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 About
Us
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...
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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.
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 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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UK
Data Centre
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US
Data Centre
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CA
Data Centre
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BlueSquare
House
Priors Way, Maidenhead, Berkshire
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Stemmons
Freeway
Dallas, Texas
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Hochelaga
Montreal, Canada
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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.
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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.
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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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