Founded in 1996, Netcetera is one of the first Web Hosting service providers in the UK, with customers in over 23 countries worldwide. The company provides complete solutions for Web Hosting, Domain Name Registration, eCommerce, E-mail, Dedicated Server Hosting and Server-based Applications Hosting (ASP). 

The company's services are biased towards Microsoft® based Netcetera Internet Technologies. A Microsoft® Certified Partner since 1999, Netcetera has enabled many businesses to start trading over the Internet, in addition to the launch of Net-Store, an E-Commerce software package that will allow small to medium sized enterprises to trade over the Internet on a global scale. 

HostPulse did a web site speed test at http://www.hostpulse.com/app/
networktools/measurewebsitespeed.asp to determine the response time from Florida, US to the company's site in London. The result shown was pretty impressive considering the distance. The test was done from our remote site to London. Out of 5 tries, we got a consistent result of 94 milli-seconds indicating reliable and fast connections.

The company's shared hosting service starts from £125 per year for an account with 50MB disk space and unlimited bandwidth transfer. E-Commerce solutions come with a range of shopping carts, merchant providers and secure certificates to meet the European market demand.

According to its site, the company claims its engineers work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year with the data centres to maintain the top-of-the-line servers that host clients' critical sites and services, and the network infrastructure that supplies their backend connectivity. We decided to call and find out if there was someone to pick up the call at 6:55 AM in the morning. Well, Netcetera certainly lives up to its claim, with someone picking up our call.

With two data centres in London, United Kingdom: DC-LDN-1 and DC-LDN-2, extensive hosting plans and a responsive support center to troubleshoot customers' problem, Netcetera has certainly become one of the most dynamic web hosting companies in Europe in meeting the market demand and building successful customer relationship.