Who are we ?
We know technology
All our customer have specific needs, and most of the time big web sites require tuning and customization. We have experts to do this for you, and we can even create the website. Jump to our partner database, which is full of good graphists and coders whose creativity is at your service.
GPLHost is a company that has two purposes. The first one is to deliver professional hosting facilities with high availability and security. We try to stick to the lowest prices of the market, and keep our services to the highest quality while other companies cut off quality to reach such prices. How do we do? Simply by reaching the second goal.
GPLHost is contributing to the open source effort in building hosting tools. In many cases, large companies are building closed source services and software, and reinventing the wheel without innovation.
Using a product and facing the problems of a big web farm and network is the only way to have a better understanding of needs. We are ready to solve every problem and find a custom open-source solution. Thanks to this policy, the first tool that you can enjoy using is our control panel (DTC). This software's main goal is to give anyone hosting facility using open source technologies, but without having to understand how to configure all those nasty daemon config files. Other hosting companies already use DTC (or a customized version). It enables them to lower their costs and consequently the prices for the final customers (most hosters use very expensive commercial control panels). It's perfect for you if you are searching for a simple software to drive your dedicated server. DTC can manage up to thousands of accounts for web, mail, or ftp on a single server, accessed from any web browser.
More software and interfaces will be built in the future (we are already working on other projects to simplify the use of VPN, firewall and so on). Those free software developments will always provide ease of use, to deliver the best to more people, so that YOU have matters in hand.
GPLHost company history
The work on our control panel
started in arround 2001 / 2002. When I (thomas) started to work on
it, I began to need a real server to host with and do some
experiments. So I wrote on my personal web page that I was needing
a server to continue my developments. Then Daniel from
iGlobalNetwork contacted me, and offered me a server to continue
my developments, and then pushed me to start selling hosting on
it, as it was anyway consuming power and space.
Since then, few legal companies where registered (the LLC in USA in 2003, the Singapore company in 2005, the UK based company for all european operations in London in 2006) and GPLHost started to grow beyond expectations.
As of today, appart from the initial funds, GPLHost has always been auto-financed with a very good financial health. We keep adding servers every month, and we hope that our exponential growth will continue. Nearly all of our benefits are currently reinvested in buying new servers and space. We want to keep adding new location to our hosting offer, which is already quite impressive (very few hosting company can offer more than 10 point of presence to it's customers).
The fact that we are the company leading the open source software for doing commercial web hosting makes our company very special. You wont find any company like ours (at least, I didn't see any). Our software solution is (currently) the only one in the world that have reached major distributions like Debian or FreeBSD.
We strongly believe that our hosting applications are the state of the art of what you can find in open source, and we want to continue to deliver such software for free for the masses.
Since then, few legal companies where registered (the LLC in USA in 2003, the Singapore company in 2005, the UK based company for all european operations in London in 2006) and GPLHost started to grow beyond expectations.
As of today, appart from the initial funds, GPLHost has always been auto-financed with a very good financial health. We keep adding servers every month, and we hope that our exponential growth will continue. Nearly all of our benefits are currently reinvested in buying new servers and space. We want to keep adding new location to our hosting offer, which is already quite impressive (very few hosting company can offer more than 10 point of presence to it's customers).
The fact that we are the company leading the open source software for doing commercial web hosting makes our company very special. You wont find any company like ours (at least, I didn't see any). Our software solution is (currently) the only one in the world that have reached major distributions like Debian or FreeBSD.
We strongly believe that our hosting applications are the state of the art of what you can find in open source, and we want to continue to deliver such software for free for the masses.
Ambitions
Selling as many domain names as possible is not the only way to evaluate a hosting system, neither best price. Here are our ambitions:
- Become the provider of the leading open source solution for web and email hosting
- Service to the local community and to the other users worldwide
- Reliability
- Technical excellence
- Fast and simple administrative procedures
- Easy introduction of new services and users (such as Xen VMs, web, ftp and email services)
Legal
All the graphical and textual content of this web sites is © GPLHost and it's branch companies, except
the documentation and screen shots of the software we release in open source (those are in the FDL: full copy of the
GNU Free Documentation License can be found on the GNU web site).
