1st Easy Ltd: About us

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Who we are

Established in 1999, we are a medium-sized company focused on providing scalable Internet solutions for business. We are recognised as an Investors in People company, and have been awarded the South East Cheshire Enterprise "e-Business" of the year title.

What we do

We can help your company by providing business-class solutions and consultancy in the following areas:

Managed dedicated server hosting
Colocation and datacentre space
Load balancing solutions
Internet connectivity: IP transit (dedicated bandwidth), Layer 2 Ethernet, LAN extensions and leased lines
Email filtering (spam and virus blocking)
Web hosting and ecommerce for business
Domain name registration service

The 1st Easy difference

In a highly competitive market, why should you choose to work with us?

Our ethos throughout our nine years of trading has remained central to our approach, which is to be 1st at what we do, and Easy to do business with.

The following values and qualities have been key to our success in working towards this aim:

The importance that we attribute to the experience and understanding of traditional business processes, and how we use this knowledge to give you the greatest return on your IT investment.

Continual investment in specialist knowledge, skills and infrastructure.

Strong partnerships with respected suppliers and carefully chosen strategic acquisitions.
The highest standards of real customer service and technical support.

Investor in People

1st Easy Limited are recognised as an Investor in People (new window). Measured against a rigorous National Standard, the Investors in People Standard is a business improvement tool designed to advance an organisation's performance through its people. Investors in People is central to helping employees become customer focused, enabling organisations to effectively meet customer needs.

Strategic partnerships

1st Easy Limited work in alliance with carefully chosen world-class companies in order to provide you with leading "best of breed" solutions. Our partners include:

	Internet Connections Limited Internet Connections provide Internet networking and transit solutions, broadband, firewalling and other complimentary products and solutions. 1st Easy Limited acquired a 24% stake of Internet Connections in September 2006.
	Barracuda Networks: Certified Partner Barracuda Networks Inc. provides application server load balancing and message archiving appliances. More than 50,000 companies, including Coca-Cola, FedEx, Harvard University, IBM, L’Oreal, NASA, and Europcar, are protecting their networks with Barracuda Networks solutions.
	Thawte: Official Partner Thawte is a leading global Certification Authority. Thawte SSL and code signing digital certificates are used globally to secure servers, provide data encryption, authenticate users, protect privacy and assure online identifies through stringent authentication and verification processes.
	Nominet: Member Nominet is the Internet registry for .uk domain names. They operate at the heart of e-commerce in the UK, running one of the world's largest Internet registries and managing over six million domain names.
	WorldPay: Accredited Partner An important part of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, the 5th biggest banking group in the world, secure online payment solutions by WorldPay are trusted by thousands of businesses, big and small.
	Protx: Partner Protx provides secure online credit card and debit card payment solutions for thousands of online and mail order businesses across the UK.
	Miva Merchant: Official Business Partner Miva Merchant is a leading supplier of e-commerce software and services to small and medium-sized businesses. Miva Merchant provide online merchants, developers, web designers and web hosts with the information and technology needed to be successful in today's online selling environment.