established itself as one of the biggest and fastest growing players in the UK web-hosting scene. It is the main brand in the UK2 Group portfolio, which also includes US2.net, mid Phase Services, AN Hosting, Autica and Resell.biz.
Company and Services
Well known as a low-cost domain name provider (with more than a million domains on its books) UK2.net has successful expanded its business into the web-hosting arena. The company is currently based in London at Canary Wharf, with its parent company (UK2Group) based in Gibraltar.
It offers a wide range of web hosting services including managed and dedicated server web hosting as well as e-commerce and reseller (third-party hosting) solutions. Most of the managed hosting packages come with standard easy-to-use site building software and an advanced control panels with higher spec features (such as bigger bandwidth and disk space) coming with the more sophisticated (and expensive) options.
All the servers run on the Linux platform and the dedicated servers come with guarantees of 100% power and network uptime. They also have 10,000GB bandwidth per month with 100Mb connectivity, plus free, unlimited SSL certificates (providing greater security for you and your customers). For e-commerce customers UK2.net has specific packages which include templates, e-mail, free SSL certification and support – so you can quickly, easily and cheaply set up a secure, professional website. The all-important customer support is provided 24/7 by UK2.net at its UK-based support center.
They can be reached via email or through the customer support phone line, which will cost 50p per minute. It also has a live online support via its website.
The company is an active supporter of the UK-based charity No More Landmines which funds the safe de-mining of land around the world and provides help to survivors of landmine accidents. UK2 is also a partner with Apollo’s Pad, the web-based comedy show.
Server Location
The servers for UK2.net are located in the UK in its City of London data center.
Related links
Blog – http://www.uk2.net/blog/
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