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X9 Internet is a British company, located in Wivelsfield, near the city of Brighton, in the South East.

Founded in the UK in 1998 by Lloyd Hamol, a division of a British pharmaceutical company established in 1968, the domain X9.net was registered and an operation was put in place to develop specialised software applications for the Internet, some of which were implemented by Lloyd Hamol's hosting division, which was founded a year later. In 2001, the business was acquired by X9 Holdings who saw a large market for dependable consistently reliable yet low cost web hosting product throughout the UK and the USA and was the first hosting provider to introduce the Mini Virtual Server, the cheapest fully featured production status shared hosting package on the market at the time. In 2004 the operations merged into the trading name X9 Internet.

International Hosting Facilities

Need to host a site in the US or Canada but don't want to deal with a foreign company? X9 can help you. We offer fast and reliable hosting from Dallas and Montreal. To order your international hosting account, simply select your preference during the ordering process. Resellers, want to resell web hosting to the north American market? Contact us for more.


If your website is important to you, you should select your Host carefully...

Out of around 50,000 websites selling hosting on the Internet today, only a small portion of these sites belong to data centres and their channel partners. The bulk of these sites are run by resellers and sub resellers, often just part-time.

The safest source for a reliable hosting service would be to buy direct from a data centre. But this is usually very expensive - and it's NOT because it is the very best service. Data centres could not stay in business if they only sold to end users. Their business module is based on reselling almost all of their resources through hundreds of channel partners such as X9 Internet. It would therefore be dangerous for them to compete with their partners, so they set their enduser prices high.

The graphic on the left shows an example of a typical scenario. A data centre supplies service to a channel partner, position 2, which offers an excellent service with good support at a very low price and can do so because it does not have huge datacenter expenses. This is your ideal hosting provider.

Resellers, position 3, generally comprise respectable small businesses such as website designers, programmers, computer repair firms, printing firms, advertising agencies and entrepreneurs. These usually offer excellent support, even though a support request has to be upstream forwarded to the channel partner in position 2, who then forwards it to the data centre.

Sub-resellers, position 4, make up the bulk of the 50,000 websites selling hosting on the Internet. Channel partners and reseller partners have little or no control over how these sub-resellers conduct themselves. Many will run this service part-time alongside a full-time job, which may mean slow support. Some will offer a good service, but others might not.
How can I tell when a host is a channel partner, reseller or sub-reseller?

It is virtually impossible to tell when all have excellent informative and professionally looking web sites. It would be best to look at their domains and to do a whois to see when they were registered. We registered x9.net in 1998 - so we've been around for a while.

The best tip is to look for the accredited Nominet member shield on a website which offers hosting. If you can find this on a website, that host can be trusted, even if it's a new host.
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BlueSquare House
Priors Way, Maidenhead, Berkshire
Stemmons Freeway
Dallas, Texas
Hochelaga
Montreal, Canada

BlueSquare 2 is the expansion site for the first BlueSquare building. Located a stone's throw from BlueSquare House, BlueSquare 2 benefits from the same carriers and fibre providers as BlueSquare 1, with the additional benefits of true diversity from the first building.

Located at the edge of downtown Dallas on one of the most fiber rich routes in the city, this fully-equipped, 28,000 square foot facility is staffed around the clock. With rock solid standards for security, power supply and environmental controls, focus is on connectivity, redundancy and resilience.
Located at three locations around Montreal, this fully-equipped, 59,000 total square foot facility is staffed around the clock to monitor the datacenters and network operations 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year.



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