Heart Internet is a

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company based in

Nottingham Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robi ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

selling domain names, shared hosting, reseller hosting and servers. It has been a subsidiary of UK based hosting and domain registration company

Host Europe Group Host Europe Group (formerly Pipex Communications plc and GX Networks) is an American-owned, European-located website hosting, email and domain name registrar company headquartered Hayes, West London. Founded as GX Networks in 1997, the company w ...

since 2011. Heart Internet is the 2nd largest web-host in the UK for websites hosted.

History

Heart Internet was founded by Tim Brealey and Jonathan Brealey in 2004. Since its launch, Heart Internet has added a range of new products to their offering, including: *

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, w ...

and

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Dedicated Servers – 2008 * Windows reseller hosting – 2009 *

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made available to reseller services – 2009 *

Virtual private server A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting service. The virtual dedicated server (VDS) also has a similar meaning. A virtual private server runs its own copy of an operating system (OS), and cus ...

s (VPS) – 2011 *

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s – 2012 *

Cloud hosting Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mul ...

– 2013 In 2011 the company was acquired by UK based hosting and domain registration company Host Europe plc (HEG). HEG was bought by US based hosting company GoDaddy in 2017.

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Companies based in Nottingham Web hosting Technology companies established in 2004