Oct 22, 2008 : Gandi Launches In UK

📅 October 22, 2008 - After launching its innovative hosting service two weeks ago, the largest ICANN-accredited registrar in France Gandi.net (gandi.net 👉 Total Reviews: 18
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"We are very pleased to launch our new UK service which will both support our existing UK users and welcome in new customers." Gandi chief operating officer Joe White said in a statement. "The UK customers have been asking us to focus our attention over here, so we have set up a UK office to listen and respond to their needs. We will continue to build great products for you to buy, but never ?sell? them too you. We don't spend money on advertising; instead we prefer our customers to be our advocates."

Gandi have setup a dedicated UK team based in London working to support the UK customers and promote their ethical domain and cutting edge hosting services. To kick off, the price of the .co.uk and .org.uk domain names has been lowered to £3 per year with full DNS control, a blog, 5 email mailboxes with infinite aliases and 1 GB storage, full customer support and privacy protection included.

"It's also part of Gandi's philosophy to sell domains at a reasonable price (not as loss leaders), so that you know we're not just trying to lure you in and sell you something else," White said.

Gandi also launched its Web hosting service (gandi.co.uk/hosting), which is unique because of its extreme flexibility, having users buy "shares" of a server, each representing 1/64th of the total capacity of a server. A flash demonstration and an interactive webpage show clients how they can increase or reduce the power of their server at anytime with no loss of service.

"We are extremely proud to announce the opening of Gandi's web hosting service, which has been developed entirely in-house over 2 years, and is built on a 'cloud infrastructure,'" Gandi.net chief operating officer Joe White said in a statement. "This means that your server runs on a grid of computers, guaranteeing your resources, while giving unparalleled resilience to failure, and the ability to expand or contract your resources as your needs change."

Experienced users can use this to create their own dedicated server and configure it however they wish, while others can use pre-fab servers programmed for use as web-servers, mail-servers or game servers. Gandi's infrastructure is based on high-availability servers using Serial Attached SCSI (or SAS) disks running RAID 60 for network resilience.

"The hosting industry is well aware that this is the next evolutionary step in technology and will replace shared hosting, and possibly even dedicated hosting," White said. "The advantages for customers are too great to be ignored, which is why the traditional players, having down played this, are now using buzzwords around virtualization in order to continue to sell to the less informed."

A new player in the hosting industry, longtime domain registrar Gandi was formed in 1999 and was privately purchased in 2005 by "an experienced executive team," according to the company. Gandi manages more than 760,000 domain names worldwide, making it the largest registrar in France and sixth in Europe.