To determine the fastest growing companies, Deloitte reviewed fiscal year revenues over the last five years, calculated the revenue growth percentage, and compared the growth of all the technology companies. Making this list is a significant accomplishment for M247 Ltd.

David Buckle, MD at M247 Ltd responded to the announcement: "Everybody at M247 Ltd is pleased to receive our Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 Ranking. We enjoy the challenge of growing a company even in difficult economic times in an industry that is always changing. We believe our ranking is a reflection on our strong financial and environmental philosophy which has enabled us to grow where others have failed”.

Mr Buckle continued, "We have built our own datacentre which uses our in house developed state of the art cooling system, and is on track to save over 1,000 tons of Carbon Dioxide per year. Our reinvestment of the majority of our earned income in R&D and building our datacentre has had a positive environmental impact by reducing our carbon footprint as well as controlling costs. None of this would be possible without the dedication of our staff and directors to move at speed making the right decisions, not just the cheapest ones, thereby improving the service to our customers."

Please use this number for all sales, support and billing enquiries instead of our old 0870 number.

Support staff are based at our Manchester offices and datacentre around the clock.

All the new package resources can be seen on our website - Single Domain Hosting, Multi Domain Hosting and Reseller Hosting Packages.

The most exciting changes are the inclusion of ASP.NET functionality accross all packages and massive increases to included disk space and bandwidth, as well as a doubling of all included email accounts and forwarding addresses.

Please note - it is not feasible for us to analyse all our existing customers' packages and automatically remove any additional resources, which are now no longer required. It is the customer's responsibility to remove any extra features they now no longer require. This can be done via Helm as normal.

Please contact our helpdesk at http://helpdesk.openhosting.co.uk/ if you require any assistance.

The same knowledgeable & skilled staff are behind the new name M247 Limited.

The services provided under the Open Hosting will continue to be provided under that name as a division of M247 Ltd, however a number of other exciting divisions and products have been integrated to form a single entity.

We have also relocated our registered office to our Ball Green datacentre, which is located at:
1, Ball Green
Cobra Court
Stretford
Manchester
M32 0QT.

We've set up an informal blog in order for you to keep track of progress (if you're interested...)

Features 'at a glance'...

* Detached building with private fenced yard and carpark
* N+1 Paralleled UPS Protection
* N+1 Downflow Cooling
* Heavy-duty raised access floor
* VESDA Fire Detection with FM200 suppression
* Overhead data cable containment
* Highly efficient cooling with cold-aisle containment
* Dedicated 11Kv substation on-site
* Full generator backup, with several days' on-site fuel storage
* 24-hour monitored and recorded internal and external CCTV security
* Multiple-10G resilient network ring linking the site to key datacentres in Manchester and London, and onwards to Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Belgium over our European network
* Support in room/phase 1 for 145 47u racks, accomodating up to 6000 servers
* On-site build, storage, office, meeting and recreation facilities

The primary purpose of the site is to support our expanding shared and dedicated hosting infrastructure, but there will also be a quantity of 11u and 47u cabinets available for colocation customers. Contact us for information or to arrange a tour.

More information to follow, as it becomes available

Over the Christmas period, the online ticket-based helpdesk will be monitored 24/7 as usual. Telephone support will limited to support for emergency 'service down' situations from mid-day on 24/12/07 until 9am on 2/01/08

24/7 on-site datacentre cover and monitoring of all our services will be maintained throughout the the Christmas period as usual

Please see below for the details:

Bank
HSBC Bolton Deansgate Branch
Address
25 Deansgate
Bolton
BL1 1HG
UK

Currency: GB£
IBAN: GB89MIDL40122561880802
BIC: MIDLGB2102R
Sort code: 40 12 25
Account #: 61880802

Currency: US$
IBAN: GB06MIDL40051567257443
BIC: MIDLGB22
Account #: 67257443

Currency: Euro
IBAN: GB66MIDL40051567257333
BIC: MIDLGB22
Account#: 67257333

Please raise a helpdesk ticket if you're sending a bank transfer payment, and ensure you use your Open Hosting account number a refernce for the payment

We would like to give a very BIG thank you to all our members who made a donation towards this worthy cause. For all those who participated we will be sending a email out letting you know just how much you raised just from paying your OpenHosting bills or making your own pledge.

For further information about OH Comic Relief 2007 then please visit our community forums