Awards and affiliations
UKFast has received a number of prestigious industry awards, voted for by customers and by the industry, in recognition of our commitment to high performance, reliable and affordable services and unrivalled customer support.The awards provide further evidence that we are committed to delivering performance, reliability and care to all our customers; and that we are getting it right.
UKFast are proud to say that we have won these prestigious awards:
 | Winner of the ISPA Awards 2006 “A unanimous judging panel felt that UKFast was the clear and decisive winner. UKFast offers clients a free and full daily back-up service as standard and an impressive service level guarantee with a firm commitment to uptime. UKFast offers personal and friendly customer support, with a technical person promising to pick up the phone within three rings. With this commitment to customer service and support, UKFast 'wins hands down'.” |
 | Finalist in the ISPA Awards 2006 UKFast reaches the final of 2006 ISPA Award, in the category of Best Business ISP. |
 | ISPA Best Hosting Provider 2005 Voted for the industry - UK's Trade Association for providers of Internet services - the ISPA. The ISPA stated "We were impressed with UKFast 's commitment to deliver value, performance and quality support for its customers. Confirmed by its performance in the three months of independent monitoring and testing. It is a well secured hosting service with a 99.99% service level guarantee." |
 | UK's No.1 with 100% Availability Continually ranked by Webperf, the UK's only performance benchmark - Testing over 200 ISP's for performance and reliability, as an ISP with 100% availability. |
 | Best Business ISP 2004 Voted by the readers of Future Publishing Titles. This award demonstrates that we offer affordable, reliable service and support. As the Editor of .net stated "We were looking for an ISP that gives its business customers excellent connectivity at an attractive price, while offering top-notch after - sales service and an attractive range of additional services. UKFast fulfilled all these criteria." |
 | Top 5 Hosting Provider 2005 Assessed by uk.tophosts.com's panel on strict criteria, UKFast are the 2005 Top 3 Hosting Provider in the UK. Highlighting the continued high performance, reliable hosting solutions offered. |
 | UK's No.1 for Windows Web Hosting Voted for by Web Host Directory Visitors and the Review Board for June, assessed on 6 areas of performance including cost, features, support, reliability and speed. |
Affiliations We are also happy to say that UKFast are keen to show our commitment to delivering superior customer support and services, by being members of highly regarded associations that regulate the Internet industry. Plus we hold a number of accreditations from major technology providers assuring you that our solutions are based on leading edge technologies. | |
 | Microsoft UKFast is in the final stages of becoming a Microsoft Certified Partner for Hosting and Application Services - all UKFast staff are regularly trained on Microsoft systems and uses - ensuring UKFast offer the most up-to-date Windows technology and information available. |
 | Veritas As a Veritas Select Partner, UKFast is able to provide comprehensive, cost effective, certified protection for Windows Server Environments for disk or tape based backup and recovery. |
 | ISPA Member UK's Trade Association for providers of Internet services - ISPA UK was established in 1995 and promotes competition, self-regulation and the development of the Internet industry. You can view the ISPA UK logo as a mark of commitment to good business practice. |
 | RIPE Member The RIPE NCC is an independent, not-for-profit membership organisation that supports the infrastructure of the Internet through the technical co-ordination in its service region. Providing Internet resource allocations, registration services and co-ordination activities that support the operation of the Internet globally. |
 | Cisco UKFast utilise Cisco hardware to create Internet solutions that let companies increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage. |
 | Nominet Nominet UK is the registry for .uk internet names. Nominet is officially recognised as the .uk domain name registry by the Internet industry, users and the UK Government. Giving UKFast access to a giant database of domain names at competitive prices. |
 | Investor in People UKFast are in the process of obtaining the Investor in People standard, the straightforward, proven framework for delivering business improvement through people. |
 | Manchester Chamber of Commerce The Chamber is the economic development agency for the Manchester Sub-Region, as a member UKFast and a group of specialist companies dedicated to the economic development of Manchester and surrounding regions. |
