We started trading early 1999 as The Ink Shop,
offering affordable Ink Cartridges online, at the
same time we were selling toys from local markets and
country shows, late 2000 we decided to set up a website
to sell toys online. This was successful, both our ink
site and toy site were hosted on standard cpanel hosting
plans. Mid 2001 our host offered us a reseller account
where we could managed both our sites from one account,
which we accepted, shortly after this we asked to host
a site for another market trader for a small fee, within
the next 12 months we were hosting sites for 23 market
traders along with a main site for a local market.
between 2002 to 2005 we were hosting over 50 sites, it
become obvious that hosting was becoming our main online
source of revenue, while ink sales had been declining
over the last 2 years, if was decided to stop selling
the inks and concentrate on hosting, but The Ink Shop
did not suit a hosting business, so a new name and brand
was required.
Easyas ABC Hosting was founded November
2006 with the goal of offering high quality shared and
reseller web hosting while at the same time offer a
personal and reliable service, over the next 3 years as
our business grew, we found that we were also hosting
several charities which we hosting at a reduced rate, so
we decided to set up a separate business Charity Host UK
to host all our charity sites (we set this up in Jan.
2009). Up to this point we were only offering cPanel
Hosting. In March 2009 the opportunity came about that
AP Host was for sale and they were Direct Admin Hosts,
so we bought this company, with the intention of offering
Direct Admin Hosting, by this time we were serving
clients from all over the world. Then suddenly the host we had our main
sites hosted on went down overnight, leaving us with no
sites and more importantly our clients with no sites,
after receiving many emails from clients to where their
sites were, we tried for 48 hours to get hold of the
host and get sites back, but with no response, at the
same time we were looking for another host, so we could
at least get back online as soon as possible. after 56 hours
we found a host that we could at least get back online,
but as a temp measure as they did not offer everything
we needed, but at least we could get clients back
online, naturally by this time and as we lost all files
and sites, some client decided to leave and go
elsewhere, it was at this point we decided to look at a
VPS, so we could control our own server.
We found a suitable VPS and after doing
checks on the supplier we purchased this and started
migrating what was left of our clientbase over. with
several businesses and business names we decided to
placed all these under one brand this was when The
Easyhost Media Group was formed (Sept. 2009).
In June 2010 we set up Niceday Hosting,
with the intention of using this site to handle all our
resellers and Easyas ABC Hosting to handle all Standard
cPanel Hosting, but it was decided that we would place
all our hosting under Niceday Hosting and offer
Dedicated Servers and VPS through Easyas ABC Hosting. In July 2010 we set up a new server that
we specifically setup to be Dolphin and RMS enabled, we
have branded this under then name Dolphin Host. In Sept. 2010 we have set up a third
server that would host Direct Admin, this will be under
the name Northumbria Hosting. Due to the lack of
interest in Direct Admin hosting we closed down this
server in June 2011.
In 2011 we added 3 other brands to The Easyhost Media Group
Tophosting UK (tophostinguk.info)
~ a website review forum and chat site
Perfume Boutique (perfume-boutique.co.uk)
~ a perfume/cosmetic retail site
Kids TV Forum (kids-tv.net)
~ a forum on Classic kids TV shows
In Jan. 2012 we set up a third server based in the UK
We are a privately held family run and debt free company, that run our own servers
Currently our servers are currently based in the
Delta Server ~ USA
(Chicago),
Mars Server ~ Europe (Greece),
Venus Server ~ Kent (UK).
Terry Robertson
Owner
The Easyhost Media Group
