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fasthosts was set up as an a - level project by mr michael and his friend alex wilding .
he added that the sale of fasthosts would allow him to pursue his childhood dream of owning a helicopter .
fasthosts provides e - mail and other web services to small businesses across the uk from its headquarters in gloucester .
mr michael, who owns a 75% share in the company, has sold fasthosts for £61. 5m .
fasthosts is the trading name of fasthosts internet limited. company registration no. 3656438. registered in england and wales. vat no. 720821857. registered office: discovery house, 154 southgate street, gloucester, gl1 2ex, united kingdom .
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fasthosts, which provides email and other services for small companies, was snapped up by german company united internet earlier this week .
he said :
i always had very high hopes for the company and i' m ambitious so i wanted fasthosts to succeed .
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@ fhtechteam still offline 24 hours later and still no idea as to what happened or when they might be back online. truly abysmal @ fasthosts
andrew michael, 26, started up web technology firm fasthosts as a sixth form project from the bedroom of his cheltenham home, aged just 17 .
fasthosts left some customers without access to their backups for roughly six days – after it tore down systems it feared were vulnerable to the wannacry malware .
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. sales have soared from £240, 000 in 1999 to £20m last year .
mr michael said he would certainly avoid this fate. he declined to comment on rumours that u2 are in the running to headline this year' s fasthosts christmas party .
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fasthosts said it was worried its server would be vulnerable to the panic - inducing ransomware that spread around the world on friday and over the weekend, causing it admins and executives alike major headaches .
fasthosts had concerns over these particular accounts and proactively disconnected the service platform, to protect against the malware risk ,
a spokesperson told el reg .
we can confirm that no compromise occurred .
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speaking to microscope, fasthosts and rise ceo andy burton said that many smaller firms had caught the gist of the cloud, but were not clear on how to adapt it, which was where channel players came in .
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fasthosts made headlines last year after an office bash that featured jonathan ross, the rock band the darkness, free cristal champagne and fire - jugglers. yesterday it was bought by united internet, a german internet service provider, for £61. 5m .
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asked why he has sold the business, mr michael said simply ,
it was the right time
. it is thought that an earlier attempt to sell fasthosts to pipex communications, a telecom company that is building a wi - max network in the uk, failed at the final hurdle .
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updated at 12. 20pm to add: simon yeoman, general manager at fasthosts, said :
firstly please allow me to take the opportunity to emphasise our sincere apologies to any of our customers that have been affected by this outage. although it has only impacted a very small proportion of our virtual cloud server customers we understand the inconvenience caused by issues of this nature .
since 1999, fasthosts has been designing new ways to give customers everything they need to manage and control their online space. innovation drives everything we do, ensuring we offer the latest internet technology across our range of services including domain names, shared web hosting, business - class email, dedicated servers, cloud servers, secure online storage and online backup. we also maintain a highly successful reseller channel .
fortunately, the new backup platform appears to be working. if there' s a silver lining to this whole ordeal, it is that backup data previously hosted on a vulnerable machine is now running on a new, secured box, fingers crossed. fasthosts claimed 82 customers were affected by the outage, however we believe those customers vary in size – for example, some are it contractors for small businesses. ®
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the brit web hosting biz confirmed to the register that it pulled the plug on gear hosting some of its customers' online storage service last friday. these systems were running microsoft windows server 2003, which is no longer officially supported and is potentially susceptible to the wannacrypt ransomware that did the rounds on friday. in other words, worm smashes server 2003 machines worldwide, fasthosts pulls plug on server 2003 hardware, customers go for days without access to online data .
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a computer company well known for throwing the most lavish christmas parties in britain was sold yesterday, leaving the 26 - year - old founder £46m richer .
andrew michael, who began the business from his bedroom as part of an a - level project at the age of 17, owned 75 per cent of the company .
mr michael insisted yesterday that he has not yet calculated how much he is now worth, but conceded he has
more money than i know what to do with
.
it has won plaudits as one of the fastest - growing privately owned companies in the uk, but has also had teething problems with its technology .
a few years ago its network collapsed, leaving customers unable to collect orders or send e - mails .
mr michael, who was born in cyprus, is intending to stay with the business despite his new - found wealth .
i haven' t worked out how much it is yet. but i am looking forward to next christmas. five decent parties and it will probably all be gone ,
he said .
last year' s party sounded like a scene from a novel about wall street excess. at a cost of £600, 000, 200 employees and their spouses stepped on to a red carpet that led to a marquee in gloucester' s football ground .
jonathan ross, the chat show host, orchestrated proceedings, with music from boney m and the darkness, of whom mr michael is a big fan .
the semi - serious rock group' s songs include
get your hands off my woman
,
love on the rocks with no ice
and
one way ticket .
at the free bar, guests enjoyed champagne, vintage wines and a selection of fine spirits .
earlier christmas parties that were paid for by mr michael saw staff entertained by, among others, girls aloud, sugababes, the cheeky girls and louise redknapp .
the company insists that customers will not be affected by the change of ownership - and that next year' s party will be bigger than ever .
united internet is one of the best - performing technology shares on the german stock market .
in a dry statement to the frankfurt exchange unveiling the deal, united said :
this take over aims at the extension of united internet' s existing activities in the uk .
the history of companies that get famous for throwing really good parties is not encouraging .
tyco international, a us business that included the former conservative party treasurer michael ashcroft as a board member, became notorious after holding an extravagant party for the wife of its chief executive, dennis kozlowski. the roman empire - themed celebration cost £1. 5m and featured an ice - sculpture of michelangelo' s david urinating stolichnaya vodka into crystal glasses. kozlowski is now serving up to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the company .
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a young entrepreneur has become a multi millionaire after selling an internet business he started as a teenager .
after completing his a - levels, mr michael focused on his new business which in 2002 was listed by the sunday times as the second fastest growing technology company in the uk .
i feel a little sad in a way as it' s something i' ve been working on for six years, but i' m really excited to be working with united internet .
mr michael has become famous for the lavish christmas parties he throws for his staff .
acts that have entertained the workers in the past include girls aloud, the sugababes, louise redknapp, the darkness and tv show host jonathan ross .
i feel another party coming on and this time i think we' re going to try and get robbie williams to perform - that would be great .
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according to the gloucester - based provider' s service update page :
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one customer got in touch to complain about the impact the outage was having on his clients' revenues, hitting bottom lines by knocking out their online booking systems .
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fasthosts internet ltd is a provider of internet access and hosting services based in gloucester , england . the company also operates the domain name registration service ukreg . fasthosts was originally started by andrew michael , then aged 17 , as part of an a-level school project . it became a limited company in 1999 , and launched ukreg in 2000 . the company specialised in providing services for small businesses , and in 2002 was listed as the second fastest growing technology company in the united kingdom by the sunday times . in 2005 the company had a turnover of £ 20 million and made £ 5 million profit . the company also became known for hosting lavish staff christmas parties ; an event in 2005 costing £ 600,000 featured appearances from jonathan ross , the darkness and boney m. in 2006 fasthosts was sold to german internet service provider united internet for £ 61.5 million , netting michael £ 46 million for his 75 % stake . michael remained as ceo until 2009 , when he left to found livedrive . a hacking incident in 2007 prompted fasthosts to temporarily shut down customers ' websites . the company noticed that its servers had been accessed in october and wrote to customers recommending that they change their passwords ; in december after noticing " unusual activity " on some sites it closed down those that had yet to change their passwords until new passwords could be issued by post . in 2008 fasthosts acquired reseller streamline.net , and also launched a reseller hosting service in the united states . cloud infrastructure service rise was launched in 2010 . fasthosts was the sponsor of the great exhibition 2012 . in october 2014 rise was quietly divested to outsourcery for an undisclosed sum as of 2017 , fasthosts has approximately 415,000 customer contracts spread over a variety of products from domain registrations to email , web hosting and server products . 
fasthosts internet ltd is a provider of internet access and hosting services based in gloucester, england. the company also operates the domain name registration service ukreg. fasthosts was originally started by andrew michael, then aged 17, as part of an a-level school project. it became a limited company in 1999, and launched ukreg in 2000. the company specialised in providing services for small businesses, and in 2002 was listed as the second fastest growing technology company in the united kingdom by the sunday times. in 2005 the company had a turnover of £ 20 million and made £ 5 million profit. the company also became known for hosting lavish staff christmas parties; an event in 2005 costing £ 600,000 featured appearances from jonathan ross, the darkness and boney m. in 2006 fasthosts was sold to german internet service provider united internet for £ 61.5 million, netting michael £ 46 million for his 75% stake. michael remained as ceo until 2009, when he left to found livedrive. a hacking incident in 2007 prompted fasthosts to temporarily shut down customers' websites. the company noticed that its servers had been accessed in october and wrote to customers recommending that they change their passwords; in december after noticing " unusual activity " on some sites it closed down those that had yet to change their passwords until new passwords could be issued by post. in 2008 fasthosts acquired reseller streamline.net, and also launched a reseller hosting service in the united states. cloud infrastructure service rise was launched in 2010. fasthosts was the sponsor of the great exhibition 2012. in october 2014 rise was quietly divested to outsourcery for an undisclosed sum as of 2017, fasthosts has approximately 415,000 customer contracts spread over a variety of products from domain registrations to email, web hosting and server products.
fasthosts internet ltd is a provider of internet access and hosting services based in gloucester, england. the company also operates the domain name registration service ukreg. fasthosts was originally started by andrew michael, then aged 17, as part of an a-level school project. it became a limited company in 1999, and launched ukreg in 2000. the company specialised in providing services for small businesses, and in 2002 was listed as the second fastest growing technology company in the united kingdom by the sunday times. in 2005 the company had a turnover of £ 20 million and made £ 5 million profit. the company also became known for hosting lavish staff christmas parties; an event in 2005 costing £ 600,000 featured appearances from jonathan ross, the darkness and boney m. in 2006 fasthosts was sold to german internet service provider united internet for £ 61.5 million, netting michael £ 46 million for his 75% stake. michael remained as ceo until 2009, when he left to found livedrive. a hacking incident in 2007 prompted fasthosts to temporarily shut down customers' websites. the company noticed that its servers had been accessed in october and wrote to customers recommending that they change their passwords; in december after noticing " unusual activity " on some sites it closed down those that had yet to change their passwords until new passwords could be issued by post. in 2008 fasthosts acquired reseller streamline.net, and also launched a reseller hosting service in the united states. cloud infrastructure service rise was launched in 2010. fasthosts was the sponsor of the great exhibition 2012. in october 2014 rise was quietly divested to outsourcery for an undisclosed sum as of 2017, fasthosts has approximately 415,000 customer contracts spread over a variety of products from domain registrations to email, web hosting and server products.